Photodex ProShow: Visual QuickStart Guide

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Figure 1.14 The Show Options dialog

in ProShow Gold has a tabbed

interface that groups similar types

of controls into one common area.

Figure 1.15 The Show Options dialog in ProShow

Producer is similar to the one found in ProShow Gold

but has more features, including the ability to add

watermarks—which will help protect and promote

your professional show.

Figure 1.16 From the main dialogs like Show Options,

you can access feature-specifi c dialogs such as the

Edit Fades and Timing dialog for editing music.

Dialogs

Many of the dialogs in ProShow serve mul-

tiple purposes, grouping similar tasks into

a single tabbed dialog (Figure 1.14 and

Figure 1.15).

In the Show Options dialog, you have access

to all the Show, Caption, and Music com-

mands. Some controls open additional

specialized dialogs, such as the Edit Fades

and Timing dialog (Figure 1.16).

Dialogs

The ProShow Interface

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Click the Captions tab in the Show Options

dialog to display all the options avail-

able for working with text in your show

(Figure 1.17).

Other dialogs are single purpose, like the

Create Output dialog (Figure 1.18).  is

dialog houses all the output options o ered

by ProShow, from CD to Blu-ray and from

e-mail to YouTube.

Another example of a single-use dialog is

the Choose Transition dialog (Figure 1.19),

which you can access by clicking the transi-

tion button between each slide.  is dialog

gives you immediate access to the more than

280 transitions in ProShow.

Figure 1.17 You can access the Show Captions

settings in the Show Options dialog by clicking the

Captions tab.

Figure 1.18 Some dialogs in ProShow are specifi c to

a particular task, like the Create Output dialog. This

dialog groups different types of output together so

that all your output options are available in one place.

Figure 1.19 Another example of a single-purpose

dialog is the Choose Transition dialog. Along with

a number of transitions to choose from, you can

preview the effect within the dialog.

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Many items in the ProShow interface also

have context menus that you can use to

access features that are speci c to the

selected item. Right-clicking a slide in the

timeline, for example, will show you all the

commands that are available for that slide

(Figure 1.20).

Figure 1.20 You can also right-click most items in the

ProShow interface to access context-sensitive options

for that item, a handy shortcut to help speed your

workfl ow.