Demos
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360 panorama
By Lin Evans
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....
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A Quest For Realism
By Lin Evans
This one was much more difficult to make than it might appear. The idea here was an attempt to get total realism in the flames, reflection on the brass casting on the fireplace and on the front of the couch in the bright area as well as completely altering the original image by adding my dog on asleep on the chair complete with lighting and matching shadows from the lamp, a painting above the fireplace, a totally different scene outside the windows and a number of other minor changes to the original image.
A real fire was video taped complete with sound, sparks, embers and such and the original fireplace was carefully replaced. Masking, three dimensional transforms and and other techniques were used to get the fire itself and the inside of the fireplace to look totally natural. Photoshop, screen captures and such were used to carefully create the masks for the flames reflection on the brass casting on the fireplace and reflections on the bright front of the edge of the couch. These required careful sizing, placement and opacity control. PNG transparencies were created to remove the original background outside the windows and replace them with a totally different scene. 3D transforms, masking and png transparencies were used to place the oil painting above the fireplace complete with realistic shadows, etc. A very simple scene, but hours of painstaking work in PTE as well as in PhotoShop was necessary to get the desired effects.
I was happy with the result because it adds those seemingly insignificant shadows, reflections and such to give the scene realism. Thanks to the fantastic capabilities of PTE this was possible. These techniques are some of the things I cover in some of my tutorials.
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A Real Gram-O-Phone
By Lin Evans
PicturesToExe is an absolutely fantastic piece of software!! This is a blast from the past... Back near Christmas of 2008 Tom began working on the idea of creating a Gram-0-Phone with PTE. He and I conspired over a week or so and we came up with some novel ways to use PTE. This is the culmination of that effort and I just stumbled across the exe today and thought it would be nice to see what could be done with PTE even six years ago - so here it is folks - the PTE Gram-0-Phone. Regretfully, it's only in Windows format because I've not been able to recover all the original files to update it to MacIntosh... I believe Tom had an even more sophisticated version but the link to it is no longer active - perhaps he will be able to find it and post the example here on Slideshow Club.
The "Reload" button will start things over. If left alone after clicking on the selection "A" button, the Gram-O-Phone will sequentially play all songs. You have the option of clicking on any of the selection buttons and playing that song. Clicking on the "Power" button will shut it down and exit. Have fun!!! Just for the record, the timing was set to be realistic with 78 revolutions per minute on the platter.
Lin
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Best Slideshow Software Example
By Lin Evans
A demonstration of why I believe PicturesToExe is the finest product of its type, not only for conventional slideshows, but also for creative animation presentation. This demo includes the following: Gradual build-up of falling snow, cloud movement, transparent cube, elliptical object orbit, Venetian blind effect, flying bird, text effects, alpha channel video, multiple layers, masking, rubik's cube animation, geometrical construct, etc. Both web safe Windows PC and native MacIntosh executable formats presented. PTE has a feature known as "web safe" where a digitally signed executable portion is accompanied with the data portion. Download the zipped PC archive and extract both files into a single folder and run the exe file. The MacIntosh version may be run by simply Ctrl Clicking and ignoring the warnings. No antivirus or warnings of any kind with this absolutely trustworthy technology! Congratulations Wnsoft!! Job well done!
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Book Style Demonstration
By Lin Evans
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.
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Choices
By Lin Evans
A humorous study in the use of chroma key extraction (greenscreen technology) with PicturesToExe. By the way, the kitty cat's name is "Sparta"....
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Choupinette came back from Rome
By Jean-Cyprien
At the time, it was just an exercise to discover and use the possibilities of the new 3D functions ( 6.0 version ).
It is said that from the Holy Thursday to the Easter Sunday, the bells are silent because they are at Rome. They return to distribute to the wise children full of chocolate eggs.
But now my little bell Choupinette (a gentle nickname for a little girl) is back at home, quite exhausted.
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Curved surfaces
Another demo, a little more complex, of simulated 3D curved surfaces, in PTE
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Demo - Alpha Channel Video With Alpha Matte Mask
By Lin Evans
A quick demonstration of the use of an alpha matte as a mask which reveals a color motion video. The green flowering plant in the back of the moving pickup truck is in motion. The motion of the plant and flowers in the breeze was created originally as an MOV video with an embedded alpha channel. Since PTE only directly supports RGBA avi video with embedded alpha channel, the original was taken into the freeware VideoPad Video Editor where high brightness and contrast with gamma adjustments were used to create a black and white version of the video. All transparent areas were made black while the flowering plant and flowers were made pure white. This file was then output in AVI format and became the pseudo alpha matte. The original mov with embedded alpha channel was also output as a color avi without the alpha channel. The pseudo alpha matte was used as the mask playing the color avi video and resulting in complete transparency for overlay on the still image backdrop. This approximately 13 second video shows the green plant placed in the back of a PNG pickup truck traveling across the screen. PNG files were used for motion on the truck wheels and a duplicate PNG portion was used to layer the tree which the truck passes behind. Use the keyboard ESC key to break the looped demo when desired.
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Differential Focus
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.
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Digital Book Demo
This demo was made with PTE 6, but the techniques required in PTE 8 to create the book remains the same. This was originally made as a demo for a series of different Templates that were created for PicturesToExe users.
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Distressed Edges
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
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Dolly Zoom Simulation In PicturesToExe
By Lin Evans
The dolly zoom effect is an in camera special effect that produces an unsettling look where the subject appears to be stationary with the background changing in size. With PicturesToExe this may be simulated by using the zoom and blur effects. This is a quick sample demo of how this effect may be approached using PTE.
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Fire Reflections
By Tomuk21
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.
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Icosahedron Animation Example
By Lin Evans
Animation example. Icosahedron with 3620 individual video screens in simultaneous operation on zooming, rotating animated construct. Rotating starfield, rotating and moving Earth and flaming asteroid. All an example of what is possible to do with PicturesToExe 8.01 with use of masks, alpha channel video, styles and PTE features. Two files - Download either for Windows PC or for MacIntosh. Each file is a 99 megabyte download.
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Jean-Pierre's Penser Avec son Pinceau
By Lin Evans
Jean-Pierre Dollangère (JPD) was a pioneer in the use of PicturesToExe. His contributions to not only the development of the product, but to the understanding of using it for animations were incalculable. He showed us how to do things with PTE which even the developers didn’t realize were possible. To Jean-Pierre, the only limitation was one’s imagination.
JPD created his own web site, Diapositif, in France, dedicated to PicturesToExe. His many friends have kept not only his website and memory alive, but have continued his pioneering spirit by producing amazing shows using PTE
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Thanks to Eric and Jean-Cyprien of Diapositif, it was possible to get permission from Jean-Pierre’s children to post some of his work here on SlideshowClub. In this demonstration, Penser Avec Son Pinceau (Thinking With His Paintbrush) Jean Pierre shows a recreation of the work of the great French post impressionist painter and artist Paul Cézanne. This effort done entirely with PicturesToExe beta 6 in March of 2009 represents the zenith of a system JPD was developing to perhaps allow the unsophisticated user of PTE to do similar complex animations. Sadly JPD passed away on Thursday 4 March, 2010. We have all benefited immeasurably from his patience, explanations and dedication to PicturesToExe and he is greatly missed.
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Letters From Demo
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.
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Maldives Island Water Scene
By Lin Evans
An imaginary Maldives Island creation including the use of water effects, video, animated gifs and masking. Three download possibilities: Conventional Windows Executable, Web Safe Windows Executable with digitally signed exe file plus data file, native MacIntosh executable file.
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