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FotoFusion Version 4 User`s Manual

1. File Edit View Selections Teak Help share Method 1 The Images Hover Main The easiest gip EEE an image onto the canvas is Search caen BH A E d Sto click on the C sers Pictures School Kids Groups Cott ier Click on the button to navigate to the folder cul ae where your images are located The Images hover will display the contents of the folder Select the images you wish to use images in the browser hold down the Ctrl key to click on more than one Once you have added images onto the Image tab they will be checkmarked in the Image hover You can drop an image more than once on the canvas the number of usages will also be indicated on the Images hover DCS_10398 jog DCS_10399 jng The selected images will attach themselves to your cursor ready to be dropped this is called the Dropper Use your mouse wheel to scroll through the images and click on the canvas to drop the image You can target a blank space on the canvas or an empty frame To drop an image to cover the entire background of the canvas click outside of the canvas in the dark grey area DCS_10398 jpg Size 1 273 248 bytes Width Height 2 356 by 1 571 CLICK Drop Image CTRL CLICK Drop Copy SHIFT CLICK More Options WHEEL Next Prev I l l l l CTRL WHEEL Resize ESC Exit l i 2008 LumaPix Inc
2. dropped onto your images or Beea mbes Damaged Frame Demeged Frame Inside shadow as blanks on the canvas to which an image can be LumaP horizontal lu vertical Luma LumaPik Sm added afterwards E Inside Shadow Inside shadow Old Album Photo Old Photo white LumaPi yellow Luma QlumePix Sm LumePix Sm i Rip Rip 002b F linc Sm LumaPo Sm Rip Dob Rip OO0Sb luma Sm lumaPa Sm THE CANVAS BACKGROUND The Canvas background is nothing more that a locked down image frame It will not display the blue selection handles only yellow ones If you select on an empty portion of the canvas or outside the canvas the same toolbox will appear as does when you select an image frame giving you access to the same options detailed above By default the canvas will display as white You can resent a canvas to white or to black or transparent by right mouse selecting in the grey area outside your page these options will be listed on the menu The Image Editor s Background Fill tab will allow you to add an overlay of color and the Tile tab will allow you to select from a selection of preset textures An image can be used to fill the canvas frame of course Choose an image from the Image hover and drop it outside of the canvas It will snap to the frame Or use a paper texture from the Papers hover or from the Gallery hover under LumaPix Art in the same m
3. 2008 LumaPix Inc Image Frame Options 37 Draw Border Highlight Disabling this removes the 1 pixel contrast line on the outer edge of the border Inset The inset value provides an automatic spacer between adjacent frames If the inset is reduced to 0 then frames will touch at their edge Increasing the inset will provide more space between frames that are snapped together wide border with color border WIth color shadow inside no border Image by Kent Smith The Gradient tab of the Frame Border Editor applies a special effect that will fades your image gradually to transparency Turn the gradient on by checkmarking the Enable box then choose one of six gradient types 2008 LumaPix Inc 38 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help Goa _ Enable Linear wl F Invert Softness Mid Point 0 Angle 0 Invert The gradient direction is reversed Softness The edges of the gradient are softened or Sharpened Midpoint Increases or decreases the highlight zone of the image Angle Rotates the gradient Center X Y When the Rectangular Circular and Diamond gradients are selection you can define the location of the highlight by altering the two center point axes with these controls 2 edge linear rectangular al a Hi diamond 4 edge linear Image by David Ziser Gradients can be applied to frames containing images textures or to empty tinted frames
4. Text Frame Options 47 Fill Edge Thickness 198 000 deg 36 85 To make the edge border show change the Edge Thickness to a higher value Abc123 Abc 23 Thicker edge in contrasting color Abc 23 Thicker edge in contrasting color with opacity lowered Alignment allows you to position your text relative to the frame horizontally left right centered justified and vertically top middle bottom You can also increase or decrease the space between the letters of your text and between the rows of your text click on the R buttons to restore these values back to the default Click the button to restore to the default Alignment Left lt Il 0 mase 000818 2008 LumaPix Inc 48 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help Text aligned No intercharacter left spacing TERUG intercharacter center ce Text e DA py rline Text justified With interline 1 spacing increased Text justified With interline 2 detr aSed 9 No special effect Amount 0 Blur 0 Edge No special effect Amount 0 Dash 0 The Fill and Edge Effects add reflections transparency and shadow type effects to your text Pick an effect then play with the amount to choose the intensity of the effect Fill refers to the interior of the text and includes an option to blur the text Edge refers to the outline and includes an option to create a dashed outl
5. 14 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help You can search My Computer or a specific drive for a file name or even a particular file extension type In FotoFusion you can use the Organizer to find FotoFusion scrap project files made on that same computer Click on the Organizer and choose the Search tab on the left side Change the TYPE box to Saved Work then click on the next to this option Choose Projects or Pages to find a page within a multipage project Thumbnails of your FotoFusion projects will appear in preview Right mouse select the one you wish to reopen Getting Started WELCOME SCREEN When you first launch FotoFusion you will be presented with a Welcome Screen Fusion Welcome to FotoFusion Run As Bundled 9 Featured Learn Support YEARBOOK SET 3 YEARBOOK SET 5 Quick Video Introduction Activate Th Purchase v Show this when starting FotoFusion Click the items below for a quick start If you would like to use one of the Yearbook template sets you can click the the cover view at the bottom of this screen A brief video tutorial is also offered click on the 3rd of the larger icons Click on the CLOSE button to turn off Welcome Screen You can turn off the Welcome screen permanently by unchecking the box next to Show this when starting FotoFusion 2008 LumaPix Inc Getting Started 15 The content on this page is availa
6. 26 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help Once dropped you can move image from one frame to another Move the mouse over the frame number for one image eg Press the left mouse button Drag the mouse over the frame you would like to swap with Release the left mouse button The two images will be swapped USING THE GALLERY TO SHARE IMAGES If your school has Remote Storage enabled you can use the Gallery hover to share your candid images Launch the hover you will see your user name at a top level folder under which there is a folder called Dropbox Gallery YBFUserB03 Add Images Dropbox To add images directly to the Gallery click on the ADD IMAGES button at the top This will open a standard browse type window so you can navigate to any folder available to your computer Select one image or hold the Control key and select multiple images When you are done choose OPEN 2008 LumaPix Inc Adding Candid Images 27 amp Select file s to upload by sharedim Look in wa Classroom P r y I r a j y gt Fotolia_361417_L jp Fotolia_982068_ Fotolia_1105646_ Fotolia_2901863_ Desktop Libraries ls Computer Ty Fotolia_4034450_ File name Files of type The gallery will now display thumbnails placeholders for all your images a progress bar will appear as each uploads When the upload is complete the image thumbnail will appea
7. Contrast Increasing the contrast will make the shadows darker and the bright points brighter e Gamma Changing the gamma controls both the contrast and the brightness in relation to one another e Blur Blurriness can be used to create a sensation of depth of field making a background image blurry will give the viewer the impression that a foreground image is floating in front of it e Black amp White and Sepiatone Move the Black amp White and Sepiatone sliders to adjust the amount of these two effects your pictures will desaturate and look older as you bring these controls to the right e RGB The R G and B sliders give you direct control over the color of your image For the technically minded these controls are offsetting the red green and blue color curves for the image Photo by David Ziser Background Fill The Background Fill tab allows you to add color to the background of a frame This effect to add a color wash to an image or to fill an empty frames with color If you drag the opacity slider completely to the right the frame background will be 100 tinted If you drag it anywhere in the middle it will be more or less translucent Use the R G B sliders or the color chip to select a tint of your choice Note This control will apply an overall cast to the entire image Use the RGB sliders on 2008 LumaPix Inc Image Frame Options 35 Here is an example of applying different
8. Done Click on New Attribute to add a field to the column then type in the attribute you wish to add To remove an existing field highlight it to remove it then click on Remove Attribute The changes will be reflected in the Organizer tab after your data is imported When you are finished adding the required information click on DONE You can now use the School tab to add or edit data associated with your image set using these data fields Making a panel Before you can make a panel populated with your portrait images you need to import your PSPA CD as explained in the previous section Importing the PSPA cd will make the portrait images and associated information available to your project ADDING A BLANK PANEL e First add an Album side type page to your project you can have a color or a paper on the background of this page if you wish faas e Click on the Ee icon in the Yearbook section of Toolbar over your canvas to add an empty panel grid e If your project does not have an imported database you will be prompted to import one see previous section for details 2008 LumaPix Inc Yearbook Panels 81 e A blank grid will appear on your page and the Panel Hover will appear in Simple mode e E tft ft ft 2 A panel consists of image frames arranged in a regular grid labels and a header title text Panel frames can be knoc
9. E School Spirit x common page types eg Grade 5 Sophomores etc You can mix and match styles or pick one consistent style to add to your panel pages just drop them at the top of the page ENE A Gee ET To see a preview of the Mo Ya headers in PDF format visit 8 th IS we b ade LPCA_06095 pn LPCA_06056 pn LPCA_06097 pni_ LPCA_06058 pn 1 200 of 514 results 3 61 2008 LumaPix Inc LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help The Papers folder contains Gallery DE dozens of backgrounds in a 3 Circles and Bubbles m rainbow of colors Choose one paper style in one or more colors to unify your book s design or separate chapters with different textures LPCA_04751 jpd LPCA 04752 jpg LPCA_04753 jpg LPCA_04747 jpg LPCA_ 04748 jpg LPCA_04749 jpg LPCA_04750 jpg a W To see a preview of the papers in PDF format visit this webpage LPCA_04755 jpg LPCA_04757 jpg More papers can be found under the MEMBERS hover as excenspa ircx nmasi rea mersa well E 1 x Showing 104 results To access the Yearbook set templates use the button in the top right of the Create screen to return the the Start Zone Click on the BUNDLED CONTENT button you ll have access to nine sets of yearbook style pages which you can customize as required Other templates will be displayed in the Misc section and Basic Templates section Double click on any of t
10. If you have received a second PSPA CD with retakes or portraits of students missing from the Original import you can import the second CD in the same manner as the first CD but choose to append the records to the current database To do this click on FILE on the menu and choose IMPORT PSPA from the top of the list Do not replace the current database choose to integrate it if the image file numbers are different or append it if the image file numbers are reset to zero from candid images Portraits that are not on a PSPA cd can also be added If someone has missed photo day and you have a head shot available you can add it into the database e Open the Organize tab and click on the Source tab Locate the image s that you wish to include in the database select the image s then click Add Student on the button at the top of the Organizer The image s will be moved into Bucket 1 click on this bucket at the top of the Organizer e Select the image s either one at a time or as a group then use the Custom Attributes area to the left to add the necessary data linked to these image s the student s name grade teacher grade etc Be sure to also use the Make Into feature so they have the advanced information associated with their images NOTE Do not add the data before clicking Add Student the images need to be added to the database set first This will enable drop downs eg teacher s name grade from
11. a list of all the main folders Some will have a next to them Click on the to see subfolders under this main folder You can close them up by clicking on the button If you have access to your C drive you will most likely find a folder called My Documents and another called My Pictures Software like FotoFusion will often use these folders to store your files FotoFusion will save your scrap project files by default in C My Documents My Collages You can choose to save it in other places as well Every file on your system has a name followed by a file extension eg collage exe Vacation picture 1 jpg birthday card scrap The file extension tells Windows and the various programs installed on the computer what the file is supposed to do For example files ending in exe will launch software files ending in jpg are a type of image file which you can preview or bring into software like FotoFusion files ending in scrap are FotoFusion project files that only FotoFusion can use and open Never change the file extension if you rename a file Windows and other software will not know what the file is supposed to do Window Explorer is essentially a very smart filing cabinet However like any filing cabinet you need to make sure to keep it organized well in order to make it easy to use and efficient One common mistake is to use the Windows desktop or another folder as a catch all for all your files This can lead to
12. home room but may include information such as committee participation business contact information and so on More info on this later in this chapter Manage Custom Fields Allows you to add attributes Manage Custom Fields or create a new attribute set Attributes are data fields or categories that can be linked to your image files For example you may wish to add Clubs as a data field linked to your images or create an entirely new attribute set e g Church To learn more see below If the data import appears to be correct then click on IMPORT FotoFusion may offer a suggestion about your data import at this stage or display an error eg missing image Data related errors can be fixed later missing image errors need to be fixed before the import can be completed 2008 LumaPix Inc 72 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help Once the import starts you will be prompted to provide a folder location where the images will be imported It is preferable to do so on your local C drive to avoid problems with interruptions of network connectivity or a USB drive which can be unplugged THE SCHOOL TAB After importing your PSPA CD images and data the results will be displayed in the Organizer under the School tab School The tab allows you to view and edit the information in your database import If there is no database attached to the current project it will be empty File Ea verw kmet Selection
13. s school firstname You will notice there is some code that appears in the D6 AS UserCustom attribut top window This refers to the tags used to create the label e g firstname lastname Additional tags can be added click inside this window either before or after the code and click on TAGS Navigate to User Custom Tags _ gt School to find the fields associated to your database Advanced text that you wish to add to your labels The Font section includes three tabs Aral Layout shows general info about your text choose a font from the drop down change the font size etc The 2 25 Do not Exceed dropbox next to the font size tells the label how to behave FTA relative to the space allowed for the label and the length I 5 u s of the label Ce e El Do Not Exceed tells the label that it can go up toa or a maximum specified size and shrink labels that are too e q rm i long to be show at the maximum size recommended V Allow Line Breaks e Lock and clip will fix a size and eliminate characters Standard Ligatures that don t fit not recommended e Resize to fit will cause your labels to have many different sizes depending on their length not recommended Bold italic superscript and underline are available as options followed by alignment options The Allow Line Break box is useful when you have labels under the frames eg on the Admin page a persons name would be follow
14. LOCAL PROJECTS amp PAGES You can also use the Organize tab to locate projects you have saved to your local system Note you cannot see projects stored on Remote Storage from the Organizer On the Search tab click on the TYPE drop box Search for Saved Work Projects or Saved Work Pages Projects will be displayed with thumbnail view of their first page Pages will show all the pages within multipage projects shown with a numeric code name Source Everything Type Pages Everything Publisher Everything Phatos Kits Templates Ready Made Page Page Layout Guide Embellishments Parts F Custom Attributes Ti Grade Teacher a Saved Work Home koom Projects Pages Last Name Sent Emails First Name E Right mouse select the thumbnail to either OPEN or APPEND the page or project Open will launch it as a separate project append will add it to the end of the current project 2008 LumaPix Inc Yearbook Panels 67 13 Yearbook Panels Your panel pages will be part of your master yearbook project Candid pages can be merged into the project containing your panel pages from the 95 hover and reordered including moving pages between the panels themselves Panel pages are created in three steps 1 Importing a pspa cd to associate an image database with your project 2 Adding an empty panel grid to your page an
15. Yearbook 001 00003 jpg Collins Yearbook 001 00004 jpg Corlor Yearbook 001 00005 jpg Covarubia Yearbook 001 0000E jpg Garcia Yearbook 001 OOOO jpg Hutchinsor Yearbook O01 QUUUE jpg Johnson Yearbook 001 0000s jpg Lane Browi Yearbook 001 00010 jpg Mitchell Yearbook 001 00011 jpg Mitchell Yearbook 0001 2 jpg Over Moris El mnndi A ie M Le EEL 2 SS Manage Custom Fields Your school organization name will appear automatically if your software is activated Yearbook Publishers can choose from a list of all their activated schools Most of the time no further action will be required to import your data If you see properly formatted columns and rows of data click IMPORT If your data does not appear as expected in the table of data or if you are merging or replacing an existing database you can change the following options Delimiter Refers to the way the index txt file is set Delimiter up Tab Some index txt files will use tabs to separate the data fields others will use commas or a special character Comma If your data appears correct in the table as in the Other example above do not change the currently selected delimiter If there is no information showing or it is not organized into columns change the delimiter from tab to comma That failing open the index txt file in Windows Notepad and see if there are any special characters between th
16. be replaced or relinked For instance the student may have had a retake photo done and you would like to replace the original photo e Select the existing portrait in the School tab e Click on LPSk Imas button over the preview area e Browse for the replacement image and choose OK The original portrait will vanish replaced by the new image ADDING CUSTOM FIELDS TO THE DATABASE The vast majority of users will not need to add any custom fields to the database The current selection will allow you to add info such as titles eg Assistant to the Principal Nutritionist special programs under Tracks eg HomeSchool SpecialEd affiliation to clubs under Groups etc If you need to add a special set of data you can do so through the Manage Custom Fields feature The default attribute set is School this attribute set contains all the fields you will see under the Properties area of the Organize tab A church directory will not make use of these same set of fields as a School teachers and grades but info like contact information business name committee participation and other related activities are used A team sports directory will list teams coaches tournaments and other details New attribute sets or new attributes with the School set can be created To add custom attributes or attribute sets click on the L__ Manage Custom Fields button at the time of import E gt Organize l If your images have already
17. below eg Show Only gt Grade 6 will create a panel set that only contains members of your database in Grade 6 Panel Set Grouping amp Sorting Grouping is a very useful way to create chapters or sections for your panels If you do 2008 LumaPix Inc 88 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help not specify a grouping criteria and choose to show ALL of the panel set you will have get one giant panel including every person in the school in alphabetical order not a very useful way of organizing your book Grouping and sorting options allow you to tell the panel how it will organize itself Grouping and sorting are enabled after the panel is populated Group byi Mo Grauping Sort by Mo Mame Group by Teacher Sort by Grade Darroch Germain Stalwick Verzed Syed Savage Lavall e H hert Sorting options i exes pe j Lina Panel Set Grouping options use information that has already been associated with the PSPA database By default no grouping options are set Click on the drop box to choose which field will be used to group your panel It is important to consider that the Header text will display the information in this field Most of the time choosing the TEACHER GRADE or HOMEROOM field will sort your panel in a useful way You can choose to sort these groups by another field next so for instance group all the panels by the Teacher s name but sort them by grade Thi
18. border width and color all frames in all panels ie Sree will have these attributes applied to them e to the current set of groups If you change an attribute eg the frame border width and color only the frames in the current panel will have these new attributes If you have made separate panels for staff and students for instance you can make changes only the student sets e to only one group If the panel has been grouped eg by grade by teacher you can pick ONE group to apply new attributes to For instance you can change the frame border color for only the members of the graduating class Last Name First Manne Middle Mame Volume Mame le Next follows three sets of icons which allow you to toggle N j ae between Salutation ABCDEF GO a E ey LI a et Fre Lm kae a Fen i mm p i ted Fra Lra trea mama ll Cartine e panel population options to determine which people will be in the panel and how they will be grouped e panel settings to set the way the panel text headers and frames will appear e panel image properties to set the border shape color and other appearance options PANEL POPULATION The first icon allows you to PEPER configure the way your panel is ce MEE ga populated AF BEE La Choose SHOW ALL your panel will include every person in the database Choose SHOW ONLY to pick only particular members of the database using the drop box options listed
19. confusion very quickly using folders will help you keep your files in easy to find named locations Another mistake is to reuse the same file names repeatedly If you are simply updating a project save it with the same file Do not use save as make a new copy with a new name This leads to version control problems meaning you will have problems finding the correct version of the file 2008 LumaPix Inc Saving loading and deleting projects 13 Also don t keep multiple versions of the same file in different locations Work off one main file and keep backups if needed that can be updated separately The following are two methods to ensure that your files are kept organized and easy to access Use Default folders Some users will choose to keep their files in the default location specified by FotoFusion e all photos are kept in C My Documents My Pictures You can sort the images by date to quickly find images all FotoFusion project files scrap and ONLY this type of file are kept in C My Documents My Collages You will know exactly where all your projects are by following this practice all exported rendered projects eg rendered to jpg or other file types are kept in C My Documents My Pictures My Exported Collages This will avoid confusion with the FotoFusion scrap project files so you don t accidentally try to send a scrap file to a friend or a printing service OR Use Project based folder
20. data in your remote storage folder if available zz To import the contents of the CD to FotoFusion click on the icon in the Yearbook section of Toolbar over your canvas You can also click on the File menu to choose IMPORT PSPA CD A standard browse window will open Navigate to your CD drive you will see something resembling this window perhaps with fewer folders or other file names Find the file named INDEX TXT and open it This is the data file that links information about the members of your school to their portraits 2008 LumaPix Inc Yearbook Panels Look ir YearbookPSPASamplet wt Ri p Fi Desktop 3 biy Computer My N etwork Places a C Local Disk I A D OVD RAM Drive Files of type PSPA Index Files TXT v a ae T FotoFusion will then display the Import window 2008 LumaPix Inc 70 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help mpari PSEA CD Schoo Brossard Middle School CR Yem 2008 Delimiter C Ignore header line Duplicates Tab saeed damd Replace School in Database Integrate with Existing Database Comma Other Append to Existing Database Po woo prne e Separator E Attribute Set School Text Qualifier Yolume Name Image Folder Image File Name Grade Last Name aj Yearbook 001 0000 jpg Basye Yearbook 001 0000 ipa Brow
21. e Port 80 For Marketplace Content e Port 21 For FTP upload to Publishers e Port 443 For Remote Storage e Binary transfer should be enabled e Soap headers should not be filtered INSTALLING FOTOFUSION Your Yearbook publisher will usually send an email to your yearbook project manager This email will contain a specific installation link It will look something like this www LumaPix com repid YOURYEARBOOKCOMPANY Always install the software directly from the link provided by your publisher This will ensure you are running the correct version of the software Run the installation when prompted and always install FotoFusion to the default path Suggested to ensure it will work correctly A Windows administrator account should be used to install the software General user accounts may not have sufficient privileges to install software When FotoFusion relaunches it will be in trial mode Trial mode will allow you use the software but you cannot save your work This feature has been turned off to protect yearbook users from losing projects if they are working on a network or if their computer is cleaned reformatted on a regular basis ACTIVATING YOUR SOFTWARE All installations of FotoFusion must be activated in order for them to work properly Activation takes the software out of trial mode and tells it who owns it This removes watermarks gives you access to graphic resources and allows users to share projects Once the sof
22. existing database entry Data will now be associated with the images Click on LRevalidate School button at the top of the Organizer to ensure that the images have been properly associated with the database and will be included in the panel pages Adding students can occur at any time during the panel creation process either before or after the panels have been set up and populated REMOVING EXCLUDING PEOPLE FROM PANELS Occasionally you may need to exclude an image from the imported PSPA set eg duplicate images retakes or people who have left the school e Use the School tab to locate the image s that you do not wish to include in the yearbook panels use their last name or grade or teacher to search for the image e When you find the image s in the preview area select the image thumbnail s e The image and associated data will appear in the Custom attributes area Turn the Exclude option to Yes Exclude yes The image will not appear in any panel but still be part of the database in case you need to add them back 2008 LumaPix Inc 78 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help Images can also be excluded directly from a populated panel as well Right mouse select any image within a panel to exclude it This will turn the Exclude attribute to yes in the Organize tab and the image will disappear from the panel REPLACING A PORTRAIT IMAGE Occasionally a portrait in the database may need to
23. for a variety of creative effects It can be used to soften images or apply texture or colour effects 2008 LumaPix Inc Image Frame Options 39 Images by Kent Smith The Matte tab of the Frame Border Editor contains controls for the cut out shape of the frame A matte is a hole which can display an image a color or a texture The default matte for a new image frame is a straight edged rectangular shape The default matte can be replaced many different types of mattes Enable Te Ellipset emf Alpha Plus RGE x Soften 0 Invert Fit 2008 LumaPix Inc 40 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help Image by Stephen Eastwood Click on the little down arrow to see a limited default set of mattes or choose BROWSE to open a search hover containing many more styles including textures and shades Soften controls the edge of the matte crisper or more diffuse while Invert reverses the part that is transparent and the part that holds the image THE FRAMES HOVER 2008 LumaPix Inc Image Frame Options 41 On the main Create screen Frames fy Be W Search Optio click on the Frames hover AM to open a collection of decorative borders These are not simple matte cutouts but a combination Of giceiman gevdelmane Goktfrane Danoped Cones a graphic and a matte and a Wo m e amar Sm 008 hamahic shadow which can be i
24. kg E http dropbox lumapix com 797 e8 7be4 b FE 4 X g Google MT r wW Favorites 50 m m FogBugz 26240 Missing i l E http dropbox lumapix X Ca DropBox Add Images w mE mga amp Internet Protected Mode Off fa v 10 v Add or delete images or make or delete folders just as you would directly in the software All users will be able to access these for their yearbook pages Image Frame Options When you select an image on your canvas you will notice two things 2008 LumaPix Inc Image Frame Options 29 1 Blue handles and possibly yellow handles will appear around the edge of the frame These handles will allow you to change the size shape position and zoom of your image 2 A toolbox will appear next to the image The toolbox gives you access to a number of options that can be applied to your frame and image RESIZING amp REPOSITIONING WITH HANDLES To resize a frame or multiple frames at resize TOP the same time SE ni image Select the frame s then move your cursor over a resize handle Press the left mouse button and drag the mouse crop Corner handles will allow you to resize both length and width handles in the mid points of the frame will resize either the width or the length of the frame Note image frames eg jpg photos will display 8 handles Scrap element frames eg png embelli
25. letter make one paragraph a different font etc TEXT FEATURES When a text frame is selected the text toolbox will appear This toolbox will let you apply features to all the text in your text frame Ctrl A to select the entire text or to a portion of it Click on the T to begin adding attributes to your text l l The BASICS tab will open 2008 LumaPix Inc LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help ie by ie Anal Font Size 73 Jibs Fill Edge a Thickness 0 Alignment 1 OW mde on Text appearance options choose among the available fonts the size and the resizing options e Resize to fit will dynamically resize your text size when you resize the text frame itself e Lock and clip will freeze the text size allowing it to be cut off if the frame is shrunk smaller than the text content e Do not exceed will allow the text size to shrink if the frame is made smaller but never grow past the indicated font size You can also add Bold e Italic Underline ki and Superscript options to all or selected portions of your text Color options Click on the color swatches to change the interior color and the edge border color of the text Use the eyedropper icon to select a color from the canvas itself or click on either of the color gradients to pick a color On the text color editor the opacity control will make the color more or less transparent 2008 LumaPix Inc
26. of an empty grid Load a template or create a page with empty frames AutoDuplicate If you have a page style that needs to be used over and over with a series of images you can use AutoPopulate in conjunction with the AutoDuplicate feature To turn on autoduplicate open the PAGES hover and right mouse select your template page to turn on the autoduplicate checkbox Use autopopulate to fill the template and generate the next template until there are no more images available AutoDistribute A produces an even grid of all the images on your canvas Add your images to the canvas via Autocollage or by dropping them individually through the Images hover Choose AutoDistribute from the Tools menu to create a grid To sort your images before AutoDistributing hover on the AutoCollage button and select the sort features you would like to use such as File date time 2008 LumaPix Inc 58 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help Project Kits b Fage b Layers Frame b Image d Text b Dropper j Eniting j Locate Missing Images 4utoCollage Alki Sparse 4utoCollage Alk Ctrl 0 Auto Jumble Alk ShiFE C AuboDistribube l SutoPopulate f A Di D before AutoDistribute FRE REEVE aie AUTOEN Matte Cutter AutoFlip Turn on AUTOFLIP LAYOUT to automatically flip your compositi
27. order gar ma students by grade foe Students by teacher Student by teacher All students and their teacher will be grouped by their teacher in alphabetical order After setting your general preferences you can make adjustments to the way the panel 2008 LumaPix Inc Yearbook Panels 83 looks Mode i i Auto Manual Locked Apply settings to this set of Groups Columns 45 Rows 6 Layout Labels Beside Panel Alignment Labels Edge Frames Gutter Border Width 0 026 Header Size os M Label Size 0135 M Featured Images 0 Auto Knockout Mode Auto is the default Frames are flowed regularly across the page Manual allows to move and adjust individual frames This is useful if you need to use the crop handles to adjust the position of an image for instance Turn this off to enable other features below Locked freezes the panel from further reflows or changes Apply settings You can limit the scope for changes to all panels in the project If you change an attribute eg the frame border width and color all frames in all panels will have these attributes applied to them to the current set of groups If you change an attribute eg the frame border width and color only the frames in the current panel will have these new attributes If you have made separate panels for staff and students for instance you can make changes only the student s
28. product that corresponds to the book type you will be producing size cover options Once selected a new blank single album side will be launched on the Create screen You can then start adding images text and decorations to the page Once you have chosen a product type FotoFusion will switch to the Create screen and Show a single album side page If you have chosen one of the templates the entire template will open usually about 15 pages total If you have made a mistake and selected the wrong product or have chosen one of the template sets shown above then right mouse select outside of your canvas and choose Project Settings You ll be able to pick a new product from this dialogue and the entire project will resize automatically THE CREATE SCREEN y Create FotoFusion s main workspace is located under the tab Here you will be able to design and manage your pages 2008 LumaPix Inc Getting Started 17 a fear Wheel l De iE For Help select Help from the Help menu This Create screen is organized in the following manner START WHEEL MENU BAR This TABS Click on these LICENSE LEVEL Click on this icon to area houses the tabs to flip to the Displays your launch the Start selection items under Organizer screen to license type If Zone to launch a File Edit View Share email to the unactivated it will new project load an Selection Tools and Output options if
29. read Yearbook existing project and Help enabled then back Trial look at the bundled More info below to the Create screen graphic content to edit your projects More info below PANEL EDITOR A TOOL BAR Lists pop up window which commonly used appears when you tools such as file add or select a pane management items allowing you to Main AutoTools clicking the populate your panel Selection tools button More info and change its Canvas views Image below appearance options and Support CREDITS The HOVER DOCKS Hovers docks hold hover buttons You can add buttons by TOOLBOX and EDITOR The toolbox appears when you select any item on the canvas then allows you to open editors to make changes the selected item TUTORIAL VIDEOS ONLINE STATUS shopping cart has Click here for a list of Indicates if been disabled for available videos to FotoFusion has an most Yearbook users learn how to use active internet to avoid additional FotoFusion connection HOVERS These buttons launch editors on the work area Some hovers will show you graphic content e g Search Papers Frames others will help you charges on your book If it is enabled a balance indicates necessary to access graphic content and other features 2008 LumaPix Inc 18 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help organize your project how many available Tree Pages You credits to spend can move the bu
30. the editor Images his Folder C Program FilessLumaPixFotoFusionv4 1 w Sort Name iM oral a a The icon indicates that the hover will automatically close when you are not hovered over it The icon indicates that the hover will remain opened on your canvas A pinned hover does not affect the position of your canvas and can overlap onto the canvas workspace Automatically Close Pin overlay canvas Bock reframe canvas A docked hover will reposition the canvas alongside the open hover 2008 LumaPix Inc 20 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help Automatically Close Pin overlay canvas v Dock reframe canvas Switch the hover back to automatically close to return it to a single button or click L to close Resizing images within a hover Hovers display graphic content in a mini view called a thumbnail view The thumbnails within the hover can be made larger or smaller Click on the interior portion of an opened hover hold Ctrl on your keyboard and use your mouse wheel or use the up down arrows on your keyboard to increase or decrease the size of the thumbnail view PAGE TYPES Some product types will contain more than one type of page for instance they may include a double spread and a cover sheet Some may only allow album sides This is an Album Side it represents a single page of your book The grey line on the edge of the page represents where the page
31. to be imported into FotoFusion This will allow you to automatically organize the portrait images in your yearbook into panels and display labels and other information Standard PSPA information associated with each portrait includes Volume Name Image Folder Image File Name Grade Last Name UO BRWNe 2008 LumaPix Inc 68 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help 6 First Name 7 Home room 8 Period 9 Teacher Name 10 Track Once the data and images have been imported FotoFusion will allow you to correct or add data linked to the images and create organized panel pages with the images STEP 1 IMPORTING THE PSPA DATA If you have been provided with a PSPA cd then insert the CD into your computer while FotoFusion is launched Open your yearbook project and add an album side page from the Pages hover or create a new project with an album side page Panels can only be made on album side pages not double spreads because of the way then flow from page to page Note e Databases are attached to a specific project so import only once and make this project your master yearbook and add the candid projects into it You can make multiple panels from one database Two projects with two separate databases can cause versioning problems ie which version of the database is correct e Some publishers may take care of the import step for you they may provide a pre made project containing the images and
32. to copy cut paste duplicate delete selected items undo redo and set 2008 LumaPix Inc Getting Started 19 up user preferences e View lets you control the way your screen will look zooming panning grid lines etc e Insert contains options to add items to your project image frame text frame new page etc e Selection pertains to the selection of items on your canvas and the order they are stacked on the canvas e Tools offers the entire set of AutoTools autocollage autopopulate and actions that can be applied to particular types of items on your canvas such as the canvas background the frame properties and text items e Help links to you the User s manual Help and learning preferences and licensing information HOVERS amp HOVER DOCKS Hovers are small buttons which when clicked open to a large view In general hovers allow you to preview graphic content Hover buttons can be nested in the hover docks three empty zones on the Create screen These buttons can be manually dragged from one hover nest to another or dropped on the area outside the canvas Images search settings Hovers are designed by default to open briefly allowing you to perform a desired editing task then close immediately You can choose to keep the hover editors open for an extended period of time if you will be using them frequently To keep the hover open permanently click on the pin icon at the top of
33. will be attached to the binding of the book Album sides can be left or right side pages depending on where this grey line shows You may see red and green lines around the edge of the page like in this example Red lines are the bleed zone it represents where the page will be trimmed after it is printed pare Green lines are the safe zone it a eee e e ee represents a guideline margin to show you where to keep all meaningful content Don t put text or pictures of peoples faces too close to the green line SS oo oc neon I I I I I I j l I j j I I l I I I I I 1 e ee ees eee eee ee es a ie i i i i i I I i l il mil cf a l I i I i l I I i i l I i J l I i I i l I I j i l i i I i l L I I I ee ee 2008 LumaPix Inc Getting Started 21 A This is an Album Two Page Th Spread it shows two adjoining pages with a split down the middle to show the gutter A solid background or image can be placed across both pages ee ee E a E a a E Note the green safe lines in the middle of the page don t put meaningful text or image content across this space because it will be distorted by the book s binding This is a Cover A cover can include a spine in the middle of the page where the title of the book can be added represented by the two grey lines The cover is shown opened flat The left side of the page i
34. Advance tab itis set to Area Type Circular As made in a square frame with the following features it is set to lock and clip and to justified 1 on the Basic orb e paragraph tab On the Advance tab itis will fill a circular 3 h set to Area Type ae Half Diamond A 2008 LumaPix Inc Text Frame Options 51 Text direction can be changed as well eg Chinese Arabic Hebrew and other languages where the text does not flow right to left top to bottom C e r t u h f i O tg t p P ee Ho Upright Left to Right n i h thgiR ot tfeL thgirpU Top to Bottom standard a v t toi S e cibarA mottoB ot pol ek zi r i E werbeH l TF oh 4B t Mooi c t Text shaping is an option that will help users of non Western languages If a font is selected that displays the non Western characters the text shaping options specified by language region type will shift the spacing of characters appropriately Most yearbook users working with standard Western characters English Spanish French etc will not need to touch this option as it is only exposed when the chosen font and language contain non Western characters Note The Matte tab is currently unavailable We will restore functionality to this tab in a future release 9 Shadows Image and text frames can both cast Drop Shadows Shadows can be adjusted directly in the Image Toolbox or in the Shadow Editor Tip Keep the text shadow OFF most
35. Album Two Page Spread 14 Amount 51 Angle 28 51 Archive 8 Archiving 8 Arrange and Distribute 28 Attaching Text to a frame 43 attribute set 67 auto tools 54 autocollage 54 autodistrioute 54 autoflio 14 autojumble 54 Autoknockout 80 autopopulate 54 B back cover 14 Background Fill 28 Background papers 59 Backgrounds 59 Black amp White 28 Bleed zone 14 Blue handles 28 Blur 28 51 Border 28 Border Color 28 Border Opacity 28 Border Width 28 Brightness 28 buckets 64 Bundled content 59 C C My Documents My Collages 11 C My Documents My Pictures 11 Candid images 23 Candid Pages 4 Canvas background 28 Canvas text 43 Centered text 43 Changing a portrait image 67 Changing information about the students 67 Clipart 59 clipart 59 color wash 28 combining projects 14 Contrast 28 copy an image 28 copying a page 14 Cover 14 Covers 59 Create 14 Creating a new project 4 Creating an album 4 Creating panel pages 67 CREDITS 14 crop 28 custom fields 67 Cutout 28 EN p e Decorative borders 28 2008 LumaPix Inc 98 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help Decorative frames 28 default folders 11 delete animage 28 Delimiter 67 Do not exceed 43 Double page 14 Downloading your software 2 DPI 28 Draw Border Highlight 28 Drop box 23 Dropper 23 Duplicates 67 duplicating a page 14 duplicating an image 28 sE Editing panel info 67 Editing Text 43 Email 93 ex
36. Irae nio Use the MORE button to expand the print window and the SETUP button to ensure that your local printer is configured properly Complete info can be found in the general user s manual on our website in the printing section ag Output If available use the tab to create an HTML version of your project for posting on your own website Your output can be made locally or if you have the upload credentials you can send it 2008 LumaPix Inc 96 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help 15 directly to your website For complete info visit the Web output section of the general user s manual Completing and uploading your project Before submitting the project to your publisher the yearbook project manager needs to compile all pages into one complete project See the section above entitled Managing Your Yearbook for details Also check for resolution warnings when an image is of insufficient quality or over zoomed and for red frame numbers images that have become disconnected from the original files Files with red resolution warnings should be replaced to ensure that the project will print with sufficient quality Save this master yearbook project to your local network or hard drive or to remote storage UPLOADING TO YOUR PUBLISHER FotoFusion will allow you to directly upload your projects to your publisher s server You do not need to configure anything to send the files the software provide
37. LumaPix YearbookFusion User s Manual Aha E hir Ee rE ATES This manual contains the full instruction set for FotoFusion and a separate section detailing the special features of YearbookFusion If you have downloaded this manual and have not been provided with a copy of YearbookFusion by a publishing company please visit to learn more on how you can obtain this valuable time saving and creativity enhancing tool Copyright LumaPix 2008 2009 2 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help 1 Introduction WELCOME TO YEARBOOKFUSION om TEN ipii Aii PHLF 3 oe This handbook will provide an overview of the main features of YearbookFusion The software itself includes other tutorial materials FA e Tutorial videos are found in the bottom right corner of the Create screen from the Lia icon This is a very useful learning resource as you will be able to see FotoFusion in action and follow along on your own screen e InfoTips will appear when you hover over most controls in the software These helpful hints explain how to use the tool If you run into problems and none of these resources can assist you then please contact your yearbook publisher directly or the LumaPix Support Team support lumapix com 1 877 LUMAPIX Provide as much detail about the issue you are facing what task you are trying to accomplish what steps you took transcript of messages or prompts made by the software your user id an
38. Teoh Heip Tp zarie fe Share ja ovu H cany k mma Soper i reese e m rw wa ae Ss Geter pata 2 einna bileagan im l LESTE L o pm D mkeo Per He pei Hie Anes the Hip ay Section 1 allows you to either SHOW ALL every image in the database will be show or S HOW ONLY button to search for a particular set of images as defined in the drop box option below for example look for all the students in a particular grade and or students associated to a particular teacher You can also type first and last names notice how the number of images in the previewer decreases the more letters you type Section 2 is the preview area where you can see the images in the database You can display the images in several ways e Sort by FILE NAME FILE DATE or PHOTO DATE Name is selected by default e View THUMBNAILS images amp file name TILES images file name amp size or DETAILS images amp all related data 2008 LumaPix Inc Yearbook Panels 73 In Section 3 you will see four buckets When you first import your database images with critical missing info will be placed into named buckets See below for information on how to fix missing information in your database Section 4 is Properties section of the Organizer where you can view and edit data associated with your images Select one or more images to see the data associated with the images and then edit it as
39. Yearbook Panels section of this guide SORTING CANDID IMAGES The Source tab shows your local drives To view your candid images use this tab to find the folder s which contain your images and then place a checkmark next to one or more folders Thumbnail versions of the images inside the selected folders will appear in the preview area You can use the Sort options and View options over the preview area to change their presentation order and style 2008 LumaPix Inc The Organize Tab 65 Dona hers Fotofusion lt Untied Modifird provided by Acme Yrarbonige inc Fie Edt View Inset Selection Toos Heb Eon E organise IRRE NEEE fed Feika miisi L ip DE Foreign 2700_L peg Fasa moeg Faki N Li Keywords Popes S L lie Fotolia LOTIR L pg Mis Eer d Exiting Keywords Fii OS L peg Femi cit Lip F Foii ETIN L Q Foly PESI L Foda L F E L e Pie eeu a Pe s d a E i A Maart _ a For Help select Helo from the Help mera tH Tree Semngs Pages i ag BOS Balance wm ____ a ee e ael u Se a Note Checkmarking an upper level directory will not display the images contained within the subdirectories contained within it To select all subdirectories within a root directory hold the Control key on your keyboard while clicking on the check box Repeat to uncheck all If you would like to increase t
40. above the icon without clicking you will open the AutoCollage options hover Select any of the options to change the look of your collage Jumbled collages can also be created by clicking on the Jumble button in the toolbar alone and you can control the amount of angle as well 2008 LumaPix Inc Double Click to Change Dolo Heel AEO AutoTools Autocollage ARH Generste s new collage froma set of collage if open alesdy Creative Effects Shadows Borders Jumble Sparse Backdrop _ Preserve frame settings The AutoCollage Wizard images or reerenge the current Sorting Sort by Don t Sort v Maintain Aspect Reverse Include images in Bucket 1 _ Respect Center Line 55 2008 LumaPix Inc 56 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help This feature can create one or more pages of autocollaged images From the START ZONE click on the AUTO icon This will open the AutoCollage Wizard From the CHOOSE IMAGES tab select images to include in the collage To navigate to a different directory click on the V next to the folder name Use the Add buttons to put the images into the dropper On the CREATIVE OPTIONS tab you can make a Multi Page collages choosing either the number of pages overwhich your images will be distributed or choose the number of images per page You can also add Creative Enhancements such as drop shadows jum
41. ages AL Ro i Pages AR OR i hover the current contents of the book will be visible in miniature E SAE i i zi HE i ti al be w FF 1 E a ai Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 When all the pieces of the yearbook project have been assembled into the master project the yearbook manager can review the project then submit it to the publisher Saving loading and deleting projects SAVING YOUR WORK To save a project so that it can be worked on at a later date 2008 LumaPix Inc Saving loading and deleting projects 9 Select Save FA from the Tool Bar or Press Ctrl S on your keyboard or Go to the top menu under FILE and select SAVE Give the file a name Point to a directory folder of your choice Save the file The project will be saved as a scrap file format Use File gt Save As to save the project under a new name if for instance you were editing a previously saved project and wish to keep both the original and the new version Do not use Save As if you are simply overwriting the current file you are working on you just need to Save CtrlI S it If you use Save As every time you make a change you will be making copy after copy of your project file which will just clutter up your computer and make project management very difficult ARCHIVING TO TRANSFER PROJECTS A saved scrap project file is a composition it is a r
42. anner You can create many different looks by changing the canvas background 2008 LumaPix Inc 42 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help y Ak a i vie gf vA 1 a aul aun A ae Solid red Paper Hover Ie _ With an image DPI RESOLUTION WARNINGS FotoFusion contains a warning system for using images on your canvas with too low a resolution 2008 LumaPix Inc Image Frame Options 43 Using a low resolution image eg cell phone camera or zooming in too close on an image can produce either a mild or severe warning This is an example of warnings on the canvas red below acceptable and yellow potential problems Resolution warnings will also appear when you attempt to output images below the predefined thresholds of acceptable dpi Some publishers will set a default value to warn and to block the use of images that do not meet their predefined limits so if you are using a special build from a book publisher you will have these limits preset for you No image can be upsized from its native resolution meaning the size at which it was recorded since no application can create any more information than is already present in an image at the time it is taken or scanned So for instance if you take a photo ona cell phone camera with only 2 megapixels don t expect to be able to use that image ona large poster without noticing lots of dots Also zoomin
43. as the width of the frames changes no limits Fit will cause the panel to snap exactly to the selected number of columns and rows regardless of the specified frame width or page size ie use this exact number of columns and rows Max will not allow the panel to grow beyond the specified number of columns and rows ie no more than x columns or rows e Intercolumn and interrow spacing can tighten or loosen the panel s spacing e Features when set to 1 will increase the size of the first frame in the panel group to 2x2 we Knockouts When Autoknockout is turned on images Lett dropped on top of the panel will cause the panel to get out of the way The panel frames will flow around the new images 3 See the example above Remove Manual Knockouts will cause all panel frames that have been turned off shown as pale red to be restored Your panel if populated will reflow to fill the restored frames Layout controls the relative position of the image frames in Frames your panel ak ee Gutter Frames aligns the panel to the gutter the binded side of the page the edge the centre the right or left side or Top 0 45 Bottom 0 35 distributed equally along the width of the panel Gutter 045 Edge 0 15 The Last Row allows you to choose the alignment when the panel does not fill all columns It can be oriented to the gutter or edge the left or right side or centered across the panel Last are the panel margin widths Chan
44. been imported then open the i tab and click on the Custom Attributes button miii Ig In both cases the following window will appear 2008 LumaPix Inc Yearbook Panels 79 Manage Attributes Select an Attribute Set Add or remove custom below or create a new one attributes bp clicking new or by clicking the new button delete School 00O Grade Church Teacher Home Room Last Name First Name Yolume Name Pernod Track E sclude o New Attribute Set dee Remove Attribute Set Remove Attribute To add a new attribute set eg Church for a church directory click on New Attribute set then add the name of the new category New Category You are creating 4 new category Church This will add Church to the list of available attribute sets To add fields to a set in this case for a school select the attribute set The list of fields associated with the item will appear to the right 2008 LumaPix Inc 80 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help 13 2 Manage Attributes Select an Attribute Set Add or remove custom below of create a new one attributes by clicking new or by clicking the new button delete EEE 9 Schoo Church Grade Teacher Home Room Last Hame First Name Year Volume Name Image Folder Image File Name Ee Period Track E sclude Hew Attribute Set New Attribute
45. ble border around the frame etc Sorting Options include sort images by file date or name so if you want to automatically lay out images in chronological order you can make that choice When you have completed making your creative choices move to the CANVAS SIZE OPTIONS tab to select the page type you want to use usually an album side or double page spread depending on the type of pages offered by your printing company Click OK when you are finished setting the Canvas Size and the autocollage will be generated on the Create screen If you would like to try a different arrangement for the images click AutoCollage on the Tool bar AutoCollage Wizard 1 Choose Images 2 Creative Options 3 Canvas Size Options Multi Page Number of Pages 19 image s per page O Images per Page One Image per Page 1 Creative Enhancements Shadows C Sparse Borders C Backdrop C Jumble Collage Title Double Click to Change Timeline S orting Sort ByEXIF Date Time w C Keep Aspect C Reverse 2008 LumaPix Inc AutoTools 57 AutoPopulate The AutoPopulate option on the Toolbar fills all empty frames in a collage with images that are currently in the dropper or selected in the Images hover This is a fast way to fill a template with images such as a contact sheet or a yearbook set To use autopopulate you need to have a project open with empty frames Here is an example
46. ble through the Bundled Content area in the Start Zone THE START ZONE Following the Welcome screen is the Start Zone It will display automatically at launch if you have disabled the Welcome Screen nn New Project Connect to gt Bundled LumaPix I Content You can launch the Start Zone at any time by clicking on the _ icon in the top left corner of the Create Screen The Start Zone is a porthole to starting new projects accessing saved work information about FotoFusion and accessing templates Click on NEW PROJECT to start a project from scratch Click on LOAD to open projects you ve already saved Click on LEARN to access tutorial materials videos project user s manual Click on MARKETPLACE to see template collections Note this has been disabled by most yearbook publishers since most content requires an additional purchase Click on Bundled Content to open a list of some of the graphic content available with your license If you choose NEW PROJECT you will most likely only see the project sizes set up by your printing company This can include only one featured item or several products such as a soft or hard cover book or binding options 2008 LumaPix Inc 16 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help 3 Featured What size of output do you mesed you Can change your mind Later B51 Handoover Yearbook 5011 Saddle 64011 Pered E Stich Bound Salter Softer Yearbook Yearbook Select the
47. cluding pages 14 Excluding people from panels 67 F Fade 28 Feature image 80 File management 11 Finishing your project 96 Frame 23 Frame Border 28 Frame number 23 Frame text 43 Frames 28 Free graphics 59 front cover 14 G Gallery 23 59 Gamma 28 Glow 51 Gradient 28 Graphics 59 Green lines 14 Grouping 80 H Handles 23 28 Header font 80 Header in the first line 67 Header position 80 Headers 59 80 HOVER DOCKS 14 HOVERS 14 How to save files 11 Image Editor 28 Image toolbox 51 Images hover 23 IMPORT 67 importing pspa data 67 Importing the PSPAcd 67 INDEX TXT 67 Inset 28 Installation 2 i jpg 93 Justification 48 K keywords 64 knockouts 80 i Label font 80 Label position 80 Labels 80 larger thumbnails 64 layers onthe canvas 28 LICENSE LEVEL 14 Lock and clip 43 Locks 8 lost file 11 lost files 11 2008 LumaPix Inc Index 99 lost project 11 lost projects 11 Low resolution 28 LP Art 59 make acopy ofanimage 28 make into 67 Making a flattened file 93 Making an album 4 Making grids with portraits 67 making groups 80 Making the grid bigger or smaller 80 making the teacher go to the front 67 Manage Custom Fields 67 managing projects 11 Managing your yearbook 4 Mask 28 Matte 28 Matte Cutter 28 menubar 14 mousewheel 64 Moving files 8 moving pages within a project 14 multipage projects 14 My Collages 11 My Exported Collages 11 N Netw
48. colors and opacities to a frame background will do to an image Next is an example of a basic collage that has used empty frames no images with opaque background color to decorate the canvas 2008 LumaPix Inc 36 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help Empty frameswith Background Fill If you drop a background paper into an empty frame you can retint it with the background fill tool to a new shade Use the Frame Border Editor to change the exterior portion of your frame THE FRAME PORDE HALABA C Border Width 0 05 R 255 G 255 B 255 Select one or more frames eee o on the canvas and from re e the Toolbox click on the Fit Image _ Shadow Inside m Draw Border Highlight Image Editor Segr Fi er The Border tab of the Frame Border Editor contains controls for Border Width Dragging this control makes the border thicker or thinner Border Color Drag the R G B controls to adjust the Red Green and Blue channels of the image directly alternatively you can click the color chip to open the color editor Border Opacity Allows you to turn down the transparency of the border This can create an interesting effect of a see though border Fit Image The entire image to fit into the border when checked Unchecked a portion of the image will be obscured by the border Shadow Inside This will cause the image not the border to cast a shadow this is useful for attaining glassy borders on frames
49. d customizing it to suit your design tastes and needs 3 Populating the panel with images according to your grouping and sorting needs Panels can only be made on Album Side type pages not covers or double spreads If you need to change the page type click on the 25 hover then right mouse select your page and ensure you have album side selected Panels flow from one page to the next A large group may flow across two or more pages You can make panels in small sections or make one large panel with all members of your school grouped into sections by their grade or teacher Panel pages can be changed in most respects at any point of the design process You can e change the look of the panel size of the images number of rows and columns the border of the images the text position and style the grouping options make a panel that only shows part of the school or grouped by teacher homeroom grade etc e add or remove students and teachers change information about the students and teachers We recommend strongly to make all your panels in a single project with one import of the PSPA cd This will ensure that there is only one master set of information for the whole school 13 1 Your PSPA data WHAT IS A PSPA Your yearbook publisher will most likely provide your school with a CD with your portrait images and a data file containing information about those images This is a PSPA CD The contents of the PSPA CD need
50. d down the sequence by means of the arrow buttons Note candid pages can be moved in between panel pages but not vice versa If a page needs to be deleted then select it and use the deletion button If you are using a Yearbook Set template you can remove unused empty template pages with this button Note deleting one panel page will delete all the panel pages in that set Pages can also be duplicated copied This allows you to duplicate the style of one page and change the image content if you want Panel pages cannot be duplicated On the Pages hover right mouse select any of the page thumbnails The following list of options will appear Album Side Album Two Page Spread Cover Sheet direction left side or right side Left Side vV Right Side Exclude from output Exclude from page sequence from Dage nu mbe ring g Page Settings Save Page as Template Auto Duplicate Page order and naming Delete Page Rename Page Pages You can change the page type and for album sides their You can exclude the current page from the finished project or You can move the page within the project and manage the Move Page To Go To Page Begin on Page Auto Flip Layout Flip Layout Left Right Flip Layout Top Bottom Ctrl Shift N At the bottom you will fine the AUTOFLIP option If this is turned on album sides will flip the contents of the page as they are changed from a left side to a righ
51. d not want part of the decoration to be clipped off by Zooming in on part of the image Once on your canvas frames can be duplicated Ctrl D copied Ctrl C pasted Ctrl V cut Ctrl X and deleted Delete key Frames can be moved on the canvas by selecting one or more frames then dragging them to a new position A selected frame will also move if you tap on the arrow keys on your keyboard For even finer movement control hold the Ctrl key on your keyboard while you move the frame s with your arrow key Frames can be multi selected to let you make changes to several frames at once You can e draw a marquee lasso a group of frames on your page e click on one frame then choose Ctrl A to select all like type frames e hold the Ctrl key and select individual frames to add into the selection Frames can be made into a group so they will resize and move together Multi select your frames then right mouse select any one of the group Grouping options will appear at the bottom of the list of options as will Ungroup if you change your mind Whenever you move or resize a frame it will try to align itself with the _ edges of nearby frames this helps you produce neatly arranged E collections of images This magnetic effect is felt anywhere a vertical or P horizontal edge of a frame is shared with other frames When multiple images share an edge then FotoFusion allows you to affect both images at the same time by manipulating that
52. d to you by your publisher will have all the variables preset to send your projects directly to their server Under the File menu choose the UPLOAD TO PUBLISHER option FotoFusion can send projects to be send as flattened files eg a jpg a tiff a pdf as per the publisher s preference or as a complete project images project recipe If you see only one option then your publisher has chosen this method as the exclusive upload method If you have two options ask your publisher which method they prefer Flattened files will take less time to upload but the publisher will not be able to make any corrections to the project Uploading can take quite a bit of time and is dependent on the speed of your internet connection your publisher s server and the size of your project Be sure to consult with your publisher first regarding file naming norms and other information you need to provide to them to ensure your yearbook is put together correctly 2008 LumaPix Inc Index 97 Index scrap 11 A Accessing graphics 59 Activating your software 2 Activation 2 addinganewpage 14 Adding Images 23 Adding images to the gallery 23 adding images to the panel 80 Adding more panel frames 80 adding new pages inaproject 14 Adding new staff 67 Adding new students 67 adding pages into a project 14 Adding Text to a Frame 43 Adding Text to the Canvas 43 Adding words 43 Advanced mode 80 Advanced search 64 Album Side 14
53. d yearbook publisher s name etc The more details you provide the better we will be able to assist you 2 YearbookFusion Installation amp Activation FotoFusion can be installed on up to 40 computers including machines at home and at school SYSTEM REQUIRMENTS 2008 LumaPix Inc YearbookFusion Installation amp Activation 3 e FotoFusion will run on Windows 7 Windows Vista Windows XP Windows 2000 requires GDI e The computer should minimally have 512 MB RAM Pentium III 450MHz or faster We recommend a 2 GB machine to use it most effectively particularly if you are creating a book that is over 100 pages 1024x768 desktop display resolution e A two button mouse three buttons recommended 25MB free disk space for application Downloading content from the online marketplace remote storage can consume considerably more e High speed internet access is strongly recommended Internet access is required for activation and downloadable graphic content Activation is easiest when online although offline activation is available Once activated the software can run Offline but updates all graphic content and other features will be unavailable Your IT administration should configure the network to allow Yearbook to connect to our servers This will allow the software to access graphic resources and other content FotoFusion communicates with lumapix com and amazonaws com Communication happens on
54. dow but the image itself does To see this effect make the border very wide and 50 transparent When shadow inside is checked you will see that the image itself is casting a shadow but that the large translucent border does not In this example the photo is casting a small shadow which gives the impression the photo is inside a translucent frame 2008 LumaPix Inc 54 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help 10 u Shadow Color Clicking on the color chip opens the color editor this allows you to pick a new color for the shadow In this example the shadow has been used to make the image and the text appear to glow AutoTools FotoFusion can create automatically layouts for you with a few simple clicks Autocollage This tool allows you to quickly fill a page with images Any set of images on the canvas can be AutoCollaged repeatedly until you are satisfied with the layout Click on the AutoCollage button on the Toolbar to obtain a new layout every time Auto gag Click AutoCollage for a new layout If you have images on your page or in the dropper pulled from the Images hover for instance use the AutoCollage button Auto mja Naa aS to creates a new arrangement Click this button to rearrange your collage as many times as you like until you find an arrangement that is close to what you want If you hover over the AutoCollage button meaning let your cursor float
55. drag to divide the frame into rows and columns click down to open the Splitter tool for finer control and to turn on the mosaic option 6 Text will add an attached text to the selected frame 7 Orient Spins and flips the frame 8 Tools accesses the Red Eye Removal tool and the Matte Cutter Tool Extreme only 9 The Wheel currently is a placeholder Clicking on it will do nothing THE IMAGE EDITOR Use the Image Editor to make changes to the way image looks within the frame Select one or more frames on the canvas and from the Toolbox click on the Image Editor Opacity Bright Angle Contrast Blur 1 0 1 0 Use canvas as Frame background Show Drop Photo Here when empty 2008 LumaPix Inc LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help The General tab of the Image Editor contains controls for e Opacity Will make your images more or less transparent see through e Angle Images can be rotated inside their frames for example to correct for 4 dL a tilted camera or reorienting an image 2 igi Half opacity within a gradient matte This effect can also be accomplished directly on the frame by spinning the image via the frame rotation handles while Simultaneously holding the Ctrl key e Brightness Make your image brighter or darker overall but be careful if you are not working on a calibrated monitor as your finished printed image will not match your on screen version
56. e data fields If so then type that 2008 LumaPix Inc Yearbook Panels 71 character into the Other empty field and select it Text Qualifier Text Qualifier If your data is represented with single or double quotes around the text type this character into the Text Qualifier box The quotes will be stripped from the data table Ignore Header Line Check this ONLY if you see any a header line headers titles above the columns in the table of data Duplicates Provides rules for subsequent PSPA CD Duplicates imports Replace School in Database If this is your first import or you are changing data Integrate with Existing Database sets leave it as replace school in database If you are merging a second PSPA CD to one already imported eg retakes or a 2nd set of images then select Integrate with existing database or append if the file numbers have been restarted 00001 in the 2nd CD Attribute Set Most users will only see School as the default choice An attribute refers to a category that can contain information associated with the image files on the CD For instance a school will have attributes such as grade teacher home room first name and last name etc Append to Existing Database Attribute Sek School wt Other attribute set can be created for specialized use such as church directories or sports team directories For instance a church will not have a teacher or a
57. e of the header itself and change the interline spacing to create more room between the header and the previous section The general Layout Appearance and Shadow options for Headers are identical to the Label options See above for more details Size 0 5 0 1 CUSTOMIZING YOUR PANEL FRAMES The third icon at the top of the panel hover provides the same set of tools available to you standard image frames ABCDEF BEE E e sme Click on the Frame border portion of the icon to access border thickness color gradient and matting options For example if you want to make a panel with oval shaped image frames e click on the frame border choose the Gradient tab enable the gradient choose Circular as the gradient type 2008 LumaPix Inc Yearbook Panels 93 e adjust the softness and midpoint settings as desired Apply settings to this setofGroups v Enable Circular C Invert Softness MidPoint 0 59 Angle o CenterX 0 5 CenterY 0 5 Opacity 1 Angle 0 Bright 0 Contrast 1 Gamma 1 Blur 0 B amp W 0 Sepia 0 R T G 1 B 1 Generally it is not recommended to adjust these settings particularly the R G B brightness contrast and gamma values your images have most likely been color corrected by your publisher Your monitor is most likely uncalibrated meaning it does not show color accurately versus your final printed page and you could end up with very strange looking photos i
58. e this option to 1 and the first image in every panel group will increase to a 2x2 size Dial it to 2 and the first two images will be 2x2 size Autoknockout is turned off by default When you drop an image frame on a panel eg a clipart decoration the image frame will float on top of the panel covering it up 2008 LumaPix Inc 86 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help When Autoknockout is turned on images dropped on top of the panel will cause the panel to get out of the way The panel frames will flow around the new images PANELS IN ADVANCED MODE If you want more control over your finished panels then switch to advanced mode at the top of the panel editor 2008 LumaPix Inc Yearbook Panels 87 Panel At the top of the editor you ll see the same Mode controls as O Simple Advanced before Mode e Auto is the default Frames are flowed regularly across the Auto Manual Locked page e Manual allows to move and adjust individual frames This is useful if you need to use the crop handles to adjust the position of an image for instance Turn this off to enable other features below e Locked freezes the panel from further reflows or changes ABCDE Be Be YBFUserB03 667892 Show All Show Only Apply settings You can limit the scope for changes Grade e to all panels in the project If you change an attribute eg Teacher the frame
59. ecipe used to recreate your layout Your images are not attached or embedded into the project but linked to the project If you want to fully back up your files or transfer them to another machine with source images archive them This is useful if you don t have remote store or a shared network to store your work on To archive click on FILE on the menu then choose ARCHIVE RESTORE then Archive for public use This will create a much larger file called a scrappackage on your system Pass this file to another user who can then choose FILE gt ARCHIVE RESTORE gt RESTORE The project will then explode depositing the source images onto their machine and reopening it in tact It can then be saved in the normal manner and can be inserted into another project via the Pages hover if required PASSWORD PROTECTION FotoFusion allows you to password protect your files so they cannot be opened or edited by an unauthorized user To enable password protection open your project and click on the FILE menu items then choose Project Management gt Password protect Type in a password and password reminder of your choice to turn this feature on then save the project When you try to open the project FotoFusion will prompt for the password This works for files saved locally and on remote storage OPENING A SAVED PROJECT To load an existing project meaning one you have already created and saved pick one of these options e Click on t
60. ed by their title underneath Appearance contains controls for the color and opacity of the text and allows you to add an outline solid or dashed Matte is disabled for panel labels 2008 LumaPix Inc 92 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help W Shadow e Below the Font options are the label Shadow options E Show Shadow It is highly recommended to keep the shadow off labels Diss oe Bias 035 shadows will make your labels very difficult to read particularly when the book is printed Angle 45 Amount 255 Shadow Inside E CUSTOMIZING YOUR PANEL HEADERS ABCDEF 82 Ba fee Pet Le I AF a Fest L i p ai i L Pow bie e The Header is a title bar that appears over each section of your panel The header text will only be visible if you choose to group your panels after they are populated Grouping will tell the header to use a particular field in the database such as the teacher s name or the Type Group Cont d Type Headers are always pulled from the Group that is dlicrunerit ni organizing the panel You can choose to use the Group Ede 7 name alone only at the start of the panel group If you Con t Text Cont d choose Group Cont d panels that run over the next page will start with a header and your choice of continuation text type your choice in the Con t Text box If you don t want an autogenerated header you can turn it off completely Change Size to increade the siz
61. eed connection is available then relaunch e Still no luck getting rid of Ea Internet security software might be blocking FotoFusion check your firewall settings in this case Some internet security software may block FotoFusion from accessing your connection completely If you are at home check into your firewall settings or temporarily disable the security software don t access email or the Internet if you do this then relaunch FotoFusion If it is now online you ve determined what is blocking the connection in the software e If you are connected to the internet es is showing but still can t get the content then do the following click on EDIT on the menu 2008 LumaPix Inc 64 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help 12 choose USER PREFERENCES choose the Network tab turn on the checkbox at the top of the editor to detect Internet Explorer proxy settings relaunch FotoFusion e If you are in a school then show your IT professional the System Requirements FotoFusion Installation amp Activation section info at the start of this manual They may need to open up access on the school network The Organize Tab i Organize The IE MEEA tab is used to view your catalogue of candid images and projects on locally accessed drives and folders The Organize tab also allows you to view the contents of your PSPA import and make changes to the database information this is explained in detail in the
62. ets to only one group If the panel has been grouped eg by grade by teacher you can pick ONE group to apply new attributes to For instance you can change the frame border color for only the members of the graduating class Columns and rows Change the number of frames per page If you increase the number of columns and rows you will get a greater quantity of smaller sized frames on your page Layout defines where the labels will be placed relative to their image i k 1 2008 LumaPix Inc 84 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help LABELS LABELS BESIDE PANEL SNUG Form Fyahhuri hehhe Tenia hrpi LABELS BESIDE B ty ory Alignment defines labels and frames will be relative to the page e Edge refers to the outward facing side of the page and gutter to the inside bound edge The labels will flip sides on adjacent pages e Left and right will make the labels consistent across all pages always aligned in the same position Facing pages will look identical Border width affects the size frame border around the images Dial it up for thicker borders set it to 0 for no borders Header size and label size change the size of the text to these areas Note the color chips next to these three options click on them to customize 2008 LumaPix Inc Yearbook Panels 85 Featured Images is set to 0 by default creating a panel with equal sized frames Chang
63. f you adjust these settings a school full of ghosts aliens or even worse 14 Output options pe Some yearbook users may see an tab and a t tab at the top of their screen others may not depending on the options provided by their yearbook publisher The 3 tab allows you to send emails perhaps watermarked as per your publisher s settings The emails are low resolution HTML versions of your project which will allow the end recipient to receive the graphics in a manageable format rather than a 2008 LumaPix Inc 94 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help huge file with attachments These are not printable versions of your project just preview images Select this tab add your recipient s name a title and send an email directly with in the software a Output If your software has an tab you may find the following options fully or partially enabled Some publishers allow watermarked or low resolution 72 dpi output to allow you to create a proof file but not create printable versions of your project e to a file choose this to create a flattened version of your project e to the web choose this to create an html version of your pages which can be posted on your website e to a printer choose this to print from a local printer yg Output To make a flattened file of your project click on the tab and select TOA FILE from the list of options SF ev ee kotokusion Untitled M
64. f your Priority prioritization work will have been done Ensuring that every meee member of your database has been assigned a priority will rank them with the panels teachers will appear at the First Mame front of their classes and the principal at the front of the Staff page CUSTOMIZING YOUR PANEL S APPEARANCE ABCOEF The second set of icons allows you EN Ez Ea to change the way the panel looks A EE gs La overall L You can e reconfigure the way the grid of image frames appears by choosing the panel section of the icon ABCDEF n Be Eo A BRE WL e change the panel label text by choosing the label portion of the icon ABCDEF 6 BIE Ea A ERE Le e or change the panel title bar options by choosing the header options ABLOEF Eiz BA F EE Le A new set of drawers will open on the Panel hover for each of these selections CUSTOMIZING THE PANEL GRID Choose the grid to access options to change the grid s appearance ABCDEF S89 BA a J f e 2008 LumaPix Inc LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help Frames Frames change the size and arrangement of the panel Width 4 412 frames Donma a e Width changes the actual size of the frames Rows 5 Free e Columns amp rows change the number of frames on the ll a E 9 page autoadjusting their size Free will cause the frames width value to override the number columns and rows ie Features 1 the columns and rows will change
65. g in on a small element within a larger image eg a single person in a classroom portrait will produce similarly bad results There simply isn t enough information in the image to make it clear when resized 8 Text Frame Options ADDING TEXT Text can be added directly to the canvas as a title or a paragraph of text or attached to an image frame such as a caption or a label Yearbook panel text options will be covered in the Yearbook panel section of this guide To add a text frame to your canvas you can 2008 LumaPix Inc 44 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help a Click on any empty area on or outside the canvas A toolbox will appear select the Text option or b Hold the T key on your keyboard while dragging a marquee shape roughly the same size as your finished text A text frame will appear on your canvas Doubl Click to Change To add text attached to an image frame select one or more images then click on the T option on the tool box A text frame will appear on top of the image When you move the image frame the text frame will follow it 2008 LumaPix Inc Text Frame Options 45 g2ePhotorravher at large In either case double click on the sample text and start typing The sample text will be replaced with your words You can edit your text freely and select portions of the text to add particular features eg bold one word change the size for one
66. ging this will cause the panel to occupy more or less space on the page as a whole CUSTOMIZING THE LABELS To change the way the panel labels will appear click on the Panel text portion of the icon at the top of the Panel editor 2008 LumaPix Inc Yearbook Panels 91 Label Settings allow you to specify where the text will appear on the edge or gutter of the page on the right or left side of the page or under each image frame Having the Snug box check on will make the label closer to the panel images at _ Style select where the labels will appear on the panel ais Beside the panel beside the panel snug will place the Alignment Edge 7 names in a column down the side of the entire panel Width 4 6 Height 0 148 Beside the image will show the lab next to the image itself Space o4 Under the image will caption each image Alignment if the labels are beside the panel you can choose which side of the panel or the page to place the column You can choose to always place it to the right or left of the panel so the lables will always be in a consistent position or orient it to the edge or gutter of the page so the labels will flip sides on alternate pages Width and height can be adjusted to create more or less space for the text and the Space to create more room between the labels and the panel yi The Font drawer allows you to specify the way the labels 2 06 45 UserCustom attibut EE will appear
67. he Start projects OR e Click on FILE on the menu bar and select OPEN OR e Press Ctrl O on your keyboard button to view the Start Zone where you can LOAD existing 2008 LumaPix Inc 10 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help These three options will launch the OPEN window Your computer s file system is located to the left you can navigate to any subdirectory on your system to locate scrap or collage files on your system The Sort and View options allow you to customize the preview display View vi Thumbnad v t x E cH K t O BackupProjects BadupTenpates ee ET C My Archived Collages r 0 Scrapgrande Noel 11 Scrapgrande Noel 15 O my wedding albums pa Project Project O my Personal albums O Templates psa N O My HelpAndManual Projects Ess 3 E EZ My Pictures baba ka O Per stuff Scrapgrande Noel 12 cr H Y My Computer i Project Sy My Network Places ej Recycle Bin LI Desktop O LP bullds L screencaptures Name suppoit lemon chilfon There are other ways to open projects in FotoFusion e Click on FILE on the menu to see a list of recently opened projects at the bottom OR i Organize e Click on the tab then on the Search tab For projects and pages change TYPE to Saved Work and select Projects or Pages For templates change SOURCE to My Database and then change TYPE to Templates Thumbnails of your projects pages or templates will appear
68. he size of the preview thumbnail views then click inside the preview area and while holding the Ctrl key on your keyboard use your mouse wheel or the up down arrows on your keyboard to change the size of the thumbnails To change the way your mouse wheel scrolls functions click on the EDIT menu item and choose USER PREFERENCES From the preview area you can now e double click on an image to preview it in a larger viewer e select a group of images and then LAuteccl 28 them on your canvas e add keywords to an image or multiple images from the Properties area which will allow you to search for them by keyword e drag one or more images into the Buckets tabs or type the corresponding bucket number to triage your photos into categories of your choice Buckets Buckets are a particularly useful feature to preorganize a multipage project For instance if you were working on the sports section of your book you could add images to separate buckets for each sport or by a timeline eg football team practice regular season the playoffs fans and cheer Toggle back to the Create screen to access these buckets from hover to drop the images onto your page 2008 LumaPix Inc 66 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help Four buckets show by default Right mouse select in the buckets area of the organizer to add up to nine buckets The contents of the buckets will be saved with your locally saved project FINDING
69. hese templates to launch them on screen You can drag drop images into the empty frames or autopopulate them 2008 LumaPix Inc Graphics amp Templates 63 X Canne D M Click on the content in the lists to load it Run As Bundled 9 Featured Learn Support U J A Frames 108 G Wedding Albums 1 Basic Templates 265 Mattes 149 EJ Words and Letters p101 misc 76 E LIBRE nmnre BeBe ene Ee Po E E EGGE en en od oe oie eel oe i ce i oe te ii ere me MMB Btw ee eee Se E E Sports Cards 1 v Show this when starting FotoFusion Click the items below for a quick start You can manage the pages of the templates from the Pages hover duplicate delete or reorder the pages You can mix and match as well For instance you could open up Set 08 to use for your sports pages and save the project Next open up Set 05 for the clubs amp associations pages and save those You can add these multipage projects into your master yearbook the one containing your panel pages so each section has a consistent look TROUBLESHOOTING If you are having trouble accessing graphic content check the following pe ms e In the bottom right corner of the Create screen do you see E or Ea The orange plug means your software is not or cannot connect to the internet To fix check to ensure that a high sp
70. ibutes Grade Staff Teacher Mr Germain Home Room Last Name Germain FirstName Stephen Middle Name Volume Yearbook Period Track Department Faculty Title Teacher Priority 3 Groups StafPages StudentPages Notes Salutation Exdude no Now we have more complete info about this al r person Stephen Germain is still a staff member belonging to Mr Germain s class But we also know he is a faculty member who is a teacher and is ranked with priority 3 The Priority ranking will put him in front of his students in the student pages and in front of support staff but behind administration on a Staff page He can appear on both StaffPages and Student Pages Every member of your school teachers students administration and support staff should all be classified with the Make into feature You can tweak information manually such as changing titles for individuals or their relative ranking For example you can manually assign the Principal a Priority of 1 to make them appear at the top of any panel in which they appear and give them a title of Principal It is a very good idea to assign teachers to their own class and grade This will ensure that they appear in their own panels We ll cover the actual process of populating the panel in the next section of this manual ADDING PEOPLE TO THE DATABASE 2008 LumaPix Inc Yearbook Panels 77 from a 2nd PSPA import
71. in the preview window Double click on your project to launch it Extreme users can multi select templates pages and projects and open append these one after another Right mouse down on the selected thumbnails to access this option Two people cannot work on the same file at the same time If you are working on a yearbook with a committee assign pages or chapters to each member of the committee The yearbook manager can receive these individual projects and insert them into the master yearbook project the one containing the pspa database panel pages via the Pages hover DELETING PROJECTS Right mouse select any project thumbnail either in File gt Open or in the Organizer Search gt type Saved work projects to SEND TO RECYCLE BIN This will place your projects into the Windows Recycle Bin If you made a mistake and need to restore them you can do so from the Windows Recycling bin itself REMOTE STORAGE 2008 LumaPix Inc Saving loading and deleting projects 11 Remote storage allows certain FotoFusion users as enabled by their yearbook publishers to save and load projects to a LumaPix server This feature enables file Sharing within FotoFusion without dependence a local network For instance a yearbook committee can work from home in the school or at an internet cafe sharing project files from their space on the server If you are only allows to save locally or your computer is not connected to
72. ine 2008 LumaPix Inc Text Frame Options School Spirit default Arial text new font and color with Skewing and aie Effect Opaque Shaded Bod 0 Rotation Area Type Rectangular Text Direction Upright Left to Right Top to Text Shaping Default kerning Allow Line Breaks 49 2008 LumaPix Inc 50 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help Skew controls will slant distort your text Click the button to restore to the default Sened iN le AA nygd O41 le Skewed text right lantsy text right URNA A ARQ AY Offset only works on a selected set of characters within a text frame It will move the selection up or down relative to the other characters It is somewhat like Superscript except you control how far up or down the text moves Click the button to restore to the default Only the word offset has been offset in this sentence Rotation controls allow you to spin the characters in place Click the button to restore to the default Non rotated text Polgled iert 25 Area type can add a general shape to your text this works best for a longer paragraph not a title To use this feature ensure that the Resize to fit is NOT selected on the Basic tab his This is an j A Ki le of text Sie examp i example made in a square of text frame with the following features itis set to lock and clip and to justified 1 on the Basic tab On the
73. ject The information does not over write the PSPA CD and is not transferred to other computers using the same image set As such panel page creation is best done on one computer However if you upload your project to remote storage the database will be included in the project STEP 3 IDENTIFY ROLES FOR STAFF amp STUDENTS FotoFusion has added a new simplified way to make panels in the 2010 11 version of the software This is enabled by identifying the roles of the individuals at the school by adding detail about them their department their title their group and their priority You can assign this information in a few quick clicks using the MAKE INTO option in the School tab How does this work Very few yearbooks will display all the members of the school in one long continuous panel in alphabetical order Usually the book will contain a staff page with the Principal at the top of the page teachers and support staff 2008 LumaPix Inc Yearbook Panels 75 The class panels will be organized by grade or homeroom and teacher and the teacher will generally be the first person in their panel The current standard PSPA information doesn t tell you anything about the people in the photos just their name and what class they belong to there is no way to know that the office staff and custodians are not teachers and that teachers should be in front of their class panels followed by student teachers
74. ked out removed by clicking directly on them They will appear as red ghost frames and will not appear on your finished project Click on the red frames to restore them to normal frames 2008 LumaPix Inc 82 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help Ivey School of Business Class of 2009 PANELS IN SIMPLE MODE Simple panel population allows you to pick from a set of predefined options In order to enable this you will need to have done a few easy steps to your imported database on the Organize tab using the Make Into feature Make Into is described in detail in the previous Your PSPA section but briefly it allows you to assign roles to the people at your school which makes panel population easier and smarter Once everyone in your school has been assigned a role you can use the presets in the first drop box to pick the type of panel you want to make The presets include Panel BEJ Simple C Advanced e All everyone in the school will be listed first by rank admin staff then teachers h09se Complete Panel then support staff then students in P alphabetical order Pick One e Staff by department All persons E Pick One gt tagged to be on StaffPages will appear grouped into their departments EE ay Administration Teachers Support Staff into separate sections cite a Staff by department Students by grade All students and teachers will be grouped by their grade in alphabetical
75. ls the computer what to do with the other files installed on your computer Some files on your computer will launch software other files will help software perform particular tasks other files will store data such as your projects 2008 LumaPix Inc 12 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help To see your files click on the Windows Ag start button and choose My Computer or your computer s name This will launch an application called Windows Explorer Note Windows Explorer is NOT than Windows Internet Explorer which is a web browser Windows Explorer allows you to see how all the files on your computer are organized It also allows you to control to some extent where files and folders are stored on your computer The top level organization in Windows shows the different drives in your computer A drive is a storage device Your hard disk which is the main internal storage device in your computer is usually called the C drive CD drives and external drives will have their own drive letters assigned to them If you can unplug a storage device such as a USB key or an external hard drive it may not have the same letter assigned to it each time you plug it in Some school computers will not show a C folder but point to a network folder with another letter Under each of the drives you will find folders If you can t see your folders click on the FOLDERS button at the top of Windows Explorer You will see a file tree
76. manner it is important not to do the following during the process of creating your book you will get missing images warning because FotoFusion will not be able to link back to the original images e Do NOT rename your image files after you ve added them into a project e Do NOT move the image files to a new folder e If your project images are on a cd memory stick or other external memory device 2008 LumaPix Inc 24 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help ensure that this device is plugged in before reopening a saved project e If your project is saved in a computer lab ensure that the photos are available in a folder that all computers in the lab can access If you make a project on Computer A with photos saved locally to your C drive then save your project to a shared network folder then reopen the project on Computer B the photos will be marked as missing If you do get a Missing Images warning you can reconnect the images by clicking on TOOLS on the menu and then choosing LOCATE MISSING IMAGES Read the Managing Your Yearbook section of this guide to learn how to transfer projects from one computer to another to avoid this type of problem ADDING IMAGES TO YOUR PAGE Image frames can be drawn on the canvas as empty items ready to be populated with images or you can drop images directly onto the canvas The image will appear in a default frame style 2008 LumaPix Inc Adding Candid Images 25
77. odified provided by Acme Yearbooks Inc Oe a AS UR aN Vad a Nea RT ae aE aE ar al ra he ia ees a File Edit View Insert Selection Tools Help E Create ME Organize A Share A Output Location to export this image to Resolution and Quality File Name My Vacation in Aruba oo Dots Per Inch 100 Size 1100 by 850 aay i FA File Type pes wel File rami E Default mY Quality 100 E J Folder gsiLDarrochiMy Documents My PicturesiMy Exported Collages Best quality Very large size Render Canvas Only w Watermark Collage Show Crop Marks Sharpen reduced images Convert to sRGB and tag with sRGB ls 4dd Banner Overlay Image Info i se ree Scene CY j EPA Seas iar aa 2 zoom bo Fi SSS SESS Sa Don t split covers The Export options are as follows e File name type in any name you would like to give the file Click on the button to select a previously used file to over write or on the gt gt button to choose among predefined text tags eg exif data Extreme Yearbook only e File type usually jpg or pdf e File naming scheme FotoFusion offers a number of predefined options to name your files Options include page numbering project and file names and album manufacturer s settings e Folder click on the arrow button to change the folder where your files will be saved on your system e Crop options dr
78. of the time Only use it for special effects such as a Short title Keeping the shadow on paragraphs of text or panel labels will result making it very difficult to read particularly after it has been printed Adjusting the Shadow through the Toolboxes 2008 LumaPix Inc 52 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help The Shadows control in both the text and image toolboxes can be dragged to edit the shadow e Drag left right Shadow Offset e Drag up down Shadow Blur e Click here for more information on how to drag the controls 28 Adjusting the Shadow through the Shadow Editor Click the shadow control on the Toolbox to open the Editor for more detailed control Shadow QOOA Show Shadow Offset 0 06 Blur 0 25 Angle 45 Amount 255 Shadow Inside 6E 2008 LumaPix Inc Shadows 53 w a Ks l l A bffset iner eased Mte reased ee l ABE list Cow J fanale changed J no shadow Image by Kent Smith Offset The shadow offset determines how far from the frame the shadow is displayed If you increase the value the shadow will appear farther away from the image Blur Changing the blur makes the shadow harder or softer Angle The angle determines the apparent position of the light source producing the shadow of the frame Amount The Amount determines the opacity of the shadow effect Shadow Inside If the shadow is inside the border does not cast a sha
79. ol simply press the left mouse button while hovering over an icon in the toolbox and move the mouse In this example an image has been selected Press and hold the left mouse button on the border portion of the toolbox dragging the mouse will change the side of the border Release the mouse button when you are satisfied with the border width Some controls such as Drop Shadows can be dragged both left right shadow offset and up down shadow blur You can press esc before releasing the mouse button to cancel the changes if necessary Opening Editors with the Toolbox Clicking on a control in the toolbox will open a floating editor which contains detailed editable parameters 2008 LumaPix Inc Image Frame Options 33 1 Image allows you to adjust the properties of the image Mouse down and drag to change brightness contrast and gamma click down to open the Image Editor for more options 2 Border allows you to adjust frame shape and border properties Mouse down and drag to change the border width click to open the Frame Editor 3 Shadow allows you to adjust the shadow properties Mouse down and drag to change blur offset etc click to open the Shadow Editor 4 Arrange and Distribute click to open the Arrange tool to position your frame on the canvas relative to the edges center point and other frames 5 Splitter Tool allows you to cut one frame into several equal sized frames Mouse down and
80. on left right when a page is duplicated or moved down the stack This may be useful if you have made pages with titles oriented to the outer edge of the page If autoflip is not on and the page moves from a right side to a left side page the title will stay in the same position To turn Autoflip on a single page open the pages hover and right mouse select the page s thumbnail You ll see the autoflip option at the bottom of the list along with the Flip layout options useful for repurposing empty templates by changing the direction of the page contents DEYI Ul Fragen l Auto Flip Layout i Flip Layout Left Right RIIE e n By Es ee gonf Flip Layout Top Bottom x al ea Cys ka 7 Ree Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 F Autoflip can be turned on automatically click on EDIT on the menu then choose User Preferences You ll see a checkbox option in the bottom left New Fages Flip Layouts When Pages Change Sides 2008 LumaPix Inc Graphics amp Templates 59 11 Graphics amp Templates FotoFusion contains thousands of graphic elements which can be used freely to decorate your pages A high speed internet connection is required to access these collections CLIPART amp PAPERS LF Art Frames Papers Click on any of these buttons m tO look at clip art decorative border options and background papers Just drag and drop individ
81. on the menu then choose SAVE If you need to make a copy of a revised page but want to keep the original project then choose SAVE AS and give the file a new name Make note of the directory and folder where you are saving your work to ensure you will be able to find them again on your computer Depending on the working environment of the team projects can be shared in several ways If your team is working in a computer lab you may find that working off a shared network drive works best All users will save their projects and images to a shared directory It is important that every computer accessing a common folder see the same drive letter meaning if Computer 1 sees a network drive called Y Computer 2 3 4 etc also sees this same drive as Y and not another letter This is important because FotoFusion will trace the images dropped into the project back to their original location and the project needs to find the images in exactly the same place all the time or it will report that the images are missing If your team is working from various locations home school library internet cafe etc without a network projects will be saved to the local hard disk of each computer To transfer the projects to the yearbook manager for inclusion in the master project each user can archive their project An archive creates a file called scrappackage file which contains all the source images and project recipe To archive a project la
82. op box Select Render Canvas Only to show only the finished size of your project e Show Crop Marks Keep this off it s not useful for your project as it is only used by pro printers 2008 LumaPix Inc Output options 95 e Sharpen reduced images It is recommended to leave this option on to ensure the best quality for your images e Watermark Collage Keep it off your publisher will have specified what is available in this option e Add Banner Keep it off not a yearbook feature e Overlay Image Info Turn this on only if you want the file names of all the images in your project to be displayed e Resolution and Quality You may be able to set the resolution or DPI dots per inch of your exported collage to fit your requirements though your publisher s settings may have blocked this Generally use 100 150 dpi for previews proofs or 300 dpi for high quality ag Output The tab may also allow you to print your projects as a proof perhaps at low resolution or watermarked x To Print a Aoao No Rec I Add full bleed region Ore crop ines How to Print I Certa on printed papali M Match onentation of pinted page Cropping Mone gt gt fe was ete __ Preview Color Profile Print How Use pinter color peoiie o Paper Typo ee D Hinged Paper P mahi ably w Printer HP Deskjet 6340 serer PC z TAA CENA a OO POSO one tobe Page Size Letter Soke F Overlay
83. ork settings 2 New Project 14 Numbers on the frame 23 0 Offline issues 59 Offset 51 ONLINE STATUS 14 Opacity 28 Opening 8 ordering the panels 80 Organizer 64 67 Organizing my computer 11 organizing the panel 80 organizing the panels 80 Organizing your yearbook 4 Orient 28 Output to file 93 Output to web 93 Oval frame 28 P Page breaks 80 PAGE TYPES 14 Pages hover 14 pan 28 PANEL EDITOR 14 Panel hover 80 panel pages 4 67 panel population 80 panel set grouping 80 Panel text options 80 Papers 59 pdf 93 png 93 Populate 80 populating 80 populating a panels 80 Ports 2 Printing 93 priority 67 project folders 11 PSPA 67 PSPAcd 67 R ratings 64 Redlines 14 Red Eye 28 Registring your softwaer 2 Remote 8 removing a page 14 Replacing a portrait 67 Resize to fit 43 resize your images 28 resizing thumbnails inthe organizer 64 Resolution 28 Resolution warning 28 Restoring anarchive 8 RGB 28 2008 LumaPix Inc 100 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help Roles 67 root directory 64 rotate 28 nes Safe zone 14 Save 8 Saving 8 Saving projects 11 Schooltab 67 Searchtab 64 selecting files 64 selecting images files 64 Sending to your publisher 96 Sepiatone 28 Setting the text s content 43 Shadow 28 Shadow color 51 Shadow editor 51 Shadow inside 51 Shadows 51 Shapes 28 Share 93 Sharing files 8 Sharing images 23 shopping cart 14 Show all 67 Sho
84. panel pages and the database as two projects each with a database cannot be merged To add project to the Master Project all projects must all available to the yearbook manager either by being transferred through an archive file scrappackage or having them available by remote storage access or a shared network storage Once the yearbook manager has access to all the component projects available archives have been restored and saved locally network remote storage projects are available then the master project should be opened FILE gt Open Again this is the project that 2008 LumaPix Inc LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help contains the panel pages and the appended database From the 965 version Pages AB J X A P Ea Sian Bate Awe g E 2 Bo Su f ty y kad a we ML Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 m Use the Insert Project option on the Pages hover to add the individual projects one at a time into the Master Project After the pages are added into the project they can be moved up and down the project and in between the panel pages by means of the arrow keys Note candid pages can be moved in between panel pages but not vice versa If a page needs to be deleted then select it and use the deletion button Pages can also be duplicated copied Pages A Pages AL DE P
85. r The image is now ready to be used in a project and is available for all other users at your school Gallery YEFUserB03 y r Fotolia 261417 Fotolia 382068 Upkading Pending i D k s Fotolia 1105046 Fotolia 250183 Fotolia 4024450 Fotolia 4442520 To create a folder in the Gallery hover right mouse select in the blank area Double click on a folder to open it to add images or use images that have already been added Right mouse select any image or folder in the Gallery to rename or delete it Using the Gallery Dropbox The Dropbox is a way to receive images in FotoFusion without needing to have the 2008 LumaPix Inc 28 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help software installed This is useful if someone at your school has images at home for the yearbook but is not part of the yearbook committee or doesn t have access to the software In order to transfer images to the dropbox first click on it within FotoFusion You will notice that a website address appears at the top of the hover Gallery me a DropBox http dropbox lumapix com 97e8 Tbed Add Images Copy this address and send it to anyone who needs to feed images to the yearbook project When the address is pasted into a web browser an identical layout to the Gallery hover will display htn Sarno Eile Edit Wicas Eavanritor Tanle Ueln H x dit View Favorites Tonls Heln File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Ss _ Oo
86. rage Please select the proper location gt Locally Your project will be saved on a local drive or on the local network Remote Storage Save on network location provided by your publisher Cancel Return to your work Choose the Remote Storage option You will be prompted to create a nickname this is used to identify the person who made the project and who currently has it opened If a project is marked with a lock then another person in the group is editing it Two users cannot work on the same project at the same time The lock can be overridden by right mouse selecting the page thumbnail in case a user has kept the project open on their computer accidentally You will be able to see who has the project locked by trying to open it their nickname will appear Saving to Remote Storage can take some time because you are uploading the project and every image contained within it The speed of the transfer depends on your internet connection and local network traffic Remote storage also enables the ability to add images to the Gallery hover read more about this in the Adding Candid Images section ASSEMBLING YOUR BOOK The yearbook manager is usually the person who will control the final assembled book project we ll call it this the master project The master project will contain the panel pages and the database that allows the panel images to be organized and labeled Only ONE project should contain the
87. required STEP 2 EDITING PSPA DATA After importing your PSPA CD FotoFusion may show an error message indicating that there is incomplete data related to certain images and to prompt you to fix it Typical missing information includes first and last names grades teachers and departments If the information is not fixed there may be errors in your panels such as excluding individuals from the panel Here is an example of a message received after importing A few problems have been found so the affected images have been placed in named buckets 355 records imporbed students were missing First or last names The images hare been placed in bucket 1 1 students were missing grade information The images have been placed in bucket 3 Missing information must be Filed in for all images before panels can be populated Select the images in each bucket in the Organizer then fil any empty grade beacher last or first nome fields 3 issing Teacher Missing Grade 13 ma es 1 Ima Bucket 1 0 Ima 2008 LumaPix Inc 74 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help h Froperties Last Name a First Name o add or correct data click on a bucket to view the images it yjcontains Grade 10 i When the images in the bucket appear in the preview area select Teacher Bice an image to see the data associated r This information will be displayed in the Prope
88. rties area Paana m You can select multiple images at once by holding the control key on your keyboard and selecting the images or by drawing a marquee over a selection of images or by clicking on Ctrl A to select all images in a set This will allow you to correct common Middle Mame missing information such as the teacher s name volume Yearbook 3 If one images is selected it will appear in preview and the Period L l information associated with the file will appear in the Custom Track L Attributes area Multiple selected images will display no preview E p but show common attributes assigned to the group Title E In the example shown to the right the student does not have any information under the Last Name and First Name fields If this information is not added the student will not have a first name Priority w Groups jappear next to their photo in the panel pages o add the missing information simply type in the appropriate empty box You do not need to hit Enter or Apply the information lis added immediately and will save in FotoFusion s database The Notes LL _ linformation will still be present the next time you launch your Exclude na a project On occasion you may not need to add the missing information 00006 iPhoto For instance the school custodian would not have a Grade and the Principal will not have a teacher Any changes made in the database ONLY apply to the pro
89. s You can create folders in Windows Explorer to organize your images and project file Click on the Windows Explorer FILE menu item and choose NEW or right mouse click on the main file area and choose NEW then pick Folder You can name the folder anything you want Some users will create a separate folder for each project they are working on For instance a photographer will create a folder called Smith Jones Wedding Into this folder she will place e all the source images jpgs e the FotoFusion project files scrap e the exported project pages Ideally these should not have the same name as the FotoFusion scrap file to avoid confusion If the photographer needs to work on that client s project or images then all materials related to their event will be stored in one central location FINDING LOST PROJECT If you cannot remember where you saved a file you can use FotoFusion or Windows Explorer to find it Generally all projects made on your computer will appear in the FotoFusion File gt Open window If you are trying to find and open a file made on another computer you will need to navigate to the subdirectory where the file is stored If this doesn t work you can use one of the following methods to locate files on your computer To find images exported projects or FotoFusion project files in Windows Explorer Hit Ctrl F on your keyboard this will launch the Search tool 2008 LumaPix Inc
90. s the back cover and the right side of the page is the front cover E dl Be careful when choosing a cover sheet type some publishers will offer different cover sizes for books depending on the number of pages in the book The cover and spine needs to be wider to fit the extra pages F li ii li li E ii I I ii li 1i E it I it Il It it I it it 1 11 I it 1 hee me eens om os ae ADDING AND MANAGING PAGES Click on the the pin icon The Pages hover allows to to select and manage your project The options to add pages are available from the little toolbox on the left hand side of the hover Fags button at the bottom of the Create screen Dock it by clicking on By we BSD Cower Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 7 Cower 2008 LumaPix Inc 22 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help To add a New Page select the first icon If your currently selected product contains multiple page sizes eg album sides double page spreads covers you ll be able to pick which one you want Keep in mind that panel pages can only be made on Album sides Use the Insert Project hover to add other separately Saved projects one at a time into the current project Note projects each containing a database cannot be merged together so be sure to only have one project with the panel images and database Pages can be moved up an
91. s way all the Grade 4s will appear together organized by by teacher Here is an example of a Panel grouping Notice how all the group s associated labels appears below the grouping options Click on one of the names in this list or hold the Ctrl key on your keyboard and select more than one You will now be able to e user the up and down arrow keys to move one or more groups to a different position in the panel set For instance maybe the graduating classes need to appear at the front of the book select their groups and use the up arrow to advance them past all the undergrad groups turn off a group Maybe your graduating class shouldn t appear in this panel set In this example select these groups by their teacher s name and turn off the ENABLE button They will disappear from the panel set turn off Page Breaks between panels To save space maybe you would like all the Grade 4s to run one after the other Select their teachers say Darroch Germain and Stalwick in this case and turn off the Page Break button Now the Germain class will start on the same page as the last line of the Darroch class and the Stalwick class will start right following the Germain class 2008 LumaPix Inc Yearbook Panels 89 Sorting allows you to organize the panels internal to the grouping ae 3 If you have used the Make Into feature described in G i Sorting J se detail in Your PSPA Data chapter most o
92. shared edge a Snap a small dragable control is placed on ruler at the position of the shared edge The frames on the canvas are stacked in the order they were dropped like a cards laying on top of each other on a tabletop If two frames overlap one will appear in front of the other You can change the stacking order First select one of more frames the right mouse down on the selection Choose to Bring forward Send backwards or Bring to front Send to back from the list of options ou can also use keyboard shortcuts to change the order Ctrl U Bring Forward 1 layer at a time Ctrl Shift U Bring To Front Alt U Send Backwards and Alt Shift U Send to Back Other options to change the order of the frames can be found on the Arrange toolbox item see below or by clicking on the Tree project button to see the entire hierarchy of your 2008 LumaPix Inc 32 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help THE TOOLBOX A toolbox will appear when you select any image frame on your canvas The toolbox allows you to e Interactively edit the selected element e Open an editor for more precise controls e Access additional selections such as frame order rotation splitting adding text and other features Image Frame Toolbox Interactive editing Many of the controls in the the toolbox can be dragged interactively doing so will change an important parameter related to the selected object To drag the contr
93. shment graphics will only display 4 handles The reason for this is that embellishments will not resize outside of their original proportions so they will not be cut off inside the frame Image by Kent Smith 2008 LumaPix Inc 30 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help To pan an image meaning to move the image within the frame move the cursor over the oe pan handle in the center of the image Press and hold the left mouse button then drag the mouse around until the picture is positioned as you like it When you are satisfied with the new position for the image release the left mouse button To rotate a frame first select it then move the cursor over the rotate handle for that frame Press and hold the left mouse button Drag the mouse The frame will rotate as you move the mouse When you are satisfied release the left mouse button You can press the esc key to abort the drag if necessary To spin the image WITHIN the frame to correct for a crooked camera angle or for an effect hold the Ctrl key on the keyboard while moving your mouse on the rotate handle of the selected frame s Normal Unrotated unspun notated Spun 2008 LumaPix Inc Image Frame Options 31 To crop zoom in out drag on the little yellow interior handles of the frame Note these handles do not appear in element type frames such as clip art where you woul
94. t side page Generally you will want autoflip ON for panel pages and OFF for candid pages 2008 LumaPix Inc Getting Started 23 6 Adding Candid Images UNDERSTANDING FRAMES Each image and text item lives within a frame When you pick up and move an image on the canvas you are really moving the frame The frame pulls the picture or text along with it like an object nested inside a box Douole Clicx to cnans A populated image and text frame on a blank canvas blank canvas The images displayed on your canvas are not the full resolution image opened on your screen You cannot directly edit alter or destroy the images on your FotoFusion canvas exception the red eye removal tool The images you see on your FotoFusion canvas are low resolution thumbnail copies of your images which are linked back to the original file Because FotoFusion is working with mini copies of your photos it allows your computer to use hundreds even thousands of images in your project If the full version of the image was used then your computer s memory wouldn t be able to handle more than a dozen images in one project When FotoFusion creates a final version of your project rendering it to file uploading to your yearbook publisher printing it it returns to the original file to collect all the missing information from your images to make a high quality output page by page IMPORTANT TIP Because the software works in this
95. tant if the yearbook is limited to a specific number of pages by the publisher Note if the publisher has set a target page count you will see it displayed in the bottom of the Create screen warning if you are over or under your page count limit The members of the committee can all work on separate mini projects saved under separate file names These projects can sent to the yearbook manager The yearbook manager will be able to insert the smaller projects into the final project the one containing the panel pages and order the pages accordingly Here is sample grid of how a yearbook project might be managed Design your own grid to suit your yearbook team and work flow Ap d project setermineg 15 10 Admin ess D Lincoln Feb Pam principal vp Net Ybk Candids Staff 15 10 etc Sports 6 football Nicole D Lincoln Apr baseball track Net Ybk Candids Sports 4 10 cheer other Lunch Cafeteria 1 esse D Lincoln Apr Net Ybk Candids candids 4 10 gen Fundraisers 2 bookfair esse D Lincoln Apr bakesale Net Ybk Candids candids 4 10 gen Drama amp 4 fall prod Katarina D Lincoln Apr performance winter glee Net Ybk Candids show 4 10 Fatowees band 2008 LumaPix Inc LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help OP cnc wl gen Net Ybk Candids gen 1 10 Ad pages Pam D Lincoln May Net Ybk Candids ad and 1 10 logos SAVING amp SHARING PROJECTS TO save a project in FotoFusion simply click on FILE
96. tc PCA_00133 em E s em LPCA_00135 em LPCA_00138 er e Objects has a vast array of AE aT ee S items such as animals clothing av equipment nature and school supplies to name a few e People provides clip art mostly in cartoon style of adults and kids To see a complete list of this collection in PDF format visit this webpage 2008 LumaPix Inc Graphics amp Templates Gallery The Covers folder contains E Elementary m double page sized TE N backgrounds you can drop onto a cover page then add F oa your own text LPCA_02411 jpq LPCA_02412 jpg_ LPCA_02413 jpq The covers appear as a flattened page the back eas cover is on the left side the Rees eee sy Meeps Sea front on the right If applied to a cover sheet page type e B you ll see thin green lines in the middle of the page j LPCA_ 02420 jpg LPCA_ 02422 jpg LPCA_02423 jpg LPCA_02424 jpg showing where the spine of the book will lay i Tip Th ere is no reason you LPCA_02425 jpg LPCA_ 02426 jpg LPCA_02427 jpg 9 LPCA_02428 jpg can t use these items inside ponn 2 your book added as papers to F the canvas background across album two page spreads W 4 aliha LPCA_02442 jpq LPCA_02443 jpg LPCA_02444 jpg LPCA_ 02445 jpg Showing 25 results To see a preview of all the covers in PDF format visit this webpage The Headers folder contains Gallery DA titles for grades and other
97. the internet then no option will appear when you save or open files If both local and remote storage are available in your account you will see the following options when you save or load a project FotoFusion Save Project L To save to your C drive a local pm network or an external storage Please select save location device choose Locally The project you are saving can be saved either on a local or T t h d network driwe or it can be sawed on your publisher s storage O Save to a shared space on our Please select the proper location network storage server choose Remote Storage Locally Your project will be sawed on a local drive or on the local The same options will be presented network when you are opening a project Remote Storage Save on network location provided by your publisher Cancel Return to your work You can make subfolders right mouse select inside the preview area Some project thumbnails may display a lock icon This indicates that another user is working on the project or that it has been locked for editing If you are positive no one has the project open right mouse select the page thumbnail to open it f 4 1 Understanding basic Windows file management If you are using FotoFusion you will have Windows installed on your computer be it Windows XP Windows 2000 or Windows Vista Windows is an operating system it is the master program on your computer that tel
98. then the students The Make into feature tags individuals in your school so you can use preset panels where you can create a panels with everyone in the appropriate order divided into their respective roles To add this info go to the School tab in the Organize section For starters select all the teachers in your database you can select them all at once or in small batches or one at a time W Custom Attributes In this example a single image has been Grade Staff selected Teacher Mr Germain Before we ve added the extra information this ee R is info associated with this image Last Name Germain All we know right now is that there is someone FirstName Stephen at the school named Stephen Germain who is a staff member in Mr Germain s class Is he a Middle Name sarees iri teacher An assistant teacher A special ed Volume Yearbook instructor What panels should he be in Just Perii his class a staff page We can t tell right now Tiis The Exclude box tells us that he will be Department included in the panel If it were set to yes then a that person wouldnt be included in the panels Priority sroups Notes Salutation Exdude no Click on the Make into box over the preview area and choose TEACHER 2008 LumaPix Inc 76 LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help Make into HT LT PLD lt Undetined gt Administration Student aoe Staff Custom Attr
99. tomize the panels images and graphics onto the changing the border styles the page or by using customizable number of frames and the templates provided with configuration of the grid FotoFusion MANAGING YOUR PROJECT There is no one right work flow for creating a yearbook project A yearbook can be created by a single individual on one computer It can be created by a group of people working in a shared computer lab or by a group 2008 LumaPix Inc Managing Your Yearbook 5 of people working in various locations from home at work and at school Regardless of the number of people working on the book one person should be appointed the yearbook manager The yearbook manager will e act as the primary contact between the school and yearbook company determine the sections for inclusion in the book assign tasks to committee members photography page design proof reading etc determine where images and project files will be saved and how they will be exchanged among committee members set deadlines to submit work e assemble the finished book into a single master project e submit the book to the yearbook publisher The yearbook manager will often create the panel pages as well as s he is the manager of the final assembled book If a group is working on the yearbook each team member may have one or more sections assigned to them with an expected page count for each section This is particularly impor
100. ttons anywhere on the canvas or leave them in the dock TABS Yearbook users will see at least two tabs at the top of the Create Screen ees Create The screen where all your editing work will be done E gt Organize L l The screen where you can view sort categorize and keyword your images and projects and manage your PSPA database images Some users may also see i Share tn If enabled by your publisher you will be able to send email versions of your project low resolution to other ag Output l l If enabled by your publisher you may be able to render your project to file eg aS a jpg or pdf upload your projects to your website or print it on a local printer 2 W4 Community If enabled by your publisher this launches an internet browser window giving you access to galleries support and other LumaPix related websites THE MENU BAR The menu bar contains every feature available in FotoFusion Almost all controls available in the Menu are available by directly selecting left and right mouse click items on your canvas File Edit View Insert Selection Tools Help E Most actions can and should be performed through direct mouse clicks on the canvas and through the hovers toolboxes and editors or through keyboard shortcuts as this is the most efficient way to use FotoFusion In general e File includes options to save load close and output your file e Edit allows you
101. tware is installed click on HELP on the menu bar then choose Activate FotoFusion Online Your publisher will have provided you with a user id usually contained in the same email as the download link This may be your school name an email address or a random 2008 LumaPix Inc LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help series of numbers The first user who activates a new FotoFusion account will set the password It is recommended that the person in charge of the yearbook project set the password and that a non sensitive non personal password be chosen as it will be shared with other FotoFusion users at the school Repeat the installation and activation procedure on any other computers that need to use the software using the same user id and password as the first installation Managing Your Yearbook WHAT IS A YEARBOOK Yearbooks and directories are usually composed of two kinds of pages panel pages and candid pages Panel pages are what makes a yearbook different from a regular photo book A panel page is the standard A candid page resembles a presentation style for portraits It scrapbook or photo book contains consists of a grid displaying custom text and informal photos portraits with names next to or of people and events under the photos a rl i FotoFusion allows you to automate Candid pages can be created from the production of the panel pages scratch by dropping and dragging You can cus
102. ual items from any of these hovers to add decorative items to your page Some yearbook users may find materials on separate hovers provided by their publishers The bulk of the graphics collection is available from the Saren hover Click on this hover and click on the down arrow to point to the LumaPix clipart folder You ll see four folders Clipart Covers Headers and Papers You may also see a folder from your publisher with additional content Gallery DEJ LumaPix Clipart Clipart Covers Headers al Papers 2008 LumaPix Inc LumaPix FotoFusion v4 Help The Clipart folder contains Gallery a1 1X thematically arranged ca are collections of drawings decorations stickers and photographic art LPCA_00118 em LPCA_00119 er LPCA_00120 er e Celebrations amp Observances has material related to events eg graduation C h ri stm a S LPCA_00121 em LPCA_00122 em LPCA_00123 em LPCA_00124 er e Decorations contains purely 5 decorative art such as p i Pd cartoon bubbles suns amp f B moons party decoration LPCA_00125 em LPCA_00128 en LPCA_00127 er LPCA_00128 er swirls and stickers tie e Interests amp Activities D contains items that relate to study and clubs commonly LPCA_00129 em LPCA_00130 em LPCA_00131 em LPCA_00132 er found in school such as art Pe TORN science sports religion the e wut Res environment e
103. unch it choose FILE on the menu then choose ARCHIVE RESTORE gt Archive for Public Use Copy the resulting scrappackage file to your external memory device This file can be sent to another user via a usb key dvd or other memory device to give to the yearbook manager The yearbook manager can restore the archive file and insert the resulting project into a master project To restore an archive choose FILE on the menu choose ARCHIVE RESTORE gt Restore Point to the scrappackage archive FotoFusion will deposit the images into a folder of your choice and reopen the project It can then be saved locally then inserted into the master project through the Pages hover Insert Project option If your publisher has provided your school with Remote Storage you will have the option to save projects and images to a LumaPix network server All users with a high speed internet connection regardless of where they are physically located can save their projects to this shared server storage space Remote storage will allow you to make and delete folders and rename and delete projects Choose File gt Save or Save As If you see the following dialogue you have access the Remote Storage server 2008 LumaPix Inc Managing Your Yearbook 7 eel FotoFusion Save Project 1 Please select save location The project you are saving can be saved either on a local or network drive or it can be saved on your publisher s sto
104. w only 67 Simple mode 80 Soft edge frame 28 sorting 80 sorting classes 80 sorting the panel 80 Source tab 64 Special effects for text 43 spin 28 spine 14 Splitter 28 Staff 67 Start 14 Start Wheel 14 Start Zone 14 Starting a New Project 14 students 6 7 subfolder 64 eTe TABS 14 Tags 43 Teacher at the front 67 80 Templates 59 Text 28 43 Text color 43 Text Editor 43 Text effects 43 Text on Canvas 43 Text on Image 43 Text outline 43 Text Tools 43 thumbnail view in organizer 64 tited 28 Titles 43 59 TOOL BAR 14 Toolbox 28 Turning off a group 80 TUTORIAL VIDEOS 14 U Uploading to your publisher 96 sV a VIDEOS 14 viewing images 64 W What is a candid page 4 What is a Frame 23 What is a Panel Page 4 What is a PSPA cd 67 What is a Yearbook 4 where did my projectgo 11 Where to save files 11 Windows 11 Y Yearbook manager 4 2008 LumaPix Inc Index Yearbook Sets Yellow handles i zoom 28 59 28 101 2008 LumaPix Inc

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