A New Tutorial from David Rowley

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A New Tutorial from David Rowley

Postby Jean-Paul » Wed Apr 24, 2013 9:22 am

Hi everyone,

''Check out this great video on how to best use square photos and slide backgrounds in ProShow Producer and ProShow Gold by David Rowley''
On PHOTODEX SLIDESHOW BLOG
here: http://www.slideshowblog.com/2013/04/using-square-photos-and-slide-backgrounds-in-proshow/

Have fun,
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Re: Using Square Photos and Slide Backgrounds - Tutorial

Postby debngar » Wed Apr 24, 2013 10:05 am

The technique starting at 9:05 describing how to dupe the first slide to alleviate the blur in the transition from 1st image to the 2nd images is necessary for Gold users because Gold only has 2 KF per slide.

For Producer users, rather than duplicating the slide, it's simpler to drag KF2 to the left a bit and right click to the right of KF2 then choose "insert" (a KF 3) and drag that to the far right end of the slide time. KF3 will automatically match the settings of KF2 and accomplish the same results with less clicks and less slides.

FWIW :The tips in that tutorial are not restricted to working with square photos. They can apply to images having other aspect ratios as well. :D
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Re: Using Square Photos and Slide Backgrounds - Tutorial

Postby Jean-Paul » Wed Apr 24, 2013 12:15 pm

debngar wrote:The technique starting at 9:05 describing how to dupe the first slide to alleviate the blur in the transition from 1st image to the 2nd images is necessary for Gold users because Gold only has 2 KF per slide.

For Producer users, rather than duplicating the slide, it's simpler to drag KF2 to the left a bit and right click to the right of KF2 then choose "insert" (a KF 3) and drag that to the far right end of the slide time. KF3 will automatically match the settings of KF2 and accomplish the same results with less clicks and less slides.

FWIW :The tips in that tutorial are not restricted to working with square photos. They can apply to images having other aspect ratios as well. :D

Interesting input, the more info the better for everyone.
Evidently, this tutorial was designed to work with Gold and Producer.

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Re: Using Square Photos and Slide Backgrounds - Tutorial

Postby cherub » Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:20 pm

I'm not sure if this tutorial addresses Gold users, or Producer users.

He talks quite a lot about blurring the background, but there is no Blurring Adjustment in Gold.
He then proceeds to copying keyframes, but Gold doesn't have keyframes. The terminology in Gold is: Starting Position and Ending Position, and the menu for copying that is shown in the tutorial is non existent.

So, if the tutorial is in fact for Producer, as shown by the interface that he's using throughout, then the duplicating of the slide is really redundant, as Debbie mentioned.

And, of course, also as Debbie mentioned, this technique can be used for any kind of picture, and not necessarily a square one.

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Re: A New Tutorial from David Rowley

Postby trulytango » Thu Apr 25, 2013 10:35 pm

I'm really surprised that Photodex have actually featured/endorsed this Proshow tutorial on their blog? It struck me as having been made in Producer by a seasoned Gold user? IMHO the tutorial lacks direction i.e.what exactly is Mr Rowley setting out to teach? Certainly not even the most basic or effective key framing in PSP. The title is also misleading, and maybe not such a good advert for his training products?
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Re: A New Tutorial from David Rowley

Postby BarbaraC » Fri Apr 26, 2013 3:33 am

It makes me wonder if Amanda sat through the entire video. I think if she had, she would have replaced "ProShow" in the title with "Producer," and the comment about using the techniques in Gold would have been removed.

Like the rest of you, I wondered how square photos were related. Then again, it was a bit long-winded, and so I skipped through the sections to get just the gist of them. Thus, I might have missed what was pertinent to squareness. Was there any mention of it beyond his intro?

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Re: A New Tutorial from David Rowley

Postby cherub » Fri Apr 26, 2013 6:25 am

trulytango wrote:I'm really surprised that Photodex have actually featured/endorsed this Proshow tutorial on their blog? It struck me as having been made in Producer by a seasoned Gold user? ....


Ah, the British sense of humor :)
Sorry - I meant "humour" :D

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Re: A New Tutorial from David Rowley

Postby im42n8 » Fri Apr 26, 2013 7:44 am

Photodex is really looking for articles from the field vs having their people come up with something. I think this reflects that desire. However, this demo wasn't vetted very well. He spelled "borders" as "boarders."

David mentions that he was "... asked about using square images in Producer (or Gold for that matter) ...". The person wanted to take a series of images that were on an A4 sheet of paper and use that as her background and then crop out each image separately to use in the slideshow program. David thought there were more options in Producer to create backgrounds and use the images in ProShow Producer. That's where he starts. He rambles on from there. The fact that the images were square is just coincidental I think.

At the very beginning of the demo, the title says "ProShow Producer." The description text below the video, probably created by Amanda but David should have given the ok for it... states the demo is for Gold and Producer.
However, nothing in this tutorial is applicable to Gold except for the some of the changing of the background. As Iris said, the tutorial is kind of directionless. There's nothing special about square photos in ProShow. He doesn't really deal with keyframes at all. Debbie pointed out a quick fix to the problem with the blurry effect ... in a single slide. What David has done is create a Gold on steroids tutorial. . . that is, he was using Producer as if it was a super duper Gold.

If David was trying to create a tutorial that Gold users could use, he missed the mark (widely). It's apparent he doesn't know what Gold can't do. And much of what he did can't be done in Gold at all.

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Re: A New Tutorial from David Rowley

Postby BarbaraC » Fri Apr 26, 2013 8:57 am

I think the conclusion is that, as Producer users, we're looking at the tutorial and going, "Huh?" :D

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