The toolbar contains the main tools and commands that can be applied to a specified element in the workspace, or that can be used to add a new element to the workspace. For reasons of clarity, the icons are grouped according to topic in toolboxes.
If you hover the mouse cursor above an icon, a tooltip will appear describing the tool.
As there is insufficient space to display all the tools in the toolbar, some of the tool boxes feature a " ... " symbol which displays the hidden tools when clicked.
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The following toolbars are not always available in all editors. In which case they are "greyed out".
With this icon, you can save your product at any stage in the editing process.
If you have not already saved this product, then a dialogue box will open up in which you can specify where you want to save it and the files name.
Here you can open projects which you have already saved and continue working on them or place an order.
A dialogue box opens in which you can select the file name and where it is saved.
Opens the assistant for the respective photo product, for example the CEWE PHOTOBOOK Assistant which simplifies and automates most of the workflow.
Creates a draft CEWE PHOTOBOOK, which often requires minimal, if any, reworking.
This has the same function as Save, but you can give the product another file name, for example to create a copy of your product or archive various versions or editing statuses.
Opens up a dialogue window containing the features of the product being edited and the price details.
It is possible to edit the features later, for example, in the case of a photobook, the type of cover, the number of pages, the type of paper and the sizes.
Undoes your last action.
(Only available if an action was performed previously).
Redoes the last command that you undid.
That is, it undoes the last "Undo" command.
(Only available if an "Undo" action was performed previously).
Deletes the selected element or multiple selected elements.
Copies the selected element or elements to the clipboard and removes the original/originals.
Copies the selected element or elements to the clipboard and keeps the original/originals.
Inserts elements from the clipboard into the editor workspace.
This displays a non-printable grid to help you position the layout frames.
If the "Magnetic object snapper" is switched on (next icon), then the layout frames snap to the grid intersections.
You can set the gridline spacing in "Settings" in the "Editor" section.
Turns on the "Magnetic alignment" function.
This makes it easier to align the layout frames.
The layout frames snap onto each other horizontally and/or vertically.
Automatically superimposed gridlines extend the sides of other objects and aid general alignment.
You can set the sensitivity of the "Magnetic alignment" in "Settings" in the "Editor" section.
These tools rotate the selected layout frame (including content) by 90°.
To invert an image or text, simply click the tool twice.
The layout frames can overlap and cover each other partially.
These commands organise the order in which the frames are superimposed, that is, which frame is in the foreground and which frame is in the background of the layout.
Text frames are always in the foreground and can be moved around but never behind a photo.
If a saved page layout is available with the same number of images, the software will apply this if you click this button.
This way you can try out the available page layouts one after another to find out which one you prefer.
Text fields are not taken into account as part of this process, and text boxes that have already been used are deleted!
When you add a new layout frame to a product page or remove a layout frame from a page, the software automatically applies the next saved layout that matches the number of images to ensure the best possible distribution of layout frames. If no matching layout is available, the software will display a message to this effect.
You can toggle this function on and off by clicking this button.
After customising a layout or creating a new layout, you can save the layout before applying it to other pages.
The layout then appears in the page layout selection area and is marked with an asterisk.
In the expanded area:
Aligns the selected frames next to one another on a horizontal line.
The first selected object is the master object.
Aligns the selected frames next to one another on a vertical line.
The first selected object is the master object.
Aligns the selected frames on the left-hand side.
The first selected object is the master object.
Aligns the selected frames on the right-hand side.
The first selected object is the master object.
Aligns the selected frames at the bottom.
The first selected object is the master object.
This is only available for CEWE PHOTOBOOKS which comprise several pages.
Check the "Show number of pages" option to enable or disable the page number display.
The following page number formats are available:
Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3, ...)
Lower case Roman numerals (i, ii, iii, ...)
Upper case Roman numerals (I, II, III, ...)
Lower case letters (a, b, c, ...) and
Upper case letters (A, B, C, ...).
The text for the page number defaults to "%".
The percent sign is a placeholder for the page number and must not be deleted; you can define the rest of the text freely.
"Page %" gives "Page1", "Page 2", "Page 3", etc.
"- % -" gives "- 1 -", "- 2 -", "- 3 -", etc.
and "Photobook page %, Jill and Paul’s Wedding" results in "Photobook page 1, Jill and Paul’s Wedding", "Photobook page 2, Jill and Paul’s Wedding", etc.
You can set the distance between the page number and the edge horizontally and vertically from 0 to 50 mm.
It is also possible to set a "Background colour" for the text box of the page number.
The following settings apply to the arrangement of page numbers on pages:
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Page 1 |
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Page 1 |
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The text properties for the page numbering supports the typical font type, font size, and font style (bold and italic) definitions, along with the text colour.
You can also enable or disable font outlines of various thicknesses and colours, and a variety of background colours for the page numbers.
E.g. if you have a dark/black font colour, a pale/white letter border will ensure the page number is easily readable on a pale and a dark background.
The same applies to a dark letter border with a pale font colour.
The text preview lets you check the effect of your settings.
Inserts a new double page before the current double page.
Inserts a new left-hand page into the current double page.
All subsequent pages, including their contents and backgrounds, move up a page.
Inserts a new right-hand page into the current double page.
All subsequent pages, including their contents and backgrounds, move up a page.
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Please check the backgrounds of all subsequent double pages. It is therefore advisable, if you insert a single page into a book with double page backgrounds, to add an extra single page after it, or to remove one. |
Aligns the selected frames at the top.
The first selected object is the master object.
Aligns the rotation of the selected frames.
The first selected object is the master object.
Scales the selected frames to the same size.
The first selected object is the master object.
Replaces the background of the current page with a white background.
Only active if there is a design on the page.
Removes the design, leaving behind an empty page.
Deletes the active double page.
Removes the "left-hand" page from the current double page.
The page and its content are deleted. The subsequent pages move up a page, including their backgrounds.
Removes the "right-hand" page from the current double page.
The page and its content are deleted. The subsequent pages move up a page, including their backgrounds.
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Please check the backgrounds of all subsequent double pages. It is therefore advisable, after you have removed a single page from a book with double page backgrounds, to add an extra single page after it, or to remove one. |
The "Position frames" dialogue window gives you absolute control over the position, rotation, size and zoom factor of your content. You can select multiple layout frames to apply the same values to at the same time.
The dialogue window contains the three tabs "Position", "Rotation" and "Size".
The options "Keep ..." are turned on by default.
With these alignment options, you can place photos and text boxes in the page layout to the nearest millimetre.
The page width and page height of the total page layout area are given as reference points for verticals and horizontals respectively.
Therefore, the page width of CEWE PHOTOBOOKS applies to the whole double page.
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"Move the selected photos in their current layout" | |
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"Align the centre point on a vertical line" | |
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"Left vertical alignment" | |
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"Upper horizontal alignment" | |
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Centre, Right, Left, Upper and Lower all refer to the layout frames.
Horizontal and vertical relate to the page layout workspace.
For the central point options, there is the additional option of centering the layout frame to the middle of the page.
Caution: Do not drag images or text beyond the visible area of the editing window. Once you lift a highlighted image, you cannot drag it back again. It is automatically removed from your order as soon as it is outside the workspace.
The option "Set rotation" rotates the images completely. Rotation relates to the editor workspace.
The option "Rotate photos" rotates the images relatively. Rotation refers to the image and/or the layout frame. If the layout frame has already been rotated, the new rotation is added to the existing rotation.
You can also use this command to rotate text boxes.
The size of the layout frame is given in centimetres for height and width or the image is scaled by a percentage. The same applies to text boxes.
The zoom factor determines how the image scales within the frame.
You can either keep the current zoom factor or set a new zoom factor.
The zoom factor is defined as a numeric value in percent.
This function does not apply to text boxes. To change the font size, you must format the text.
Creates a text box in a page layout that you can fill and customise with your own text.
The new text box can now be resized on the page using the mouse.
You will see the standard text "- Your text -" in the text box to begin with.
A list in the toolbar showing the fonts installed on your computer. The font types are listed with their names and in the relevant fonts.
For the font style (bold, italic) and to underline the highlighted text.
To set the text colour of the highlighted text.
Colours the entire background of the text box in the colour of your choice.
A list in the toolbar with the available fonts. You can also enter a numeric font size of your choice in the box.
In the expanded area:
These are the paragraph formats for aligning the text within the text box. They apply to the entire highlighted text box.
If you want to align individual paragraphs inside a text box, use the "More text settings..." option in the pop-up menu of the selected text box.
The dialogue window "Text settings" will open.
Here you can enter general settings for all the available properties of a text box, e.g. font type and colour, but also the distance between text and text frame (indentation) and coloured outlines, which you would not otherwise have access to.
Click the checkbox in front of the text property that you would like to change.
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With the checkboxes you can apply the amended text settings to the highlighted text box (or the highlighted text boxes) only, to all text in the CEWE PHOTOBOOK and as a basic setting for newly created text boxes.
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Text formatting changes Formatting changes only affect new text written to the right of the text cursor or highlighted text sections. You can highlight text areas by moving the mouse over your selection whilst holding down the left mouse button, or by placing the text cursor at the beginning of the text to be formatted, holding down the shift key, and then clicking at the end of the text to be formatted. |
Creates a new layout frame for an image on a page layout, which you then fill with content from the "Photos" selection area.
You can change the position, size and alignment of these frames.
When you create a new layout frame and have just selected a layout frame in the workspace, the new layout frame has the same size as the one you previously selected.
You can then quickly and conveniently insert several layout frames of the same size in the workspace.
See the chapter entitled "Working with page layouts".
Change the view size within the layout frame. If an image is larger than its layout frame, you can hold down the mouse button to move the image within the frame and therefore define a cropped image.
Zooming in and out is easier if you use the mouse scroll wheel.
Pay attention to the quality display smiley! If the photo is enlarged, the image resolution will decrease.
Automatic Image Optimization (AIO) is software in the photo lab which automatically corrects the exposure, white balance and other image properties of your photos in order to obtain the best possible quality.
You can switch off automatic image optimization for images which you have optimised yourself using an image processing program.
You should also switch off automatic image optimization for colour-critical images such as sunsets, to ensure you do not distort the colours. Automatic white balancing would fade the red tones of a sunset.
The quality indicator, the smiley in the toolbar, is a useful aid when resizing images ("Scale down image" / "Scale up image") that allows you to evaluate the quality of the image for printing.
This icon cannot be clicked to execute a command.
A blue smiley means: No photo has been selected.
A green smiley means: The photo resolution is high enough to achieve a good quality result when printing or developing the product. There will therefore not be any loss of quality with the photo at this size.
A yellow smiley means: The photo resolution is not ideal to achieve a good quality result when printing or developing the product. This means you should either expect some loss of quality with the photo at this size, or reduce the photo.
A red smiley means: The resolution is too low to achieve a good quality result when printing or developing the product.
(This is also indicated by a "Warning!" icon in the photo itself.)
You should not use the photo at this size, as it will be of significantly reduced visual quality. You should therefore either reduce the photo or use a different photo of higher resolution.
Opens the photo show with image editing functions. (see the chapter entitled "The CEWE PHOTO SHOW".)
When closing the photo show, the edited image can be saved under its original name or a new name.
The edited image is imported into the product editor.
This tool rotates the photo within the layout frame by 90° to the right (but without rotating the frame itself).
This is important, because if you choose a different page layout, a layout frame will remain rotated, but a rotated image will be reset to 0°.
This tool lets you use the currently selected image as the background for the double page.
To emphasise photos or make them stand out better against the background, you can place a coloured border or frame around them, which is then also printed or developed.
You can specify the frame width (line thickness) and a colour in the frame properties.
You can also add a drop shadow to the image (attractive on light backgrounds), and this makes the image look as if it were floating above the background.
You can set the distance, the intensity (opacity), the level of blur ("softness" of the shadow border), the size (in relation to the photo casting the shadow), and the direction of the shadow. Using a control that you turn with the mouse, specify the direction of the shadow.
The preview lets you check the effect of your settings.
You can apply the frame and shadow properties either to the active (selected) image, to all the images on this page or to all images in the product.
In the expanded area:
This function searches within the same directory containing the selected image for images that were either taken at the same event (by date and time) and/or look similar. You can use the slider to set the degree of similarity. If you set the slider to a more restrictive setting, you will have fewer, but probably better, matches.
These tools enable you to use the photo currently selected in the workspace as a background for the current right-hand or left-hand page of your CEWE PHOTOBOOK.
This tool rotates the photo within the layout frame by 90° to the left (but without rotating the frame itself).
In the preview display, switches to the directory from which the highlighted image was loaded and highlights the preview of the corresponding photo.
This function tries to detect red-eyes in the photo and to correct them.
Unfortunately this function is not always successful. It does not work with partial face views if only one eye is visible, or on photos of animals.
This function is a tool to help you align a photo section and displays a third grid on your image.
The third grid splits the layout frame into nine equal squares and makes it easier to find an optimum image detail for a well-formed image composition.
You can find an example of this in "Tips and Tricks".
The grid is not printed or output to film.
Opens an internet page with example photobooks provided by customers.
Here you can find ideas, themes and inspiration for customising your own photobooks.
Sometimes it is useful to have additional text information about places, regions or countries.
You can use the "Upload text from the internet" icon for this.
This command will open up a dialogue window to search for information in "Wikipedia GeoNames".
Enter a suitable search term (as you would in Google) and click on "Search".
The texts/articles found for your search term are displayed with a short text extract.
If you click on "Go to the article", the corresponding Wikipedia page will open in your web browser.
From here you can highlight desired text passages, and copy and paste them into a text box in the editor.
Do you like to have a map to remind you of places you have visited, or of where you took a particular photo?
Well, now you can add maps into your photobook.
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Click on the "New map" icon and a dialogue window will open in which you can choose a map.
First specify the map section on the left-hand side.
It will be easier to choose a map section if you enter a search term.
Use the mouse to pan the map section and the buttons in the top left-hand corner of the map or the mouse scroll wheel to zoom in and out.
This way you will be able to specify a map section.
Once you are happy with the map section, choose a style for the map from the centre of the dialogue window.
There are currently two styles available, but more may be added in the future.
| Take this map of central Europe as an example | |
| The first style corresponds to a topographical map. | The second style is based on a general geographical map. |
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Click on "Apply" or on the style icon to see a preview of the map on the right.
This process may last up to several minutes depending on the map section. Don't worry if this happens.
Click "Transfer" to add a large-scale version of the map to the left-hand page in the PHOTOBOOK.
You can then scale and pan the map.
However, the map is recalculated each time the size is changed and you will need to re-apply the style.
A warning triangle on the map will alert you to this.
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Notes The map shown in the CEWE PHOTOBOOK is clearly of poor picture quality. |