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Some templates in the Designs Gallery
, particularly photo album styles, can have multiple photos replaced at once. Select multiple photo files
using Windows File Explorer ("Ctrl + click" to add more files to the selection, or "Shift + click" to select
a range of files). Then drag and drop them onto the page in Web Designer MX Premium. Photos are
replaced one by one from the top of the page downwards. This makes it easy to rapidly fill a photo
album page with your own photos!
If you drag in more photos than can be fitted on the current page, Web Designer MX Premium will look
at any following pages in the document, to see if they can accommodate some or all of the remaining
photos. If that still doesn't exhaust the supply of photos imported, Web Designer MX Premium will
duplicate the current page as many times as necessary in order to accommodate all the photos.
This powerful mechanism means that you can create a multi-page photo album website rapidly, by
loading an album template from the Designs Gallery and then dragging in your photos.
Importing Large Photos
When importing high resolution photos (anything above 1920 pixels either wide or high) into a web
document, Web Designer MX Premium automatically resizes the photo down to HD screen size without
asking you if you want to import a lower resolution version. For a web document, even at the reduced
size, there should be more than enough resolution in your photos for high quality results on your website,
so it's rarely necessary to import digital camera images at full resolution for web use.
However, if you are importing a large photo into a print or animation document, Web Designer MX
Premium asks you if you want to import a lower resolution version of your photos. If your document is to
include many photos, you may want to choose this reduced resolution option. Otherwise with large
photos you may find that your saved design file is much bigger than it needs to be (because it contains a
copy of each of your photos). And memory requirements when editing and exporting your document will
be higher than necessary.
The Photo Tool
The Photo Tool
provides a range of ways to enhance and crop any photo.
To crop a photo, just drag across the photo while in the Enhance
Photo Tool
. You can adjust the crop edges by dragging on the crop handles
around the outside of the photo.
Or use the Clip Tool
for more control over crops.
See the section on Photo Handling for background information on the advanced way in which Web
Designer MX Premium handles photos, and the section on the Photo Tool to find out how to use the
Photo Tool
.
Thumbnail Photos With Pop-ups
You can very easily create small thumbnail photos (just resize it to be tiny), that when clicked will show
an enlarged version. Simply resize your photo to be small, the usual way using the Selector Tool
.
Select the small thumbnail photo, and select the Pop-up photo option in
the Link tab of the Web Properties dialog (click the Link button in the
Web Toolbar
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