Demos

Sample of a two minute construct using one of my Snowglobe styles..  Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep In Snow....
 

A PicturesToExe Promotional Demonstration Showing The Use Of Jean-Cypdrien's Book Style Which I Slightly Modified For A Near Vertical Perspective. Also For Fun I Used Dave Gould's Scrolling Text Style For Opening Text And Audio Credits.  With These Two Styles - Any Inexperienced PicturesToExe Deluxe User Can Quickly Make A Similar Show. Buy PicturesToExe Deluxe And Enjoy The Tremendous Number Of Powerful Free Styles Available To Give Your Shows That Professional Touch. 

Just a quick demo of some capabilities of PicturesToExe which are not found in other presentation slideshow products. Text circling a rotating planet (Jupiter in this case) is something which can be accomplished in Photoshop Extended in the 3D Video section, but it results in a video being created. The text can't be manipulated beyond what is done in the video. The colors on the front and back of text can't be different and individual characters can't be in different fonts, etc. With PicturesToExe this is all possible and much more!  PTE is vastly more versatile for doing this than even Photoshop Extended. This demonstration created in PicturesToExe 9 demonstrate 3D animated and orbiting text showing both front and back of the text - demonstrating color and different font characterists. It also demonstrates multiple layers and masking as well as use of RGBA alpha channel and chroma key extraction features. Many of these capabilities will not be used in the average slideshow, but are there for those who wish to experiment and try new things with this magnificent product. 

A few years ago, my old pup Honey and I on a beautiful fall morning decided to catch sunup on Devil's Gultch Road north of Estes Park, Colorado. On the way up, a cougar (mountain lion) jumped over the hood of my truck. By the time I could grab my camera and get out of the truck she had disappeared down the mountain side and into the trees of the forest. A quarter mile up the road I met a man walking his two dogs off the leash. I stopped to warn him about the big cat and he told me that the wildlife people had been trying to trap her for a couple weeks to put a radio collar on her. She had been hanging around and enjoying the views too I guess. Another couple miles up the road I stopped here at the junction of Devil's Gultch Road and Lumpy Ridge Road near the Lumpy Ridge trailhead and shot this series of shots which encompassed a bit more than 360 degrees. I stitched them into a very wide pano to demonstrate how PTE can be used to display a 360 degree horizontal panorama. The sun was just about to peep over the horizon and several hundred elk were contentedly grazing on the grounds in front of ranch homes. A beautiful morning in Colorado....

Windows and Mac zipped exe files - about six and a half megabytes -  Demonstration of water effects with PTE.  Tutorial for this can be found in the Tutorials section of the PTE Forum.

A Demo of some Photo Album Pages Styles.

Demo of a modified PanosFX Slits Action and how it might be used in PTE.

Puzzlement is a PicturesToExe Style which creates an animated Jigsaw Puzzle. The individual Puzzle pieces are created using a PanosFX 2D 56 piece puzzle action and the Style assembles them into a PicturesToExe Slide.
Puzzlement MAC.zip
Puzzlement.zip

Spirals in PTE objects and animation

Part 2 of Text in the corner

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How to bend a mobil text in a corner.

Creating these edges is good fun, creative and of course it's always nice to create something unique. Applying them via PTE masks is a way to retain full flexibility of your slide show.

You can change the edge effect, the background colour or texture and also the image. Adding animation too if you wish

Transition with stripes

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Exercise in PTE with colored rings.

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A Quick Demo of My Snow Styles Available for Download on the PicturesToExe and Diapositif Forums
About 15 MB Each

A demonstration of some of the effects made possible using these Rain Styles and associated files. The associated files include PNG files for lightning and moisture/raindrops on windows, a couple mp3 sound files for rain, thunder, wind and lightning cracks and an AVI tutorial and demo style showing how it all works together... All available for download on the PTE forum...

Lin

An exercise in PTE O&A


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An exercise in PTE O&A

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Many audio visual sequences will be travelogues, a record of that special holiday and to ensure your viewers enjoy the trip, an animated route on a map that moves from place to place as you show your pictures is a great way to keep the viewers with you.

Google maps are very good and you can always do a screen grab of the section you require. They can be enlarged or reduced to suite your needs and any on-screen clutter can easily be cloned out.

There are many different ways to approach this using our image editor, PTE, or external software. Probably the easiest way is cut a hole in the map and use animation to create the coloured line

Practicing how to simulate 3D objects, in PTE Objects and Animation

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I created this demo with the help of a tutorial from Lin Evans,I can't thank him enough, He has provided help an encouragement over the past 13 years.
The demo is designed to showcase a small amount of aspects within Pictures to exe..
I of course am open to critique, so please do so.
Tom C Court.

This is another Visual technique that we see used in movies and on TV. The majority of the technique needs to be done in camera, but it's almost certain to need a helping hand in our image editor. Any version of Photoshop or Elements will do.

The good thing about this technique is that it doesn't get used much, or hardly at all, which does tend to keep it fresh.

The Third image is an Audio Visual term that dates back to well before digital photography. Its a technique used by audio visual enthusiasts back when we used twin projectors film and an electronic dissolve/fade unit. This fade unit contained a slider and as the slider was moved from one end to the other, it would gradually dim the light in one projector while gradually brightening the light in the other.

As we reached the midway point, parts of each slide could be seen on screen and for a few moments a third image appeared. There was no physical third image, just the combination of the two projector lights and the images they were projecting. If it was an appealing third image, we could choose to pause for a second or two with both images visible before continuing the fade

In digital Audio Visual we can still do this, but we need a different approach. Our third image actually is a physical third image that sits between the two images that we use to create it. In the digital world we can control our third image far better and actually enhance it in our image editor.

We can often spot the potential when putting a slide show together, or we can actively look for images that will suite the third image technique.

A humorous study in the use of chroma key extraction (greenscreen technology) with PicturesToExe. By the way, the kitty cat's name is "Sparta"....

This demo was also made with PTE 6 and was originally made as a demo for a series of Templates that were created for PicturesToExe users.