Barry Beckham

Igor. Yes, I can easily see the pros and cons and the dilemma it would cause. How can you measure what affect a name change may have on sales. Without stating the obvious, a name change may hit sales by 20% then the fact the exe part of name has gone it could increase by 40%, but no one can know or guess that. It could do the opposite. To be honest the exe issue and the name never crossed my mind till I heard the views of the person I mentioned and suddenly I found I couldn’t pass the idea off as a stupid one. I found myself thinking. Has he got a point here. The problem is that humans hate change. They all say they don’t, but they really do. If they didn’t like consistency McDonalds would never be around. People love to be on the other inside of the world and know exactly what they will get. look at the bleating and whinging about Creative Cloud. Apparently it’s the most successful thing Adobe has done, but listening to the nay sayers, you wouldn’t think so. Perhaps the launch of PTE 10 especially for the Mac would be a good time to take the plunge, but i’m sorry to have opened such a painful subject. 20 years is a long time in the digital world isn’t it. I’ve been in there with PicturesToEXE for most of that time, but not all. Congratulations on a great product and thank you for allowing me many hours of fun making slideshows and demos. PicturesToVideo ? Digital PowerShow?

Someone in the computer industry expressed a view about PTE this week that was passed onto me by another PTE user. The view was: Why would anyone in their right mind download a zipped exe file to their computer with all the security risks and fears associated with doing that? He even expressed concern why a product would be called PicturesToEXE. Most of us here are pretty comfortable doing that, because we have built up faith and confidence in PTE and as far as we know, a virus has never been an issue with any PTE files. However, ransomware travels as a zipped file and you open it at your peril. I know, because we did get caught once in a moment when our guard was down Could this be why only 14% of people who view SSC download a file. Does the person expressing that view have a point, particularly with the name PicturesToEXE. Does it need a name change and is that a practical thing to even suggest

That’s a good point, just create a dedicated section, but only open to members.

It’s a logical step I think.

Once installed I think Bridge will show up separately on the computer. In CC it shows and downloads separately, but via download it doesn’t. The point is, if Tom has the disk, he has Bridge and if has, then this saga could be over in 10 minutes. A reasonable conclusion to draw is that he doesn’t have a disk.

If you have the disk, use that, but Bridge isn’t provided seperately to CS6 on Adobe’s site. It appears to be one download

Great idea. Download CS-6 and do a fresh install. Although Bridge is a part of Photoshop CS-6, its not listed separately. So Tom should have the disk that contains Bridge Here is where you will find it Perhaps Tom can let us know how he gets on

Tomcatred. Have you actually looked to see if Bridge is installed on your computer, because if it isn’t all the searching in the world won’t find it..

Wideangle Take no notice of my joshing and in the words of Basil Fawlty. It’s just my way of getting through the day. The Samaritans were busy. Sounds like my glass maybe half full and yours half empty

Adobe are such wicked Capitalists. How dare they offer the consumer a product that they can freely take or leave at the price specified. What do they think they are doing offering the consumer a chance to enter into a mutually beneficial transaction like this? Don't they realise that they have a social duty to provide their software on disk and make sure they back date any upgrade for ever and ever into the past. Not only have they offered us a free choice like this. The gaul of Adobe to allow us to install it on as many mac or PC's as we want and use on on any two at the same time. Appalling customer service if you ask me, especially when they added Lightroom into the deal as well, completely free of charge. I feel I have been taken advantage of and I will bitch about Creative Cloud forever. Hang on, why do I keep going on about a product I don't think is good value? Why don't I just take my money and go elsewhere and live with my decision. Maybe, just maybe. Deep down I recognize I'm not being entirely rational here and maybe I feel the need to justify my decision. Just an alternative view !!!. Adobe must be delighted, they actually do have one satisfied customer in the world. I should get a medal or something. The rest of their customers were all forced to purchase the best software on the planet against their will.

Ctrl+Z is a universal key to Undo in practically all software, including Photoshop

Ctrl+Z ?

Bridge was a part of CS6, so if you don’t have Bridge it tends to suggest that your CS6 may not be entirely genuine. Even if it was it won’t help open raw files from a modern camera for the reasons already explained. You will have to do what Dave suggests and download the program to convert raw images from your camera to DNG, then they should open from Bridge, but if you don’t have Bridge, then you will come to a halt there too. Whatever software was on your canon CD you will find it on line if you do a search

It’s because the version of PS you’re using is much older than your camera and the plugins needed to open raw files from that camera are not created. If you think the issue through. How could they manage that with Photoshop that has been around for well over 25 years.

I viewed this on my iPad Pro and the quality of the two videos was pretty good. I like the flips where you appear to have included a modifier. They have a little depth to them that makes them stand out from the others.

Then carry on doing what your doing.

If you erased from the mono one to reveal the colour one below, you’re using layers, but not masks. Masks allow you to make soft edges via gradients or you can use delicate painting on the mask. It won’t cure all the issues in your sequence, but it would help with some. The problem is the learning curve of layers and masks. Masks are rather like erasing one layer to reveal another in some ways, but masks never actually remove any pixels. It just masks them, which means you can reverse what you have done for great control. They are not something you can explain easily with text. Detailed videos are really the way to learn them.

Yes I have lots of videos, some dedicated to Photoshop for Photographers some dedicated just to layers. Layers and masks allow a much more controlled blend between aspects of your image. You can find them HERE

It’s always interesting to see the presentations that members make, but once you have been here a while there are a few noticeable gaps. Plenty of comment, but unless I missed them, little or no content. Come on guys and gals, let’s see what you create

Gary No, you have it wrong, the video is playable, I just sent you a screen shot, the video will play

Gary The first link takes me to a facebook page where the video is presented fine. I pasted the link into Windows Explorer that is not linked in any way to Facebook and I've added a screen grab below of what I see. (snap882.jpg) The second link also takes me to Facebook, but because I am not logged in I don't see any images or your posts. (see screen grab of this too - snap883.jpg)

Gary like others I can see the video on Facebook, but not images. I’m not a Facebook user. Tried it once and it just doesn’t appeal. With regard to posting shows. I think it has to be remembered that if we post to an enthusiast site, then a certain level of expertise is expected. Not all the time or constantly as everyone has to start somewhere. I’m probably going to be more difficult to please than your family and friends who are likely to tell you what they think you want to hear.

Your going to need to post a video on YouTube. It’s not hard once you have done it once and then it’s a simple matter of getting your YouTube video playing and copying the link at the top left of the page into the comments section of slideshow club or even into a page like this. Paste it in, hit enter and the video pops us here, or in slideshow club. We seem to be moving away from downloading slideshows very rapidly. This has always been the standard thing to do for some years now, but it looks like it’s going the way of the Dodo. I’m currently building a new website and unless something appears that I have not foreseen, I’m only going to post mp4 videos of my slide shows. They are already up on YouTube waiting to be linked to my new site. it could be argued that we could create slideshow club here with another forum topic and just allow embedded videos from other sources like YouTube and Vimeo

Maybe the lack of comments on some shows is because they failed to 'speak' to the viewer. I think there is some truth here, but I find this difficult to accept as a total reason for lack of comment in SSC because it would suggest that practically everything posted failed to speak to the viewer. That would be quite depressing if true. Personally I enter competitions to have my work shown to a wider audience on a big screen with good sound. If the judges happen to think it worthy of a prize - very rare then great that is a bonus. Surely if you want to get a slideshow to a wider audience I'm not sure an AV competition is the best way to do it. Even a well attended AV event is not likely to get anything like the views that posting on YouTube, Vimeo and SlideShow Club will get. Can we be more honest and accept that in an AV competition we are looking to see how we do against other AV enthusiasts, but also to promote ourselves and our photography too. As far as I can see, there is no evidence of any negative comments on slideshow club that may deter anyone wishing to make a comment. I'm sure there is one somewhere, but try finding it. This cannot be a reason why people are reluctant to comment. Take just the latest page of Slide Show Club where there are about 25 sequences posted. There were 11120 views of the slideshow pages. That resulted in 1614 downloads. So as long as my maths is right. Only 14% of those who viewed the page and description followed through and downloaded the show. Of those 1614 downloads only 40 comments were received. Less than 2.5% Are there conclusions to be drawn from these statistics? I think we could hazard a guess from how many page views relate to a download. (14%) Perhaps people really do want to click and watch the show on that page as Igor demonstrated only recently and they are not so keen to download one first. We live in an instant world and a download of 5 minutes seems slow to some perhaps. With regard lack of comments. I suspect it's much more nuanced than anything we could simply explain. I think we could all hazard some pretty good guesses and the feeling of: - What's the point if all it will do is upset the author is a valid one. Maybe if a few of us jumped in and started making more comments, perhaps others would be encouraged too. If you see that no-one ever, or almost never comments, that's a pretty good reason not to perhaps.

I prefer to think of it as nothing to do with dense. It’s just something I haven’t learned yet. It’s actually quite rare for an interactive show to be posted and although there must be some, nothing comes easily to mind. Perhaps others have a better memory than me and can point some examples out.