AV News 194 - November 2013
Slide Styles are the final major new feature we have room to cover in this issue.
You can Create your own styles or Import/Export Styles from/to other users. A set
of ‘Basic’ Styles are included in PTE8 along with some ‘Complex’, ‘Image’ and
‘Text’ Styles.
So what exactly is a Slide Style? It allows you to quickly perform a set
‘animation’ or ‘effect’ without needing to fully understand the process behind it,
extremely useful for beginners or new users of PTE. Simply highlight an image(s)
in the slide list and click on the ‘Slide Style’ button, then select the ‘Style’ you wish
to apply. The button can be placed wherever you choose on the Toolbars in
Setting/Preferences/Toolbars.
You can set the
‘duration’ of the style
using the speed slider or
by typing in a time.
Click ‘Apply’ and the
selected style is applied
to your images.
Simple Styles only
require a single image.
Complex styles may
require several images
to
make
up
the
animation.
An example is the ‘Cube
Style’ which requires
you to select 6 images.
This then produces a
rotating cube with your
images on each face of
the cube.
Creating your own
Styles can speed up a
workflow, if there is a
particular ‘animation’ or
effect you use often.
Something as simple
as adding a Title that fades in on one slide and out on the next. By creating a Style
to do this, you can simply apply it to future sequences and just amend the text,
duration or position, without having to set it up from scratch each time.
This new version of PicturesToExe has many improvements that help to speed
up workflow and improve creativity within your sequences. Although still in Beta
Testing, it is a stable version which is almost complete. Log onto the PTE Forum
http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/ and download the latest beta so you
can familiarise yourself with all the new features before the final version is
released. Any small bugs that are still to be ironed out can then be reported and
quickly fixed by the WnSoft team.
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