There are two ways to drag and drop templates

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cheers, Danny

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