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Very glad I purchased this book	Customer Rating:
I found this book to be very helpful. I discovered things my Proshow software would do, that I didn't know. I also appreciated having the CD with examples and real working shows to work with as you learn.

Good Guide	Customer Rating:
Yo soy una persona de habla española y he utilizado Pinnacle por a lo menos 2 años, siempre de forma autodidacta, decidí comprar el libro para profundizar el conocimiento adquirido y ha valido el esfuerzo, los ejemplos que trae el cd son absolutamente aclaratorios, lo recomiendo 100% aun si se sabe utilizar bien el programa para consolidar lo que uno aprende en el tiempo. Saludos a todos Eduardo

A companion to have!	Customer Rating:
When you got a piece of software it is natural that learning curve is not so quick, but if you have a book like this, you can put in practice all the options available. After reading the book, I had a chance to produce a lot of albuns.

A mess of a book

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I have used ProShow Gold for years and love it. I have produced dozens of slide shows for travel and photo clubs and have produced DVDs for sale with the program. This book is a total mess, just not useful. So many problems, where to begin. Each should be corrected in a totally revised version. 1. The book is a giant sales pitch for the much more expensive Producer version of the program. One cannot get past chapter 5 without Producer. The book should have been divided into sections with the beginning explaining common features of ProShow Gold and Producer. The end of the book could discuss features unique to Producer. 2. The CD files that come with the book are very frustrating to get to play with Windows Vista. There is no explanation of how to get them to play. 3. Many of the features of Gold are not mentioned. This book is of little help to a beginner. Many of the check boxes, choices and methods to produce slide shows are ignored or not explained in enough detail. 4. The book totally ignores how to deal with big digital photo files and small amount of computer RAM. Many will overload their computers unless they first convert photos to lower resolution. A resolution of say 1000 to 1500 pixels across is all that is needed. I convert my photos first before construction big slide shows. 5. The book ignores techniques for using adjacent copies of slides to produce creative motion effects. Again, it is a sale pitch for the more expensive Producer version without showing how to do great shows with the less expensive Gold version. 6. The book goes into great detail of moving boxes with the Producer version, showing how to create mind numbing multiple boxes, motion, zooms within boxes and frames and moving text all on one screen. This is total mental overload for anyone looking at such a slide show. If Hollywood thought this to be artistic, they would have incorporated moving boxes, text, zooms and more into their movies. These techniques which are covered in several chapters just lead to confusing, frustrating, non-artistic messes of slide shows. 7. The book ignores various techniques to fill a horizontal screen with vertical images. The author could have given some good tips. 8. As others have indicated, the book is full of errors, typos and mistakes. The book should have been tested by novices to the program before publication. Get ten people from the street and let them learn from the book and try to create a slide show. Total confusion and frustration will be the result. I wanted to see what features Producer has that Gold does not. The book did not do a good job of listing them. I came away definitely convinced that the cheaper Gold version is a great program and that the expensive Producer is not needed by 95% of users. I very much recommend buying ProShow Gold but not this book.

Great Product	Customer Rating:
Great book! I have looked for a book to explain the ins and outs of Proshow and this is it. Video tutorials were great.