Barry Beckham

I agree with Lin. I also like to create frames, edge effects, drop shadows and a myriad of other effects in my image editor. With the greatest respect for Igor, there is much greater control, variation and creativity open to us using Photoshop/Elements than there will ever be in PTE. The more image editing stuff that gets packed into PTE the more difficult it will become to use. Its quite an important thing to be able to add a Png or a Jpeg image and have the opportunity to apply that Png/Jpeg to every image in the show in one go. However, we still need the flexibility to be able to remove that image from individual slides. Blank images are a good example. I also agree that the tiled image option does need a better name. What about "Apply Background Image" then have the default value set at 100%. If possible could we see a small thumbnail size representation of what we have selected in a preview window, rather like the before and after view in Elements for example.

Eric I always place the base box on the floor beneath the table where I sit, so its conveniently placed between my legs while sitting. From there I have found its easy and convenient to reach the volume. Been ok for literally hundreds of demos and is still going strong. We also use the same speakers every club night to display competition results (via PTE of course) A new system of Ergo speakers have just been purchased by the club, so I don't have to lug mine there anymore. I chose Ergo when I saw them used by Maureen Albright when I visited Aldbourne to do a demo. Concensus between myself and the wife puts that about 10 years ago. What I liked was that all I needed was in one cardboard box. When you do demos its nice to have the confidence that when you pick up the box everything you need is there. All the speakers and all the supplied wires and even the cardboard box is still in one piece. Given the original question I just offer my views as someone who has used them in all types of halls and hundreds of time. What I like about them is that they are good for the odd larger hall too, as well as typical CC rooms. When giving demos or presentations, I found its best to keep things simple, you have enough to worry about so reliable, easy to carry and set up equipment is essential

If your going to give external demos then having an external volume control is essential. I have done hundreds of demos and I play a slide show or two at most of them. All halls are different and the accoustics can play havoc with your sound. No matter how hard I try to get the sound volumes right when making a show, I always find I need to keep my hand on the volume control to either gradually turn it up or down when playing them at a different venues. As I said previously I have used two sets or Ergo speakers, one set I brought to Australia from the UK so its been in use for years with no trouble at all. It has a convenient volume control that you can reach beside you when givng a show and they are easily transportable and the sound is excellent..

I was recommened a set of speakers for this purpose by Maureen Albright years ago and for various reasons have used three sets since then. One for home use, one for demos, perfect for even a larger hall and one set just purchased for the Camera Club. The point is over the past 8 years or so I wouldn't buy three sets unless they were good and they are http://www.radianceav.com.au/prod50.htm

Just for my own interest I have been keeping a tally and the last 12 slide shows I have watched 3 had the nav bar on, 9 didn't. 12 shows may not be considered a large enough number to draw conclusions, but it bears out my expectations.

I must congratulate you on your previous post. I agree with every word in it, but its not easy to put it as well as you have. I take my hat off to you mate

It works a treat

Aaron That ISO option you have been given will probably do the job. Its what I used to do sometime ago if ever I had an issue with a DVD. However, I have found another problem that you might want to look at at some stage PTE does create temp files sometimes and if you look in this address you can delete anything referring to pte C:\Users\Barry\AppData\Local\Temp\ In your case the word barry will reflect something else of course. I found that there were some temp files left which interferred with me writing a DVD. Once I cleared them , then the DVD was created OK

Our screens have difficulty in showing fine detail sometimes and you will not see those divisions when the slide show is viewed at 1920*1080, but as you point out they may show if someone plays the show back on lower resolution. Nothing much can be done about that I fear apart from make them at a resolution where there is little chance of that happening. You could make your show 1023*768 so the 1023 is divisible by 3 and as long as that size is reflected in PTE, it should be fine. Alternatively make the centre three shapes 1 pixel larger. Do the shapes really need to be exactly the same size to the pixel? Regarding screen printing. In this scenario I have no wishes to deprive anyone of the ability to do that. Its simply that I use a template to make slide shows and it is a part of the template that I just forget about. If it helps I can pass you a link to a show where the print restriction has been removed, but I am not sure how that will help you. Sorry about the file size, but there are 4 images and quite a bit going on in two of them and they are fairly big. With regard only one Executable file, you can make as many copies as you like or download another from the link I posted. I am not sure what the issue is here and it is nothing I have done, I wouldn't know how. In addition, and if the technique demonstrated was something like what you are aiming for I will give you a link to a tutorial, but you never said what you wanted to do with the 9 oblong shapes. However, the creation of them may be useful to you

Greg Yes, that is nothing new, but someone did ask recently about making artwork in Photoshop with 9 equal oblongs. I had time on my hands and well, this is it. Creating the artwork isn't difficult or timeconsuming, but it does demand a reasonable knowledge of layers.

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caperucitaroja My apologies, I seemed to have asked the wrong question about screen resolution, which I now regret asking. Please forget I ever asked.

What features do you mean Eric? I see they have made a few good improvements to Elements 10 apart from one. In earlier versions you could collapse the palette well on the right hand side and it cleared the screen for the image. Now they don't allow us to do that and a whopping great palette well sits there all the time. I don't know, but suspect they are taking advantage of the fact that most people are working on larger wide screen monitors and they must feel that its OK to have the palettes there all the time. Shame, but a small point I suppose. They now have content aware built into the Spot Healing brush and it and the standard Healing Brush are extremely good, as good as Photoshop. If you havn't found them yet, the Healing brushes are like an automatic clone to some degree and blend in the pixels you paint, very clever and make dust spots able to be dealt with at 2 per second. You will enjoy Elements 10, its pretty good

Lin It think it was a reasonably assumption to make based on my gut feeling that most people are using higher resolutions. That seems to be backed up by one or two surveys I have seen that quote 80+% of users are using a resolutions above 1024*768. I think its also reasonable to assume that if the same survey was carried out among photographers the figure would be at least 80% and probably higher. I don't mean to insult anyones choice, just thought the task that was asked may have been a little easier at a higher resolution.

Judy. Generally software defaults to what is likely to be the most used, which is common sense really. I don't have any figures to prove it, but my gut reaction is that more people turn this feature off than leave it on. Hence my view that its currently set the wrong way around. This has been compounded by about 3 people contacting me for ways to turn it off and one posted on this forum. Being able to set your own default or make templates is OK for the initiated, but not a great deal of help for the newer user.

Can I ask why the need to create your artwork at 1024*768, I am sure your not using a monitor of that resolution. What is your monitor resolution?

This is the point I made with almost the first beta of v7. That nav bar should be off by default.

OK, I understand, can't think of any reasons at all can you Over and out, jack plug pulled

Dave A club can't encourage new work by banning anything over a 1/3 years old. People produce new work because they are inspired to do so by their interest in what they are doing. You can't legislate for the old guy still using slides, you have to accommodate him. If you try to cast your net of rules under those circumstances far too many innocents get caught in the net. A club doesn't need rules for the one odd person. Rules is rules. But the AGM is sometimes a good place to change this if you have the backing of sufficient numbers of members. We should never have foolish rules like that in the first place. How can you justify such daft rules by saying rules is rules. Do you really think that a rule like that is going to radically improve the standard of a camera club. I just fought against another stupid rule recently regarding AV and mainly PTE and I lost. Here is it word for word from the motion that was passed.“FullMotion video capture (above 8 frames/sec) must not be includedunchanged from video cameras, however simulated motion (eg stopmotion animation) by manually sequencing a succession of stillcaptures may be used for effect.” This is the typical response of camera club committees to anything new, I have seen it so many times Ban it !!! Its the last thing we should do, but plenty do and enough people rolled over and accepted this one. How will the organisors know if the video is above 8fps for sure. How would competition secretaries be sure images were less than a year old? Its not hard to sidestep is it. A quiet word in the ear of anyone who abuses good sense is a far better way to deal with issues rather than rules which are just unjust and wrong. Take the scenario of the member who spends a fortune on a once in a lifetime holiday, being told after 12 months that he can't use any images from the trip. Just not reasonable is it.

Paulo Yes, I think I did use one of them a year or two ago and it did pretty well, but it wasn't until I looked back that I saw I had a few more that could be used. However, a local club to me (not the one I joined) has a rule that images used in competition must not be more than 3 years old and another Australian club I saw in the internet yesterday limits images to be no more than 1 year old. I am not sure what the motive is to ban images that have never seen the light of day or been used in any competitions simply because they were taken a while ago. As far as I can recall, my Canon images don't come with a sell by date Perhaps someone here can suggest what the motive might be for a rule like that. It would rule out any image I shot in the UK because I have been in Australia now 3 years, is that a fair and reasonable rule? I don't think so.

It was the music that inspired the slide show this time rather that the usual route where we need to find music to go with images we have alreay shot. I was just lucky that after several visits to the balloon fiesta I had just enough images to make the show. In fact I think I am right in saying the track never existed when the pictures where taken

I think AVG should be congratulated. They have given you all so much enthusiasm to write reams on this topic Note to self. I wonder who will tell me this is a serious matter doing damage to AVG and PTE? :lol: :lol:

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Igor The last Dell monitor I bought would not work correctly untill I removed my previous DVI cable and used the one that came with the screen ? I will get around to it shortly

Igor Yes I have thought about that, but it is such a pain in the but to do it. I have all my wiring neatly in troughs up under the bench so everything is very tidy, but of course swapping things over can be a pain. Both of the Monitors are connected by DVI, the troublesom one is W7 64 bit the other is Vista Pro 32bit. I will get around to swapping them over as soon as possible and will report back what I find.