davegee

Now might be a good time to re-iterate some comments from the early days of the Online Help File. ".......I am inviting anyone who wants to participate to look at where we are now and submit articles and "How To's" which fill the gaps. There are a couple of things that need to be mentioned: 1. If your submission is a "one liner" please submit it here. We don't need suggestions for articles - we need articles. 2. If you are submitting an article (or "How To") it needs to be in Word or .rtf format (PDF perhaps) but the images need to be SEPARATE - not inserted into the document. 2a. Images should be a maximum of 1280 Pixels wide - there's a little trick - if you need help please ask me? 3. If possible images need to be screen grabs in W7 format/"livery" - for consistency. 4. Articles should be SPELL CHECKED before submission. 5. Opinions in articles will be edited out. Submissions should be made in a PM to me. It might be wise to let me know if you plan to make a submission just in case someone else is planning the same topic? The work is ongoing and it might be wise to Press F5 (or even Ctrl+F5) often to make sure that you are not viewing an old version of what is current." Thanks to Jeff Evans for looking after the running of this project since April. I hope to be able to continue with it in the near future. Please PM Jeff until that time. We don't need suggestions for articles - we need articles. DG

......the heart of NX2 lives on........ https://petapixel.com/2017/10/25/dxo-buys-nik-collection-google-will-resume-development/ DG

Thanks Lin. Don't mix Horizontal and Vertical. It does not work DG

Four Styles - 2 Horizontal and 2 Vertical - and two Demo Styles. Individual Styles require one 16x9 Image in a 16x9 Project. Demo Styles each require four 16x9 Images in a 16x9 Project. As always these are just ideas - feel free to Edit or Adjust. Rotate.ptestyle DG

Hi Jeff, I have no interest in LR but I understand why others use it. I have tried the Range Masking in ACR and I am suitably impressed. Being able to use this technique on the RAW file has its advantages but NIK Vivesa is still a contender. I also like the Variable Fonts. It would be nice if Igor could introduce something similar. DG

I was not sure what you meant. In order to take full advantage of LR CC across multiple devices you must go to the cloud. That will work OK if you stay within the 20Gb limit of the Photography Package. Some users are expressing doubts about the viability of this approach because of their Broadband speed/limitations, especially when away from home. When away from home for any length of time I would take my laptop loaded with PS CC 2018, NX-D and NIK filters. Cloud free. Different people have different requirements and will choose what is best for them. DG

Judy, please explain. The addition to your £10 pm package is the newly named "Lightroom CC". To use that you must go "all-cloud" for images processed in that option....... If will be interesting to hear of user's experiences after a few weeks. I have never used LR so the changes will not have much impact on me. I look forward to some of the changes in PS. DG

The Adobe site Package prices: https://www.adobe.com/uk/creativecloud/photography.html?red=a&tduid=b38114d75b7afee4ec1dadb2668c7959&url=http://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photography.html DG

Announced today: Subscription Plans Adobe's CC Photography Plan isn't losing any features. In fact, it's gaining 20 GB of cloud storage as well as Lightroom CC alongside the Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop CC updates. A new CC Photography Plan with 1 TB increases the price to $19.99 per month, up from $9.99 per month for the standard plan. Existing users get a $5 per month discount for the first year. A new Lightroom CC plan gives the standalone cross-platform system to users with 1 TB of storage and the same Adobe Spark with premium features and Adobe Portfolio products for $9.99 per month. A purely mobile Lightroom Mobile Plan for iOS and Android is also available with 100 GB of storage for $4.99 per month. Additional data amounts are available, although at currently undisclosed prices and capacities. Of course, the standard 1 TB upgraded capacities are enough for most people's needs. But pending pricing on multiple terabytes of data, it could be unrealistic for professional photographers to rely on Lightroom CC alone to hold their data or even to upload all of it to begin with. And because Lightroom CC uploads every image to the cloud (there's a way to ensure an image is or is not downloaded locally, but no way to stop an image from being uploaded if it's imported into CC), it's unclear if this would be something manageable or if there's another solution or workaround aside from continuing to use Lightroom Classic CC as the main image management and editing workhorse. https://fstoppers.com/apps/adobe-announces-lightroom-classic-cc-lightroom-cc-photoshop-cc-updates-and-more-200026?utm_source=Fstoppers&utm_medium=Push&utm_campaign=article_added DG

Do you mean that while your exe file is being projected onto a screen you want to be able to preview the next slide on your pc/laptop?

Updated/Modified Origami 1 CT: Origami 1.pteeff Shading has been added to differentiate between Left and Right sections during the Transition. Origami 2: Origami 2.pteeff Origami 2 takes the CT a step further by adding more sections to the transition. (Horizontal only). Styles containing these CTs: Origami 2a.ptestyle Origami 2b.ptestyle DG P.S. Some users have experienced error messages when these CTs are first Imported. Closing and re-opening PTE fixes the problem. Igor is aware and is investigating.

Do you have the latest version?

Which Media Player are you using? Have you tried the recommended MPC-HC? https://mpc-hc.org DG

Thank you Robert! DG

Thank you, feel free to edit or adjust as you wish. DG

Hi Wideangle, That has not happened to me on my W7 and W10 PCs. Mur did not report it either. If you can reproduce the Error please post in General so that Igor can investigate when he gets back to work. DG

Sometimes I see a Transition on TV etc and wonder if or how I could do it in PTE. A challenge. This is such a challenge. I have called it Origami for want of a better name. Included in the ZIP are the Custom Transition, the Demo Style and individual Styles for each of the four directions of the CT. Follow the instructions in the Style. As always these are just ideas - feel free to Edit or Adjust. DG Origami 1.zip

The Triptychs below use three 2x3 images. Add three 2x3 Images to the Slide List of a 16x9 Project and apply the style. Animation can be applied via the Animation Frame and the Frames 1-3. 3D Triptych 3 Portraits.ptestyle Some suggestions as to how they could be animated: 3D Triptych 3 Portraits Demo.ptestyle This one has a Blurred BG. Add three 2x3 Images and a 16x9 Image (in that order ) to a 16x9 Project and apply the style. 3D Triptych 3 Portraits with BG.ptestyle These are just ideas - feel free to edit and/or adjust. DG P.S. Regarding 2x3 Images: Pre-prepared 2x3 Images (e.g. 800x1200) are advisable. Note that "some" DSLRs do not produce 2x3 images SOOC.

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Some Text Caption Styles which incorporate an "Advanced" Push Transition. The CT is attached separately and is available in four directions. Add your Caption before applying the Style. One Image required as BG. The Caption animates independent of the BGs which Dissolve into each other. The CTs could also be used with Images which are less than 100% of full screen. Use a Splitter and a Blurred version of the Main Image for example. These are just ideas - feel free to edit and/or adjust. Text.ptestyle Advanced Push Transisition.pteeff DG P.S. Styles are Optimised for 16:9 Projects

Take a look at your settings menu. Table view of Slide List. DG

The Windows solution is to key Ctrl - Alt - Del and use the menu to close the programme. DG

No Jose, not masks. DG

Denis, I would go so far as to say that it is necessary to do this in readiness for version 10. Some CT's are not compatible with version 9. PTE users of Default Styles should not have to wait until version 10 for an upgrade to a CT which has been around for many versions. Version 9.5?? DG

Jose, Most of the "Standard" Transitions and Styles need to be brought up to date to take advantage of Version 9 Techology. I posted a week or two ago that a recently posted Style did not have instructions included in the Style. But Styles are easier in that they can be applied and edited and re-saved. With CT's, some can be duplicated and saved as "Advanced" versions but the "Curling of Page" is one which might need just a little extra. If the Version 9 parameters "Use Background from Slide" and "Transparent background of Slides" (now default) could be added to all variants of the Curling Page Transition then it would do as you ask. Your Text (above the Splitter) would curl in any direction over the Static BG (Below the Splitter). A simple opening book Transition with a PNG TEXT in the first slide verifies this. PTE (and some authors of CT's and Styles) need to drag themselves into Version 9 DG