In 2006, USA Today writer Jefferson Graham named ProShow Gold “the best program for mixing pictures and video clips.” The software also has built-in CD, DVD and Blu-ray burning capabilities and outputs to other formats including MPEG video, QuickTime video, Flash Video, Facebook, Vimeo, and YouTube. Built-in features allow users to customize slideshows with transitions, slide styles, and motion effects in the style of the Ken Burns Effect. ProShow Gold is a consumer-level tool for creating slideshows from photos, video clips, and music. ProShow consists of ProShow Gold, ProShow Producer, and ProShow Web. Photodex's current products are the ProShow product line.

Īnnounced in January of 2020 the company was shutting down it servers as of January 31, 2020. In 2002 they released the first version of ProShow, which focused primarily on slideshow creation.

In the mid-1990s they focused on the photo management software product CompuPic, which also included slideshow capability. Photodex released one of the first consumer level slideshow programs in 1991 with a program named GDS or Graphic Display System. They are primarily known for the ProShow product line, which is photo slideshow software.

Photodex was a software company specializing in the digital imaging market.