Photodex ProShow: Visual QuickStart Guide

Creating Your First Show

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Adding Titles and Text

Adding Titles and Text

At a minimum, you’ll want to have a title slide

for your show to let your viewers know what

they’ll be seeing. Even if it’s a family vacation,

years down the road it will be nice to know

when and where the photos were taken.

 e simplest title slides consist of just text

with no images or e ects.

To create a new title slide:

1. Select the  rst slide in the Slide List.

2. Choose Slide > Insert > Title Slide (or

right-click the  rst slide and choose

Insert > Title Slide).

3. ProShow creates a new blank slide for

you, and the Slide Options dialog appears

with the Captions category and Caption

Settings tab selected (Figures 2.17a and

2.17b).

Figure 2.17a The Captions options are located in the

Slide Options dialog. The Caption Settings panel

in ProShow Producer offers more options than the

Caption Settings panel in ProShow Gold.

Figure 2.17b The Caption Settings panel in ProShow

Gold offers fewer options, but the basics of creating

a title are the same in both the ProShow Gold and

ProShow Producer editions.

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Adding Titles and Text

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4. Click the Captions  eld to select it, and

then enter your title (Figure 2.18). As

you type, the Preview panel will display

your text.

5. To change the font, choose one from the

Font list. You can also change the color

of the text and choose bold or italics.

6. To resize the text, you can enter a speci c

size in the Size drop-down menu or

simply drag the selection handles around

your text until you arrive at the size you

want (Figure 2.19).

7. Position the caption on the slide by

clicking within the selection handles

and dragging to the new location.

Figure 2.18 Enter the text for your title in the Captions

fi eld. You can include multiple captions, each with its

own properties.

Captions FieldCaption List

Figure 2.19 The easiest way to resize text for your

captions is to drag the selection handles until your

text is the size you want. As an alternative, you can

enter a specifi c size in the Size drop-down menu.

Font Size List

Selection Handles

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Adding Titles and Text

To create multiple-line captions with the

same style, press Enter, and align the text

using the Caption Placement options

(Figure 2.20). Centered is a good choice

for multiline captions.

If you want to apply di erent formatting to

your caption text on the same slide, you’ll

need to add multiple captions.  is enables

you to choose di erent fonts, colors, sizes,

and, as you’ll see in Chapter 3, di erent tran-

sition and motion e ects.

To add a second caption, click the plus (+)

button in the Captions panel (Figure 2.21).

Enter the text of the caption in the Captions

 eld, and it will appear in the Preview panel.

To position the caption on your slide, use the

Caption Placement settings (Figure 2.22).  e

Position  elds use percentages for horizontal

and vertical placement.  e  rst number is

the horizontal position. If you have set the

alignment to centered, entering 50 here will

center the text exactly on the slide. If you

choose left or right alignment, the text will

begin or end at the center of the slide.

Figure 2.21 Adding a second caption lets you change

the font and styling.

Figure 2.20 To align the text in multiline captions,

use the Alignment choices in the Caption Placement

options.

Figure 2.22 The Position fi elds control the horizontal

and vertical placement of the text on your slide.