The Junction


Grouping and locking apertures

When you’ve invested time creating a layout with a number of images on it, and aligned it carefully, you won’t want to mess it up. Which is when the Group/Ungroup function comes in handy.

Grouping images keeps them in position relative to each other so you can move them around and align them as if they were a single aperture.

Just select the images you’d like grouped and click on the Group/Ungroup Apertures icon in the Layout pane of the Tools window. To Ungroup them, just click the icon again.

tools-window

Once you’ve grouped apertures here’s what happens:

  • When you click on a grouped aperture to select it, a blue line appears around the entire group.
  • The relevant tools in the Layout pane of the Tools window (eg the alignment and spacing buttons) operate on the entire group.
    groups-1

The tools on the Image pane of the Tools window don’t work on grouped apertures. You’ll need to ungroup to use them (if you don’t want to risk messing up your layout you can lock the individual apertures instead).

Groups and templates

When you drag templates on to a Layout that’s a different size to the template, Remix automatically groups the apertures so you can resize the template to fit the new format. Once you’ve done that you’ll want to ungroup so you can use the Images pane to crop, frame etc.

HTH, Nigel

 

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  • http://www.artists-eyes.com Charlie

    HEY GUYS! great stuff…

    a suggestion for the next version… would there be a way to specify a grid size and have things snap to a grid? Or have a grid overlay?

    I noticed after painstakingly aligning aperatures (what I thought were aligned) and opening the high res versions in Photoshop to add some final tweaks, that they were off ever so slightly (zoomed in say 200-300%). I’m a grid freak admittedly, but I think if the user could specify a grid and you could choose to turn it on or off might be just one more tool folks might be able to use….

    Either that, or if you could be able to zoom in to the album design, say 100% and fit into window? I find that the lines that appear when I line things up aren’t enough when creating many apertures on a grid like structure…

  • http://www.artists-eyes.com Charlie

    HEY GUYS! great stuff…

    a suggestion for the next version… would there be a way to specify a grid size and have things snap to a grid? Or have a grid overlay?

    I noticed after painstakingly aligning aperatures (what I thought were aligned) and opening the high res versions in Photoshop to add some final tweaks, that they were off ever so slightly (zoomed in say 200-300%). I’m a grid freak admittedly, but I think if the user could specify a grid and you could choose to turn it on or off might be just one more tool folks might be able to use….

    Either that, or if you could be able to zoom in to the album design, say 100% and fit into window? I find that the lines that appear when I line things up aren’t enough when creating many apertures on a grid like structure…

  • http://www.photojunction.com Danny Bay

    Hey Charlie

    Thanks for the feedback, and we feel for you – after all software developers generally love math and therefore like precision too ;-)

    I’ve noted your feature requests ( actually put another ‘vote’ on an existing request)

    The short story is… rounding from pixels to inches or millimeters. Sometimes things move a fraction but it shouldn’t be too off.

    And lastly, you can zoom to 100% in the album design window ( bottom left corner )

    HTH
    Danny

  • http://www.photojunction.com Danny Bay

    Hey Charlie

    Thanks for the feedback, and we feel for you – after all software developers generally love math and therefore like precision too ;-)

    I’ve noted your feature requests ( actually put another ‘vote’ on an existing request)

    The short story is… rounding from pixels to inches or millimeters. Sometimes things move a fraction but it shouldn’t be too off.

    And lastly, you can zoom to 100% in the album design window ( bottom left corner )

    HTH
    Danny

  • http://www.queensberry.com/ Ian

    Love math?? It’s better to know a geek than be a geek ;)

    - Anon

  • http://www.queensberry.com/ Ian

    Love math?? It’s better to know a geek than be a geek ;)

    - Anon