Mastering ProShow Effects

Learn all about Motion Effects, Adjustment Effects, Masking Effects and Caption/Text Layer Effects in ProShow Producer 7

Created byJennifer Clark

Last updated 11/2015

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What you'll learn

Use Motion Keyframing on Layers to create dynamic animated effects.
Create several effects that use Adjustment Settings, including a painted look, reflections, and a Flash Effect
Use Caption Layer to create Title Effects, Lower Thirds, and a Multi-Image/Caption Collage
Use Text Layers with Masking abilities, Tilting effects, and reflections.
Use Masks to frame a photo and to create a Parallax effect.

Course content

6 sections • 38 lectures • 2h 0m total length

Introduction1:21
The first section of this Course, Motion Effects, is a complete overview of Keyframing. It moves a little slower than the subsquent courses. If you understand how Keyframes work with Motion, using them with Adjustments, Text Layers and Masking is a breeze!

Aspects of Motion Keyframing0:44
This is a brief overview of the Aspects that we'll be covering in Motion Keyframing, such as Pan, Zoom, Tilt, and Rotation.
Creating the 2 Image Flip Effect4:05
Setting Show Preferences

Adding multiple images into a single slide

Setting a specific time for a Keyframe

Creating a 2 Image Flip Effect
Review: Lemons to Lemonade Concepts0:52
Adding Dinner and Dessert6:33
Adding time to a slide without effecting current keyframes.

Setting attributes globally, instead of by Keyframes

Workflow: sometimes it's best to work backwards!

Zooming the Preview window out to see the area outside of the viewing area.
Review - Adding Time to an existing Slide0:47
Add time to an existing slide by selecting the keyframe, avoid transition areas, and apply global changes via the layer settings tab to affect all keyframes in the effects tab.
Rotating in Sequence3:16
Rotate each image in the opposite direction in sequential order to create a four-layer multi keyframes animation, syncing lemonade, pasta, and dessert rotations with careful keyframe timing.
Practice Activity - Motion Effects1:24
In this Practice Activity, I want you to create this Motion Effect. I'm not going to tell you how....use the tools you've just learned to create it while flying solo!

Adjustments Introduction0:58
Adjustments Tab vs. Adjustments in the Effects Tab2:04
Global Changes in the Adjustments Tab

Editing Tools cannot be Keyframed (except for Colorize)

Changes over time in the Effects Tab

Changing the color of a background over time
Black and White to Color2:13
This very simple effect is a great starting point for learning how to create Adjustment Effects. However, there's a little more work to it than immediately meets the eye.
The "Drawing" look - Part 11:14
Choosing just the right photo is important for this effect.
The "Drawing" look - Part 22:15
Adjustments in the Adjustments Tab PLUS Adjustments in the Effects Tab makes for some amazing effects!
Photo Flash - Part 13:14
Photo Flash - Part 24:24
Need a little help? This effect is a downloadable Slide Style in the Bonus Section!
Tilted Reflection - Part 13:01
Learn to craft a tilted reflection using simple two-keyframe animation across a photo, with negative and positive tilt, a vignette border, and a black-and-white gradient background to reveal a reflection.
Tilted Reflection - Part 23:32
Adjustment Layer - Part 13:12
Adjustment Layer - Part 21:46
Adjust the adjustment layer in the effects tab by zooming, rotating, and panning with keyframes, copy keyframes, and add a 5-pixel outline before progressing to text layers and captions.
Practice Activity - Adjustment Effects0:52

Captions and Text Layers Introduction1:09
Explore captions and text layers in ProShow. See captions above image layers while text layers interact with images, function as masks, and apply 3d tilt and blur to title slides.
Two Captions Transform - on the "Fly"3:01
Kindness is Free....and solid colors can hide Captions!4:52
Creating a Simple Lower 3rd - Part 14:06
Learn to create a simple lower third by adding a photo, applying a 10-second zoom, and using gradient layers and opacity tweaks for the caption background.
Creating a Simple Lower 3rd - Part 22:58
Creating the Family Photo and Caption Montage - Part 16:10
Create a family photo and caption montage using caption layers, cropping photos into squares, arranging abstract and heart images, and positioning elements with precise grid measurements.
Creating the Family Photo and Caption Montage - Part 24:47
Text Layers - Happy Birthday!5:01
Use text layers to create a behind-the-photo reveal, placing 'happy' and 'birthday' under a photo and animating with keyframes to shift and fade them so 'happy' turns into 'birthday'.
Using Text Layers UNDER Masks5:38
Need a little help? This effect is a downloadable Slide Style in the Bonus Section!
Using Text Layer AS Masks3:22
Creating the Live, Laugh, Love Title Effect - Part 13:49
Creating the Live, Laugh, Love Title Effect - Part 23:27
Creating the Live, Laugh, Love Title Effect - Part 35:38
Need a little help? This effect is a downloadable Slide Style in the Bonus Section!
Practice Activity - Title Effects0:47
Need a little help? This effect is a downloadable Slide Style in the Bonus Section!

Requirements

You must own ProShow Producer 6 or 7. No other software is required.

Description

Are you ready to get creative? In this course, you'll learn how to create tons of different effects in ProShow Producer. Motion Effects. Adjustment Effects. Text Effects. Masking Effects. Several effects even combine two or three of these tools!

This course is for Beginner to Intermediate ProShow users. You must own ProShow Producer, either version 6 or 7. Many of the lessons provide materials you'll need to download to follow along. You'll also need several photos of your own to create these effects.

Throughout the course, you'll be creating beautiful (and useful) effects in each section, designed to teach you about a specific tool: Keyframing, Masking, Text Layers, etc. There are also practice activities at the end of each section, allowing you to create an effect using the tools you just learned about all on your own!

If you struggle with turning a creative effect you can see clearly in your mind into a realized animation in ProShow, this is the course for you!

Who this course is for:

This course is for anyone who wants to master creating all kinds of effects in ProShow Producer 6 or 7. Beginners through Advanced users are all welcome!

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Taking control1 lecture • 1min

Motion Effects - Keyframing Overview7 lectures • 18min

Adjustment Effects12 lectures • 29min

Text Layers and Captions14 lectures • 55min

Masking Effects3 lectures • 12min

BONUS!1 lecture • 6min

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