Barry Beckham

I have a personal and reasonable and proper aversion to subscription model (anyone who disagrees is nuts), however I also see the advantages and am very pleased overall with Photoshop CC. Fair enough, but do you feel able to say what your reasonable and proper aversion is? I travel in distant places and have encountered being unable to use Photoshop due to lack of internet. The problem with the line above is that it gives the impression that difficulties may occur for Creative Cloud users if they travel to distant places or are away from home with a laptop. That's not the case and I and many others experience none of those with just a little planning. If I am about to travel and do a demo for a club or go away for a few weeks, I fire up the laptop before I leave and allow Adobe to sign out of all other computers to Activate the laptop. That's it, I don't even need an internet connection while travelling I have to do occasionally do the inactivate/activate hassle, but so far it has gone so smoothly, I just fired up Photoshop CC on my spare PC. The Limit Reached screen came up and I hit OK to sign out of other computers and it took 23 seconds from that click to Photoshop being open on screen. You consider that a hassle? Especially considering the convenience of being able to have Creative Cloud on so many different machines and at your disposal anywere

Mick That is very true and I have experience of it. About 3 years ago I had 10 people at a Photoshop workshop and all were using laptops to follow what I was doing. I supplied the images so they all had the same as me. When I got to the later part of the day and I demonstrated how to control contrast in a Raw file, one or two were having trouble achieving what I had just demonstrated with my PS CS6. They were using CS3. So, I walked around to help them, but I could not get to the same place with CS3 as I was able to withCS6. I knew Adobe had improved the engine room of Photoshop, but that was a bit of an eye opener. Now Creative Cloud is even better.

I am still hearing the most ridiculous information and irrational fears regarding Creative Cloud, so here are the facts below. Creative Cloud - Facts

I think you will find that if you make your slide show 16:9 aspect ratio 1920px by 1080px, it can be exported as an MP4 and uploaded to YouTube. The viewer then has control over what size they see your show. Here is a link to how that size and resolution appears on youtube. If you want to view it full HD size, you have to click the cog wheel bottom right and select it.

Tonto I think this would be a really good improvement and one that has far more practical use than many I could mention. I did ask for this some time ago, but I think I got bombarded with the usual work-a-rounds, which while they work, are hardly the point and they can get a pain in practice if you need a few of them. As a practical user of PicturesToExe I often record commentary and although I always record it in short takes, I have a need most of the time to stitch the individual takes together. In that way I can easily run noise reduction on the voice-over at the same time it's stitched together and it works superbly well. Adding noise reduction to individual takes is just too time consuming When the commentary is in PicturesToExe I often have the need to add a few seconds between sentances and the ability to split the track and slide the next part forward 10s would be a great addition. It's almost an essential for creative work

Gary I would uninstall and re-install PTE to check that first? Then my thoughts turn to the graphics card drivers?

I only mention is because I was impressed with it and I am not easily impressed. Some forum members must be using Creative Cloud surely?

Anyway, as I was saying to what appears to be deaf ears. If you use video in slide shows and you are a user of Creative Cloud the video section is worth a look.

In Photoshop CC you can apply adjustment layers to your video. So, not only can you adjust colour, contrast, levels curves , but in strategic places if you need to

Mick Well, proof it needed that it works then

Barry, I can't say what "many authors" are interested in - I wouldn't presume to know another's mind. I think your being very politically correct and diplomatic You have been around this forum and others for enough time to know why comments are rarely made. I agree the stars are meaningless, but we rarely see real constructive comment and I am as guilty as the next person for taking the view, I can't be bothered, not with making suggestions, but what comes after. If a person really wants feedback they should perhaps consider a PM to those they trust and ask for direct personal feedback to them via PM. Perhaps enthusiasts would feel more comfortable with that and the author would get more honest feedback. The only other way to get honest feedback is if the author and those making the comments are not known to one another.

Great words, but we also know that many authors, (not only of audio visuals) are not a bit interested in true feedback even when they openly state that. Many of US have had our fingers burned by offering comment and it's not comment that some authors wants, its praise. So, over time all you see is back slapping, but then we have been here and written this many times before

We all view things differently and whose to say whose right or wrong if indeed anyone is. I have difficulty shaking the thought that we share our slide shows because we are proud of what we have created and want to share them to see if others concur. If none of the slide show is our work, all my reasons for making it vanish.

but many here don't drive their Tesla (whatever that is) they just sit in the driving seat in the showroom making out they are driving

Mur You said I made a presentation in PTE, to my friends in Canada Under the circumstances shouldn't a show like that remain Just for your friends?

I have suggested before that perhaps the time could be used in actually creating a slide show. There's a controversial idea for an AV forum Man cannot live by constant testing of betas alone, or can he?

I think all computer software makers ought to understand that most users don't want continual change, just a little stability.

I sort of guessed that had to be the cause, but I generally only get access to the laptop for the club time each month. Perhaps next month I will bring it home and check it out In the meantime. a reboot at tea time does it

JT Don't make things more complex than they need to be. The question asked was my "main" pictures to be shown in front of another picture. Are we looking to point John in the right direction or show off our knowledge ? KISS

John You don't need to convert anything to video. With what you describe, my "main" pictures to be shown in front of another picture You can do this with two still images Take a look at the PTE promo slide show and see if anything there looks like what you want to do. You will find that top left HERE

I suppose so, never really thought too much about that, but I don't like surprises that catch me out.

Peter I will try and remember that at the club next month. The laptop is now locked up in our clubrooms 40k away JT.well as I said, it's not a problem to re-boot, but you tend to forget sometimes and then when your halfway through a show its too late

As far as I am aware it only has one, because the laptop is virtually the same as my own and both were bought at the same time. Mine will select a change when on battery, but that was the first thing I checked last night, to see if I had left the plug out. I think Colin might be onto the problem, but you would think that if a program isolated anything it would be temporary until that program was closed down. I can get around the issue, by re-booting after a speaker has completed and in the tea break, but would like to find a solution and tip others off about the possibility of this happening. Might just be a quirk of our laptop.

Colin I suspect its something like that, although I cannot replicate it on my desktop. The trouble is of course I don't have the laptop here to try that at present. I will take a look at the next meeting if I can remember. Its rather annoying as I know the issue isn't PTE, but when your showing animation techniques to non users you want them to look their best.

Here is something I have only noticed at our camera club with our club laptop. The laptop is not that old and generally copes fine, apart from what I describe below Each month I place our competition results into two slide shows, one for the set subject and one for the open section and they play perfectly. The high scoring images with titles and names are shown at the end of each sequence with some animated slide styles to aid presentation. On a few occasions PTE has difficulty not only running any type of animation, but even a straight 2 second fade will flicker. However, I have found the cause. On the first part of our evening we will have a guest speaker and many will bring their talk on a stick as a Powerpoint presentation and I usually transfer the images to the desktop temporarily so everything runs smoothly. It appears that whenever I do that, I need a re-boot before we play the PTE slide shows because even though Powerpoint player is closed down, something is still running in the background, or that is how it seems because it badly affects PTE. Its happened enough times now for me to tumble what the cause is. I have also noticed the same thing happening, as it did last night, with a club members talk. The images were brought on a stick and I transferred them to the desktop and just ran them in media player. Later when I came to show the PTE slide show (having not rebooted the PC) the slide show flickered on normal fades and was very jerky on any animation. I rebooted between the set subject and the open section and the second part ran perfectly. So, I have found the cause, but not a solution apart from a reboot.