December 2009

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cheers, Danny.

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

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

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

Proof Sheets:

Slideshows:

Instant Slideshows:

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

Cheers, Danny

I’m not gonna lie, Photojunction’s slideshow creator is pretty quick. You can easily create a slideshow of an album design, including transitions and background music, in under a minute.

But get this. In 1.33b we’ve introduced an even quicker slideshow feature. Lightning quick. Click of a button quick!

The new Instant Slideshow feature creates a slideshow of the album design you’re working on, and displays it on your second monitor if you have one (if not, it’ll display on your primary monitor).

That’s very handy if you’re working on a design with a client and want to show them a quick preview of how it’s looking.

Right click on any layout in the Preview Palette and select ‘Play full screen slideshow’…

Or select the ‘Instant Slideshow’ option from the Menu item.

Cheers, Danny

Photojunction’s new feature is a timesaver.

It auto creates an album from a selected template collection, and populates the apertures with images from a selected image Group or Collection.

Before we move on, a disclaimer… Auto Flow is a simple feature. There’s no clever algorithm built in to choose and place images in a deliberately coherent order. We’re leaving some of the creative stuff up to you

You’ll find the Auto Flow option by clicking the ‘More’ button in the Event Window. Just click the ‘Create album from templates’ option and you’re away.

Photojunction will ask you to choose a Template collection (all templates must be either single or double sided), and the Group or Collection you’d like it to pull the images from.

Then voila! Photojunction will do all the grunt work and leave you to tell the story.

Cheers, Danny

As well as giving uploads their own tab on the Start Window we’ve introduced two “re-upload” options for Queensberry clients: ‘Full’ and ‘Partial’.

The Full Re-upload option, as the name suggests, uploads the entire order to Queensberry (the complete bundle - layouts, proxies, reports, everything).

The Partial Re-upload option allows you to re-upload just part of the order.

Here’s an example. Say Queensberry spotted some sensor dust on a couple of your images in layouts one, two and three. Instead of re-uploading the whole bundle, you could make the adjustments, and re-send just those three layouts.

Not only does it make life easier for you if you need to re-send parts of an order, but it makes keeping track of what you’re sending easier too.

Cheers, Danny