Everyone wants to know about ‘presenting to clients’… It’s one of our most asked about feature sets.

Since we’re big fans of mini-series (like Band of brothers, The Pacific, and our Template store tips), over the next few weeks we’re going to look into some of Photojunction’s cool features to help you present to your clients.

We’ll cover all sorts of things like using the Collection Builder, creating Slideshows, exporting Proof Sheets and plenty more.

Talk soon

Cheers, Danny

A good question about templates came up in one of our recent webinars and we want to cover it for everyone…

If you drag and drop an album template onto a different sized layout, Photojunction (normally) treats the apertures as a ‘Group’ and scales them down (or up) to fit them into the layout.

That means a 7×5 aperture on a 12×12 template (for example) would be scaled to an irregular size if you dropped it onto a 14×10 layout, and could require some adjustment.

Here’s a little catch. Because Photojunction drops apertures onto a new layout as a ‘Group’, you’ll need to first ‘Ungroup‘ them before you can edit each aperture individually.

Now that’s great, but how can you drop a template onto a different sized layout, but retain the apertures’ original size?

By holding the SHIFT key while dropping the template onto the new layout. Photojunction will retain the apertures’ original sizes and spacing (so long as the new layout isn’t too small) and treat each aperture as separate (ungrouped).

Here’s an example to demonstrate the difference. A 12×12 template of four 3.5×3.5 apertures has been dropped onto both sides of this 14×10 layout.

The ‘Group’ of apertures on the left have been adjusted down in size to account for the reduced height of this layout, while the apertures on the right, dropped holding the SHIFT key, have retained their original size (3.5×3.5).

This SHIFT key trick is particularly useful if your album supplier charges for non-standard aperture sizes on matted albums, or if you want to use particular aperture groupings in a variety of album sizes.

We cover this and plenty of other useful tips, tricks and power features in a recent webinar we recorded and uploaded to our Vimeo channel here.

Cheers, Danny

Photojunction’s ‘align to page centre’ button has got a whole lot smarter…

In the past it just placed your image in the middle of the page (whether standard or panoramic etc). Now it thinks a bit harder about what you might be trying to do. It considers whereabouts on the layout the image is when you click the button.

For example if you’re designing a panorama page, and your image is sitting on the right hand page, Photojunction will align the image to the centre of the right page, as in the screen shot below, just as if it was a standard layout. Previously it would have put the image in the centre of the layout, over the spine.

But if your image is already sitting partially over the spine when you click the button, Photojunction will align it to the centre of the layout.

And Photojunction will now align to the centre of Wings and Flips, not to the centre of the page that the Wing or Flip is attached to.

Cool eh. We didn’t call it ‘smart’ centering for nothing

Cheers, Danny.

Preferences enable you to customise Photojunction to reflect your preferred and most commonly used settings…

Now we’ve added some new settings that give you the ability to set defaults for Slideshows (including Instant Slideshows), and Proof Sheets.

Set them up by going to ‘Preferences’ in Photojunction, or click on the images below to take a quick peek…

Proof Sheets:

Slideshows:

Instant Slideshows:

Any default option you’ve set can always be changed on the run when you’re designing, but trust me, doing a once-off Preference set up will save you loads of time.

Cheers, Danny