Lin Evans

Hi Barry, Because the vast majority of wedding photographers that I know use Canon and Nikon dSLR's which capture in 3:2 aspect ratio and do not prefer to display their photos at reduced size to fit a 16:9 aspect ratio screen with a 16:9 backdrop. Users of my own wedding style can create everything except the first three images created by the style at whatever aspect ratio they desire and use 16:9 or vertical aspect ratios or even square images if they like in the middle of their show. There are plenty of wedding styles at different aspect ratios so each to their own preference. It's also very easy to simply create the show in 3:2 then change the necessary images from 3:2 to whatever other aspect ratio desired after running the style. Most professional displays available here are 16:10 or 16:9 or some of the newer ones even 21:9 . On the other hand professional DSLR cameras are still primarily 3:2 even though a few offer other aspect ratios at reduced resolution. Many professional wedding photographer still use medium format and shoot square format images at various resolution. Trying to create all the possible aspect ratio styles gets very confusing for users because many photographers still use 4:3 and a number still use 5:4 especially for portrait work. So there can be styles to suit everyone's needs and desires. My own for the most part will continue to be 3:2 which work just fine on my 30" 16:10 aspect ratio display as well as on my 4:3 displays. I don't have a 16:9 display. Best regards, Lin

Hi Dave, I guess it depends on the name of the category. I have about five "user categories" on my XP system - it seems that there is or was a bug of some type which allowed multiple "user" categories. Best regards, Lin

Hi Judy, The important thing is that you have all your original work and things are now organized. Sometimes solutions can be frustrating, but your last sentence says it all... Best regards, Lin

Hi Denis, Tried that as first thing, but didn't help in this case. Using higher resolution images solved the issue though. Best regards, Lin

PTE Sample Wedding Show Using Only Styles And Created In 15 Minutes On Slideshow Club. A Sample To Demonstrate How Professional Wedding Photographers Can Take Advantage Of The Many Available Free Styles To Create A Professional Show Without Having To Invest A Lot Of Time Learning To Animate With PicturesToExe. Time Is Money And The More Styles And Themes Available To The Professional The More Valuable PicturesToExe Becomes To Their Business... https://www.slideshowclub.com/files/file/529-picturestoexe-sample-wedding-show/ Or if you prefer and perhaps a bit faster download from my server at these links: http://www.lin-evans.org/wedding/PTEWeddingsamplepc.zip http://www.lin-evans.org/wedding/PTEWeddingsamplemac.zip Each about 80 meg download... Lin

That great to hear Bert, I think it's a solution... Best regards, Lin

O.K. - Here's a test. In this sample I cropped high resolution images to 1920 vertical by 1280 horizontal thus keeping the same aspect ratio as in the original but using much higher resolution images. Then instead of using 720 p video, I created this at 1080p and I see no trace of the lines on my own system... Please let me know whether or not you see lines???? Later - I see no lines on the video on my 30" 2560x1600 pixel display either. Perhaps the solution is to use at least a 1920x1280 resolution image cropped from a higher resolution original and use a 1080p video mode. Again - is anyone seeing lines now????? Be certain you're watching at 1080p... Best regards, Lin

It's not an easy thing to dissect. I suspect the only way to really attempt to solve this is to experiment. The problem is that when displayed as a video with fewer pixel dimensions that the native resolution of the display, the images will be interpolated to fill the screen in most cases. This then changes the relationship slightly between the components and introduces yet another variable. When created as an exe, the full original dimensions of the composition will be displayed providing that the display has this capability. In the case of this show, I resized all images to 960 x 640 so when they are seen on a larger display there will be interpolation to fill the screen. I might try to create another show using the same aspect ratio images but with a much larger pixel count and see if it also shows the lines. Best regards, Lin

Hi Bert, I put all styles that I either create or modify and save into the category Lin's Styles because it makes them easy for me to find (I have hundreds of styles on my systems). I modified Jean-Cyprien's original style which is called Livre pour images verticales.ptestyle twice. Once to make it into a wedding oriented style and also to provide a more vertical orientation with less perspective distortion and again to just give it the more vertical orientation. When a style is exported, it keeps the category originally assigned which is why you found the style under the category Lin's Styles. Probably, it would be helpful for you to create several categories such as "Bert's Wedding Styles" and move all wedding related styles into this folder and other styles into categories you create to make them easier to find. In the original version 8 styles there were some names which could and were duplicated multiple times such as User styles. You can always rename the styles to something more meaningful to you as well. After creating your own categories and moving styles into them, you can delete the empty original categories to keep things tidy... Best regards, Lin

Hi Manuel, Actually Jean-Cyprien has already overlapped by two pixels so I'm uncertain that this is where the problem lies... Best regards, Lin

LOL - such is life.... Lin

Hi Jean-Ciprien, I've made a little video screen capture which may shed some light on this issue of lines. I can see them when I reduce the size using PTE's Objects and Animations percent size tool. When at 25% they can plainly be seen. At 50% they can still be seen, but not nearly as prominently as at 25%. At 75% they are difficult to see and at 100% I can no longer see them on my own display. When I make a 720p video, they are visible but almost invisible on an Exe file. I don't know why because there is a two pixel overlap that they are visible at all. Perhaps it may have something to do with interpolation sizing but the solution, if there is one, is out of my league... Best regards, Lin Click on the link below and play the small video.... lines.wmv

Nice one Dave - I like that text effect... Best regards, Lin

Hi Barry, It is a slide style. Jean-Cyprien posted it last year. I modified it slightly and made two more styles and posted them also. One for a general book style and one for a wedding style. All three are linked below: See the discussion here: Best regards, Lin Jean-Cyprien's Book Style Modified.ptestyle Livre pour images verticales.ptestyle Jean-Cyprien's Book Style For Wedding.ptestyle

Gary, Keep in mind that EVERYTHING has to happen within the selected display time. To get a much slower start and slower finish you have to have a longer display time because if you choose a value like ten seconds for the display. The slow start, linear pan and slow finish all have to be competed within that 10 second period. If you choose 20 seconds for the slide display, the start and finish can be twice as slow, etc. If you were to choose something like 80,80,0,0 then the start would be very slow and the finish very slow, but the middle part of the pan would have to be faster because everything must be completed within the selected time frame... Best regards, Lin

JT, You would have to ask Jean-Cyprien about that. They don't show on all displays. I see them on my 30 inch 2560x1600 but not on my smaller displays. I'm not certain if minor changes could be made to make them less visible or invisible. For some reason they are less visible with the exe than with the 720p video... Best regards, Lin

Gary, Use the "custom" defaults of 50,50,0,0 - this will produce the effect you are looking for. Don't use smooth - use "custom" with the defauts... Lin

Hi Gary, If you choose a wide aspect image such as 16:9 aspect ratio and set the time for 60 seconds of display, use about a 200% zoom at start and finish you can see what is going on. Set the end of the pan to one minute and the start at zero. The start and stop values mean how much of the total timeline is devoted to acceleration and how much to deceleration. So 50 and 50 with 0,0 means that the acceleration begins at the start of the display and ends at 50% of the timeline when deceleration begins. Deceleration then ends at the end of the timeline with zero movement. The "start speed" indicates the percentage of overall speed of movement for this pan animation which will be used at the start. The "end speed" indicates the percentage of overall speed of movement which will be used in the portion of pan indicated with the stop value. Everything is predicated on the display time of the side. If you manipulate these values one at a time using the one minute display time with a 16:9 aspect ratio zoomed in to about 200% you will be able to see what's going on when you change values. Best regards, Lin

A Promotion Demo Showing The Use of Jean-Cyprien's Book Style With A Small Modification To Change The Perspective. I Also Used Dave Gould's New Scrolling Text Style For Opening And Closing Text. Lin

Gary, Open an image and set your two keyframes for the beginning and end of the pan. Set the display time to something rather long like 20 seconds so you can have a chance to see what is happening. The default is a linear pan which means the acceleration is virtually instantaneous for the start and the speed of pan is very linear and the deceleration is quick so there will be more or less a jerk at the beginning and a sudden stop at the end. To do what you want you need to click on the first keyframe then on pan "add modifier" "custom" ... The default settings are 50, 50, 0, 0. This means the start time for the animation is at the very beginning (zero) and the end time is at the very end (zero). You will see that the beginning of your pan is very slow, with a gradual acceleration and linear pan, then a slow deceleration. If you increase the 50 to say 100 at the beginning, you will see a very, very slow start gradually building to a very fast pan followed by a slow down to stop. Change the second number to 100 also and the pan will start slowly then literally "jump" through the main part of the image then slow. So 50, 50, 0, 0 is what you want to get the effect you are inquiring about. The best way to learn is to experiment but only with one variable at a time so you don't get confused about which is doing what... Best regards, Lin

Hi Igor, Thank you for developing this fantastic software !!!!! Best regards, Lin

LOL Judy - so true... I hardly ever make it past 5:00 am myself... I upgraded the style so you can set the hour hand for any time..... it's on the same link under the same name above... Best regards, Lin

Hi Chanfi, They are great time and effort savers which can, in many cases, save hundreds or even thousands of keyframes. Best regards, Lin

LOL - You're right Jean-Cyprien, didn't do the job !!! She didn't even open one eye !!! Ha! Best regards, Lin

An alarm clock which will go off at 9:01 .... Or one minute past the hour you set the hour hand to. This is just one of the many neat things possible with PTE and modifiers. In case anyone wants this as a style - it's posted below: Minor upgrade - you may move hour hand to any position so alarm will sound at one minute visually past whatever hour you have it set on.... Just click on "hour hand" in Objects and Animations after applying style, then rotate the hour hand as desired. Click on "Frame One" and move, size and position alarm clock on image as needed. AlarmClockOneMinute - Ver 9.ptestyle