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This is easier than you can imagine. If you want to design in front of a client, but hide all the tools and wizardry of Photojunction, then you can recruit the services of the Review Layout feature.
Here’s how:
Select the ‘Album Menu’ and click ‘Review Layout’
Or for the shortcut type:
And, yep, it uses the smart full screen feature, which means you can design on one screen while your clients follow along on another.
Cheers, Danny
Photojunction loves being double clicked. Everywhere.
Double click on any of the following:
An image in the design window…
An image in the crop tool…
An image in the event window…
…And Photojunction will blow the image up full screen for better viewing. On your second monitor if you have one.
Cheers, Danny
Before we get going talking about presentation, I wanted to introduce a nice common sense feature. Smart Full Screen.
It’s at the crux of most of the presentation features to come.
Whenever you ask Photojunction to display something fullscreen, Photojunction automatically detects your second monitor (if you have one) and uses that monitor to display the full screen – by default.
Primary Monitor Secondary Monitor
If you don’t have a second monitor, of course the features still work on your single monitor. Photojunction will just display the full screen on top of everything else.
Cheers, Danny
P.s. To close the full screen mode – just hit esc.
Everyone wants to know about ‘presenting to clients’… It’s one of our most asked about feature sets.
Since we’re big fans of mini-series (like Band of brothers, The Pacific, and our Template store tips), over the next few weeks we’re going to look into some of Photojunction’s cool features to help you present to your clients.
We’ll cover all sorts of things like using the Collection Builder, creating Slideshows, exporting Proof Sheets and plenty more.
Talk soon 
Cheers, Danny
Seen this? It’s called an iPad 
From my geeky point-of-view (with a Photojunction bias of course) I’m gutted it doesn’t run OS X, and therefore OS X apps….
What a shame. Would’ve been cool to see Photojunction run on the tablet.
Here’s hoping they open it up a little in future.
Anyway, back to work to focus on ‘low lying fruit’ (a favourite saying of mine).
Cheers, Danny
Over the last couple of weeks we’ve tried our hand at a few new webinars, including an ‘advanced Photojunction webinar’ you can watch online here.
They’ve gone really well, except for last week when Steve Jobs tried to battle us for the prime time slot. Turns out he’s got more fans than us, so we’ll be sure to check with him before scheduling webinars in future!
Back on the horse though and this week we reckoned it was about time we held another Intro to Photojunction webinar.
It’s a webinar for newbies where Danny will walk you through everything from downloading and installing the software, to designing and sending an order.
Here’s the details:
Thursday 4 February @ 11am (NZT)
It’s free to attend so come along, ask questions and find out what Photojunction is all about.
Hope to see you there
Cheers, Nigel
Just a quick note to let you know that Photojunction (and Queensberry) will be closed this coming Monday, 1 February (New Zealand time) due to a public holiday.
We’ll be back on board on Tuesday so have a great weekend and we’ll see you then!
Cheers, Danny
PS Lots of great feedback from Ian’s email – tell us what YOU think.
When Photojunction is this intuitive our job is done. Since we still have a way to go, here’s a handy hint from Stephen’s daughter Charlotte.
Charlotte could use a computer quite impressively before she could read (doubtless many households can tell a similar story). When Stephen asked her how she learnt she just said she tried things, pulled down menus etc, to see what they did. Once she learnt what the OK and Cancel buttons did, and that “www” meant something interesting to explore, there was no stopping her.
So there ya go – just play.
Cheers, Ian
PS I saw the video on Gizmodo – very interesting blog post about interfaces.
If you missed yesterday’s advanced Photojunction webinar, grab your popcorn because a recording is now up on our Vimeo channel.
Click here to watch the latest ‘Advanced Photojunction webinar’
We tweaked the format to last week’s session and covered several broader Photojunction features in detail:
- Templates (organising your collections, purchasing, creating your own, drag and drop)
- Portable Projects (using Photojunction in a team and/or over a network)
- Slideshows (videos of your images and albums, really fast)
- Plus a time of Q&A
Thanks also to Christine from our support team who joined us to help answer your questions during the webinar.
Keep an eye out here on the Junction, and our Facebook page for details about next week’s Photojunction webinar.
Cheers, Nigel
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