Barry Beckham

Wideangle You weren't watching through a gap in the fence were you ? No wine this afternoon. Its ice cold beer in the afternoon and only had one today, or was it two? but who's counting However, you were not far off, I have a glass of red wine now, around 7pm

How are your shows so big. The longest one I have is 17 minutes and as an mp4 @ 60p it’s 784mb. It’s up on YouTube, but marked private till my new site is ready, so I haven’t tried to view it yet on YouTube yet. If I multiply it by 3 it comes to 51 mins @ 2352mb. However, it’s just stills no video in there. Later: Just tried viewing my 784mb video on YouTube via an iPad sitting in the garden with wi fi and it ran ok

This issue seems to be drifting into a debate about interactive slide shows when it really has little to do with those. It’s more about the masses who wouldn’t know an interactive show if it jumped up and bit their backside. We can have both. Many who are not as enthusiastic as us seem reluctant to download slideshows, either due to impatience or fear of downloading something they don’t want on their PC. Both reasonable considerations. This combined with the obvious popularity and convenience of YouTube videos and their like, seem to be taking us rapidly away from exe files to Mp4’s whether we like it or not. Some months ago at Igor’s suggestion I tried the output of an Mp4 to 60p. I’m fussy about image quality and the quality of fades and animation, but I was impressed with what I saw. It doesn’t take long to output a 60p mp4 video and I would encourage anyone who hasn’t tried it to give it a go. I don’t think you will be disappointed. Here is an fast paced Mp4 at 60p called Hot in the City. Try it on your PC Mp4’s play on PC, Mac and modern Televisions and seem to be establishing themselves as universal as a jpg.

I'm currently building a new web site and unless something crops up that I don't yet foresee, I am only going to post my slideshows on the new site as Mp4 videos made at 60p. One on the site that can be downloaded and one on YouTube I don't intend to use any executable shows unless I have the need to post something interactive. At the moment I don't

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)