Barry Beckham

Craig I think Jean-Cyprien has a point. Photoshop, if you use that program, has a powerful tool called auto align and while I have used it and been amazed by it, that was generally with two pictures taken in quick succession. However, Jean-Cyprien's suggestion made me think. There doesn't seem to be a good reason why Photoshop and auto align cannot work its magic on two pictures taken years apart, worth a try. Place the two pictures as a layered stack, select them both and choose auto align, then ok.

I think the two images will probably do that almost on their own given that one looks older. The older one already has a sepia tone and that should work well to convey age. Try a page transition from bottom to top and see how that looks, but check out the page options in other directions too.

Vulnerable to what?

Steven I think that ain't a bad idea and I have always done that in the past myself. This time I broke my rule out of curiosity and it's cost me a lot of time so far. 1. Upgrading to W10 and finding only generic graphics card drivers are installed. The originals are too old to be upgraded by Radeon. This impacts on Photoshop and filters and probably other stuff I never got to discover. 2. After talking to Radeon tech guys over a number of days and being certain there was no help there, I took the laptop back to W7 as Microsoft says we can. 3. Windows 7 installed, but now NONE of the USB's work, so no graphics tablet, no mobile internet while we are away. 4. So, now another factory re-set from the backup built into the laptop by HP. That is underway as I type Later: That seems to have got all systems functioning again, USB's all OK, graphics cards back in play.

Basically the same reason I tried it, but with better success than me. My laptop must be just old enough to slip outside the timescale where Radeon will upgrade the two graphics cards. They have an upgrade for one, but not the other and the machine needs both. Apart from this it works OK and I found my way around easy enough

Tom Surely there is a lot of difference when you upgrade to a software you actually use to produce something, like PS or PTE. The incentive is new tools, better ways of doing things and sometimes ways that change your workflow and even your ability to create images more effectively. I am thinking of how PS now deals with contrast and PTE animation An OP doesn't have any impact at all, unless they claim its much faster, which they always do anyway. There is always some risk when updating Windows. So, when you only use W7 just to run PTE, I am interested to know what Jeb felt he would gain. He could have said that he realises there is no measurable gain, but wanted to see what W10 was like while it was free, but he started to worry about life being short. I recently did much the same thing and broke my own ideas of only upgrading when a new computer was built, but W10 said my laptop was compatible and it was free. I had a bit of time on my hands and decided to take a look because I felt i could not ignore it forever. it installed OK, but after a few days i realised no graphics card software had been installed and that impacts my ability to use the laptop to demo photoshop. Some things will not run. Sadly, the laptop, which doesnt seem really old to me is not destined to have drivers written for one of the two cards in the laptop. The upshot is I either live with the upgrade and genetic drivers for the ATI Radeon cards, but that prevents the laptop from being used for the main purpose is was originally bought, or return to Windows 7 So, back to Jebs question and mine. When your only using W7 to drive PTE on a Mac, where is the gain, apart from curiosity.

I am confused, whose hackles have been raised by such a non controversial question. I hope you don't think it was me because I said why bother. I only asked why bother because I wonder how an upgrade on a mac from W7 to W10 will impact your making of slide shows with PTE?

If you're only using Windows 7 solely to make PTE work on a Mac and it is working ok, what would be the point of upgrading to W10? PTE will work fine on W10, but what is the gain from upgrading an operating system just to run PTE.

I wonder sometimes if you have gone so far with PTE, that you have difficulty looking back to a time when you didn't know A newer user of PTE will think of that option straight away, I'm sure

I don't think it matters what slides have been used in the style, just that a style has been applied. It also has to be remembered that the vast majority of users will have no interest whatsoever in rubic cubes or anything similar. So, I am not sure a rubic cube is a good example to use to suggest the idea has little merit. Presumably, Styles were introduced to speed up the workflow for those who need to repeats things. That's exactly why I use them and I say that being able to know if a slide has a style or is animated wouldn't be a bad thing. Is it vital, especially at this time? No, but nice to think about for later? Yes Anyway, as I have said before, there is only one person we need to convince.

Would it matter though? I have a few slide styles I use each month where graphics are applied to a blank. All the shows in the slide list is a blank and there is no indication that an image will appear and its not a traditional blank. It then makes it difficult to know where a visible slide is in relation to a real blank slide. Having said that we don't have notification in the slide list that animation has been applied either and we all seem to get on OK with that. Is it a big issue? No, would it be nice to have? Probably, but it would also have to show in the Time Line too. I personally rarely use the slide list and do everything in the time line

This could be a suggestion for Igor, because I think you have a point Craig. I can normally tell by looking at the thumbnail, but not always and if you add a slide style to a blank slide it just shows blank. A small S in the corner of the thumbnail would do it

Thinking about it, Content aware crop isn't really new. It's been there for a while now in the form of Content aware fill. Adding it to the crop is a good choice and speeds things up, but it was there.

Your welcome

It does seem a little odd on SSC that you can add a review and a comment and they live in different places

Larger images shouldn't cause that, I have made shows with images directly from a 20mp camera and they work fine. Re Installing is the first step. some years ago I had a pal with a similar sort of issue and it was a jpg image that seemed to be causing the issue. It took us ages to find the one, because it showed up ok everywhere you expected it to.

I think you will find its the usual false positive

This concerns those using Photoshop Creative Cloud – PC version The latest version of Photoshop Creative Cloud is now available for update. Just click into your red creative cloud logo and you can download and install the new version in one operation. This is a major upgrade and if you have any third party filters installed, they will not be migrated over to the new version of Photoshop 2015.5. So, I have recorded a short video below for anyone who may be a little wary of what needs to be done. Migrating Third Party Filters from Photoshop 2015 to Photoshop 2015.5 I trust its now safe to mention Photoshop on this forum

Dom I think you need to give your styles a wedding theme, because what you are producing is just the sort of thing a wedding photographer will need. It would help promote PTE too

This AV all came about because of a Ransomware virus that hit my wife's computer 2 weeks ago. Strange how things happen, but we have a good manual backup regime and we recovered from that problem within a day. It meant I had to get out some old disks and external drives to replace the images on her computer that were lost. While doing that I decided to take advantage of the much bigger internal hard drives I now have in my PC That has 3*3 T drives installed apart from the SSD for the OS. So I loaded up some old raw and jpeg files from up to 14 years ago and took a look through them. I picked one, did a bit of digital doodling with a civil war battle scene and liked the result and suddenly the idea was born. The effect consists of Topaz Impression filters (more than one and a reasonably amount of Photoshop work, but nothing you would call hard or difficult. Sometimes the path I selected for a particular image didn't work so well, so I dumped it and took another tack. That is the nature of filters and photography in general I suppose. You win some and you lose some. Some of the images were portrait so they had to be amalgamated with landscape ones to fit. The images come from a re-enactment of the English Civil War that are carried out all over the UK during summer by the Sealed Knot Society. Going back many years we used to go to lots of them and Health and Safety has spoiled it a little for photographers. Too many Hi-Vi jackets and day-glow tape to make sure none of us stub a toe However, it just means we have to work a bit harder to avoid them

The Civil War

The thing is, we all use PTE differently and if we got all our own pet requests added, the software would be the worse for it. I have always taken the view, make a suggestion, but live with what Igor and his team finally decide. I must admit there are other things that I think would be of greater benefit. The software works pretty well now, just as it is and as many photographers are very fond of saying with regard their chosen software. It meets all my needs

Dave Good points and I think if we are being truthful. We the users don't even think much about that. We hope the creator instantly understands what is required and supplies it. I just assumed (dangerous I know) that a PDF would show a snapshot of everything that is destined to be displayed with that image. Most animation is showing by the time the image is about to be changed, so perhaps a snapshot there? Even with our original enthusiasm, the amount of use this option would be put to, in relation to the development time and cost, needs some thought I guess. We cant have all we wish for

For those using PTE for a live presentation, it could be a benefit to be able to have a hard copy reminder of what the presentation consists of. Also, being able to see what is coming up next before that slide is seen would make a great memory jogger too

Mike The trick is the make your final slide show greater than the sum of the two parts (music and images) and to try an create a little mood if possible. There are a lot of ways to do this, but with a pictorial slide show like yours its the images and the quality of those images that are driving the creative process. Your goal should be to create a smooth flow between images and to do nothing that will interrupt that flow. That's why many have already raised the logo on your images because they do just that, spoil the flow. Some of the most common ways to try and achieve this is to keep all your images the same size and aspect ratio and 16:9 seems to be the standard these days. With landscapes, try where possible to line up horizons and don't mix and match landscape and portrait format images. As Dave says above investigate the third image, it has the potential to lift the appeal when done right and on a more personal note, use the standard fade 99% of the time Music is the real key, because if the images come first you have to find some music with that special something, but it has to be able to work in harmony with your images. A brass band and beautiful landscapes are not likely to combine well enough to create a show greater than the sum of the two parts. This is easier said than done, but try to avoid obvious and common music choices. Some delicate sound effects can often help with a mood, but its a very fine line between something great and something awful The rest is just putting your heart and sole into it over many days. Watch your own show twice a day and see how many days pass before you start tearing it apart. When you stop tearing it apart, then its time to show the world Welcome to AV