Photodex ProShow: Visual QuickStart Guide

Editing Images in ProShow

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Using External Editors

Figure 5.45 Use the standard Windows File > Open

dialog to navigate to and select the external editor

you want to use with ProShow.

Figure 5.44 You can select external editors for images,

audio, and video for those times when you need

features that are beyond those included with ProShow.

Using External Editors

ProShow can do quite a bit with your images,

but sometimes you’ll want to do more image

editing than what is possible within ProShow.

For times like these, you’ll use an external

editor.

Rather than having to leave the program,

open your editing application, and then add

the content to ProShow, you can con g-

ure the program to open your  les directly

from within ProShow.  is enables you to

automatically update your  les when you’ve

completed the edits.

To set up external editors, choose Edit >

Preferences (Figure 5.43). Next, choose

External Editors.

ProShow lets you con gure default applica-

tions for image editing, sound editing, and

video editing (Figure 5.44).

To select a default editor, you can either type

in the path or use the Browse buttons to

navigate to the application on your computer

(Figure 5.45). Select the applications you

Figure 5.43 Open

the Preferences

dialog to access

the External

Editor options

in ProShow.

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Using External Editors

Figure 5.47 Right-clicking a show element—whether

it is an image, a video, or an audio fi le—and choosing

Open in Editor will launch the fi le in the selected

editor.

Figure 5.46 Once you’ve selected the external editors

for ProShow, these programs will be launched with

the selected fi le when you choose the Open Editor

command.

want to use, and click OK to save your prefer-

ences (Figure 5.46).

To work on your image, video, or audio in the

editor you’ve de ned, right-click the slide in

the Slide list, and choose Customize Slide >

Open in Editor (Figure 5.47).  e  le will

open for editing in the selected application.

✔ Tip

■ If you haven’t set a default editor, then

the  rst time you choose Open in Editor,

ProShow will prompt you to select a

default—essentially, a shortcut to the

Preferences dialog.