The page layout consists of one or more empty layout frames as placeholders for photos and possibly text boxes that are to be displayed on the page. You can edit the position, size and alignment of these frames.
You can (and should) use all these commands even when the layout frames contain photos or text.
You can add new layout frames using the "New image area" or "New text box" icons on the toolbar. There is more on this later under the corresponding headings "Adding and editing photos in the page layout" and "Adding and editing texts".
Click on "Page Layouts" in the selection area.
There are usually two selection fields in the selection options for page layouts.
The page layouts are divided into categories to give you a better overview and to make it easier for you to retain a universal page layout style in your photo product.
| Only in the CEWE PHOTOBOOK! | |
| In the selection options there is a dropdown list containing various pre-sorted page layout categories: | |
| Show all... | Shows all the available page layouts. |
| Favourites | You can save a highlighted page layout as a favourite via the dropdown menu (right mouse click). You can then find it under the "Favourites" heading. |
| Recycle Bin | You can place a highlighted page layout in the recycle bin via the dropdown menu (right mouse click). You can decide at a later stage whether you want to restore it or delete it once and for all. |
| Angled | Page layouts with at least one angled (slightly rotated) photo placeholder. Partially overlapping at times, often looks like photos that have been "thrown on".    |
| High coverage | Large photos, only a small amount of page background visible. Usually with the same-sized gap to the margin and between the photos.    |
| Irregular | Photos arranged loosely across the page, lots of page background visible.   |
| Full coverage | Borderless and with no gap between the photos, no page background visible.   |
| Overlapping | Photos in straight alignment that overlap partially or fully.   |
| My Layouts | Shows the page layouts that you have created and saved yourself. It will not appear if you have not yet saved any of your own page layouts for this photobook format. |
| Other | This contains page layouts that have not yet been allocated to any category. You can find these layouts in this category. |
For other products, e.g. posters, canvases and greeting cards, the layouts are characterised according to "portrait format" and "landscape format".
For calendars, the page layouts in the layout selection have been divided into categories according to calendar type and position.
Page layouts are not always available for the corresponding number of images in a category.
In this case, the category is not displayed in the list. You must then choose a different number of images per page.
In the second selection field, set the number of photos you want to limit the page layouts to in the preview display.
If you double-click on the thumbnail, the page layout is applied to both the pages shown; if you only want to apply it to one page, drag it to the appropriate page by holding down the left mouse button.
Or use the buttons directly below the layout previews.
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Ein Layoutrahmen ist ein Platzhalter, in den ein Foto eingefügt wird. Er wird im Arbeitsbereich als halb durchsichtiges Symbol angezeigt, solange noch kein Foto eingefügt ist.
You can highlight a layout frame by clicking on it once.
You can highlight several layout frames using a selection frame that you drag with the mouse. Unfortunately, this "rubber band" function for highlighting does not work if the layout frames (or text boxes) to be highlighted have your own photo as a background image, as the background photo is also highlighted.
You can highlight additional frames by holding down the "Ctrl" key and clicking on them one after the other with the mouse. It is also possible to unhighlight a frame using the same method. Simply click on the highlighted frame while holding down the "Ctrl" key, to stop it being highlighted.
It is also possible to scale, rotate, position and delete several layout frames at the same time by first highlighting them.
If you highlight a layout frame, an editing frame will appear around it in the form of a striking surrounding line. The frame is then "active".
The editing frame has several handles: corner handles in the corners of the editing frame and side handles in the middle of the frame sides.
You can scale the size of the frame using the corner handles and the side handles.
The corner handles scale the layout frame evenly, the aspect ratio stays the same.
The side handles only scale the layout frame in one direction (width or height).
If the object snapper is activated ("Settings" ⇒ "Editor"), the edge of the layout frame latches onto the other layout frames horizontally and vertically.
Using the rotation handle that is located just inside the frame, you can rotate this frame freely around its central point by holding down the mouse key.
To rotate the frame by 90 degrees in either direction, use the "Rotate element anti-clockwise" and "Rotate element clockwise" tools, which can be found on the toolbar.
To move a layout frame, position the mouse point directly above the editing frame until it changes into a cross with arrows, and then drag the frame to the desired position by holding down the left mouse button.
If the object snapper is activated ("Settings" ⇒ "Editor"), then the layout frame will latch onto the other layout frames horizontally and vertically.
Or you can use the arrow keys on your keyboard. You can move the highlighted frame gradually by pressing an arrow key in the corresponding direction repeatedly or holding it down.
In the "Layout" toolbar, you will find the "Position object (Size, position and rotation)" icon.
The dialogue window that appears gives you absolute control over the position, rotation and size of the content.
It summarises in one dialogue window the three procedural steps described earlier.
You can also find this command in the dropdown menu of the layout frame (right mouse click on the frame), and it also enables you to apply the same values to several layout frames at once, after having highlighted them first.
The command group 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.
| The possible alignments are: | ||||
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| Previous/initial situation: |  |
"Move the selected photos in their current layout" |  |
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| "Align the centre point on a horizontal line" |  |
""Align the centre point on a vertical line" |  |
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| "Right vertical alignment" |  |
"Left vertical alignment" |  |
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| "Lower horizontal alignment" |  |
"Upper horizontal alignment" |  |
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Centre, Right, Left, Upper and Lower all refer to the respective layout frames.
Horizontal and vertical refer to the page.
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 photos or text beyond the visible area of the editing window. Once you lift a highlighted photo, 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 photos completely.
If you enter 30 the photo will be rotated by 30° regardless of whether it has been rotated previously.
The option "Rotate photos" rotates the photos relatively.
If the photo has already been rotated, the new rotation is added to the existing rotation.
If you enter 30 for a photo that has already been rotated by 10°, it will be rotated by a further 30° and will then have been rotated by 40° in total (10° + 30°).
Text boxes and clipart can be rotated with this command, as can several page layout elements.
Each page layout element is always rotated around its central point.
The size of the layout frame is given in centimetres for height and width or the photo is scaled by a percentage. The same applies to text boxes.
If several frames have been highlighted at the same time, the command "Align and resize frame" is available in the dropdown menu.
More commands are expanded, which you can use to align the highlighted photos with the right or left margin or align the upper or lower edges. The rotation or size of the photos can also be adjusted.
You will also find the same commands as icons in the "Layout" toolbox.
The frames can overlap each other partially. For this reason, the "Move object one level forward" and "Move object one level back" buttons are available in the "Layout" toolbox.
This way you can control the order in which the photos lay on top of each other.
This is faster with keyboard shortcuts. "Alt" + "+" moves the active frame further forwards, "Alt" + "-" moves it further backwards.
You can delete a layout frame from the page layout by highlighting it and then clicking either on the "Delete" button in the toolbar or on the "Del" key on the keyboard.
If you have changed a page layout according to your own settings or created a new page layout, you can save it and use it on other pages.
To do this, use the "Save layout" command on the toolbar.
The default setting is for the page layout of the left-hand double page to be saved; if you want to save the page layout of the right-hand page, highlight a layout frame on this page beforehand.
A thumbnail of the page layout will then appear in the page layout selection area, marked with a star symbol.
Activate "Photos" in the selection area.
The photos contained in the currently selected directory are displayed in the element view as thumbnails.
The name of the open directory is displayed on the button above the photo thumbnails. If the path is too long, you can see it in full in the tool tip.
If you have not opened the correct directory, click on this button and choose the desired directory.
To add a photo to the page layout, drag it from the selection area to the desired layout frame in the workspace by holding down the left mouse button. It will then latch onto the layout frame.
There are two different options here:
The photo adjusts to the layout frame. The layout frame stays as it is and the photo is adjusted in terms of either height or width, depending on how the aspect ratios of the photo and the frame fit best.
Any parts of the photo protruding beyond the frame are no longer visible, but you can scale the height and width of the layout frame and specify the image detail within the frame using "Reduce Image"/"Enlarge Image".
The layout frame adjusts to the photo. The photo can be seen in its entirety, and the layout frame adjusts to the longest side of the photo. You can scale the layout frame here too. If you scale the layout frame with the corner handles, it will keep its aspect ratio and the photo will be automatically scaled. If you only enlarge the width or height of the layout frame, any parts of the photo protruding beyond the frame will no longer be visible.
If you enlarge the layout frame, the photo is scaled too, but it is not scaled if you reduce the layout frame, and you have to reduce it manually within the frame using "Reduce Image"/"Enlarge Image".
You can set this property of the layout frame for all photos to be added in the Settings on the menu bar. See the chapter entitled "Settings".
Alternatively, you can drag your photo or photos to an empty space on the page or even to a completely empty page (delete the suggested layout frame beforehand) and then position them according to your own ideas.
The icons "Image as background on both pages", "Image as background left" and "Image as background right" can be found below the thumbnails.
These tools enable you to use the currently selected image as the background for a complete double page spread or just the right-hand or left-hand page of your CEWE PHOTOBOOK.
Unlike the "standard" backgrounds, you can edit your own photo backgrounds via the photo show.
You can also drag a photo from one layout frame to another by holding down the mouse button. If there is already a photo in the other frame, the photos are swapped.
You can delete a photo from the workspace by highlighting it (clicking on it) and then clicking the "Delete" button on the toolbar. Alternatively you can simply click the "Del" key on your keyboard.
If you have applied a template or a frame to the photo, the template/frame is removed the first time you click delete, the photo is removed the second time and the layout frame is removed the third time.
You can recognise highlighted photos by the highlighted border around the photo.
To highlight several consecutive photos at the same time, drag a selection frame around the photos to be highlighted using the mouse, or highlight the first photo to be deleted and, holding down the shift key on the keyboard, highlight the last photo to be deleted.
You can highlight (or unhighlight) several non-consecutive photos by holding down the "Ctrl" key and clicking on each photo.