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Dav Fitzpatrick, I just purchased the Video Package today and look forward to producing some things to use with PTE shows. I've run into some difficulties and the "Contact" page on your web site won't send my e-mail help request without a Captcha entered and when I enter one I'm sent to a page saying that the feature is no longer available. Can you provide an e-mail address where I can pose my questions or resolve the problem on the site? Thanks, leon

Thanks for this info Lin. Must try this out. denwell, you're a genius for asking for a way of doing this!

Thanks for the lesson, Lin!

OK, Lin, we need a tutorial for this. It’s too good to stay secret.

Looks to me like Win 10 hasn't associated your files with PTE. Try going to properties on one of the files and where it says "Open With" point it to the PTE EXE file. That MAY (maybe, with luck) resolve the issue. But, then again . . .

I downloaded this and it worked perfectly. I'll try to download the original zip later to see if perhaps something got corrupted during the original download. Hopefully, that is what has been causing problems.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 It's not the latest, but it's never had a problem with a PTE show up till now.

i7 core, 24 GB ram 3 GB video card. Rather robust. Not sure what's going on. But that's life with a computer -- esp. a PC.

Whenever I try to run the exe file on my Win 10 computer, it opens and the initial image appears for a second or two and then my computer crashes. Anyone else encountering problems? Will test the other file shortly.

I am truly impressed! Especially at full screen. You've really done some nice work here. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Thanks Ken! Hope it's OK for your southern neighbors to read a Canadian Photo magazine. ;-) The section with African photos is making me homesick for my years in Africa. In my day film was expensive and hard to get there, so my photos were too few. Oh, how I wish we'd had digital cameras back then, not to mention digital darkrooms instead of darkness, chemicals and no ctrl-z. I'm really enjoying this mag.

Is there a link?

Beautiful Barry! I'm currently landlocked and miss the ocean. You're lucky to have such beautiful scenery and very skillful to portray it so magnificently.

Great explanation, Lin. I like that better than confusing words. ;-)

AHA! That's what I did with the example I posted on FB. At first I'd thought I'd need trimmed png files and that was going to be a problem. Then I read something you'd written about using full sized pngs in a puzzle animation you'd done in the past and things clicked. I'll be playing around with assembling from outside in as well as inside out and having the puzzle assembled on different planes. If I can get a clean enough style, I'll post it for others to try and to modify. Must look at some of the other puzzle actions, too. May as well attach that first try video here as well. Might inspire others to do more elegant versions.

PanosFX has a new set of puzzle actions for PS. I think that there some great possibilities for slide style in some of them. The new spiral puzzle looks very promising and unique. Check them out. https://www.panosfx.com/blog/puzzle-effects-photoshop-actions-blog

I think it's an USA vs Australia thing. ;-) Our current president's influence has extended to "cyber." The funny thing is that sometimes Norton dislikes something just because it's new. They target files because Norton hasn't seen them often enough. There are days I'm tempted to follow your advice. And then it saves me from something that is really problematic. I'm now saving up to get some more videos in this new series of tutorials. Then I can do battle with Norton again. And win again!

Thank you, Barry, for the new tutorials you've produced. I just finished the first one I've purchased. I must observe that for some reason Norton has declared war on you. Every time I download a demo or anything from you, Norton insists upon quarantining the file and claiming it has a virus. Usually it's fairly straight forward to have it restored and I can get on enjoying your production. This time was a bugger. I'd restore the autorun.exe file and when I tried to run it, Norton would but in even though I'd told it to leave the file alone. I finally got it sorted out and was the effort ever worth it. I got the 2nd set on animations, styles and transitions. Boy have I learned a lot! It is worth every $ I paid and more (but don't raise the prices -- I'm retired on limited income and want to be able to get more tutorials). I'll be reviewing these lessons many times as I try to master the things you included. I may even move toward proficiency with PTE because of you. Thanks again! I've got to start working on an album that I've envisioned before but haven't had a clue of how to do some of the simple things needed to make it. Now I think I can do it.

Must be a lot of people downloading. Three times I've had the network error "time out" while trying to download V. 9. Will try again in a couple of hours to see if I have better luck.

Check out Paintshop Pro. Haven't used it in a number of years, but it was the Poor Man's Photoshop back then. Hear it's improved a lot since. Corel has it now.

Georges, I'm also awaiting the wedding album. Dom said it would be ready a few weeks ago, but it seems there's been a long delay. I keep bugging him about it (I hope gently). From the preview he gave of the work in progress on the new version, it'll be worth the wait. Maybe when he sees more demand for it, he'll be inspired to overcome the barriers delaying it.

Love the waterfall demo. It's a great composition.

Personally, I prefer to wait for a product that works as it should than rush for one full of bugs. I also think we should all thank the beta testers who dig into new versions of programs trying to push the program to the limit in order to find what problems are lurking within waiting to jump on a busy user when he least has time to deal with bugs.

Hi Dom! How is the Wedding Album style coming? I'm anxiously awaiting it. The beginning demo above is very impressive.