Lin Evans

Worked perfectly Wideangle! Merry Christmas to you and your family as well !! Lin & Ruby pup

It's only one pixel per press so easy to miss if you don't pay close attention.. Best regards, Lin

Brian - could you show us the image you want to type onto? What is the aspect ratio? There are a number of ways to do this. Some as Barry and Dave have shown using only PTE and others which are a little more realistic because someone has already done the "heavy lifting." I suppose it all depends on whether or not you want to do it all in PTE or perhaps have a small video introduction made with another software. Personally, I'm not hung up on using only PTE for a show but incorporating whatever works best to get a solution. If you can provide the text you want to say and the image you want it typed on, I can make a quick sample for you to consider... Best regards, Lin

Last one for a while. I can't see out of my right eye - I need some surgery to remove a small growth under my eyelid which is a constant irritating and painful and causing my eye to water. I can't get a doctor's appointment for a few weeks so I'll give it a break... Just a novel idea here... Lin

Judy, Wideangle, Barry, Tom, Thanks - yes, sadly the world is just not the place I hoped it would be when I looked ahead as a child. I'll leave you with a little postcard painting I did for a good friend in Vermont who lost her husband unexpectedly at 67. He, his wife, Sherry (my late wife) and I were best friends in college. I snapped this picture when visiting them shortly after Sherry died in 2010. Their little home on 10 rural Vermont acres is a beautiful and restful place.... Lin

Hi Bert, Go to translate.google.com and enter the URL - it will translate the entire website Lin

After the holidays, if anyone is interested, let me know and I'll make some tutorials on how to do some of these easel/paint animations which really can't be made into styles. I've spent many years scratching my head and trying to understand how JPD did his, and now I have finally figured it out. Here's the latest one with my pup Ruby on canvas and my late girl friend Lisah singing: Lin

Hi Wideangle, You should be able to use sound, but perhaps you have missed something. The way I use sound is to create a tiny video with the sound attached using the smallest possible size of 320x180 low quality. Right click in O&A after applying the style and add this video to the beginning of your timeline. Set opacity to zero and create the new style. The sound should play normally and the video be unseen and have a tiny footprint which is primarily the audio. Best regards, Lin

Musings: Turning the calendar back a hundred plus years brings me joy and peace this Christmas season. The world has changed, and not for the better I fear. Instead of Merry Christmas we are pressured to be politically correct and say Happy Holidays. Boys and girls no longer know whether they are male or female. We can’t tell jokes because someone might be offended (whatever the hell that means). We can’t have nativity scenes at our courthouses and capitol buildings buildings because leftist organizations like the ACLU will sue. The Boy Scouts have to admit girls and the time-honored concept of marriage is being stomped into the ground. The meanings of words which have been more or less constant for centuries are being changed to suit special interest groups. We are allowing people in our government who want to destroy this nation and everything it stands for. Our media lies to us daily and promotes a leftist driven agenda and our children are being brainwashed daily in our schools and universities. No, I would gladly turn back the calendar if I could do that; but since I don’t have that power, I can at least bring us a few minutes of solitude and paint a picture of happier days. Listening to the lilting melody of “Oh Holy Night” and remembering how things were when I was a child brings me peace. I find comfort in good memories and wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year filled with peace, comfort and prosperity…..

Hi JMG, Sorry - I missed this question - here is the style for the clock with all hands which can be moved to set time: Best regards, Lin Alarm Clock - For Version 9 - One Minute.ptestyle

My Pup Ruby... Lin

O.K., I'm about done with easel styles. Two basic type - conventional which is about a 4x3 aspect ratio and wide angle which is 16x9 aspect ratio. This little show demonstrates both. The easels can be moved, sized, twisted, leaned, and tilted with the controlling frame. The wide angle is designed for 16:9 but can be used with any aspect ratio as can the conventional one by adjusting the size and placement of the background image and/or the painted on easel image. Best regards, Lin Easel Paint 3.ptestyle

Bravo Jean-Cyprien !!!! Another masterpiece! Best wishes and Merry Christmas! Lin & Ruby pup...

This style features an easel with a 16:9 aspect ratio canvas. Select Two or any even number of 16:9 aspect ratio images. Apply Style. Original style runs two minutes and 35 seconds. Sample is accelerated by 200% and runs 82 seconds (one minute 22 seconds). Do NOT change speed in the style to change overall speed. This style is done with video masking so to shorten the run time, go to Objects and Animations and the Properties Tab - Select the video (paintwithbrush 2) and then press Time Range Button and change speed up to 200%. Then in Objects and Animations press Slide Options button and change Slide Duration to 82 seconds for the 200% speed paint. Lin Easel Paint 3.ptestyle

Thanks Pascal - yes the dynamic filter definitely offers perfect synchronization of animation where with video masks that is a situation which is problematic.... Best regards, Lin

Hi Manuel, Cool !!! That works !!! Lin

Jacques, Jacques Pourriez-vous poser votre question sur le forum français (lien ci-dessous) car il y a très peu de francophones ici et je dois utiliser Google Transate pour traduire. Il y a des questions auxquelles il faut répondre et beaucoup d'utilisateurs français expérimentés. Je pense que l’un d’eux pourrait trouver la cause de votre problème plus rapidement. On dirait que PicturesToExe a installé les styles, mais pour une raison quelconque, vous ne les voyez pas. Voici le lien vers le forum Diapositif où vous pouvez vous connecter et poser votre question pour peut-être une réponse plus rapide. Lin http://www.diapositif.net/forum/index.php

Wideange, Manuel, Danna, Thanks - it's a fun project which I think may offer other possibilities. We haven't yet really explored much in the way of video masking so this is a start. Because of the difficulty in synchronizing png objects with the video speed and because different computer resources make it difficult to know just what's happening on other systems, there are some problems using speed changes in a style which has a png object trying to track the video movement of the native cursor in the software used to create the video mask. I'm still thinking on this - it's a work in progress. I turned off the normal cursor in Photoshop to only the small + which is about invisible on the easel style. On the earlier two styles I'm tracking the motion of the cursor manually with the "hand png" and it's rather a nightmare. One of our French users changed the speed and immediately noticed that the synchronization between the hand and the cursor were lost. I've tried adjusting the video speed as well as changing the display time and/or moving the keyframes in concert, but I think it's a lost cause. Better for now to not change the speed in the style I think. Best regards, Lin

Hi Manuel, Actually the canvas on the easel already has canvas texture. If you increase the size of the easel with the controlling frame you can see it easily. When the easel is smaller, the canvas is also smaller so the texture is more difficult to see. Best regards, Lin

Bonjour Petitsaxo, Oui, avec ces styles de caractères où une combinaison de masquage vidéo est utilisée avec les images clés, si la vitesse est modifiée, les images clés ne seront pas correctement synchronisées pour ce qu'elles contrôlent avec le masque. Il est peut-être possible d'ajuster les images clés en fonction de la quantité exacte d'augmentation ou de diminution du changement d'heure, mais il peut être difficile d'être exact. J'ai remarqué la même chose et suggère de ne pas changer la vitesse dans le style. Meilleures salutations, Lin Hi Petitsaxo, Yes, with these type styles where there is a combination of video masking used with keyframes, if the speed is changed, the keyframes will not have proper synchronization for what they control with the mask. It might be possible to adjust the keyframes by the exact amount of increase or decrease of the time change, but it may be difficult to be exact. I've noticed the same thing and suggest not changing the speed within the style. Best regards, Lin

Thanks Maurice - great to see you back and to hear of all the new shows !!! Looks GREAT! Best regards, Lin

High Resolution Video Sample Created With Style... Lin https://youtu.be/Px-vzyxfITo

Just a Fun Little Project... Lin High Res PC Zipped EXE http://www.lin-evans.org/pte/easelpaintdemoPC.zip High Res Mac Exe http://www.lin-evans.org/pte/easelpaintdemomac.zip Select Two Images. The first image will be the background and the second image will be painted on the easel. If you want the same image for the background and in the painted image, use the same image twice. Adjust the position and size of the easel assembly with the controlling frame. If there is any part of the white canvas still showing after the painting is done, adjust the size and/or position of the image under the bottom mask... In Easel Paint 2 - I cleaned up the PNG tripod to eliminate the slight white "ghost" around the legs... Otherwise same. Easel Paint.ptestyle Easel Paint 2.ptestyle

Hi Tom, Possibly, but the type mask I'm creating is to "reveal" rather than "create." I think it might be possible to create effects that could be used in PTE using other software such as Photoshop, but I'll have to ponder for a while whether it would be efficaciously possible with PTE - at least at the present time - to act as an instrument of creation for that type animation. In a future version Igor has agreed to allow PTE to export a screen as a jpg and if that could be expanded to export a PNG complete with layers, then it opens all kinds of doors such as one thing which I would LOVE to see and that is the ability to "combine" styles. Right now if a style is applied to the result of a style, the original result is cancelled. So if I were to say create a style which created a sepia image from a color image, then applied a border and burred background to that product, the result would be a color image with a border and blurred background. By allowing PTE to export a screen to a jpg, which would convert the original sepia to a jpg rather than a manipulated in PTE sepia, the sepia with blurred background and border would be created. Carrying this further, remember that in PTE 8, we could export text as a PNG preserving two layers - the alpha layer and the image. We lost that ability with PTE 9 because the improved text rendering made it functionally unnecessary. Now if in version 10, for example, we could export a multi-layer PTE creation as a PNG with the layers preserved, then we could apply another style to that and by copy/pasting the original keyframes we could combine multiple styles into new and more complex styles which would be a tremendously powerful feature. Best regards, Lin

A Sample Of How This Concept Could Be Used Along With Other PTE Possibilities. I Have No Creative Skills, But Perhaps One Of Our People With That Talent - Maybe Barry, Mur, Tonton, Or One Of Our Other Very Talented French Users Could Go With This Concept And Develop Other Styles?? Lin