Lin Evans

Bob, When you add text, look just above the text block that says "text" and you'll see a white bar. Double click this bar and chose any color you wish for your text. Lin

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There is no other way to say this: Adobe does not have the interest of their customer base in mind! Because the Quicktime MOV video with alpha channel that Photoshop puts out works perfectly with PTE AV Studio 10/10 Pro, I decided to bite the bullet and purchase Adobe CC and pay the monthly fee. My system is top of the line with a very fast Intel i7 processor, 32 Gigabytes of RAM an nVidia 1660 ti video card with 6 Gigabytes of RAM and a 4K Samsung display. It all works perfectly. So after giving them my credit card information and purchasing the monthly CC and latest version of Photoshop I went to download and install it. Imagine my surprise when I received a message telling me that my "system" would not run Photoshop. With some deeper digging, I discovered that unless one has Windows 7 - 64 bit or the latest version Windows 10, Photoshop will not install. That means people with Windows 8 or 8.1 which I use, simply can't install the latest Photoshop. Several revisions ago, Photoshop CC worked perfectly with Windows 8.1 or Windows 8.0. People who were on the CC payment plan, however, discovered that if they were running Windows 8 they could NOT updated their CC version even though Adobe continued to take their money. It's not that the latest CC versions won't "run" on Windows 8 because they will. It's because Adobe will not allow the user to install the latest versions on systems running 8.0 or 8.1 or older Windows version 10. They have effectively decided that they would simply skip versions of 8 and that users of 10 would have to updated to the latest version if they want Photoshop to install. Adobe is well aware of this and will do NOTHING to correct it. I simply cancelled my subscription and that's it. I refuse to be forced into a different operating system just to run the Creative Cloud latest Photoshop version when multiple users who were running Win 7/64 could get it to run when it was already installed and they upgraded to Windows 8 or 8.1. There is PLENTY of chatter on the various forums about this. Sorry Adobe, I don't need you, there are plenty of other options which run just fine on my Win 8.1 system On the other hand, you have alienated a statistically significant size of your user base. Good luck! Lin

As in my PM - damned Photoshop CC won't install on my Win 8.1 system. I bought then cancelled a subscription. It installs on Win 7 64 bit and on the later but not earlier versions of Win 10. I give up. I'm not changing the operating system just to run a subscription based Adobe product. It's too bad, I like the idea of being able to create a Quicktime Alpha channel MOV, but I just won't jump through hoops for a company which elected to simply "skip" two versions of Windows. People who have installed it on Win 7 say it's not that it won't "run" on Win 8 or 8.1, it will. Adobe just won't install it on either. Best regards, Lin

Several years ago, PanosFX created a Photoshop action which created any of three fan designs which users could use to place their own images on. theDom and I decided to create templates to allow animation of these fans with PicturesToExe. Dave G also created a neat style and we had fun outputting separate PNG blades with transparency from Photoshop then combining these fan blades into an animated opening and closing. It was a bit tedious because when a user created a new fan and used Photoshop to output the individual fan blades, to use them with either the style or templates required either renaming each blade or replacing all 19 blades one at a time in the template. However, the output was fun and we could then put the animated fan in PTE under a controlling frame and control it as desired. Fast forward to now. Panos has created a new Photoshop action which lets the user not only output their choice of image on the fans, but output the fans to a Quicktime MOV format alpha channel Video which performs the very action that we created with PTE years ago. It's quick and easy and a fun thing. I don't have a later version of Photoshop so I wrote to Panos and asked if he would mind linking me to a single small video output by Photoshop so I could test it with PTE. Panos sent me one this morning and it works PERFECTLY with PTE. The Quicktime MOV video with Alpha Channel transparency can just be dropped under a controlling frame in PTE and voila! Thanks Panos and thanks Igor - PTE works perfectly with this Quicktime transparency video from Photoshop! Best regards, Lin

Bob, Here are 14,480 individual tiny video screens simultaneously playing videos while the icosahedrons rotate and zoom and the Earth rotates in the background. All accomplished with PTE AV Studio 10. It's a totally amazing product which can do incredible animations. Some of the recent converts from Producer such as Paul and Aleina have shown how quickly they were able to adapt to the PTE way of doing things with their beautiful animations, etc. Best regards, Lin

Hi Bob, Let me make you a little video tutorial. You don't put them into the slide list as "layers" you put one in the slide list or a blank slide them add them in Objects and Animations. Give me a half hour and I'll show you exactly how it's done. You can do amazing animations with PTE - I'll also demonstrate one of the styles used to animate and solve a Rubik's cube. As soon as I get it finished, I'll upload to YouTube and edit this post so you'll find it right here.. Best regards, Lin

It sounds like perhaps you have png files defaulted to open in some other program. Right click on one and choose "properties" then see what it says and let me know. We really have no problems at all opening png files with transparency so something's not quite right here. What version of Windows are you running? Try this png file with transparency and see if it has the same flower icon: Best regards, Lin

The good thing - if there can be a good thing right now - is that the old and thoroughly tested malaria drug hydroxychloroquine coupled with zinc sulfate and azithromycin has proven effective when given early on in the development of the disease. Though there have not been time for exhaustive studies, there are over 1000 patients who are definitely improved and have not needed to be hospitalized with the five day protocol. Although there are the typical skeptics who downplay and complain, there has not been a single death among those treated with this drug cocktail. It's been approved by the FDA and may be the salvation needed. This is also being used by a healthy number of doctors and nurses and other hospital employees as a prophylactic to avoid contracting Covid-19. Other combinations of drugs are being evaluated and tested with various efficacy. Best regards, Lin

Love it Tom - actually, it was a golf cap he wore and he forgot to take it off for the National Anthem - LOL. He began wearing it because he had long hair and wanted to keep it out of his face then continued because it had become a part of his identity. Dave always considered himself a miler and set an NCAA record which I think may still stand. He took up running because as a child he was weak and his doctor told him to take up a sport like running. His finish in that 800 meter final at the Olympics was something else wasn't it? Excellent job with both the graphics and the video! Good suggestion to Never Give Up... Soon this virus pandemic will be over and folks can get back to their routines... Best regards, Lin

Hi Bob, PTE can use any PNG file which has had the background made transparent. Take your original image into your image editor such as Photoshop and make the background transparent. Load this file into PTE and you will have an object with transparency surrounding it. No need for a mask to do this. If you have Photoshop just open your file and get the image size. Then select all and copy this file. Then click on "File" "New" and make it RGB Color with Transparent Background and the same dimensions as revealed for your original. Paste your copied file to this new image and use the eraser tool to erase all background except what you want to show. Save the creation as a PNG file and open it in PTE. The background will be transparent allowing any image it's placed on to be seen through the transparency portion. No need to make the image a "child" just go to the Objects and Animations screen and add this image and move it to the top layer. If you have problems doing this, let me know and I'll make you a little video tutorial... Best regards, Lin

Are you using the Pro version? Essentials converts everything to sRGB. The Pro version has color management explained here: Scroll down to find color management. https://docs.pteavstudio.com/en-us/10.0/project_settings_1/preferences Lin

Excellent idea - safety first !!! Best regards, Lin

A Little Demo Of Possible Water Effects For Fun Lin Better quality on Vimeo Here:

Hi Lowell, No, when you save your PTE file after making changes - when you leave PTE and open it later and open the .PTE file, all changes that you have made before saving a preserved. There is no need to make a "new show" to add slides or make additions or changes. One thing which you need to check is whether you are using PTE AV Studio 10 Pro or PTE AV Studio 10. The demo lets you choose which one you want to use. Click on "help" then "about" and let's first find out which version you have running because the waveform capabilities are only in the Pro version. When you have PTE open then go to "File" (on the top left) and "open" and navigate to your desired PTE file and click it, you should see all the slides you have loaded in the slide list along the bottom of the screen. You "should" see the available files in the folder along the left side of the screen with the ones which have been used having their file names in bold. I'm uncertain of what exactly you mean when you say "This file list has my reproduced thumbnails but there is no slides appearing" - if you you could do a screen capture and post it perhaps we can figure out what is going on. Do you mean there are no thumbnails in the "slide list" along the bottom of the screen? Best regards, Lin

This is just a thought Barry. First my own experience. When I installed my new video card (nVidia 1660 ti) I began using the nVidia Shadow Play which records beautifully 4K video 60 fps and all animations as smooth as butter. When I put my own tutorials up, I drop this 4K capture into PTE and output HD at 1080p for the actual tutorial. Could you do this and use the HD output from PTE for the Camtasia editor to add the bells and whistles you use in your tutorials? Not having Camtasia, I have no idea how it works. Best regards, Lin

Hi George, I can't see the values in the Animations tab for the center and rotation so there is no way to actually answer your question. "IF" you move the center as described before, and "IF" the "X" center is -100 (minus 100) and the "Y" center is ZERO, then when you move the "Y" rotate ONLY there will be no movement except rotation on the left border as you want. Best regards, Lin

Here's a little Demo which might help.... Best regards, Lin

Hi Lowell, Give me an hour or so and I'm going to make you a little video tutorial which "should" make it easy to see where your .pte file is and how to get it to go where you want it. You'll have to excuse my voice - hopefully you will be able to understand me. I had a stroke a couple years ago which took my voice entirely and I'm still struggling with trying to speak normally. I just can't get words out quickly and that sometimes make me sound like I've been drinking... I wish !!! Anyway I'll post the little tutorial here when it's ready. Best regards, Lin

Hi George, It's not rotating as you want because your "center" of rotation is still on the center of the object. Place your mouse cursor carefully on the tiny dot in the very center of the object (your book page or cover). Hold down the shift key and when you see the cursor change, keep holding down the shift key and drag the little dot so it perfectly overlaps the tiny dot on the far left of the bounding square. Now observe the numbers in the "center" block on the readout. You will notice that it has changed from zero. The absolute "correct" numbers should be minus 100 on the X axis and Zero on the Y axis. Now change the "Rotate" on the "Y" axis and you will see the rotation hinged on the periphery as you want. Best regards, Lin

Thanks Brian and Katrina, Love it! Just what people need these days to give a calming and soothing perspective and to enjoy nature's bounty. Best regards, Lin & Ruby pup

Hi Lowell, Did you do a "File" "Save" after making your show? If so, there absolutely IS a .pte file somewhere. If you don't save your work, you probably need to go into "Settings" "Preferences" "Project" then click in the box next to "Autosave" and let the computer start doing it for you. The "zip" file is designed as a way to collect all necessary files and put them into a zip archive so they can be moved to any drive or to another computer which also runs PTE. But the .pte file is created when you click on "File" "Save" and at the time the file is saved you can see where the default is or change it as you wish. Best regards, Lin

Styles are not "additive." When you create a style you can have as many effects on the same slide as you create for the image. That could be one effect or a hundred or more, but when you apply another style, it puts your image back as it was before any styles were applied before applying the new style. To do what you have suggested, first forget applying any style and make your image sepia with the color filter (perhaps this is what you meant by applying a sepia style?)Then fill the screen with your image and then if that's something you want to do with multiple images or image in the future, create the style. A style can have virtually any number of animations and filters, it can have any number of keyframes and can even contain animated gifs and videos, but when a slide which was created with a style has a different style applied to it, it only does what the new style instructs. Perhaps sometime in the future it may be possible to have additive styles, but that's not possible right now. Best regards, Lin

Yes, it's a troubled world we live in. The major difference these days is that when a "butterfly" flapped her wings in past years it was an eternity before anything happened around the world and if we knew of any correlation at all, or if we even knew that there was a butterfly it was a random and mystical event. Today when a butterfly in the wild in some remote Amazon rain forest flaps her wings, not only is it often known nearly instantly around the world, but predictions are published and likely outcomes proffered about by the media and multiple events are considered the "result" of that action whether or not in reality there was any causal connection or just a random correlation. Sensation "overload" sometimes happens and the result is that to some, nothing is believable. I ground myself by the enjoyment of simple things such as images of our beautiful blue ball on which we all live and the mysteries and wonder of nature and her living bounty of both animal and vegetable nature. Every day during the harsh winter, I feed little bushy tailed, cotton tailed and feathered visitors who come to my back yard to visit my service pup Ruby and provide me with hours of photographic and visual pleasure. I try to limit my exposure to the "news" as much as possible. Best regards, Lin & Ruby pup

Hi Roumi, Dave G created a style for the fan demo, and I created a "template" which can be used to animate these components. To create the components for the fan, it's necessary to use one of the Panos FX Photoshop actions and Photoshop. The free fan "action" can be downloaded via the PanosFX forum here: PanosFX.com Information and the "Fan Style" can be found here: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Salut Roumi, Dave G a créé un style pour la démo de fan, et j'ai créé un "modèle" qui peut être utilisé pour animer ces composants. Pour créer les composants du ventilateur, il est nécessaire d'utiliser l'une des actions Panos FX Photoshop et Photoshop. L'action gratuite des fans peut être téléchargée via le forum PanosFX ici: PanosFX.com Vous trouverez des informations et le "Fan Style" ici: Best regards, Lin