20.5.15

PRODUCER 7: Name of file vs. Image

PRODUCER 7: 
Show file names instead of layer type for photo/video layers

One of the changes in ProShow 7 that I didn't quite welcome, is the way that layers display their content:

In ProShow 7, when you drag a picture, or any other file into your slide, you can see the name of the file, but not its extension.
Instead, you get to see the type of the layer. ProShow automatically gets your layers categorized as either image, video, gradient, or solid.
If you like to use masks, and all sorts of other decorations, as I do, you'll never know if you are using a jpg, a png, or maybe a gif file.
To get this information you have to hover over the layer and then read the tool-tip that is being displayed, together with all the path of that file.
Of course, you can also see the full name of the file  if you click in the Layer Settings tab, and look at the right of the screen, but why would you want to do that when you are working on Effects?

This gets even more problematic once you apply a slide style.
Then, all you get to see from the picture that you just inserted, is the laconic name: Image. What image is that? Again, you can't know unless you hover over that layer.

THE SOLUTION:
If you are as unhappy with this as I am, and you prefer the way things worked in previous versions of ProShow, then you must make a small change in the program Preferences.
You will find that a new Preference has been added to the program, in order to address just this need.

Go to Edit > Preferences > Appearance
Put a check-mark on "Show image file names instead of layer type for photo/video layers"


Once you do that, the full name of file is displayed, together with its extension.





I like this option much better :-)

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