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"The wait is over! The all-new ProShow StylePack Volume 3 is here and is our most stylish and creative StylePack yet! Created for Producer users, this volume features a diverse collection of 25 high-impact, pre-designed Styles. Slide Styles instantly transform your slides into amazing effects and animations. With just a few clicks you can go from ordinary to extraordinary! Check out the new Styles below and see more online."

These impressive effects are strictly for the professional-grade ProShow Producer ($249 USD), but if you're a photographer making money creating slideshows for your clients, that's a small price to pay to have an impressive tool at your disposal. The fact that these stylepacks are only $19.95 is great - each one is packed with some great effects. I really liked the Chroma Wash and Oscillations effects from the first video - and Sum of the Parts is pretty slick as well! Tilt Matrix on the second video looks great as well.

I used ProShow Producer a couple of weeks ago on a quick project, and the end results were superb - though I'm still irked that I can't select all my images and apply the same slide style to each of them, all at once. Having to click on each image, click to apply the slide style, and then click OK on a dialogue box warning me that I'm changing the slide style is truly tedious when you have to do it 34 times in a row. Still, I've never seen a program so finely tuned for turning photos into video slide shows - it's a truly superb tool.

"Photodex Corporation today announced the release of ProShow Gold 3.5, the latest version of its award-winning slide show software designed for consumers and photo hobbyists. ProShow Gold 3.5 gives users the ability to create high resolution Blu-ray slide shows from start to finish. No complicated formatting or conversions - users simply create a slide show in ProShow Gold and output directly to Blu-ray."

1080p HD video looks great, but getting the right kind of content onto your HD display isn't always easy - if you're into creating photo slide shows, ProShow Gold is some of the best software on the market for that purpose. They've just released version 3.5, and they've added direct Blu-ray output.