Digital Color Foto - manual for utilisation.
Printie Premium menu items
- 1. Installing Printie Premium application
- 2. Create a new album order
- 3. Photo album editing and design
- 4. Printie Premium menu items
Menu items
File Menu
- New Album – Opens the New photo album wizard to create a new album order
- Open album – Opens the Open photo album screen. Use it to open, delete or rename an album order.
- Delete Album – Opens the Delete album screen.
- Close – Closes the current album and clears the working area.
- Save – Saves the current album. The album is automatically saved during the editing session so there is no need to perform this operation manually.
- Create another copy – creates and open a new photo album order based on the current order.
- Exit –Exits the Printie Premium application.
Edit Menu
- Undo – Undo the last operation. Only one undo operation is available by the Album maker application.
- Copy – Copy the selected item (picture, text box, etc.).
- Paste – Creates a new item (picture, text, etc) based on the last copied item.
- Delete - Delete the selected item. Asks for user acknowledge.
- Copy background – Copies the background of the current page.
- Paste background – Paste the last copied background to the current page.
- Paste special – Pastes the last copied item's design (frame, mask or effect) to the selected item.
- Paste special on all the pages – Pastes the last copied design on all the items in the album pages.
- Select all – selects all the items in the page.
View Menu
- Show album preview –Shows the final album pages in a full screen mode. The user can flip through the pages.
- Show report – Show an HTML page which includes the thumbnails of the pages and the order information.
- Layout – selects the Page layout view in the Toolbox.
- Cliparts – selects the Cliparts view in the Toolbox.
- Frames – selects the Frames view in the Toolbox.
- Masks – selects the Masks view in the Toolbox.
- Effects – selects the Effects view in the Toolbox.
- Backgrounds – selects the Backgrounds view in the Toolbox.
- Zoom – Enable selection of page zooming on the working space.
- Show element list – Selecting this optioninitiate a table as the one below.
- Grid – Selecting this option presenting another sub menu with three options.
- Show movement status – If this option is marked then once you move any object located on a page (like: text box, place holder, clipart …) a yellow box as bellows appears. There are always 5 values as the following: Left, Top, Width, Height and rotate. If the option is unchecked then box will not appear.
- Language – here you can change the language interface according the available languages.
Format Menu
- Image size – Change the selected image size according to the following options:
- Original image – Undo crop on the selected image.
- Crop image – Open the crop tool on the selected image.
- Show full image in frame - Fit the selected whole image in its place holder while keeping the original image proportions.
- Crop image to frame – Fill the selected image into its place holder (change the image proportions to the place holder proportions).
- Set as page background – set the selected image as background for the current page.
- Align – Align the selected elements according to the first selected element location (left, top, etc.).
- Make same size – Make the size (width, height, both) of the selected elements equal according to the first selected element.
- Center in page – Center the selected element(s) in the page.
- Spacing – Set equal spacing (or no spacing) between the selected elements.
- Order – Change the order of the selected element in the page relative to the other elements in page.
- Rotate – Select rotation option (right / left) for the selected elements.
- Flip – Flip the selected images horizontally or vertically.
Design Menu
- Frames – Enables to apply the selected frame on the selected image(s), or to remove the frame(s) from the selected image(s).
- Masks – Enables to apply the selected mask on the selected images, or to remove the mask(s) from the selected image(s).
- Effects – Enables to apply the selected effect on the selected images, or to remove the effect(s) from the selected image(s), or to apply/'clear opacity for the selected image(s).
- Backgrounds – Set background color in current page, set opacity on the current page background, or clear the background from current page.
- Texts – add text element to the current page or edit the selected text element.
- Cliparts – add clipart element from a file.
Pages Menu
- Set selected layout for this page – change the page layout to the selected layout in the Page/cover Layout toolbox.
- Display first page – Display the first page on the working space.
- Display previous page – Display the previous page on the working space.
- Display next page – Display the next page on the working space.
- Display last page – Display the last page on the working space.
- Add page – Opens a dialog to select a layout for a new page to be added to the album after the current page.
- Duplicate page – Duplicate the current page of the album.
- Delete page – Delete the current page of the album.
- Move page right – move the current page of the album to the right.
- Move page left – move the current page of the album to the left.
- Save as template- selecting this option will add the current page to the available templates. The following message will appear : ‘the new template has been added successfully’, and then you will be able to see the new template under page/cover layout.
Images Menu
- Add image place holder to the page – adds a new empty place holder to current page.
- Add – Opens the 'select pictures' screen and select new images to add to the pictures list.
- Remove selected images – remove the selected images from the album and from the pictures list.
- Remove all images – remove all the images from the album and from the pictures list.
- Fix red eye – Initiate the red eye removal window.
- Color correction – Initiate the color correction window.
- Rotate right – rotate the selected images in the pictures list to the right.
- Rotate left – rotate the selected images in the pictures list to the left.
Configuration Menu
- Manually update files – select a configuration (ZIP) file that contains new price and content definitions (products, frames, masks, effects, clip-arts and backgrounds) and update the system accordingly.
- Check web for latest files – Check the print-shop web site for price and content updates and update the system accordingly.
Order Menu
- Order Album – Starts the ordering wizard for the current album.
- Create another copy – creates and open a new album order based on the current order. (identical to 'Create another copy' in the File menu)
- Start FTP uploader – Initiates the ‘Album FTP uploader’ .
- Backup order – backups the order in OBF format.
- Restore Order – restores the order.
Help Menu
- Show help – opens the current help file.
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