2013

Photo Handling 267
Note: MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 always sends the original un-clipped
whole photo to the external editor. Any images that are enhanced (e.g. brightness
altered) or clipped with the photo clip, or have any live effects applied, will have
these changes missing when you edit them this way. However, when the edited
image is returned, the clip and photo attributes are re-applied to the edited image.
For this reason, it's not recommended that you alter the size or crop images in an
external editor.
You can, of course, Undo any external edits you've applied by using the usual Page &
Layout Designer Undo feature (it always stores a copy of the 'before' image).
However when you save and re-open the .xar file all Undo information is lost.
Editing images this way is a destructive edit. i.e. the image is permanently altered by
the external Photo Editing Tool, and the original cannot be recovered once the file has
been saved and closed.
Resize, rotate and position a photo within its
frame
Photos in MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 are treated like a "bitmap filled"
rectangle. The shape of your photo is really a fully editable outline around the image
contained inside. So when you crop, or edit the outline shape, you're not affecting the
fill, which is clipped inside the shape.
Photos and bitmaps on the page are always contained within an outline shape. Not
only can you change the shape of the outline, you can also adjust the size, angle and
position of the photo within its frame using the
FILL TOOL. Just select the photo, go
into the
FILL TOOL and you will see fill arrows at right angles from the center (or you
can go into
FILL TOOL, and click on the photo to select).
For example, to enlarge and rotate the image on the left inside its frame, select the
FILL TOOL and drag on one of the arrowheads.