I finally got around to doing some work on the Keys pictures. I got Picture to Exe for Fathers day, a great program for making a slide show with music into an executable. It is fairly large (6.7 megs) and will not work on a Mac (sorry). It's at Click Here. Save it to your hard drive and execute it.

I am impressed, GREAT job Cecil. One of my favorite songs, too. Looks like you guys had a wonderful trip. My computer expert son said he would help me do a slide show with the pictures I take in Bonaire. I will be happy if it turns out half as good as yours. Happy diving! Debbie

Cecil, I thoroughly enjoyed that this morning.. thank you..

Thanks Cecil - That was great. Some nice pictures there.

Alan

Good job Cecil, thanks for sharing. I just got back from FL with two days at the Keys too. One day we did two dives in Pennekamp and the second day we did the snorkeling trip in Pennekamp. I took a bunch of uw pics. I need to add some red to them and maybe do some cropping etc. I did not play with the zoom uw until the second dive. As much as I enjoy the Keys, the diving is no where near as good as Bonaire. It's a shame to see the condition of the reef.

Bummer, Cecil - what do you have against macs anyway???? I will download your clip on my hubby's PC. I WON'T LIKE IT, but I'll do it just to look at an exclusive ex Navy guy's show. (Actually, I'm really going to do it because I know it will be good :-))

Cecil, That was awesome! Now my husband has a tough show to follow after our July 6 - 13 trip to Bonaire - because I want one of these from MY trip! And he's a big Jimmy Buffet fan too! Thanks for the inspiration! Gail

Cecil, Just watched your slide show. Fantastic, wonderful, so enjoyable. My hubby didn't understand why I am hooked on this site. Now he does understand. Very well done you clever person you. Extremely appreciated here. Annie B.

JOLLY GOOD SHOW , CECIL!!! enjoyed every minute of it!! BRAVO,BRAVO!!!!

Awesome job Cecil and the tune you choose is one of my favorites!!!!!!! It made me feel like I was there!!!

Way to go, Cecil! It was TOTALLY WORTH IT for me to use my husband's PC. Your stuff just keeps improving!

Thanks all, that was fun to make. Glad everyone enjoyed it.

The hardest part and most tedious is the manipulation and shrinking all the pictures. I make them all 1024x768, it makes the file big and is a waste if your using less resolution but it just looked so good on high res. There were way to many pictures but I just could not cut it down any more, I love them like my children.

On ward to new things, next is Jay's graduation show, them after that I'll probably do a New England Diving show. I already got two music choice's Boston's "Long Time" or ??'s "Dirty Water"

Cecil, I am playing your slide show daily!! The combination of Jimmy Buffet and your great photos just gives me such a wonderful tropical feeling!!!Of course, when I am drifting away I am pretending it is in Bonaire!! Thanks again!!

oh I forgot to ask. Did you use an external flash or did you just use the one on the camera? --thanks and Tom loved the slide show too!!

Darlene, the one on the camera.

Cecil,

Loved the show....I am on the hunt now for that program.

Cecil, can you give me more info on the picture to exe program. Thanks.

Kay,
I'm not Cecil (I don't even play him on TV ) but perhaps why you can't find it is that it's "PicturesToExe" not "PictureToExe".
Anyway, the homepage is PicturesToExe

Actually, that isn't right - there's a later version, it's at Real PicturesToExe link.

That's the one, you download it and give them money and you get a key that lets the program work. The free version is pretty worthless, only 10 pictures and a stupid title in the middle of the page that says your a freeloader. They deserve their money, it's a good program.

Thanks Cecil and Susan. Will download it this week.