Danny’s away at the moment so I’m going to steal one of his lines… Photojunction knows it can’t be Photoshop, so doesn’t try to be. It harnesses the power of Photoshop instead.

Photojunction works seamlessly with Photoshop, allowing you to open an image or a layout in Photoshop from within Photojunction, work on it, then re-import it back into Photojunction.

But how it works depends on whether you’re working with your layouts (what you’re designing) or your images (what you’re designing with), so I’m going to split this topic into two posts.

Today we’ll look how to work with Photoshop to edit your images from within Photojunction.

The ‘How-to’:

Select an image either on your layout, or in your event window, and click the Open in Editor button at the bottom of the Image palette (or by right-clicking on the image). You’ll get three options:

- Open original file: You’ll be working on the original high-res file in Photoshop.
- Open duplicate file: Photojunction will duplicate the high-res original file so as to not mess with the original  (we recommend this option).
- Open cropped duplicate file: Choose this if you’ve cropped the image on your layout, and want to work with just the now-visible part : only the cropped part of the image will open in Photoshop.

Select the option that best works for you, follow the prompts, and the image will open in Photoshop for you to do what you need to with it. Once you’ve finished, save and close.

Photojunction will re-import that image back into Photojunction and reflect the changes to the images you’ve made. Nice.

Tomorrow we’ll look at working with entire page layouts in Photoshop.

Until then…

Nigel

Each version of Photojunction takes us further towards a seamless workflow to design, export and upload your album orders to Queensberry – right first time and hassle-free..

If you’re using Queensberry this is just a reminder that you no longer need to use LabFTP.

Photojunction does it all, and the advantage is that the processes are managed and automated – so there’s minimal opportunity for anything to go wrong, and you’ll get your album faster.

Cheers, Ian

During our Photojunction webinar today someone asked how to hide the images in the Event window, which they’ve already used in their current album design. The same question’s just popped up on Twitter too, so here goes…

The simple answer is this:

Hit the More button in the Event window and select Hide images used in album.

That’ll remove from the Event window all the images you’ve used in your album design.

To have them show back up, select the new option Show images used in Album under the More menu.

That’s pretty simple. But there’s a few other features I think you’ll be interested in…

To find our where you’ve used an image within your album design, right-click on the image in the Event window, and select Jump To.  Photojunction will ‘Jump-to’ and display the layout it’s used on. And if it’s used in more than one place, Photojunction will display each layout it appears on. Epic.

Lastly, the Images Used collection.

Have a look in your Image Collections (left hand side of the Event window) and you’ll find one there called ‘ Images Used’. Yep, Photojunction automatically builds a collection of all the images you’ve used in your current album design. A great way Photojunction helps keep those images accessible and organised for you.

HTH

Cheers, Nigel

Hey, you guys are album designers. Check out Johannes van Kan’s recent post on the Queensberry Connects, Judging albums for awards.

As a judge for the Australian Professional Photography Awards at PMA in Melbourne a week or so ago, he shares some insightful observations and advice about album design… And shares a few pointers for anyone entering albums for awards.

Cheers, Nigel

Photojunction’s integration with albumexposure just keeps getting better.

albumexposure now offers you the ability add music to accompany a client’s album design, from within Photojunction.

Just select the ‘Proof with albumexposure’ option from the Album menu in Photojunction, then on the AE start screen, choose the ‘Upload Music file’ option from the ‘Select Song’ drop down list.

Cheers, Nigel

PS music files need to be in MP3 format.

You can now choose in the Photojunction Preferences to have the Problem Reporter report on any problems in your album design when you create a slideshow or proof sheets from it.

Why’s that useful? Well you’ll need any problems fixed before you order the album, so if you’re going to create a slideshow or proof sheets of it, you can be sure they’re perfect too, and exactly as per the album.

This option is set on as a default but you can turn it off by heading to the Preferences and unchecking ‘Report problems on exporting proof layouts and slideshows’. Easy.

Cheers, Nigel