Windows movie maker also works fine and it's free, it isn't designed for slides shows so it's a bit less user friendly and will just take a little bit more time to get the same result.
You can also make slides shows in Photoshop with some effort, don't know if you can upload sound in it though.

If it's only for youtube, I wouldn't spend to much on it IMHO.

Dave, that's a great way to learn French.
If you want to learn German would you then do it with some beer?


Gwyn, I thought it was something like that you already have told it once I believe but couldn't remember

It's quite hard to learn to speak Dutch here, when we hear that someone is struggling a bit we immidately switch to English, surely if we hear the accent. I think we do that much too fast and it must be quite annoying if you want to learn it.
If you would be in another country were you wouldn't come so far with English you will learn the language much faster, it's the perfect way to learn it really.

Any luck with Ziggo, we got UPC here but they arent any good either.

(All done without a spellings checker so please check the spelling and grammer if you want, I need to learn afterall )

Welcome Dave, it's nice to see a new face

Yes you are right Martin and you will always have some loss if you do it in post processing.

Amin, you can also be creative with ligthing. I don't konw if there are standard bulbs but there are lights that give another colour. In the studio we have normall tungsten lamps but als daylight lamps. the tungsten are red and the daylight blue so if you use them together and get creative with your white balance you can get some nice effects.
Btw if you need some help with topaz let me know.

Mooi zwart is niet lelijk toch

You can easly change that In photoshop with this photo, the only true black is the background.

Not what you're looking for but maybe you're interested link

Awwww what a cutie

Wonderfull shots Amin, I already found the tulp amazing on fickr.

Sorry Dave but my French is the worst of all the languages, my Japanese is even better

You're saying something like that you prefer French as second language, if I'm correct. I only had it for a year and that was a long time ago.

I got my first English lesson at the age of 6 or 7, German at the age of 11 or 12 and French a year later. I still have a form of English lessons on school and I'm 22 now so do the math, German for 3 years and 1 year of French.

Not at my school though, they won't even start with reading if it was in textspeak. I'm also no master with words but atleast I do my best to keep it readable.

Gwyn Dutch is much harder then you think, my stephmom comes from another country and if she explains you what her problems are with our language it's quite logical that it's hard to understand but it comes to us natural.
There are just little nacks in our language that's so hard to master since there arent a real rules for them.

You can only say that you have mastered Dutch if you can have a discussion with us in our own language.

What's your first language Gwyn, your English is so correct and you know a lot about it.

What second language do you english members needed to learn at schoool?
I needed to learn Enlish, French and German on school so I'm curious if you know more then only English.

Edit: here is a bid about our language if you're interesting, just to show that English isn't that hard link