Masking can be used to create silhouette effects and abstract compositions in slide shows. The new Chroma Key Transparency tool creates Hollywood-style "greenscreen" effects by making a specific color range in an image or video transparent, allowing photographers to create overlays and graphic art effects for their slide shows. Other new features include a built-in Vignette tool, photo and video cropping and rotation, enhanced drop shadow control, caption textures and more.

With ProShow Producer, photographers can create multimedia slide show presentations and output them to 14 different formats, including DVD, CD and the newly-added HD Video, Flash and QuickTime output options. The software offers Keyframing control for captions, motion effects and adjustment effects, allowing photographers to position and set points on a keyframe timeline to create special effects in their slide shows. Keyframing effects can be used to create a sequence of complex motion paths, make images and videos move through color shifts and create multiple caption motion effects, all of which can occur during the course of one slide.

ProShow Producer 3.0 costs US$499.95. A 15-day free trial version is available for download.