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Thanks Lin and Ronnie, I persevered after posting and did it the hard way! Being tired , I of course made a few mistakes which resulted in some unexpected results I knew there would be a simple way of achieving the duplication rather than labouriously copy and pasting the individual settings!! I know I'm my own worst enemy when it comes to reading instruction manuals etc. I'm impatient and want to get stuck in right away, however the old maxim "If all else fails, read the instructions" always holds true! Regarding reflections, I was thinking that I would have to do that in Elements first!...shows how tired I was! Anyway, thanks for another sleepless night I'll have a "swat up" on the tutorials before I attempt any more masterpieces. Quite pleased with my first production though, just waiting for my winter gas bill to see if I can afford to buy a licence!

Hi guys, Well, I've spent all night trying to construct my first slide show! There are only 8 slides, but I've only just managed to (almost) perfect the first slide !!! First question is ...is it possible to copy the keyframe points etc. to new slides to sort of automate the process for the remaining slides? I thought I would try something basic! lol Slide the pic. in from 45deg.,swivel front and zoom to fill screen, then zoom out, swivel the other way, and exit stage left! I did want to create a reflection too, but couldn't find out how, so settled for a coloured gradient background and a drop shadow, though I don't seem to have much control over that either!! Any pointers??

Thanks Lin, Plenty for me to work with ! Keep me happy for a lota sleepless nights to come!

Wow! Just watched your link Lin! Half expected John Denver to appear at the end, bless him! Well, You obviously saw my posting, but I don't know where it is! Now I have something to aspire to...many moons from now!

Not sure what's happened here! I posted a message directly after my post #7, but though post #8 has my name against it, the content is evidently Lin's response to the post I made....but I can't see it! Don't think I've accidentally sent a PM to Lin, have I?

Hi, Yes, what you have described is entirely possible with PTE. You have 3D transform capability (perspective views), the ability to pan, zoom, rotate and flip images horizontally or vertically. You can move any object in any direction so though it might take a while to program this, it's entirely possible to do. I did something of a similar nature but with "leaves" rather than photos a while back. Here's a link so you can see some possibilities: About 33 meg zipped exe for PC or for Mac http://www.learntomakeslideshows.net/xmas/seasonspc.zip http://www.learntoma.../seasonsmac.zip Best regards, Lin

Hello Lin, thanks for explaining that to me, I'm a bit of a numpty really, PSE5 is stretching my abilities at the moment! I got into quite a tizz when I was downloading the whole Snow Globe file sets, and lost track of the number of tabs I had open! What has confused me most is that Panos told me that I would need to create a new thumb, since the one in your file would not work with PSE5. He pointed me at a posting in "Elements Village" by Diana which has a "Blank thumb" file that I was supposed to somehow modify. Opening both yours and Diana's files I found that your thumb was just a single locked layer, whilst Diana's was 8 layers, four coloured ones alternated with four text ones. Totally confused, I ignored Diana's thumb file, and used yours. On re-starting PSE5, the result was two entries in the special effects pallette, one showing your thumb icon, which when dragged onto my photo did nothing, the other was blank, just an empty box! but dragging it onto the photo, it did the business!! Evidently, I seem to have achieved my objective, but I've no idea how Can you tell me if I need to do something with my installation to get rid of one or other of the entries in the pallette? Regarding the cost/value of Picturestoexe, I quite agree, (though I can't recall the amount) it is an excellent piece of software and once I've become a bit more confident/proficient, I'm sure I'll find a way to buy it! Thanks again for your fantastic programme.

Thanks Peter and Don, It's comforting to know that I'm not the only one that's being deprived of sleep! As I say, I've barely scratched the surface of this little gem, so it's good to know that we'll have enough time to get to know each other! Since I'm also new to ".atn" files, I also need to find out if Lin has more such goodies available. I'm sure I'll be back for more help and advice..if that's OK.

Hi Guys, Just a note billing you for a night's sleep I downloaded this software and Lin Evans' "Snowglobe .atn" file yesterday early evening, and suddenly it's morning just can't stop playing with it. So pleased Lin's atn file gets along with my old copy of PSE5. I know I'm just scratching the surface of PTE's capabilities, but I'm a bit of a slow learner. I'm so pleased with my new toy, but sad to see that we are soon to be parted 'cos it appears to be a time ltd. demo. I'll hardly get time to get to know it! Will it really just evaporate after a short time or does it change to a "limited functionality program? What will happen to the files I create, will they still work afterwards? With pensions shrinking at an alarming rate, I can't see me being able to buy a licence to keep it, even though it would remove the banner from my files.