The Official Photodex Guide to ProShow
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With the amazing, easy-to-use features of ProShow, you can create polished multimedia productions that sizzle! Presentations are a growing part of everyday life, from the conference room to the living room, and today’s viewers want presentations that pop. "The Official Photodex® Guide to ProShow®" is the solution. A comprehensive guide to ProShow for everyone from graphics and photography professionals, to educators and business professionals, and even novice home users, this book provides step-by-step, how-to-do-it examples with ample screenshots for effective instruction. You’ll learn how to create stunning multimedia productions that can be shared using everything from optical media, to iPods, to streaming Web content, and more. Perfect your multimedia presentation skills as you cover the basics of design, the fundamentals of ProShow production techniques, and advanced tools to achieve professional results. Interviews with award-winning producers provide insight and ideas along with real-world examples and how-to tips from their work.
With the amazing, easy-to-use features of ProShow, you can create polished multimedia productions that sizzle! Presentations are a growing part of everyday life, from the conference room to the living room, and today’s viewers want presentations that pop. "The Official Photodex® Guide to ProShow®" is the solution. A comprehensive guide to ProShow for everyone from graphics and photography professionals, to educators and business professionals, and even novice home users, this book provides step-by-step, how-to-do-it examples with ample screenshots for effective instruction. You’ll learn how to create stunning multimedia productions that can be shared using everything from optical media, to iPods, to streaming Web content, and more. Perfect your multimedia presentation skills as you cover the basics of design, the fundamentals of ProShow production techniques, and advanced tools to achieve professional results. Interviews with award-winning producers provide insight and ideas along with real-world examples and how-to tips from their work.
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Customer Reviews
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Rating: 
- Don't plan on learning much from this book
I have been using Proshow Gold for several years and recently got Producer. This did sound like it was a good solution for getting up to speed quickly, but has been a disappointment from the start. It is like several other reviews have stated, full of errors and part of the problem is not addressing the current version (Producer 4). The panels shown must be from 3.0 not 4.0. Add the fact that the help provided in Proshow is is seriously lacking makes this book of questionable value. What Proshow ... Read More
Rating: - It's good, but a little late!
I bought this book in November '08 and upgraded from PSG 3.2 to PSP 3.5. Two weeks later, Photodex issued PSP 4.0 and the book sort of became obsolete (or as someone said to me, a paper weight). It is a very good book if you were using the early versions of PSG & PSP. It is well written, and gives you a lot of examples.
Also, I have never managed to get the disk to work. It kept locking up the program and computer.
I did learn a few great things from it though. But would ... Read More
Rating: 
- Already outdated
This is a book that is insightful and well written. Using ProShow can be daunting, and this book details just how to get the most out of its many features. Unfortunately, shortly after this book was published, Photodex introduced version 4 and gave ProShow a complete new look, which means many of the references in this book to where items are located are already out of date. This is really ironic because Photodex hyped this book for months before it was published. ". . . click the 'whatever' button ... Read More
Rating: - Wait for the next version
Pros: Good exercises and focus for multimedia production.
Cons: Does not cover version 4.0 - many tools are now in new locations in the (Producer) interface. Lots of hunting to find the new locations. Many typos in the book as well.
Still, a good reference source for multimedia but if you want to learn Producer 4.0 wait for the next one.
Rating: - Pushes Proshow Producer More Than Proshow Gold
I did understand, when buying this book, that it would include both versions as lessons as it says in the title. But this book definitely pushes Producer on us by centering more on Producer than Gold.
It uses keyframes a lot throughout this book but Gold doesn't have keyframes. So rather than explain the lesson with and without keyframes, it just teaches using keyframes so tough crap if you own Gold.
I couldn't open some of the lessons on the CD. Says they are not valid show ... Read More
- Don't plan on learning much from this bookI have been using Proshow Gold for several years and recently got Producer. This did sound like it was a good solution for getting up to speed quickly, but has been a disappointment from the start. It is like several other reviews have stated, full of errors and part of the problem is not addressing the current version (Producer 4). The panels shown must be from 3.0 not 4.0. Add the fact that the help provided in Proshow is is seriously lacking makes this book of questionable value. What Proshow ... Read More
- It's good, but a little late!I bought this book in November '08 and upgraded from PSG 3.2 to PSP 3.5. Two weeks later, Photodex issued PSP 4.0 and the book sort of became obsolete (or as someone said to me, a paper weight). It is a very good book if you were using the early versions of PSG & PSP. It is well written, and gives you a lot of examples.
Also, I have never managed to get the disk to work. It kept locking up the program and computer.
I did learn a few great things from it though. But would ... Read More
- Already outdatedThis is a book that is insightful and well written. Using ProShow can be daunting, and this book details just how to get the most out of its many features. Unfortunately, shortly after this book was published, Photodex introduced version 4 and gave ProShow a complete new look, which means many of the references in this book to where items are located are already out of date. This is really ironic because Photodex hyped this book for months before it was published. ". . . click the 'whatever' button ... Read More
- Wait for the next versionPros: Good exercises and focus for multimedia production.
Cons: Does not cover version 4.0 - many tools are now in new locations in the (Producer) interface. Lots of hunting to find the new locations. Many typos in the book as well.
Still, a good reference source for multimedia but if you want to learn Producer 4.0 wait for the next one.
- Pushes Proshow Producer More Than Proshow GoldI did understand, when buying this book, that it would include both versions as lessons as it says in the title. But this book definitely pushes Producer on us by centering more on Producer than Gold.
It uses keyframes a lot throughout this book but Gold doesn't have keyframes. So rather than explain the lesson with and without keyframes, it just teaches using keyframes so tough crap if you own Gold.
I couldn't open some of the lessons on the CD. Says they are not valid show ... Read More
