The Official Photodex Guide to ProShow
by James Karney
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Author: James KarneyPhotographer: Mike Fulton
Photographer: Cody Clinton
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2008-05-23
ISBN: 1598634089
Number of pages: 358
Publisher: Course Technology PTR
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Book Review: Very informative despite too many errors and bad choices
Summary: 4 Stars
I have been using ProShow Gold for a about three years and I recently upgraded to Producer. The manual's that Photodex includes with their products, if you pay extra for a CD and manual, are very poor.
From reading this book, of which I'm close to halfway through, has been enormously helpful, especially at exposing many features that one may never find just by hacking their way through the program. Several times a feature has been introduced that I had to exclaim, "WOW".
However, the author has chosen to use fonts that are not generally available in slides so a different font is substituted automatically and the substituted font frequently doesn't fit on the slide correctly. Also, as someone else mentioned, he chose to use photos with watermarks on them. If he would have substituted fonts himself with common Windows fonts and used photos that didn't have to be watermarked, the tutorial would be much improved. There are lots of typos and a missing audio file and he refers to the wrong picture. However, the worst errors are corrected in his online forum at [...]. With this in mind, I think this book is excellent for both novices and advanced ProShow users--especially those using Proshow Producer which the author really pushes early on in his book.
If anyone worthwhile would have reviewed this book with its CD and recognized all its problems, those problems could easily have been resolved and the book would easily rate five stars.
Summary of The Official Photodex Guide to ProShow
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.Computer Science Books
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