Normally, it might be that you have already adjusted and enhanced your photos to use them in ProShow but this application also contains some simple tools for making changes to a photo. You can consider it as a mini  version of photoshop. Keep in mind that the changes you make in ProShow will not change the original photo.

 

Where to find this mini-photoshop feature?

This is found when you use the following sequence:

Slide Options- Layers- Editing

As you can see there are several Sections:

Adjustments (improvements):

You can manually make the various adjustments but you still have an [Auto] button that allows you to modify a picture very easily. The sliders in these options make your task much simpler. Do not forget that there is a “Reset” button for every option. This is very convenient when you want to try out various style.

• Opacity: changes your layer so that it is more or less transparent.
• Brightness: allow you to adjust the brightness.
• White point (looks for the brightest points): determines the brightest point in the layer and modifies it according to the specifed setting.
• Black Point (looks for the darkest point) determines the darkest point in the layer and modifies it according to the specifed setting.
• Contrast: allows you to adjust the contrast. It allows you to reduce the contrast between light and dark areas.
• Hue: Gives various shades of a color depending on the color you select.
• Sharpen: allows you to adjust the sharpening of a layer.
• Blur: allows you to specify the degree of blurring that is present in a layer.

Editing tools (customizable tools):

• Rotate: You can select from:  90 °, 180 ° or 270 °.
• Flip: You can flip the layer verticallly or horizontally.
• Vignette: Select this check box and click the [Vignette] button and the following window is displayed:

Thus there are many options to beautify a photo.

• Red-eye: Select this check box and click the [Red Eye] button and the following window is displayed:

The red eyes area can be selected and adjusted.

• Crop: Select this check box and click the [Crop] button to get the following window:

It is best to save the photo before cropping it.

Chroma Key Transparency

Chroma key (also called Blue-screening, screening and Green color value) is a technique often used in the film world. It consists os an object filmed against a green or blue background. Then one can work with color filters, or now with computers, to make the background transparent so that the filmed object can be placed on a different background.
Thus, in this course we don’t cover this topic.

Colorize (monochrome color)

If you check this box you can select a color with the color wheel and the layer gets this color.

Outline (framework)

This places a frame around the layer. With the color wheel you can change the color and you can also select the thickness of the frame between 1 and 5.

Drop shadow (shading)

This places a little shade in the layer. You can select a shadow color with the color wheel and you can make shadows more or less transparent (value of 0% to 100%).

 

 

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