The Official Photodex Guide to Proshow [With CDROM]

by James Karney

With the amazing, easy-to-use features of new ProShow 4, you can create polished multimedia productions that sizzle Presentations are a growing part of everyday life, from the conference room to the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598634089
• ISBN13: 9781598634082
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Course Technology
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great Book!

Pro Show is a program that lets you use your imagination to create great presentations a la Ken Burnes (Civil War, The War) It includes a CD with all the files for the different tutorials. With this book you'll learn the insides and out of such a wonderful program. The tutorials are very well written and cover all the major features of the program; published in color and using excellent paper. Exquisitely done. After reading cover to cover and spending some time going through the tutorials, you'll be making spectacular presentations. Enjoy!

The Official Photodex Guide to ProShow

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.

One word describes this book: awesome!

It's rare in the technical "how-to" genre to find a book as well done as this one. It truly is awesome. Photodex ProShow has long been one of the staples for those who produce or wanted to produce high-class slide shows. Over the years, the product, along with everything else it seems, tended more and more toward becoming a multimedia platform. A few years back, this trend reached fruition in the immensely powerful ProShow Producer. The problem was that both programs had more power than was adequately explained in the supplied help files. Don't get me wrong: Photodex provided great help files (as well as great support). It's just that programs, particularly ProShow Producer are capable of so much. At last to the rescue comes James Karney with this masterpiece of a "how-to" book. Every aspect of using ProShow Gold and ProShow Producer is explained through text and examples on the supplied CD. Karney explains his goal on the first page of the introduction: ProShow is "easy to use", but hard to master. "The novice can create a slide show in a minutes, but crafting a real multimedia production requires learning how to use special effects, keyframes, and output formats." Karney covers all these subjects and far more in 13 chapters and 340 pages. As someone in the industry who must read dozens of technical books of the "how-to" variety, I know that most of the titles are just adequate and many are awful. It is truly refreshing to encounter someone like Karney who not only truly mastered his subject instead of just recycling the help file, but can also write. This is his 24th book. Karney begins with the basics and then builds step-by-step into more elaborate productions using more and more of ProShow's features. One of the features, keyframing, is extremely versatile and Karney cleverly comes back to it repeatedly as he shows how increasingly sophisticated use of keyframing enables you to create more sophisticated productions. If you own PhoShow Gold or Producer, you need this book to get the most out of either program. If you don't own them, but need a dependable, incredibly powerful multimedia creation engine, then you need to check ProShow out - trial copies are included on the book's CD and are, of course, downloadable from the publisher's site. Either way, you definitely need this book to learn how to get everything you can out of ProShow. Simply put, this book is a gem and beautifully complements a powerful program. Jerry

The Official Photodex Guide to ProShow

I live in a very remote part of the intellectual and new E learning world {New Zealand}where it is extremely difficult to even get broadband (unless you are a government office} and to get the E edge on anything innovative is often more frustrating .. But being able to obtain this book allows my skills to rapidly develop and compete internationally with my work on E Tourism Projects. This book is my Bible of New Age Media Production. It is bullet proof in design and readership. If you want to grasp the new methodologies necessary today to persuade people to your view today get it and Photodex Producer ..Today ..This is an unpaid for infocommerical

Guide to ProShow book

I've been using Proshow Gold and Producer for some time now and I found this book to be excellent for both beginners and those more advanced. Not only do you learn how to use the tools but you get good ideas on the artistic way to use these tools by seeing the various shows that are on the included CD. An experienced Gold user said "The deeper I get into Pro Show Gold and the book I find significant advantages to Producer."