Assistance required from a complete newbie

[casman]

Hello everyone.

I am a complete newbie to PTE AV Studio Pro and am loving what I can do with my slideshows, and this is my first post.

I have been using the default Styles and Themes, but now I would like to create my own Style/Theme and I am not quite sure how to achieve what I am trying to do. I would greatly appreciate anybody's advice on a tutorial/guide on how to do the following.

I would like to place a number of images in my slideshow. Some of the images don't fill the screen, so I would like to add a single, standard background image to fill the background instead of having black edges.

I use the "Border - Simple" style which works well, but I would like a single standard background image across all the images.

Thank you in advance for any assistance.

[davegee]

https://docs.pteavstudio.com/en-us/11.0/slide-styles/main

https://beckhamdigital.photo/styles-themes/

DG

[jkb]

Welcome to the Forum & glad that you are enjoying PTE

I don't use Styles, as I prefer to do everything myself in Objects & Animation (O&A).

To really get the best from PTE you need to get to know O&A

It may be easiest to add your Background image in the Slide List - as many times as you need it & then in O&A simply Add the extra smaller sized images on top.

Make sure that you click off the Background image first so that the new image will go above it in the Object stack.

The Objects work as Layers & you can move them around in the order by Clicking & dragging.

For what you can do see the Online Help for O&A  https://docs.pteavstudio.com/en-us/11.0/objectsandanimation_1/main

Jill

[denisb]

Hi,

go to the Project Options, Main, Background and select Image and the background you need.

 

Denis

[jkb]

46 minutes ago, denisb said:

go to the Project Options

I always forget about this. Thanks for the reminder

Jill

[casman]

Hello everyone,

Thank you so much for all the very helpful suggestions and links to check out.

I have recently retired and am finally going on a few holidays. Creating a slideshow with the photo's of each holiday destination is great fun, and PTE is making it so much more fun. Lots to learn but what a great product to use, and a great forum when I get stuck.

Hopefully I will not bother everybody too much :-)

Regards, casman.