Lin Evans

Hey Ken, That's a likely excuse - you were checking out the babe instead of reading the words and listening to the song - LOL.. Best regards, Lin

Welcome Home was written and performed by Janice Ian for the Nebula Awards Ceremony honoring science fiction writers ... The music was from At Seventeen and a continuation of the theme... I thought it fitting to create a little bucholic scene from a Buddhist retreat looking at Jade Mountain on Saint Lucia - just for fun folks... http://www.lin-evans.org/pte/welcomehome.zip (about 18 meg Windows exe) http://www.lin-evans.org/pte/welcomehomemac.zip (about 18 meg native Mac exe) Best regards, Lin

Yes - actually all you do is open the file with 8.0 Just open the pte file with the latest version. As long as all the images and such are still available where they can be found by the PTE data file, everything will work just as it did with 7.0. PTE is backward compatible with all prior versions. Keep in mind that once you save the PTE file with the latest version, then you can no longer edit it with earlier versions. Best regards, Lin

Hi Michael, I just tested the audio transfer, and each audio must be linked for the copy to work as expected. Just link all audio temporarily to slide 1 then do the copy and paste. If there are multiple tracks, link them all to the first slide and everything including sound will copy. Best regards, Lin

Hi Peter, As far as I know, it's only audio which is linked. It would be fairly easy to test it, but it's also easy to just link everything quickly to the first slide for the purpose of copy and then just don't save... Best regards, Lin

Actually, there is a way to get the audio to transfer as well by doing it the way Peter suggests. Link the audio to a slide and it will be copied as well as the images. Best regards, Lin

Hi Mur, Sorry about the extra files and possible threat - I changed the original link to the Photoscape site itself, hope it's clean. I haven't downloaded it in over a year myself so didn't know about the junk... Best regards, Lin

Hi Judy, By archive I'm assuming you mean in addition to your original 16 mp captures... 4K in the real sense (not the strict sense) is about 8 megapixel resolution. Right now there are only a very few diplays made for this resolution and systems must have some pretty powerful video cards to run them with animation at 60 fps. I think it's fair to guess that it will be several years before seeing these. I use a 30" 2560x1600 display myself and HD at 1920 by 1080 looks great on it. I've made a few shows at four megapixel resolution just to test the display and video card and they do very well because I have a top-end video card with 3 gig video RAM and a 32 gig 8 core i7 system running it, but I wouldn't create my high resolution shows for normal distribution because they would totally overwhelm most systems. Today the "average" system sold is sold with a 1980x1020 HD display and generally not larger than a 23 inch display. I think you would be quite happy to archive at four megapixel which would give you plenty of range for deep zooms on normal shows and not take up excessive storage. Keep all your original sixteen megapixel RAW's but as far as the output size for your shows, four megapixel size is more than sufficient. I would not crop them myself, just do all cropping by the position on screen I'm assuming that you shot the originals in 3:2 aspect ration with a dSLR. The 4K stuff will be a long time coming and should you need to make a show for 4K just output from your RAW's for that particular show. That's my $.02 Best regards, Lin

It would require two versions of the exe show, one for XP and another for Vista forward.... It could get complicated. Fortunately, not too many people actually make shows which use this type of animation. Best regards, Lin

Judy, you can do that with Photoshop. Import frames to layers. "File" "Import" "Video Frames to Layers" Best regards, Lin

Hi Tom, Yes, I was just trying to sort out exactly what you wanted to do. I have never used the grid feature myself for correcting horizontal or vertical orientation on a photo even though that's one of the two ways possible with Photoshop. Drawing a line for example, across the top of a roof structure then the Photoshop "rotate canvas, arbitrary" gives a pretty good quick and easy way to make that line parallel to the horizon. I'm assuming that was what you were referring to. Of course the accuracy is no more precise than the line drawn by the user but it's certainly good enough to approximate horizontal (or vertical). How precise sort of depends on the visual acuity and manual dexterity of the hand holding the mouse or pointing device. I agree that the slider in PTE is a pain to use because the motion is way too abrupt, at least for the way most have their mouse set up. I usually do my horizon corrections in my cameras so rarely have to deal with correcting a photo in PTE but I can see the utility of a control for quick straightening without manually entering values. In PTE I almost never us the slider or enter the numeric values but rather just grab the rotate point and do it visually with the mouse. I always work with a much smaller than full screen so that the entire bounding rectangle is visible at all times. There are lots of controls which could be useful in PixBuilder for image editing, but then one has to decide where to draw the line on image editing versus other features more germane to slideshow presentation. It's not easy sometimes deciding what is essential and what is excess... Best regards, Lin

Hi Tom, Could you possibly explain a bit more. What is the purpose for the image rotate? Are you trying to correct for a horizon mistake? The rotate right now is precise to the nearest 1/1000th of a degree, I doubt if more "accuracy" is feasible??? Do you mean draw a line from point A to point B and have the program set that line and the image it's drawn on to 180" or 90" image as "horizontal" or "vertical" to compensate for out of horizontal or vertical capture? Sorry, I'm just not 100% clear on what the purpose is... Best regards, Lin

Hi Mur, If you want an eazy way to make precision splits up to 100 per image, I would suggest downloading the freeware Photoscape. This is a very useful software and splitting into rows or colums (ribbons) or both is extremely easy, quick and precise with it. Here's a link: http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php Best regards, Lin P.S. I have a little tutorial on using it for splitting here: It's number 21... http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php?/topic/7901-pte-made-easy-tutorials-continuously-updated/

Hi Mur, Actually, if you have Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, Panos has just released a really super nice free page curl action which you can use to "curl" all four corners or any of the four of a photo. See it here: http://www.panosfx.com/free-photoshop-actions/page-curls I use this one myself... Best regards, Lin

Hi Mur, My internet is down - has been for over 5 hours so I'm at a wifi connect in a town nearby. The "easiest" way to get a page curl for a slide is to use a screen capture tool and run the slide transition and capture the image. Save the image with the curl then you can play it (them) back as desired. There really is no way with the present animation capabilities of PTE to create a page curl in O&A so not really feasible to try to create a style. On the other hand it's really easy to capture one from the transition. Just set a reasonably long transition time, adjust the parameters as you like for the curl and capture it at your highest screen resolution. Best regards, Lin

Hi Mur, PTE doesn't have a "style" yet which creates a page curl for a slide, but you could create one yourself if you wished. Until then, I would suggest PanosFX at http://www.panosfx.com which has a free photoshop/elements action which can create one for any image. Best regards, Lin

Very nice images and post processing and the result is testimony to the grandeur that was...... Probably many young women received a great education inside those walls. Nature has a way of reclaiming what was hers though, so in the end once deterioration has advanced to that degree, there is no turning back the clock! Best regards, Lin

The "ribbon" is, in my opinion, the worst thing that's happened in software evolution. Best regards, Lin

Thank's very much Dan! Cimarron, Colorado is a beautiful little place right on the Morrow Point Reservoir. I can see why she would love it being that near the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. A few years ago I was there in winter and wading waist deep snow got the image posted below of a beautiful buck deer. I really appreciate the translation - I was having a bit of a problem trying to do it with Google but it is all clear now! Wonderful story! From the type of ranching (sheep) and the love you have for the mountains, I assume your ancestry is Basque? I fully understand living in a tent - my late wife and I lived in a tent for six months when we first moved to Colorado to attend college. Later for many years we lived in small travel trailers and enjoyed the nomadic life. When we lived in California many, many years ago we always loved going to a Basque restaurant in Bakersfield where there is a fairly large population of Basque people. They had a huge table where everyone sat and passed the food just like a family might do on holidays. It was a great experience and a great way to meet new people! Best regards, Lin

Hi Dan, Loved "Anna" and the many great shots and historical facts. I assume Gabriel was related to you and then Anna as well by marriage? The Montrose area of Colorado is a beautiful place and I'm sure Anna was very happy there - sad that Gabriel passed away at such a young age though, pneumonia took many in those days... I understand Anna remarried and eventually sold the ranch and lived to 89 years... Best regards, Lin

Beautiful show on la vallée du Rio Cochamó, accès secret à la Cordillère Dan, it makes me want to visit that part of Chili! I'll be looking at your other shows - thanks very much for the link! Best regards, Lin

Hi Peter, It could be a possibility for a future version of PTE. The present way of doing it isn't intuitive, but to make it intuitive might make it much less versatile. Right now as you know, the video can run uninterrupted as the still slides progress (master video) or it can be a single video clip either below or above the layer of the still slide. As you also probably know, the sound can be muted on the video and inserted as the audio and played as an mp3 audio with complete envelope control right now - it's a PTE feature. All the instructions for doing this and more are in the Wiki user guide, but right now it's not available in as many languages as would be nice. The reason I posted the response and method for using a video as a background was that I wasn't certain if the OP realized that this could presently be done. When one has to translate every thread, it can be difficult to avoid missing important information. Best regards, Lin

Hi Eric, Any browser can play a file directly from your hard drive. The file doesn't have to reside elsewhere nor does it have to be housed on a "website." As long as the html code has been generated and stored whether on your own hard disk or on a server drive somewhere across the world, the browser only needs to be pointed at the html file to play the selection. For example, when building a web site, generally programmers will test it on their own machine before uploading it to a host. As an example, just open Mozilla and click on "File" (upper left) then "Open File." and you will immediately be able to browse your entire hard disk or attached media types. If you have generated the proper html code, then clicking on the calling file (often index.htm) you can run that content regardless of whether it's located on your own system or on some other system anywhere on the internet. In the present case, the 60 fps video being tested with the browsers resides on my own hard disk in a folder so there is no "internet" involved nor is there any download, etc., it's just being played locally by the browser. Best regards, Lin

Hi Tom, I can't verify the html call - it's the default from my Xara Web Developer and it's entirely possible it's Flash protocol. We will know more when YouTube gets its act together. Right now lots of people in the HTML5 beta group are having problems so there is apparently a ways to go before it's working properly. Best regards, Lin

Hi Eric, There is no "site" - it's being played directly from my hard drive via my browsers. Best regards, Lin