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• The Pasteboard (the area around the photo) is a darker color. This makes it easy
to distinguish at a glance between photo documents and drawing documents.
• The document zoom is set so that the photo fills the view and the
PHOTO TOOL is
automatically selected as the current tool.
• Dropping additional photo files on top of an existing photo just adds a new photo
to the document instead of replacing the photo in its frame. And the view will
zoom out so you can see the whole image.
• Images are not resized to be 500 pixels on import as they are in normal
documents, but are imported at 1:1, so that at 100% zoom you're seeing the
image at full size.
• The pixel smoothing options are altered. By default it selects the "Very high
quality" display mode, which is best for images scaled down or zoomed out. It
also has pixel smoothing turned off when zooming in, so you can see the pixels
are very large zoom factors.
• If you’ve opened a JPEG photo file as a photo document, when you save changes
your JPEG file will be overwritten. See Editing Photo Files below for details.
In all other respects Photo Documents behave like normal MAGIX Page & Layout
Designer 2013 documents. You can use all the normal drawing and text tools as usual.
If you want to create a photo document of a given size, you can alter the "canvas" or
page size by selecting "
UTILITIES" > "OPTIONS" and the "PAGE" tab and entering the
required dimensions.
In Photo Documents two extra controls become enabled. The PREVIOUS and NEXT
button will move onto the Previous or Next image in the folder from which this image
was opened. This will close the current image, so you may be prompted to save the
file.
Editing Photo Files
You can use MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 to easily edit your JPEG photos
and save back the modified JPEG. And unlike with most photo editors, you can do this
multiple times without loss of quality, even though the JPEG format is a lossy format.
That’s becauseMAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 is able to save your edits in a
lossless way, along with the original photo. Here’s how it works.
First open the JPEG, using "
FILE" > "OPEN", drag and drop, or in Windows File Explorer
right click and choose MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 from the "open with" list.
The photo is opened as a Photo document.
Edit the photo using the photo tools as described above.