Product Description

Photodex ProShow: Visual Quickstart Guide, in full color, leads readers through the process of creating stunning slide shows that can be viewed on computers, televisions, devices, and over the Internet. Whether the reader wants to create a show around their last vacation or professionals needing to create shows for weddings and other events, this task-based tutorial has it all. Both versions of ProShow 4 are covered in-detail: ProShow Gold and ProShow Producer.

Photodex ProShow: Visual QuickStart Guide offers:

• Easy visual approach uses full color pictures to guide you through Photodex ProShow and show you what to do.
• Concise steps and explanations let you get up and running in no time.
• Page for page, the best content and value around.
• Companion Web site at www.proshowbook.com offers sample images, effects, and more.

With ProShow users combine photos, videos, and music to create stunning slideshows. Users can create a unique and personalized photo slide show for any occasion whether it's a birthday, anniversary, graduation, holiday, wedding or just showing-off vacation photos. Even professionals use Proshow as it provides an elegant way to present photos and pitch clients. Built-in editing tools and effects make it easy to add borders to photos, crop and edit video and audio clips, pan and zoom, and add transition styles including dissolves, fades, wipes, and shapes. When it's time to output a show, Proshow offers many output options including DVD, Blu-ray, CD, the Web and dozens of devices like the iPod, iPhone, and Blackberry. You can even upload your slide shows directly to YouTube.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #364324 in Books
• Published on: 2009-04-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 232 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780321606181
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Jon Canfield is the author of a number of photography books, including Print Like a Pro: A Digital Photographer’s Guide. A contributor to PC Photo, Outdoor Photographer, Digital Photo Pro, and PhotographyBLOG, he is also a contributing editor for The Digital Journalist and Shutterbug, where he writes a monthly column, “Output Options.” Jon has worked as an instructor at Lepp Institute of Digital Imaging, Santa Fe Workshops, NANPA, and Perfect Picture School of Photography, where he teaches courses on digital photography. He has also consulted for Canon, HP, Pantone, and other leaders in imaging equipment and systems.

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Customer Reviews

For the Proshow User
I have used Proshow Producer since it was first released and found that it was a wonderful program for creating simple or professional slide shows. Canfield's book explains and illustrates clearly every move required to make slide shows that will have your audience asking for more. The program itself can be somewhat complex in the areas of layers and keyframing but this book has cleared up those areas for me and has increased my ability with the program to a great extent. I recommend it highly!

An Excellent Guide to ProShow 4 and Producer
A while ago I returned from a vacation to Morocco with 1,500 photos I was eager to show my family and friends--not all 1,500, of course, or I wouldn't have any friends left. But, even showing off 10% of my images, I needed to do so in an exciting and appealing way.
Up to then, I'd been a PowerPoint ® user and been reasonably happy. But, I got an opportunity to try out Photodex's ProShow Gold presentation program and thought I'd give it a test. First, however, I had to learn how to use this richly featured program: For my tutor of choice, I picked Jon Canfield's book, Visual Quickstart Guide: Photodex ProShow. (Although I was using ProShow Gold 4, this book also covers Photodex's professional slide show program, ProShow Producer).
The book turned out to be an excellent guide that not only illustrated (in both written and visual form) the features of the program, but also provided some good hints on creating an effective and engaging slide presentation, complete with slide effects, transitions and synced music. One of the most helpful elements of the book is its link to a companion site that offers examples that implement the suggestions given in Jon's book.
Visual Quickstart Guide: Photodex ProShow is a comprehensive (but quickly understandable) set of instructions for using the many options offered by the ProShow program: These include menu construction, slide layering, keyframes, adjustment layers (similar to those in Photoshop), slide transitions, slide effects, templates and slide styles and sound and music syncing. The book is organized sequentially to take the reader through the stages or slideshow creation. At the end of the book, one element that I found particularly useful was the section on "Putting It Out There." ProShow can create output for everything from iPhones to Blue-ray to You Tube, and the options offered can be confusing. Jon's book addresses the requirements to optimize the output for each medium.
In the long run though, the proof of the efficacy of Jon's book was in the reaction to the slide show I ultimately created following his instructions. Even though it only scratched the surface of the capabilities of ProShow, my friends were surprised at how professional the Morocco show looked. I've still got a long way to go, but at least now I feel well grounded in what ProShow can do.

get out your magnifying glass
I have been waiting for this book for months. After reviewing some of the chapters in detail, I feel it does a very nice job explaining things, given the limitations that it is impossible to show every detail of every step for this powerful program. However,I really wish the screen shots (and text fonts) were larger! They are so small that viewing some of them requires a magnifying glass, at least for my over-40 year old eyes. I know there must be a production reason for this, but I consider it a significant issue.