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The toolbar contains the main tools and commands that can be applied to a specified object in the workspace, or that can be used to add a new object 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. Due to the fact that there is insufficient space to display all the tools in the toolbar, some of the toolboxes 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" or not available.
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 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 object or multiple selected objects.
Copies the selected object or objects to the clipboard and removes the original/originals.
Copies the selected object or objects to the clipboard and keeps the original/originals.
Inserts objects from the clipboard into the editor workspace.
A non-printable grid can be used to improve the positioning of the placeholders. If "Magnetic alignment" is enabled (next icon), then the photo placeholders and other objects align with the grid intersections.
The direction in which you drag determines the alignment "edge" (right, left, upper, lower). If, for example, you drag the object or its edge to the right (using its handles), the object's right edge will align with its grid. You can set the gridline spacing in "Settings" in the "Photo Enhancements" section.
To enable and disable the "Magnetic alignment" function. This makes it easier to align the objects with each other. The objects align with each other horizontally and/or vertically.
Automatically superimposed gridlines extend the sides of other objects and make it easier to align them. You can set the sensitivity of the alignment in "Settings" in the "Photo Enhancements" section.
These tools rotate the selected object (including content of placeholders) by 90°. To invert an image or text, simply click the tool twice.
Placeholders and other objects can partially overlap and cover each other. These commands organise the order in which the objects are superimposed; that is, which object is in the foreground and which object is in the background of the layout.
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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 boxes 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 placeholder to a product page or remove a placeholder from a page, the software automatically applies the next saved layout that matches the number of images to ensure the best possible distribution of placeholders. 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.
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Aligns the highlighted objects horizontally and centres them. This is based on the object that is selected / highlighted first.
Aligns the highlighted objects vertically and centres them. This is based on the object that is selected / highlighted first.
Aligns the highlighted objects to the left. This is based on the object that is selected / highlighted first.
Aligns the selected objects to the right. This is based on the object that is selected / highlighted first.
Aligns the highlighted objects to the top. This is based on the object that is selected / highlighted first.
Aligns the highlighted objects to the bottom. This is based on the object that is selected / highlighted first.
Aligns the highlighted objects in the same rotation angle. This is based on the object that is selected / highlighted first.
Makes the highlighted objects the same size. This is based on the object that is selected / highlighted first.
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Caution: The object that is highlighted first forms the basis for all alignment changes, or the page, if only one object is highlighted. In order to assign the same changes to multiple objects, make sure you have selected all objects you wish to edit, then apply the desired function(s). |
The selected objects are distributed horizontally with equal intervals or overlaps. The master objects in this case need to be on the left and the right of the selected objects.
The selected objects are distributed vertically with equal intervals or overlaps. The master objects in this case need to be on the top and the bottom of the selected objects.
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.
Inserts a new double page before the current double page.
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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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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 a blank page.
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 %" results in "Page 1", "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.
The distance between the page number and the edge of the page can be set vertically and horizontally 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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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.
Opens the dialogue, "Position objects", that lets you precisely control the position, rotation, size and zoom of the content. You can select several placeholders and then apply the same values to them. The dialogue contains three tabs, "Position objects", "Change rotation" and "Change object sizes". The "Keep ..." option is turned on by default.
With these alignment options, you can place photos and text boxes in the page layout to the nearest millimetre. With the option "Move Uniformly" the selected object is moved by the values below. If multiple objects are selected simultaneously, the objects' distance to one another does not change. The page width and page height of the total page layout area, or both (for "Move uniformly"), 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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Centre, Right, Left, Upper and Lower all refer to the respective placeholders. Horizontal and vertical relate to the page layout workspace. For the central point options, there is the additional option of centring the placeholder 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 objects at the specified angle. The rotation refers to the work area of the editor. If you have selected multiple objects, they will all rotate at the same angle. The option "Rotate photos" rotates the objects relative to the specified angle, even if they were already rotated. If the photo 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 object is given in centimetres for height and width or the object is scaled by a percentage. The same applies to text boxes.
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. In addition to the pre-defined colours, there is also the "Choose colours..." function. A new window will appear with a palette containing the basic colours on the left-hand side, from which you can choose a colour. Below the standard colours there is a button: "Choose colour on screen." This corresponds to the "pipette" in other image editing programs. Using the crosshair cursor, choose the colour of any pixel on your screen, or of any photo shown. On the right is the colour spectrum which you can use to adjust or mix any new colour of your choice. Simply click on the desired place in the spectrum.
Alternatively, you can also enter the numerical value underneath the spectrum. If you want to use the same colour several times, please save it as a user-defined colour. To do this, click on an empty or unused colour field in "User-defined colours" and click on the button "Add to user-defined colours." It will be added to the highlighted colour field. Then click on "OK" in the bottom right. This adds the colour. (Also refer to the section entitled "Handling the colour picker" in "Tips and Tricks".)
Colours the entire background of the text box in the colour of your choice. You can also "Select colour..." here.
A list in the toolbar with the available fonts. You can also enter a numeric font size of your choice in the box.
A faster way to set a suitable font size with one or several clicks. The size of the font can be enlarged or reduced in defined steps.
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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 dropdown menu of the selected text box.
The dialogue "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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Caution: These settings affect all areas of a text box. Therefore, if you change the font size and have a section as a heading with a larger font in one or more text boxes, this formatting will be overwritten. |
You can apply the changes to the text settings with checkboxes only to the selected text box (or the selected text boxes), to all texts in the CEWE PHOTOBOOK and as a default 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. Therefore, if you would like to format text after you have entered it, you must first select the text. 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. You can highlight a single whole word by double-clicking on it. You can highlight the entire contents of a text box using the key combination "Ctrl" + "a". Then click the format command. |
Creates a new photo placeholder for an image on a page layout, which you then fill with content from the "Photos & Videos" selection area. You can change the position, size, alignment and sequence 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 photo placeholders of the same size in the workspace. See the chapter "Working with page layouts".
Although the classification in the "Photo" toolbar suggests otherwise, this icon is not only applicable to photos:
If a photo is highlighted, it is opened for editing in the CEWE PHOTOSHOW. (see the chapter "CEWE PHOTOSHOW"). When closing the photoshow, the edited image can be saved under its original name or a new name. The edited image is imported into the product editor.
If a clipart is selected, a window opens to allow you to edit the clipart. This allows you to change the colours in the clipart individually.
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If a map (with the mapping function inserted) is highlighted, the "Choose map section" dialogue opens. This will change the area on the map and / or the map style.
Change the view size of the photo within the photo placeholder. If a photo is larger than its photo placeholder, you can move it in the photo place holder and select the image detail. 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.
This tool rotates the picture within the placeholder 90° clockwise or counter-clockwise (not the frame itself). This is important in case you want to use the image again in a different placeholder on another page (the image will be rotated instead of you having to rotate the placeholder again).
In "Settings", you can switch the "Automatic Image Optimisation" on or off for all newly added photos. You can switch it on or off individually for each highlighted photo. Automatic Image Optimisation 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. For images that you have optimized with an image editing program, Automatic Image Optimisation can be switched on or off here. You should also switch off Automatic Image Optimisation 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.
This tool lets you use the currently selected image as the background for the double page.
Opens a dialogue to make the selected object transparent (opacity). The amount of transparency can be adjusted using a slider. Also works with text boxes, clipart and frames.
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 set the colour of the border by clicking on the colour field. A new window will appear with a palette containing the basic colours on the left-hand side, from which you can choose a colour. Below the standard colours there is a button: "Choose colour on screen." This corresponds to the "pipette" in other image editing programs. Using the crosshair cursor, choose the colour of any pixel on your screen, or of any photo shown. On the right is the colour spectrum which you can use to adjust or mix any new colour of your choice. Simply click on the desired place in the spectrum. Alternatively, you can also enter the numerical value underneath the spectrum. If you want to use the same colour several times, please save it as a user-defined colour. To do this, click on an empty or unused colour field in "User-defined colours" and click on the button "Add to user-defined colours." It will be added to the highlighted colour field. Then click on "OK" in the bottom right. This defines the coloured border. (Also refer to the section entitled "Handling the colour picker" in "Tips and Tricks".)
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 thumbnail 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 on all pages. Coloured borders and shadows are properties of an object (photo), not a placeholder, which means they cannot be applied to "empty" placeholders or they are only visible if a photo is added to the placeholder.
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.
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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 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.
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 photo placeholder into nine equal squares and makes it easier to find 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.
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 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. There are currently two styles available, but more may be added in the future.
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| The first style corresponds to a topographical map. | The second style is taken from 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. You will only be shown a low-resolution "Thumbnail" in order to keep the amount of data and thus the download waiting time to a minimum. This is because locr needs to create and download a new thumbnail each time changes are made to the map section. When you order the CEWE PHOTOBOOK, this thumbnail is replaced by a high-resolution map for production. This reduces your download waiting time to a minimum. |
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 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.