On last week’s webinar someone wanted to know whether there was  a quick way to switch between their templates (they had heaps), and their image collections.

What a good question I thought. And, as it turns out, it’s one Photojunction’s already thought about (and we’ve blogged about ages ago). Although it’s not the easiest feature to find!

Did you know it’s possible to open your Template Collections in a new window?

I didn’t, but a right click on Template Collections in the Event Window, will do it.

Both your Template Collections and your Template Albums will pop out into a separate window. Great if you’ve got enough monitor real estate.

HTH

Nigel

This week we’re planning to cover another five topics to add to our growing collection of classroom movies…

- Exporting your page layouts
- Sending your order
- Image management (problems and fixes)
- Sorting and selecting your images (the Collection Builder)
- Power users tips and tricks

Click here to register and for more information.

There are now 11 movies on our new classroom movie page where you’ll find the entire series so far.

For best viewing we suggest watching them full screen, in HD.

Cheers, Nigel

We emerged from last week’s webinar with six new classroom movies. Not bad for an hours work!

Here they are, posted to our Vimeo channel.

- Start here! (Photojunction overview)
– Download and set up Photojunction
– Start New Project (begin an album)
– Set up the work space (to suit your computer)
– Organise your images (using the Event window)
– Design an album (getting started)

This week we aim to cover another five or six topics. You’ll find all the details on our webinar schedule here.

I know you Photojunction experts are hankering for the advanced classroom movies… At this rate, we’ll be on to them in no time!

Cheers, Nigel

After 40 years we know what people notice that “doesn’t look quite right” in an album. Apertures that don’t align or that are inconsistently spaced are right up there.

For convenience, and because it’s a hot topic, we’ve chopped 15 minutes or so out of last week’s Problem Reporter webinar where Danny and Ian talk specifically about alignment and spacing.

They don’t show you how to use the alignment tools, but rather demonstrate a few really clever tips to correct problems (and avoid them altogether). They’re things that’ll make your album look that much better.

Here it is…

Watch it in full screen here.

To watch the full Problem Reporter webinar recording click here.

Hope it helps

Cheers, Nigel

The scones were well worth the effort for last week’s Problem Reporter webinar… And as Nan said, there was plenty of ‘cyber-cheering’ going on which always makes us feel good too.

If you missed it, a recording of the Problem Reporter webinar is now available to view online.

Watch it here…

Or click here to watch it in full screen.

We’ll definitely be running this webinar again soon, so keep an eye on the webinar schedule for times and dates: http://ow.ly/2PyUl

Toodles

Nigel

I know we’ve been bleating on a bit about the Problem Reporter webinar recently, but Danny struck gold on several occasions during it and it’d be unfair to not share.

Nanny ghosted over them the other day, but let’s take a closer look. Hopefully the penny will drop for you too.

Duplicate

Lots of alignment issues the problem reporter reports have to do with apertures (usually custom apertures) being slightly different sizes.

To be clear, we recommend using custom-sized apertures only when necessary, but If you want several custom apertures all the same size on a layout, you don’t need to make them one at a time. Just create one and duplicate it – a safe way to ensure they’re all the same size. Plus the easy duplicate shortcut it makes it much quicker.

Duplicate shortcut: Command>D or Ctrl>D

Creating an aperture the same size as another group of apertures

Another common alignment and spacing hurdle is when a group of apertures are misaligned.

In the below example, although the two lines of apertures look aligned, the bottom is actually 1mm shorter than the combined length of the apertures above it.

Photojunction figures that’s not deliberate, and lets you know about it in the PR.

Now here’s the money trick. To create an aperture that is exactly the same size as the three images above it, batch select the group of images, right click, and select Add new aperture with dimensions of the group.

And that’ll do this (now just drag an image into the blank aperture)…

Adjusting default spacing between apertures

Open the Photojunction Preferences and select the Supplier option.

On the right of the window you’ve got several options allowing you to customise: Default space between apertures, Default space to page edge, and Default Aperture size.

Obviously the supplier will have a minimum you can’t set below, but if your design style is to have a 20mm gap between apertures, for example, set that here and it’ll make spacing them much easier.

Same goes for the space from the page edge if you like, and the default size of images you drag on to the layout.

HTH

Cheers, Nigel