Poster Designer Pro Working With Pictures In this tutorial, we’ll work with pictures and show you how to: · Add and replace pictures. · Use the Media Bar. · Pan, zoom, and crop pictures. · Apply image adjustments.
Poster Designer Pro Working With Pictures Working With Pictures Poster Designer Pro offers a variety of tools and techniques for working with the images on your poster. In this tutorial, we’ll start with a themed layout, then we’ll show you how to add your own pictures, crop them, and apply some basic image adjustments. We’ll be using the sample images installed with Poster Designer Pro.
Poster Designer Pro Working With Pictures Adding pictures The themed layout provide four placeholder picture frames for you to add your own photos. You can add pictures individually, by clicking directly on a placeholder, or you can add multiple pictures to the Media Bar and then drag them onto the frames as you need them. We’ll demonstrate both methods. To add a single picture to a frame: 1 Click once inside the upper-left picture frame (or select the frame and then click the right corner).
Poster Designer Pro Working With Pictures · To zoom in or out of the picture, click Out, and then click on the picture. Zoom In or Zoom Replace Picture, browse to and · To replace the picture, click select a new picture and click Open. Using the Media Bar If you’re working with lots of pictures, or are not sure which of your pictures would work best on your poster, you might prefer to add them to the Media Bar before adding them to the layout.
Poster Designer Pro Working With Pictures 5 Drag the photo of the couple (3176257.jpg) onto the upper-right picture frame. 6 Drag the photo of the ski lift (5261963.jpg) from the Media Bar onto the lower-left frame. Free-floating pictures You can also add unframed ‘freefloating’ pictures to your poster. To do so, simply drag a thumbnail directly onto the page, rather than onto a picture frame. 7 Drag the snowy scene (6295505.jpg) from the Media Bar onto the lowerright frame.
Poster Designer Pro Working With Pictures Cropping pictures At the left of the workspace, on the Attributes toolbar, the Crop flyout provides tools for cropping framed and unframed pictures on the page. To crop a picture: 1 Select the photo of the ski lift, then on the Crop flyout, click the Square Crop Tool. 2 Click and drag the left edge handle inwards, as illustrated.
Poster Designer Pro Working With Pictures Applying image adjustments When you select a picture, the Picture context toolbar displays at the top of the workspace, automatically. This toolbar provides quick and easy access to key picture-related controls—replace, resize, recolor, and so on—and also lets you apply useful image adjustments, such as red eye removal and brightness and contrast adjustments, with a single click.
Poster Designer Pro Working With Pictures We’ve reached the end of this tutorial on pictures. We hope that you have enjoyed working through these simple exercises. You should now be feeling familiar with the basic tools and techniques we’ve shown you, and ready to start using them on your own poster layouts. For more information on the topics we’ve covered here, and on more advanced techniques, see online Help.
