The Official Photodex Guide to ProShow | 
 enlarge | Author: James Karney
Creators: Mike Fulton, Cody Clinton
Publisher: Course Technology PTR
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Pages: 358
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ISBN: 1598634089
Dewey Decimal Number: 006
EAN: 9781598634082
ASIN: 1598634089
Publication Date: May 23, 2008
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Product Description
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 todays 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. Youll 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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 Very informative despite too many errors and bad choices July 7, 2008
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.
 Too many errors, too much plugging another business July 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While there certainly are helpful tips for novices, there are a lot of frustrating errors--far more than one would expect from a legitimate publisher. I found a couple things referenced in the book (like the so-called flash effect) that don't exist in the software. There were several instructions that missed critical steps, which would confuse a new Proshow user, and the CD files don't match the book in several instances. The most annoying thing to me though, was the huge copyright labels that covered all of the sample photos. The author seems to be pitching his favorite commercial photographer. Why not just use public domain photos, or even his own? Very unprofessional and distracting. For more REAL reviews, see the comments on proshowenthusiasts before you buy.
 The Missing Link! June 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Simply put, this excellent book is a MUST HAVE for ProShow users of all skill levels. The author also hosts the "ProShow Expert Forum" where users can share tips, get help, and discuss techniques covered in the book. Worth every penny!
Not for Beginners June 23, 2008
I've been using ProShow Gold for about 3 years now. I would NOT recommend this guide for anyone just starting out.
The text and CD have not been sufficiently screened for errors. In Chapter 3 there is an instances where a .jpg should have transparent sections but the white spaces are opaque instead. When layers are blocked from displaying due to this, discovering and correcting the error is not for a beginner. In Chapter 4, adding sound, the ProShow file (wasp gold01.psh) is supposed to load with an included sound track but doesn't. You have to know how to add a sound track to proceed with a lesson telling you how to add a sound track.
If you are already an experienced ProShow user the guide is quite helpful in expanding your knowledge and providing clever examples. Just be prepared to do some guide debugging along the way.
The ProShow program itself is great.
The Official Photodex Guide to ProShow June 20, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Where was this book when I was struggling to learn ProShow on my own? James Kearney has graced us with a clearly written tutorial that takes the guesswork out of putting together a simple or sophisticated slide show. What I found most helpful was the way he walks us through a workflow that instructs us to consider our various options at the most efficient point in the process. The book spells out each operation with descriptions and illustrations that accurately describe the process in specific detail. Mr. Kearney's thorough knowledge of ProShow has enabled him to write a must-have book for anyone interested in getting the most out of the program, or anyone who wants to utilize the program most efficiently.
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