ProShow Producer 6 - How to share informations with text?

Share Information with Text

Using text isn't  mandatory in a show, but it is a great way to add a little extra information and expand your storytelling.

To add text in ProShow, you'll use Captions By creating and working with captions you'll be able to do things like make title slides, add interesting information or comments during your show or create movie-style credits at the end of a slideshow.

Captions are covered in more detail in Chapter 10, but for now, let's wrap up the simple show you have been building as we go.  

To get a sense of how captions work, let’s add a title slide to the beginning of your show.  The goal of a title slide is act as an introduction.  Something that gives the audience a little information about the show they are about to watch.  Typically this will be something like "The Smith Wedding" or "Eric's Birthday".

Making a Title Slide

1. Double-click on the very first slide in your show.  This will open the Slide Options window.
2. Locate the Captions pane on the left and press the Add (+) icon.   You will now see the words "Blank Caption" appear. 
   This doesn't mean the words "Blank Caption" will be in your show.
    This is simply a placeholder in the Captions List showing you that you need to type something.
   
   
   
   
3. To the right of the Preview you'll find the Selected Caption Text pane.  This is where you will type the text that you want to have in your title slide.    
   Go ahead and type the words "My First ProShow".
4. Just below that text area, you'll see the Caption Format pane.  Use these options to select the font, size, case and color of your caption.
   
   
5. Below the Preview you'll find the Caption Placement pane.  This is where you'll justify your text (left, center, etc) and adjust the position of your text.  

As you can see, using Captions in ProShow is similar adding text to any word processing program.   You begin with a blank field, you type in your text, and then you choose the font, size, and position of your caption.

Creating Captions Tip:

• You can adjust the position of  your caption simply by clicking and dragging the caption within the Preview.
• Caption size can be changed by using the scroll wheel on your mouse.  Simply click on the caption in the Preview and scroll up or down until your caption reaches your desired size.

If you 're following along in ProShow and want to make sure your title slide looks similar to the sample images; from the Font dropdown list,  select Georgia. It’s a font that comes standard in Windows and makes a great title.

Once you have the font chosen, click on the size dropdown list and change the font size to something big enough for a title, try 24 or more.   If your preferred size isn't listed, you can also type in a number to get the perfect size for your show.

Now that you have the caption created and adjusted, go ahead and use the mouse to drag the caption in the preview window until you have it roughly centered at the top of the slide frame. You don’t need to be overly specific here – just eyeball it.

Adding Effects to Captions

The title caption you’ve created will certainly look good and work just fine as it is. However, you can make it look even better by adding some effects.

In ProShow, each caption has three Caption Behaviors.  These behaviors control what your captions do when the slide starts and ends, as well as what happens to the caption while the slide is playing.  You can think of Caption Behaviors as animated effects that you add to your text.

Let's start by selecting the Effects tab just above the Preview in Slide Options.  On the right, beneath the Preview, you'll find the Caption Behaviors options. 

Click on the Fly In dropdown list to choose how your caption first appears in your slide.   You'll see that there are plenty of options, and we’ll cover them all later, but for now, just choose Fade In from the list.

Once you’ve picked an effect for the start of the slide, click on the Fly Out dropdown list. In this list, find the Fade Out option. Click on that to select it.

With these effects chosen, your caption will now fade into view at the beginning of the slide and fade out of view at the end. Without those effects in place, the caption would pop into view and abruptly disappear. These kinds of effects can give your captions a more natural and professional feel.

To see how your slide will look with the newly added text effects, click the Play icon located at the bottom of the Slide Options window.  If you're happy with the results, press the OK button to close Slide Options.


Seee more:

• ProShow Producer - Begin With Basics
• ProShow Producer 6 - How to Make a Show Right Away?
• ProShow Producer 6 - How to Pick a Transition Effects?
• ProShow Producer 6 - How to add Effects to your image?
• ProShow Producer - How to add Audio to your show?
• ProShow Producer - How to save, public and share your show?