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Working with Templates
Using the templates available in the Designs Gallery is the quickest and easiest way to
create high quality designs such as Photo Albums, Flyers, Calendars, Cards,
Newsletters and other Documents.
To load a template, open the Designs Gallery and double click on a template
thumbnail in one of the design categories. Once loaded, you can customize the
template to produce your own personalized high-quality design. Typically you’ll want
to replace any photos with your own, enter your own text and perhaps change the
color scheme, all of which is trivial in MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013. This
chapter describes how to do these customizations easily.
Replacing photos
To replace a photo simply drag your own image file (JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP) from your
Windows File Explorer and drop it on top of the picture that you want to replace. Your
photo will automatically be scaled appropriately to replace the template photo. The
new photo will be selected and you’ll be put into the Fill Tool so that you can easily
adjust the position and scale of your photo if desired (see below).
Alternatively you can load your photos into the current design using "File -> Import".
This adds a new photo object to your design and also adds it into the
BITMAP
GALLERY
. Remove the new photo from the page by selecting it and pressing "Delete".
Then drag your photo from the
BITMAP GALLERY and drop it onto a template photo to
replace it, as described above.
By default when you replace a photo, any other copies of that photo on the current
page are also replaced. This is usually what you will want, because some templates
have multiple copies of the same photo which need to be replaced, including some on
hidden layers. E.g. perhaps a large version of a photo and a thumbnail version of the
same photo. However if you want more control over the photo replacement, hold
down
CTRL while dropping your photo and then you’ll be asked which instances of the
photo you want to replace.
You can also replace multiple photos at once in most templates. Select the photo files
in Windows File Explorer (Ctrl+click to add to the current selection) and then drag the
files onto the page in MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013.
See the Photo Handling chapter for more information.
Note: Normally you should not replace photos by first deleting the template photo
as this will also delete the shape that holds the photo, which determines its size. If
you have deleted a photo in this way, use the Undo function ("Ctrl + Z") to restore it
and replace the image as described above instead..