with Ron Nichols All about Albums and Books

with Ron Nichols All about Albums and Books

with Ron Nichols

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Why ProSelect for Album Building? Building is quick with just drag and drop Templates can have styles applied to change theme Templates can be scaled for many sizes Albums can duplicated Special effects can be added and removed Duplicate image warning Automated final production Systematic workflow Proofs and Slideshows from albums - w - w/o watermarks

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Elements of a Book/ Album Book Design (size parameters for output) Page Templates (placeholders for images) Styles and/or Photoshop overlays Cover (Layout) Output files

Composite vs Traditional Matted Composite - The whole page (images and graphic) are rendered as a single element Traditional Matted - Just the image is rendered to be slipped into a mat or physically mounted on a page

Book Design Templates > Edit Book Designs ACI 10x10 Hinged Press Book

Book Design Templates > Edit Book Designs Photographic Album Note: Requires output as double page spreads

Joining and Splitting Pages Joining Single-Page Spreads Splitting Double-Page Spreads

Templates Create your own TimeExposure has template collections available for purchase Album companies and labs may offer Third-party designers (ProSelect Resources Pg)

Template Properties Templates > Edit Templates Templates are completely scaleable (without overlay) Can be created as Composite or TML Elements of a template Image Openings Graphic Blocks Overlays (can contain text that can be changed) Openings and GB can have varied opacities

Styles Templates > Edit Styles Styles are resolution independent until an image is added. Scale Photoshop Images for the largest template (usually about 3000px 3000px) Styles can be applied to any template

Styles Turned off on Graphic Blocks by default You can turn off styles on image openings Usually if the image bleeds to outside edge Borders, Spaces and Mats are absolute in size

Photoshop Overlay vs ProSelect Style Styles can be applied to any template Overlay (psd file) is linked to the template An Overlay (PSD or PNG) can contain transparency and have a Style applied underneath

Build a Template

Auto-Create Single-Image Per-Page Album Create an Image Set containing images for album Go to Working with Books Mode Choose Book Design (size parameters) Select Template Group Set Smart filtering to One Image Auto Rotate enabled (square albums) Select all Images, drag to template Choose Styles Production > Send Book to Production > Selected Book Run High - Res production

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Creating a Duplicate Book of another size and style Create another Book design with the dimensions of your smaller/larger book (under Templates menu). This can be the same page shape or different While Working with Books, change to Thumbnail View and select an empty Book from the Thumbnail bar (one without a check mark in it) Assign your smaller/larger book's design to this book Select the Book to be copied from in the Thumbnail bar. Select all the pages in that book using Control-A (on PC) or Cmd-A (on Mac). Drag all the pages and drop them onto the icon for the new book while holding the Alt/Option key down. The page sizes (page layouts) will be adjusted to the new book's size*. (Holding the Alt/Option key down tells ProSelect to make a duplicate of all the pages rather than just moving them to the other book.) Select the second book again and check all pages are correct. If the second Book's pages are a different shape some cropping adjustment might be required if the openings have been stretched to fit - do this is cropping view. Change Styles if desired. Send Book to Production > Selected Book Production > Produce High-Res Images Knowledge Base Article

Create Multi-Image Album Create an Image Set containing images for album Go to Working with Books Mode, thumbnail view Choose Book Design (size parameters) Select Template Group Set Smart filtering to No. of Openings and Orientation Auto Rotate enabled (square albums) Expand Image list Set Auto-Hide, Selected book Select images from Image List for page, drag and drop on template Double-click page to open

Create Multi-Image Album Continued Move images in openings, crop, apply custom effects Continue building pages Rearrange order if needed Choose Styles Join double page spreads if necessary Production > Send Book to Production > Selected Book Run High - Res production

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Changing a Book Design after the Album is built http://www.timeexposure.com/support_center_kb.php? action=article&id=337&relid=22

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