The intelligent CEWE PHOTOBOOK Assistant is a special function ("Create suggestion"). It helps you to quickly find and select your saved images on the hard drive or a CD, and helps you with difficult and time-consuming tasks by carrying them out for you! With the CEWE PHOTOBOOK Assistant, you can create your CEWE PHOTOBOOK with relatively little effort. You can turn off the Assistant at any time by clicking on "Create without the assistant". To use the Assistant, follow these three steps:
On the left-hand side of the CEWE PHOTOBOOK Assistant, you will find a button with which you can select photo directories. You can filter your images by using the "View" tool or arranging them by date/time, file name (alphabetically) or rating. If you would like to select all the photos in the selected directory, drag the directory from the file tree into the work area. Any sub-directories will not be transferred automatically; these have to be dragged separately into the workspace. You can remove individual photos from your selection at a later stage. Or you can highlight the desired directory and individually drag the photos you need onto the Assistant work area. They will be pasted into and displayed in this section. You can select several photos and/or directories and drag them at the same time. Your selected photos will be shown in the "Photos in photobook" work area.
You can adjust the settings as to whether you want your photos sorted by date taken (chronologically), file name (alphabetically) or your evaluation.
The workspace with the selected photos contains zoom buttons to enlarge / reduce the thumbnails. When you have selected the photos for your CEWE PHOTOBOOK, the Assistant will suggest the optimum page number and the average number of photos per page. The number of pages, photos per page and status indicator will be displayed below in the Assistant window. You can now change the number of photos per page and the number of pages using the scroll bar in the bottom window area. The number of photos that no longer fit on the photobook pages are automatically rejected and the status bar at the bottom turns red. The photos that have been selected are given a green cross, the photos that have been rejected and will not be used are given a red cross.
The selection of photos can now be checked manually. You can also expand or contract this selection yourself. You can find the commands "Add selected images to your CEWE PHOTOBOOK" (green tick on photo), "Remove selected images from your CEWE PHOTOBOOK" (red cross on photo) and "Remove selected objects" (disappears from the list of photos, the photo file is not deleted) at the bottom in the photo previews or in their dropdown menus. Do you want to automatically limit your choice to faces, landscapes or photos best suited for further use? In this case, you will want to make use of the "Settings for automatic photo selection". Depending on the criterion selected, certain images will be marked with a green dot and a tick in your photo folder. In the "Settings" under the status bar (click on the small arrow icon), you can adjust the settings to determine which photos should automatically be selected for the CEWE PHOTOBOOK. You can choose from "Faces", "Landscapes" and "Best Photos".
"Best Photos" prioritises photos which you have given a high rating (several "stars").
Styles are a tool in the CEWE PHOTOBOOK Assistant to help you have your own individual influence on the personalisation of the photobook. Styles consist of backgrounds and rules for backgrounds, rules for the automatic selection of page layouts, as well as coloured border and shadow settings for the images. You will find several style templates among the tabs sorted by theme. Click on "Preview" among the thumbnails and you will see the backgrounds and examples of pages customised according to the selected style. You can find and download more styles in our download portal by clicking on "Download more". Templates you have already downloaded into the "dm Fotolumea mea" software will be marked with a green tick. You can find out how to work with the styles in detail and how you can create your own styles or change existing ones in the chapter "Design styles". An introduction to the style editor would go beyond the scope of this page.
In the lines "Book title" and "Subtitle", enter the name of your CEWE PHOTOBOOK. The title will then appear on the front cover for books with hardcovers and softcovers, and only on the title page for booklet covers. The subtitle will only be used if a suitable page layout with a second text box on the cover is available.
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The title you enter will be used as a label for the back of your CEWE PHOTOBOOK on hardcover and softcover books. |
With a click on the thumbnails of the binding, choose whether you would like your finished CEWE PHOTOBOOK to have a hard, soft, linen or faux leather cover, or whether you would prefer it to be produced as a booklet. (if available).
Click on the "Create Now" button and the CEWE PHOTOBOOK Assistant is activated and automatically adds the photos, page layouts and backgrounds to the photo book. You can then adjust your CEWE PHOTOBOOK according to your wishes. You will learn how to do this in the chapter "The CEWE PHOTOBOOK".
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The CEWE PHOTOBOOK Assistant is an application that helps you create a photobook quickly and automatically. As a result, you will have limited control over the way the photobook looks and the distribution of the photos, and it is possible the result is not how you expected or how you would like. Therefore, the photobook often needs to be checked manually. Everything can be manually altered later: the order of the pages, the page layout of the pages, the backgrounds, the photos. Consider the pages created by the CEWE PHOTOBOOK Assistant as a suggestion and outline, and identify what you can work with. Whether you use any of it, and what you use, is left up to your creativity, which no computer in the world can replace. |