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1. Bringing in Images from Disk Whether you are building a new collage from scratch or adding pictures to an existing collage you will need to select pictures on your hard drive and bring them into FotoFusion You can open a standard windows file browser by clicking the browse button Ple are D TER PG rSCF RP SCF re 0 L mf E AE Lerne T re L Diez N dad Alternatively you can drag images directly from the Windows Explorer into FotoFusion s main interface 2006 LumaPix Inc 56 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Try pressing alt tab to change from the Windows Explorer to FotoFusion as you drag the image Bringing in Images from the Web Images on websites can be dragged into FotoFusion PRO and STUDIO This is useful for for example building websites that point to other websites To accomplish this simply drag the image from the web page into FotoFusion Be sure that the IMAGE tab is selected not PAGES or SETTINGS or the image will not be dropped You will probably want to set the default DPI for the canvas to 96 Adding Images from the Organizer Tab You can add images to your collage by clicking on the Organizer tab 7104 and searching for them by scrolling across the thumbnails Add the images to the dropper then return to the Create tab to use the images on your canvas Adding Frames You can add new frames 66 to hold the images you are dropping into the canvas even while the
2. AutoDistribute 48 creates an even grid like arrangement from your selected images 4 2 1 AutoCollage The core of LumaPix FotoFusion is a patent pending layout mechanism called AutoCollage This tool takes a set of images and arranges them to fit gracefully within the canvas respecting the aspect ratios of the original images and doing the minimum cropping required to have the images fill the space cleanly 2006 LumaPix Inc 42 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Click AutoCollage There are two ways to work with AutoCollage e as a Wizard takes you step by step through the process or e as a command The AutoCollage Wizard Tes h bg K re LB 9 O l on p mea r ea cage Ker Re Le Mer gG is rime bt a P d RE gl aE 191 ren ve rore m siri Er benm n im sgis n er pre T haye PR A E AP a PP eee H The thumbnails represent the image files found in the currently selected folder Browsing to a different folder 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 43 You can change folders by clicking the gt button to drop down a list of parent and child folders of your current location Click here or press ESC bo close Browse lt Move Up One Folder gt My Pictures My Documents My Shared Documents Selecting images for the collage Pick the thumbnail sized images which you would like to turn into a collage by clicking on them To select multiple p
3. Position Zoom In Edit All Canvas Toolbox The canvas toolbox appears when you click on the canvas or anywhere outside the rulers Click a button or label for more information Layers Zoom In Edit All Add Text Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 3 5 What the Floating Editors Do Clicking on most controls in a toolbox opens a floating editor These boxes can be moved by clicking and dragging them They allow you to make changes to your images and canvas design easily Alternatively you can access the same controls by clicking on the Settings tab in the left hand corner of your screen Here are two examples of floating editors 2006 LumaPix Inc Getting Started 29 Canvas QO Oe 6 Fill R 25 G 25 B 25 L Show Tile r J Opacity g5 Scale DO Blur 0 Things you should know about editors include e Changing parameter values 29 Moving editors 29 Pinning editors up 29 Using the button 305 Presets 30 Dealing with Multiple Selection 30 gt Changing parameter values Parameters 136 that appear in bold can be changed by clicking on them which will cause a bar to appear Simply move the mouse over the label press the left mouse button and drag left and right the value of the parameter will be updated interactively Alternatively you can click on the the label as opposed to dragging it This will open a pop up window that
4. Gallery 31 2006 LumaPix Inc 148 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Gamma 89 136 Genetica 61 Grid 48 Grid collage 39 H Handle 21 136 Handles 21 Hole 79 Hotlinks 91 Hover 136 HTML custom themes 113 HTML themes 115 127 Hyperlinks 91 Illustrator 108 Image 21 131 136 Image asthe background 64 Image editor 89 Image organizer 104 Image palette 57 104 136 Image toolbox 24 79 83 89 Images 21 Images from disk 55 Including original images 109 Info Tip 136 InfoTips 31 Inset 76 Interactive resizing 67 Interface map 131 Interoperability with graphic editing software 108 Interopterability with other programs 107 ISP 109 J JASC 108 JPG 61 JPG compression ratio 136 K Keyboard shortcuts 134 L Label the image 97 Layer 102 Layers 100 102 Loading 124 Loading collages 124 Local printer 117 Local viewer 117 Lock 79 Lock size 93 LumaPix Support 128 LumaPix support site 31 LumaPix website 31 Making layers semi transparent 102 Making the canvas transparent 61 Managing 124 Managing and saving Your Work 124 Marquee selection 101 Matte 79 136 Matte blur 79 Matte selection 79 Mattes 79 108 127 Menu bar 131 Menus 66 Merge 73 Merging frames 73 Move frame to bottom 91 Move frame to top 91 Moving editors 28 Moving frames 67 Moving frames to different layers 102 Multipage 65 Multi page 34 41 Multiple selection 28 67 Navigation 1
5. Adjusting the frame s position with snaps 59 gt Canvas Color and Texture 615 Using an Image as a Background 64 Refreshing the Canvas 64 gt Working with Multi page STUDIO only 655 49 2006 LumaPix Inc 50 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help 4 3 1 Sizing amp Resizing the Canvas Canvas Size gt lio Cid x 20 Print Centered Width Height Double Spread Respect Center Line Printer Page Size O R Units Size dropped images at Oso pPr 40 Inches Centimeters Pixels To Screen of canvas width Printing Zones Bleed Inflate by 0 by 0 0 Safe Inset by DIE Printer hp LaserJet 3015 PCL 6 Printer Page Size Letter The canvas size defines the dimensions of the work in progress together with guides for the bleed 53 the canvas 545 It can be adjusted in the following ways e atthe time of the canvas creation 505 interactively 51 S e by using a dialog box 52 launched from the Toolbox or the menu bar J by resizing the canvas to fit the collage 52 It is also important to understand the default DPI for the canvas 51 gt Sizing the canvas at the time of its creation When you create a new collage you can specify a canvas size Canvas Size 10 Width LR 20 Height Print Centered Double Spread Respect Ce
6. EOIOEUSIOn one click inspiration User s Manual Version 3 7 November 2006 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Table of Contents Part Part Il Part Ill O 0O fF WO N Part IV i Foreword 0 Welcome 6 New in this release 8 Getting Started 14 YoUr ST Ree 18 Und rslanding Frame Sere eters cs sees cece eerste RE Aa Aaaa 20 Whatihe Handles 10 TTT 21 Whal TNE TO OUD OK DO occas aire ceecc ecctence eet he nebac mee etn 24 What the Floating Editors DO H 28 Other Learning MaterialS nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nnn nnnnn nnmnnn nnmnnn 31 Working with FotoFusion 33 Creating a New Composition ssssssssssssssssssssss esse sse eeeess enesenn nenen ennenen nnmnnn 33 PUNO C ONAGS THT 34 FreeForm ee L 39 Ee Reasi 39 AO Lee TEETH 41 PAULO COM AGC THH 41 Sparse AULOC ON HT 46 P T 8 T 0 Maneerte ester aets Mets leans anni eee a er er Pe eo eee ae es ene ee neo ear reas tere ee ee ery 47 HT el T arse stansematsre ccsives asta stendam E ik slgne ea aa ad Maw eae EES 47 AUODISMIDUTE TTT 48 Canvas Lele LTTE 49 SIZING amp Resizing the Canvas svsessccecenccecechecesncczcenciecencnsuheuncecocdsccouad sac unteaadeansionslocvendennaateecszesucanenacdecseebonnautectesnetaass 50 MAIN AS AUIS THT 52 e HL TT 55 Akranging s L 57 Adjusting the frame s position With SMAPS sssssssssssss sse ee eee eee eee esse sss sss essen seene eenn 59 Canvas Color amp Texture sss sss sss e
7. Enter your user id which was provided in your confirmation email from support lumapix com If all goes well you will be told that your copy of FotoFusion was registered correctly In case of problems feel free to contact us We will be happy to help Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 2006 LumaPix Inc Credits and Attribution 145 Credits and Attribution This software is dedicated to our spouses for their unfailing support and enthusiasm Thank you for making this possible Additionally our sincere thanks to David Ziser and Gilles Knhouzam for their insight and energy Pam LadyBug and Lyn DewDrop for their talent and enthusiam at forum moderation and template creation Ken Harrington for kind permission to use the sample pictures included with FotoFusion Sample images courtesy www ConstanceSue com c 2004 The FotoScraps and ScrapbookingFotoFusion communities for their continued interest in our products You for selecting FotoFusion Your business is appreciated We hope you enjoy using this application as much as we enjoyed building it The LumaPix Team Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 2006 LumaPix Inc 146 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Index VVV arrows 33 button 28 A Adding a frame while dropping 57 Adding an empty frame 66 Adding banners 109 Adding color to a frame 85 Adding frames 55 66 Adding frames
8. LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help 4 6 4 6 1 Layers oee Layer See Through Protect Overlay C 4 Template F Text C 4 Collage C F Canvas C d Remember that you can make the banner layer semi transparent and thus a usable watermark by clicking See Through in the layer editor Semi transparent Text 1 Create a text frame with your watermark 2 Open the color editor for the text frame 3 Click on color and set the transparency to a medium value then click esc to close the color editor 4 Click on border color and again set the transparency to a medium value Watermarking at Export Watermarking is supported during publishing exporting and sharing Click here 112 for more details Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved Selection Navigation and Layers Zooming and Panning the Canvas 100 will teach you how to view your canvas more effectively Selection Tools 10 will teach you how to select items on your canvas Working with Layers 102 will explain how to use the layer editor and features in FotoFusion Zooming amp Panning the Canvas Zooming and Panning the Canvas There will often be times when you want to zoom in on the canvas to see areas in more detail For instance if you are working with very small frames you will need to get closer to them to effectively use the handles and other features If you have a three button mouse you can do the following
9. jpg format As the quality increases the file size grows you need to find a balancing point between acceptable image quality and the size of the image in an email or web page A standard computer technique for precisely duplicating information 1 Select the object e g highlight text with the mouse 2 Press ctrl C This will copy the selected information to a clipboard for subsequent pasting In FotoFusion you cannot use Cntl C to duplicate images The shortcut is Cntl D duplicate A value that can be edited such as the blurriness of a shadow or the color of a frame border Typically you set parameter values using an editor 28 gt 2006 LumaPix Inc 138 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help A standard computer technique for precisely duplicating information 1 Select and copy an object e g text to the clipboard 2 Place the cursor where you want a copy of the object to appear 3 Press ctrl V Paste This will paste the selected information from the clipboard to the location specified in step 2 In FotoFusion you cannot use Cntl C to duplicate images The shortcut is Cntl D duplicate Here are some terms specific to FotoFusion that you should know R Meanina Canvas A sized region holding frames 49 May include a bleed area and a safe area A resizable holder for text or images Contains multiple components arranged into layers Frame 20 gt A control
10. 1 Select it by clicking on it or via an alternative method 101 2 Move the cursor over a resize handle 3 Press the left mouse button and drag the mouse resize p q TOP frame image resize gt we Pene image resize crop You can press the esc key to abort the drag if necessary To learn about cropping the image click here 70 gt Overriding Snapping You will notice that the image snaps to the edges of other images as you drag the mouse to resize it this helps you align the frame other other frames on the canvas White guidelines appear around the edge of the canvas to show you where the images are aligned in relation to one another To override this behavior press the alt key while dragging snapping will be turned off temporarily Fine control If you press and hold the Shift key as you drag the resize handle the precision with which you can resize the image is increased 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 69 4 4 3 You can press the shift and ctrl keys simultaneously to get more precision and override snapping if you like Sizing frames using numeric values You can set a size for a selected frame or frames by e Selecting the frame s e Clicking on the frame part of the map in the toolbox 24 gt This will open the Frame Editor 28 24 e Clicking on the Width or Height controls This will pop up a small window that allows you to type a number dir
11. 69 the selected images to move them to an new frame Interactively add a new frame 66 press and hold F drag the mouse while holding the left mouse button down Refresh photos 64 if you have edited the originals using another application such as Photoshop Move to the next or previous page 65 in the collage Pan the canvas Hold the space key down and drag the mouse while pressing the left mouse button Zoom the canvas Hold the Z key down and drag the mouse while pressing the left mouse button Zoom in Zoom out Select the Next frame Select the Previous frame Select the first frame Select the last frame Duplicate the currently selected frame Bring the selected frame closer Send the selected frame farther Bring the selected frame to the front Send the selected frame to the back spin the selected frame left spin the selected frame right Split the selected frame Merge the selected frames Update the description and hotlink for the current frame Add a new frame 2006 LumaPix Inc 136 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Ctri Shift p Add a new printer page segment pii Add a text frame to the canvas Alt Q Autocollage aa AutoJumble Ctrl Q Quit Ctrl F Snap Frame to Image Ctrl I Snap Image to Frame F1 Help Shift Make rotation or translation slower Ctrl Make rotation or translation faster Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 5 3 Terminology Here are
12. Click Sparse AutoCollage You can access this tool in four ways s Inthe autocollage wizard 34 as an option o Turn on the Sparse checkbox e From the main toolbar 131 o Click on the Sparse AutoCollage button e From the Tools menu o Select Sparse AutoCollage e From the keyboard o Press ctrl alt Q You can use the tool as many times as you like creating new arrangements of frames until you arrive at a layout that pleases you You can manually edit 67 the composition as well to fine tune the arrangement Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 47 4 2 3 AutoJumble The AutoJumble button randomly rotates the frames in the canvas to produce a jumbled look with no effort Wo ewe ee Pee Poe Teas ao oem oo ee es Cee ee ee a Click AutoJumble a 7 a P e E b hE a You could accomplish the same thing manually by selecting and rotating each frame in turn AutoJumble does the same thing much more quickly If you like you can click the AutoJumble button multiple times stopping when you see an arrangement you like Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 4 2 4 AutoPopulate The AutoPopulate button fills all the empty frames in a collage with images that are currently held in the Image Palette 104 This is a fast way to fill a template with images such as a contact sheet or a seniors po
13. Edit All Add Text This will interactively inset the frame Via the Frame Editor Open the border editor Frame ooog v Border Width 0 05 R 255 G 255 B 255 Opacity 255 Fit Image T shadow Inside 7 Inset Width 0 06 mette Blur 0 Hole Lock Position amp Size x 0 823 Y 0 706 Width 2 9 Height 3 09 Angle g and drag the inset parameter to increase the space between the images or reduce the space until the images are fused together 2006 LumaPix Inc 78 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help 4 4 9 Top increased inset value Bottom 0 inset value the images are glued together Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved Aspect Ratio Images have an aspect ratio a measure of their width compared to their height Frames in FotoFusion contain images and can be resized By default the frames can be resized to have any aspect ratio This allows you to crop an image by changing the aspect ratio of the frame Most of the time this behaviour is desirable you can crop an image by changing the frame size and shape to only show an interesting part of a larger picture You can also make frames of identical size and shapes to create an interesting composition regardless of the size and shape of the images to be inserted into them eos a a 5 x fate dspectediicn iniagqe aspect TSO However there will be occasions w
14. This is good because it means that the two sheets can be printed and glued together without having an edge run through the middle of a picture On the other hand the horizontal split was not so lucky by default it has pass through the bride s hat and the middle of her 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 123 body in the large picture highlighted in red below We want to fix this Lom pap gt B Kee A perp The layout can now be printed the portion of the collage covered by each printer page segment will be printed separately and the individual pieces will line up correctly Note that the crop lines and full bleed for each segment of the image will be printed correctly Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 2006 LumaPix Inc 124 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help 4 9 6 4 9 7 4 9 7 1 Pro Lab Tab Professional photographers can send their work to one of the LumaPix Network Member labs using the ProLab tab Pro Lab Tab versus Rendering If you send your work to one of the member labs they will receive your order in a manner that will allow for color correction You will be uploading the original images plus the FotoFusion recipe for recreating your project You will also have options for ordering pages in different sizes and quantities Simply follow the instructions on the Pro Lab tab to place your order If you render your work u
15. e Your canvas can be any size However it is recommended that FotoFusion STANDARD users do not create a canvas exceeding 12x12 inches and FotoFusion PRO users do not create a canvas exceeding 13x19 inches These are the maximum sizes for local printing for these products e Click the gt button for preset sizes highlighted in the image above or you can type a custom size into the two text boxes If you click on the x between the two numbers you will reverse the height and width e Click Printer page size to automatically use the paper size selected for your current printer you can change the current printer or paper by clicking Printer Setup at the bottom of the page e Choose a unit inches cm or pixels for your collage This is only used for measuring and default sizes you can change your mind at any time and reset the values e Pay attention to the default DPI 515 field it determines how large pictures are when you first drag them into the collage If you work with screen grabs choose 96 DPI or click match screen If you work with photographs experiment until you find the setting usually 300 DPI that produces the best results for you e Printing zones PRO and STUDIO version only allow you to set a Bleed and Safe 53 area using the units specified at the top of the editor Click here 50 to learn more about these settings Creative Enhancements Additionally you can choose attributes for t
16. e the contrast e the gamma combination of brightness eines stale contrast affecting mid tones aici l i e blurit R G 089 m e make the image black amp white C Show Tike e sepia tone the image e tintit 85 gt using background fill S a v e and apply a tile texture 87 gt over it Opacity D 5 Scale agi Dur i Occasionally when you set an image as the canvas background you will not like how it is positioned This is probably because your image does not have the same aspect ratio 78 as your canvas meaning that there is a different ratio between the length and the height of the image and the canvas For instance if you place an image with a portrait aspect ratio meaning it is taller than it is wide on to a canvas with a landscape aspect ratio meaning it is wider than it is tall the image may be cropped strangely with important parts of the picture cut off or out completely To fix this you will have to unlock 63 the canvas to reposition the image Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 4 3 8 Refreshing the Canvas Occasionally while creating a collage you may need to edit one or more of the images you are working with using a graphics program such as PhotoShop e g red eye removal detailed color correction etc If you edit the original photographs in a program external to FotoFusion and save them you should refresh your canvas to update the images to their new versions To do this press the F5 key o
17. v Mosaic Image ox cee Select a number of horizontal and vertical splits then click Okay or press Enter You can uncheck the MOSAIC box to create a grid with the image appearing only in the first box LS 391 Drop Photo E Drop Photo Here Here Drop Photo E Drop Photo f Drop Photo Here Here Here Drop Photo E Drop Photo f Drop Photo Here Here Here Merging Frames To merge two or more frames into one single frame 1 Select all frames you wish to merge 2 Right click on one of them 3 Choose merge frames from the resulting pop up menu 2006 LumaPix Inc 76 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help 4 4 8 Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved Frame Inset Frames can be inset from the snap 59 marks that surround them for example to reveal more space around the images and show more the background Common uses of this control include e shrinking images to reveal more of the background e expanding images and blurring their edges to clear a seamless mass of different images There are two ways to set the inset e Using the Toolbox e Using the Border Editor Via the Toolbox 1 Select a frame the image or text toolbox will open Element Zoom In Edit All 2 Press and hold the CTRL key 3 Drag the border control in the toolbox 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 77 Border Element Zoom In
18. 2 Create Something Create a collage Click here for ideas on how to get started 18 Step 3 Log into FotoScraps Go to the Community tab 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 129 Fe Labis Foto usion irot COG Adress Fep rap minang etp ttl ILS Click on the gt button to the right of the upload button and choose Login Now L Publish Ib Process AL Community D Preview l Login Now Join FotoScraps hon Enter your User ID and Password Step 4 Upload your layout Click the upload button ish 7 Process ML Community Gt Fon Store ee C http Tm om gallery index php You ll be asked to describe your layout Member Galleries EA My layout s title This is a description of my layout Hope you like it Friends Travel Process Files The Category choice allows you to pick a location for the layout to be placed into The Title will be shown under your image in the final gallery along with the Description Keywords make it easy for people to find your image based on words that you think describe your layout s contents When done press the Process Files button Your image will be uploaded into the gallery you chose Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 2006 LumaPix Inc Reference 131 5 Reference This section provides e An
19. Drag the image will be cropped interactively 4 Release the left mouse button 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 71 resize 4 TEE frame image resize p d we frame Image resize crop To learn about frame resizing click here 67 Fine control If you press and hold the ctrl key as you drag the crop handle the precision with which you can crop the image is increased If the crop handles do not appear Frames can be placed into Image and Element 26 modes Elements cannot be cropped and thus do not display crop handles If you need to change the mode of a frame so that it can be cropped use the image toolbox Panning TO pan an image meaning to move the image within the frame 1 Move the cursor over the pan handle in the center of the image 2 Press and hold the left mouse button 3 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 You can press the esc key to abort the drag if necessary Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 4 4 6 Rotating Flipping Tilting and Spinning Rotating To rotate a frame 1 Select it 2 Move the cursor over the rotate handle for that frame 2006 LumaPix Inc 72 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help nd eo 3 Press and hold the left mouse button 4 Drag the mouse The frame will
20. Help Edit All Add Text Pick a type from the resulting pop up list d al Element Element Type Zoom In v Image Type Edit All Add Text The frame type can also be changed in the Tools Frame Type menu Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 3 4 What The Toolboxes Do Overview LumaPix FotoFusion makes use of patent pending Floating Toolboxes that dramatically accelerate your work flow These floating windows become visible when you select object in the collage and allow you to do three things e Interactively edit 25 important parameters such as shadow distance or border thickness e Determine whether changes made will apply to only the selected item or all similar items 27 e Open editors 24 for less commonly used parameters such as opacity or matte blur e Zoom the canvas 27 to frame the currently selected item There are three types of Toolboxes which appear when you select e Image Frames 27 gt e Text Frames 275 e The Canvas 28 Opening Editors Clicking on a control in the toolbox will open a floating editor which contains editable parameters 2006 LumaPix Inc Getting Started 25 Image gt Frame Image Opacity 1 Angle 0 LJ Bright 0 Contrast 1 ie Gamma 1 Blur 4 Element BEW 0 Sepia U Zoom In R 1G 1 B 1 Edit All Add Text Background Fill Opacity 0 R 265 G 0 B 0 E Show Tile Hone yt Op
21. Images per Page then you can select how many images you want per page and have FotoFusion determine how many pages will be necessary for example 80 images at 20 images per page will produce 4 pages with 20 images each Finishing up When you are ready with the options described above click Done 2006 LumaPix Inc 46 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help 4 2 2 FotoFusion will produce a new collage automatically tiling the pictures you have selected to fit the canvas dimensions selected If you aren t satisfied with the layout you can simply autocollage again instantly by clicking the autocollage button again see below The AutoCollage command Keyboard shortcut ALT Q The AutoCollage button creates a new arrangement for the frames currently found on the canvas and in the image palette 104 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 Note that if you have pictures waiting in the image palette 104 they will be brought into the collage when you do this It will also automatically remove any lock aspect ratio command you may have attached to images on the canvas Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved Sparse AutoCollage The Autocollage 34 tool provides an option to leave gaps in the automatically produced arrangement of images a Sparse collage a Home Auto Ti e
22. a canvas in this mode the width of the image is predictable If you choose to work with a DPI conversion image sizes will be a function of the resolution of the image and the default DPI for the canvas it s important to pick a sensible DPI for your purposes For example e if you are creating a 24 x 36 poster and working with high resolution images from a digital camera then 300 DPI would be an appropriate choice e f you are creating a 400x100 pixel web banner from other existing web graphics then 96 DPI would be an appropriate choice For example suppose that you create a canvas that is 10 x 10 with a DPI of 300 You have a graphic from a digital camera that is 1200 pixels x 900 pixels When you bring the picture into the canvas it will have a width of 1200 300 4 inches and a height of 900 300 3 inches It s important to note that the 300 DPI attribute only affects one thing how large images dropped in the canvas will be You can choose to export or print the canvas at any resolution or DPI that you like Please note that each of the three versions of FotoFusion have different permission levels as regards to DPI FotoFusion STANDARD has a maximum of 200 dpi which is sufficient for the average home printer FotoFusion PRO has a maximum of 300 dpi FotoFusion STUDIO has no limits You can change the DPI of a canvas and the dimensions and the bleed and safe 52 region sizes etc at any time Simply open the canvas proper
23. allows you to enter a value for the parameter directly or reset to the default value 7 Moving editors To move an editor drag them by the title bar to any where on the canvas Pinning editors up Editors disappear when you no longer need them If you would like to have an editor remain up despite selection changes press the pin button Canvas C TT Fill This will pin the editor up 2006 LumaPix Inc 30 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Canvas Fill In this state the editor will remain open until you press this button again to unpin it Using the button There will be many occasions where you want changes made to one frame to apply to all for example having all frames share a blue border color The button appears at the top right of the editor Image Image In this case clicking this button will make all frames match the current values of the selected frame Working with Presets Clicking on the gt gt button exposes tools for working with presets A Preset is a set of pre saved values for the parameters in the current editor Using presets allows you to save a series of settings you like and call them up to quickly set values To save a preset 1 create settings that you like for an object image border text or shadow 2 click the gt gt button 3 choose Save As Preset 4 enter a name for the preset To apply a preset 1 Selec
24. an ISP 109 Configuring the printer 120 Contact sheet 47 73 101 Contacting LumaPix 141 Contrast 89 Copy 136 Corel Paint Shop Pro 108 Creating anew Composition 33 Creating a new template 115 Crop 21 Crop marks 120 136 Cropping 70 120 Custom EXIF tags 97 D Default canvas DPI 50 57 Default image sizes 57 Deleting 124 Deleting a frame 66 Deleting collages 124 Deleting templates 125 Deleting your old work 124 Detect my settings 109 Disconnect 21 Disconnected image 70 Disconnected images 21 Double spread 52 Double click 136 Double page spreads 52 DPI 50 57 136 DPI and resolution 117 Drag 136 Drop Now button 104 Droppe 55 Dropper 57 Dropping images 57 Dropping multiple copies 57 Duplicating a frame 66 E Edit all 24 Editing parameters interactively 24 Editor 28 131 Editors 24 28 Element 21 Element Image 24 Elements 21 Email 91 109 Emailthemes 115 EMF 108 Empty frame 66 EXIF 97 Existing project 33 External viewer 117 F F5 64 FAQ 128 Fill 61 Final render 117 Fine control 67 First collage 18 FitImage 79 Flat file 117 Flipping 71 Floating editor 131 Floating editors 28 Font 93 96 Font size 96 Forum 128 FotoFusion STUDIO 34 41 FotoScraps 31 128 FotoScraps forum 31 FotoScraps Gallery 31 128 Frame 20 136 Frame editor 6 7 76 79 Frame inset 76 Frame number 21 Frame status 70 Frame Tools 66 Frames 20 131 Freeform collage 39 Fullbeed 120 Go
25. and family e The ability to print 12x12 inch canvas at 200 dpi e The ability to render your work to flattened graphic files to a max of 2000x2000 pixels at 200 dpi The PRO version includes several features that are not available in the Standard version These features are useful to very serious hobbyists and pro photographers e Custom HTML templates 115 Safe areas and Full Bleed crop lines 525 for professional printing The ability to watermark images 113 in emails or web galleries The ability to change or remove the LumaPix banner 112 below published or shared collages The ability to attach text to a frame Print locally to 13x19 inches at 300 dpi Render to flattened graphic files to a max of 3900x5700 pixels at 300 dpi The STUDIO version adds other features ideal for Professional photographers and studios who specialize in albums and large format output e Multiple page compositions 65 and rendering e Unlimited size exporting and printing 50 e The ability to connect to Pro Labs allowing to upload your work with color correction by the lab The Things You Really Need to Know The following are the basic concepts you will need to understand to start enjoying FotoFusion e AutoCollage 34 The Toolbox 24 Floating Editors 28 Frame Handles 21 Frame Structure 20 Images vs Elements 23 gt Get familiar with these and you ll be off and running Typical Work Flows A ses
26. be any size However it is recommended that FotoFusion STANDARD users do not create a canvas exceeding 12x12 inches and FotoFusion PRO users do not create a canvas exceeding 13x19 inches These are the maximum sizes for local printing for these products e Click the gt button for preset sizes highlighted in the image above or you can type a custom size into the two text boxes If you click on the x between the two numbers you will reverse the height and width e Click Printer page size to automatically use the paper size selected for your current printer you can change the current printer or paper by clicking Printer Setup at the bottom of the page 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 45 e Choose a unit inches cm or pixels for your collage This is only used for measuring and default sizes you can change your mind at any time and reset the values e Pay attention to the default DPI 515 field it determines how large pictures are when you first drag them into the collage If you work with screen grabs choose 96 DPI or click match screen If you work with photographs experiment until you find the setting usually 300 DPI that produces the best results for you e Printing zones PRO and STUDIO version only allow you to set a Bleed and Safe 53 area using the units specified at the top of the editor Click here 50 to learn more about these settings Creative E
27. courtesy www GoImages com and www ConstanceSue com Some points about the image organizer e Scanning for pictures 105 Pulling images into the collage 105 Using the timeline 105 Previewing images at full size 106 Spinning images 106 Photo moments 106 Removing images 106 Clearing the database 10 Scanning for Pictures FotoFusion keeps a simple list of pictures found on your hard drive You specify where on your hard drive you would like FotoFusion to look for images and it finds them in subfolders of that location The first time you open the organizer you may need to click the Scan For New Photos button to create this list of images on your hard drive You can clear 106 this list if it becomes necessary Pulling Images into the Collage To move images from the organizer in to the collage select them and press either to palette or autocollage To select images you can e Click on single images with the left mouse button e Shift click on other images to select all images between the first and the last clicked upon images e Drag from one image to another to select a range of pictures interactively When you press To Palette the selected images in the organizer are added to the Image Palette 104 for future integration with a collage on the create tab When you click AutoCollage FotoFusion automatically changes back to the Create tab and does an autocollage 34 Using the Timeline The ti
28. depth of field making a background image blurry will give the viewer the impression that a foreground image is floating in front of it 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 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 91 4 4 14 4 4 15 Red Green and Blue 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 Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved Frame Order The frames on the canavas have a depth think of them as cards stacked on a tabletop If two frames overlap one will appear in front of the other The back frame is deeper in the collage To adjust the depth of a frame you can use the keyboard or by right clicking on the image Keyboard Shortcuts e Ctrl U Bring Forward 1 layer at a time e Ctrl Shift U Bring To Front top of all elements on the page e Alt U Send Backwards 1 layer at the time e Alt Shift U Send to Back at the bottom of all the elements on the page note this does not change the element or image to the Canvas Background 64 Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved Adding Hotlinks Images in your collage can have text descriptions Th
29. dropper is active Now What Now that you have pulled images into the collage you can distribute the images to get exactly the effect you are trying to achieve by using the Auto Tools 41 or by manually arranging 66 gt the images A Quick Primer Working with Windows Explorer or other applications To bring images in from Windows Explorer 1 Open Windows Explorer to browse all your available files There are several ways to do this including Holding the Windows key down and pressing e or Opening the Start menu and selecting My Computer or double clicking on My Computer on your desktop 2 Find the folder containing the images you want to use 3 Hold the Ctrl key down and click on as many image files as you like to select them 4 Release the Ctrl key 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 57 5 Move the cursor over one of the files you have selected then press and hold the left mouse button This will pick up the set of files you selected in step 3 6 Drag them to FotoFusion If you can see the FotoFusion window below the Windows Explorer simply drag the files to the FotoFusion window then release the mouse button If you can t see the FotoFusion window you will need to switch tasks to bring the FotoFusion window to the top To do this you can either a drag your selection to the Windows task bar at the bottom of your screen This will pop up with a list of
30. feature drawn over an object that can be Handle manipulated by the user Typically you move the pointer over 21 the handle press the left mouse button drag the mouse and and release the button Info Tip A pop up window that provides useful information on how best 31 to use FotoFusion Image 55 A graphic saved in a file format such as jpg or png A graphic used as a background for a frame or the canvas that Tile 85 typically repeats gracefully when multiple copies are tiled next to one another Image Palette 1 A region that holds images that have been dragged into FotoFusion but not yet placed in a collage S Organizer A list of images found by FotoFusion arranged by date which 10 can be used as a source of images to create a collage with A tick mark on the ruler indicating the edge of a picture in the Snap 59 collage Can be dragged to resize all the pictures that share that edge A vector file describing the shape that is used to cut away part Matte 79 of an image for example to place a picture inside a heart graphic or give it a jagged edge A measuring aid displayed along the top and side of the canvas Ruler 50 gt An image in a collage is a reference to not a copy of an image Reference on your hard drive If you edit that picture using PhotoShop or S 108 another image editing application it will update when you refresh the canvas 64 in FotoFusion by
31. frame toolbox 2006 LumaPix Inc 86 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help R BB Element Zoom In Edit All Add Text 2 Click on the Image icon to open the Image Editor 3 Drag the Background Fill Opacity control to the right to make the color overlay visible If you drag it completely to the right the frame background will be 100 colored If you drag it anywhere in the middle it will be more or less translucent Image 4 Adjust the Red Green Blue RGB values for the background fill OR click the color tile to open the color editor 133 Colors O68 q Opacity 255 b R Z OG 255 Os 255 OH 0 000 deg Os o Yo 1100 ZA Here is an example of applying different colors and opacities to a frame background will do to an image 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 87 T if c i k ay Kir 4 Pigs i P Lg 5 ral L us original no f RO G255 B0 at 1 j background color ey 65 opacity 255462006 130 ala MeR204 G 1365255 al 9 DBL opacity Se 1 DO IE F 1 h L Next is an example of a collage that has used empty frames no images with opaque background color to decorate the canvas This simple collage was accomplished by changing the color of the frame background the frame border and applying two mattes the tag and the background square gradient Be sure to uncheck the Show Drop Image Here box at the bottom of the
32. from TOOLS on the menu bar If they have been renamed you will need to replace the image on your canvas with a newly dropped image e We use many terms from the photographic printing and computer industry in this documentation It might be a good idea to skim through the terminology 136 section of this help file Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 2006 LumaPix Inc 18 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help 3 1 Your First Collage Let s walk through the process of creating a collage from scratch Start FotoFusion Now Collage You will be asked to pick a collage style Click on AutoCollage 345 Teves te IRC K re Ee TETT has ss Ba l lr aiai ri pD r K nri epa gl Ka Fa mr The AutoCollage Wizard will open la sbin rae ri Ar jene n fe gle eer eee Select all the pictures by clicking on the first picture and shift clicking on the last one 1045 Click Next You are asked for a size for the Creative Options collage Click in the canvas size boxes and choose 7x5 inches then click Next For more information on sizing the canvas click here 50 gt Enter a title for the collage My First Collage 2006 LumaPix Inc Getting Started 19 An automatic layout for the images you selected is created and for many people this is already good enough you could choose to skip to other topics such as sharing pictures by email or 10 pu
33. image and set them as a background texture 64 Canvas Image Click here 64 for details on setting an image as a background texture Canvas Matte and Border The canvas is nothing more than a large protected frame You can add the same effects as you would to any other frame To unlock the canvas to add effects to the canvas e Click on the SETTINGS tab e Click OUTSIDE the canvas area This will reveal the LAYERS area under the Settings tab e Unprotect the Canvas layer Now if you click on an exposed part of the canvas you will be able to select the frame and apply borders and mattes as you would any other frame 2006 LumaPix Inc 64 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 4 3 7 Using an Image as a Background To set an image as the background on the canvas right click on it and choose Set as canvas background from the pop up menu This will move the selected image to the canvas layer 102 and resize it to completely cover the canvas You can change the way this background image appears by following the same steps as you would to edit any image using the Image Editor Click outside the canvas and select Canvas Fill This will launch the Image Editor Image oo G Imad YOU Can Change Dnarc py i Angle 0 e the opacity transparency level of the Bright Contrast 1 image Gamma i Blue e the angle rotate paw 0 Sepli 6 e the brightness R iG iB i
34. interface map 13 FotoFusion basic functions e Keyboard shortcuts 13A e Terminology 136 definitions of commonly used terms in this document 5 1 Interface Map This page describes the following parts of the FotoFusion interface Canvas 19T Image and Text Frames 13 Toolboxes 13 Floating Editors 132 Tabs 132 Menus and Tool Bars 1335 Image Palette 138 Color Editor 1335 Canvas A FotoFusion canvas 29 holds a set of images 55 and text that live within Frames 66 The canvas has dimensions 50 such as 5x7 inches which really only specify an aspect ratio and not a size you could choose to print that canvas at 5x7 inches or 5x7 feet without changing the composition in FotoFusion A ruler displays the dimensions of the canvas It contains white marks called snaps representing the edges of images in the collage you can drag them interactively to resize 59 all the pictures that share that edge The blue bars in the center of the ruler can be dragged to resize the canvas 50 interactively e If you hold down SHIFT while dragging these controls the canvas will resize without changing the size of the frames it contains Image and Text Frames Frames in FotoFusion can be sized positioned 67 rotated 71 have a border 79 added given a textured background 85 or have ashadow 83 dropped from it The controls for doing this are the same for both text and image
35. lumapix com The collage is mailed to your recipient and you re done Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 3 2 Understanding Frames Each image lives within a frame When you pick up and move an image around over the collage you are really moving the frame which pulls the picture along with it Frames can blend together colors images and tiles with varying opacities Frames can also have borders drawn around them and be cut with mattes to produce jagged edges 2006 LumaPix Inc Getting Started 21 a Text Image Border 79 gt Matte 795 Tile 85 Color Text attached to the frame 92 PRO and STUDIO only The image held within the frame A rectangular border around the outside of the frame A vector based border that cuts away the image to reveal the collage behind this frame A repeating graphic that fills the frame only visible if the alpha 136 on the image is non zero meaning that there in opacity to the image A background color 85 for the image only visible if the transparency on the image is non zero and there is no tile Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 3 3 What the Handles Do When you select an image or text frame in FotoFusion a set of handles are displayed that allow you to interactively control various aspects of that object Which handles are visible depends upon whether the frame in question is an El
36. open applications Drag the selection to the LumaPix FotoFusion button on the task bar the FotoFusion application will appear b while continuing to hold the left mouse button down press and hold the alt key and tap the tab key on your keyboard This will pop up a window listing the open applications on your system Keep tapping the tab key without releasing the alt key until you see the FotoFusion application highlighted when you release the keyboard keys the FotoFusion application will appear Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 4 3 4 Arranging Images Bringing Images into FotoFusion Images can come from a variety of places dragged into FotoFusion from the windows explorer dragged into FotoFusion from web pages 113 PRO and STUDIO only selected in the Organizer 104 and added to the Image Palette 104 Simply select them more than one at time if necessary and drag them into the FotoFusion canvas For information on selecting images click here 55 gt Keeping Images Handy until Ready for Use The Dropper When images are dragged into the collage they are drawn attached to the cursor like this This is the Dropper It indicates which image is about to be dropped the baby in the chair in this case where the picture will be dropped directly above the point of the tan cursor whether that picture will appear as a new frame or replace the contents of an existing frame a new fra
37. or it can contain the collage and scaled down versions of all the original images that make up the collage The latter allows the recipient of your mail to click on images in the collage and see the original images on their own 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 111 ir ky HOG af M 46 0 REM YE a ria Sh SS Sd TEP ha SL Fett Pb Be L F F bh Fa ps ba ew Carts slaty i lier igor gems es HT 1 Gib it Pepe erate To enable the inclusion of original images turn on the Include Scaled Down Original Images option Ml Include Scaled Down Original Images Specifying compression image sizes and other image options When you click on the Image Quality tab you will be presented with several options Image Quality Watermark Banner Theme ISP Settings Collage Quality Maximum Dimensions pixels v Collage Good quality Small size EN E Always use Attached Photo Quality Original Images these settings D m by 300 Befa High quality Medium size Collage File Size EE i th Size eas eel Set Background To Canvas Color Crop To Trim Lines o know the size of your collage wi Sharpen reduced images in collage Show Crop Marks the current settings press this button malaise elite ltd Sharpen reduced original photos The You can set the JPG compression ratio 136 used for both the collage and the attached originals Clicking Default will return the Sliders to their d
38. pictures These two templates are by convention collage htm and photo htm An email theme simply iterates over each picture copying photo htm multiple times to produce a final email message a web theme produces a new page OriginallmageN htm for each picture using the contents of photo htm as a base Creating a New Template To create a new template 1 Quit FotoFusion 2 Create a new folder under HTML Templates with the name that you want for the template When you restart FotoFusion this template will be available on the Share and Publish tabs 3 Create or copy the files Collage htm and Photo htm into this new folder 4 Flesh out the template using the tags listed below 5 Restart FotoFusion 2006 LumaPix Inc 116 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Standard Tokens The tokens available in a template htm file are in bold below copied from the default collage htm template lt HTML gt lt HEAD gt lt TITLE gt LumaPix FotoFusion lt TITLE gt lt META http equiv Content Language content en us gt lt META content LumaPix Document name ProgId gt lt META http equiv Content Type content text html charset Windows 1252 gt lt HEAD gt lt BODY bgColor ocolor o gt lt P gt lt FONT face Tahoma size 2 gt thePrev theMsg lt FONT gt lt P gt lt map name FPMap0 gt lt mapgoeshere gt lt map gt lt P align center gt lt a name Collage gt lt IMG alt sr
39. pressing f5 Printer Page A resizable frame overlaid on the canvas that indicates the Segment content of one printed sheet 2006 LumaPix Inc Reference 139 Border 79 gt Matte 79 A rectangular region drawn around the outside of the frame the width color and transparency of the border can be adjusted A shape that carves away the image in a frame to reveal the background for example to create a jagged edge on a picture Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 2006 LumaPix Inc Contacting LumaPix 141 6 Contacting LumaPix General Support and Pre Purchase questions Visit the LumaPix Support Web Page e You can browse the Frequently Asked Questions database for popular questions and general usage instructions e If the FAQ doesn t contain the information you are looking for you can leave a Support Ticket For example if you want to connect to a Pro Lab report a bug or ask a general usage question not otherwise explained we would be happy to assist you e New to FotoFusion View our online instructional videos Business and legal issues Biz lumapix com Telephone 1 877 LUMAPIX We advise you to consult the FAQ on the Support Page before calling and this Help File as it is much easier for you to receive detailed instructions on how to use FotoFusion in writing with pictures than it is to discuss it on the phone Forum e Visit the LumaPix
40. the following options Pick recipients 109 Create a message to go with the collage 110 Specify compression and image sizes 11T Configure ISPs if neccessary 113 Add watermarks to protect your images 112 Add banners to bring recipients to your site 1125 Set up a custom HTML theme for the mail 113 Picking Recipients If you have never sent an email to the recipient you have in mind enter their name and email address and then click insert 2006 LumaPix Inc 110 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Add to Recipients List Name optional The LumaPix Team E Mail Addresses supporb lumapix com The recipient s name and email address will be saved in the recipients list to make it easy to send mails to those people again in the future you can simply click on the check box in the recipients list to have the email sent to them The Import button provides tools that attempt to import your contacts from the Microsoft Address Book into FotoFusion to avoid your having to retype known Email IDs Editing the email message Enter a subject line and a message text Envelope Image Quality watermark Banner Theme ISP Settings Recipients biz biz lumapix com Subject This is mv First collage Mote It was built in LumaPix FotoFusion which I strongly suggest you rush out and purchase For yourself Including Original Images Your email can contain just the collage
41. while dropping 66 Adding image descriptions 91 Adding images 55 Adding Text to a Frame 92 Adding Text to the Canvas 92 Adding watermarks 109 Align 59 Alignment 59 93 Alpha 136 Amount 83 Angle 83 89 Appendapage 65 Arranging images 57 Aspect ratio 78 136 Aspect ratio lock 78 Auto tools 41 AutoCollage 18 34 41 AutoCollage wizard 34 41 AutoDistribute 48 AutoJumble 47 AutoPopulate 47 B Background 61 64 Background color 85 Background fill 85 Background opacity 85 Background texture 61 Background tile 85 Banner 99 Banner layer 99 Banners 127 Batch processing 117 Black amp White 89 Blank frame 66 Bleed 136 Bleed area 52 Blur 79 83 89 Border 79 136 Border color 79 Border width 79 Borders 79 Brightness 89 Bring forward 91 Bring to front 91 Bringing in images from the web 55 Browse 34 41 55 Browsing 34 41 Browsing to a different folder 34 41 Building custom mattes 108 C Canvas 102 131 136 Canvas border 61 Canvas color 61 Canvas guides 52 Canvas image 61 Canvas matte 61 Canvas size 34 41 50 Canvas texture 61 Canvas toolbox 24 61 Canvas tools 49 Center uide 52 Centering 120 Changing pages 65 Clear button 104 Clearing the database 104 Click 136 Clickable regions 91 Cloning pages 65 Collage 102 Collage options 34 41 Collage sizes 33 2006 LumaPix Inc Index 147 Color editor 93 131 Community 128 Community tab 31 Compression 109 Configuring
42. 00 New 33 New composition 33 News 128 2006 LumaPix Inc Index 149 O Offset 83 Online photo gallery 113 Opacity 79 89 Opening editors 24 Opening the layer editor 102 Organize 104 Organizer 136 Organizer tab 55 Organizing your images 103 Orientation 120 Original images 70 Outline 93 Outline color 93 Output options 109 Overlay 102 Overriding snapping 67 P Page segments 120 Pan 21 Pan handle 70 Panning 70 100 Parameter 136 Paste 136 Photo moments 104 Photoshop 61 108 Pick Up button 104 Pick up images 21 Picking up images 57 Pinning editors 28 PNG 108 Position text 95 Presets 28 89 127 Previewing images 104 Previewing images at full size 104 Print preview 120 Printer 120 Printer Page Segment 136 Printer page segments 120 Printing 120 Printing the canvas at 1 1 120 Printing to fit on a single page 120 Process 117 Processing pages 65 Protecting layers 102 Publish 113 Publishing 113 Pulling images into the collage 104 R Reconnecting canvas images 70 Red frame number 70 Red Green and Blue 89 Red Green Blue 85 Redropping images 70 Reference images 106 108 References 108 136 Refresh 64 108 Refresh images 64 Refreshing the canvas 64 Registering FotoFusion 143 Remove button 104 Removing images 104 Removing images from the dropper 57 Removing pages 65 Renaming templates 125 Rendering to a flat file 117 Re ordering frames 91 Re ordering
43. 1 Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved Output Options Once you have built your collages you have many output options You can e send 109 them as email to friends relatives and clients e publish 113 them to your website e render 117 them into flatted graphics files jpg tif etc allowing you to transfer and view your work outside of FotoFusion e print 120 your work Sharing by email FotoFusion streamlines the process of sharing your images with others by email Collages are an elegant way to show multiple images at the same time they are beautiful efficient and unique You will never clog the inboxes of friends and families if you send collages to your friends and family If you are doing commercial work with FotoFusion your customers will appreciate emails of digital proof sheets and your work will be secure with FotoFusion s integrated watermarking feature You can also quickly produce alternatives black and white desaturated tinted versions to share with them Emails are sent from the Share tab Configuration Your e mail setup needs to be correctly configured in order to share vour photos with Friends Add your email address and your name Your E Mail Address This will make your email appear as if it came IT directly from you not the LumaPix Server If your recipient replies back their message will return to your email Your Full Mame After this step you have
44. 1 select a set of images 2 enter a name for that selection in the Name text edit 3 click add Now that new moment will appear in the list of known moments To view an existing moment e g to reselect all the images in the original selection and pan the timeline to the right position 1 Click the V button to drop down the list of known moments 2 Select a moment from the list The timeline will pan to show the selection which will be recalled from when the moment was created Removing Images Clicking Remove will hide the selected images from the organizer but will not delete those files from your hard drive Clearing the Database At times it will be necessary to clear your database of pictures to have FotoFusion forget about all the pictures it has found on your hard drive and start scanning afresh You may wish to do this if you have many old photos you will not likely be using to make collages Your original image files are not affected by this process To clear your FotoFusion database 1 2 click on Scan for new photos 1 3 click on the green arrows v v v in the resulting dialog 1 4 click Remove Database Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved Viewing Original Images The pictures in your collage are references 136 This means that FotoFusion looks at the original images on your computer makes a sketch of them so you can work with it quickly and easily FotoFusion will never make changes to your
45. 3 6 Canvas Color amp Texture The canvas can be filled with e a solid color 62 e atexture 635 e an Image 63 or e nothing 62 completely transparent You can select more than one of these options simultaneously you can blend these effects by resetting transparency of each level To edit your canvas click on a blank area of the canvas or the area outside the canvas This will open the Canvas Toolbox Layers Zoom In Edit All Add Text Next click on the fill icon Layers Zoom In Edit All Add Text This opens the canvas editor 2006 LumaPix Inc 62 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Canvas QO Oe 6 Fill R25 G 25 B 2355 L Show Tile Je gt Scale 001 Blur 0 From here you can set the canvas fill color or tile Canvas Color To set the canvas color you can either e Drag the Red Green Blue controls directly R G B or e Click on the Fill color chip the little box next to the RGB values which will open a color editor Opacity 255 PP Set the color using the various controls in the color editor You can e Click on the color gradient to find a color you like e Adjust the RGB or the HSV values manually e Use the eyedropper tool to pick any color on the screen e Adjust the lightness darkness of your selected shade using the slider bar If you intend to email this collage keep in mind that you can set the background color of the ema
46. CompactPremium3 OEme af Banner U LJ U E Place Banner L T T Outside Collage Link tepi lumapis com Text Click here ta Find out how T C U Theme Adding Banners Just as with Watermarks custom Banners can be created in Photoshop or similar programs and overlaid over email or web output A banner is an image with an embedded hyperlink it it typically opaque as you WANT the user to see and click on it An example use of a banner would be to have recipients of your emails click on the banner to visit your site The Link field allows you to specify the address that the banner should link to format http www WEBADDRESS com The Text field contains the text that will be shown in a tooltip when the recipient rolls their mouse over the banner 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 113 4 9 2 The Place Banner Outside Collage checkbox allows you to control whether the banner will lie inside or outside of the embedded collage Using custom HTML themes FotoFusion allows you to modify the templates used by Email and HTML publishing to get a look that matches your web site or personal preferences If you have defined a custom theme for your Emails select it from the list on the Watermark Banner Theme tab Click here 115 for more details on creating your own HTML Email themes Configuring an ISP Optional An ISP is an acronym for Internet Service Provider meaning the company which provi
47. Image menu to remove the wording Adding a Background Tile to a Frame You can use a tile within a frame background or blend it with an image in a frame 1 Select the frame to reveal the frame toolbox Frame Zoom In Edit All 2 Click on the Image icon to open the Image Editor 2006 LumaPix Inc 88 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Opacity 1 Angle 0 Bright D Contrast 1 Gamma 1 Biur D BHA B Sepia L A i G i B 1 Background Fill Opacity 8 R 255 G 255 B 255 E Show The a Opacity 1 Scale 0 4 Shur D F Show Drop Photo Hare when empty his 4 Pick a tile from the list of tiles 5 Adjust the size opacity and blur of the tile by dragging the controls in the Tile section of the image editor You can create your own tiling backgrounds in tools such as PhotoShop or Genetica and store them in a specific folder when you next run FotoFusion these new tiles will appear in the list of available tiles Click here to learn more The tiles can be used to create embellishments to empty image free frames such as in the example below Be sure to uncheck the Show Drop Photo Here when Empty box Here is an example two frames with background textures have been used to showcase an image You can also apply a background texture to an image reducing its opacity to allow both the image and the texture to be seen simultaneously In this example the two
48. ability to add a frame while dropping images It allows you to determine the shape and size of the frame into which the image will be dropped If you want to add a new frame to the collage as you are currently dropping images e Press and hold down the F key then move the mouse to the top left corner of where you would like the new frame to be e Press the left mouse button and hold it down e Drag the mouse down and to the right defining a new frame as you go e Release the mouse button when you are finished drawing the new frame 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 59 Result you will create a new frame atop the existing collage and the picture next in line in ther dropper will be placed into your newly created frame automatically Picking Up Images You can also pick up images from within a collage to move them to other frames e Select a frame Either o Click P on your keyboard o or click on the image number o or right mouse click on an image and select Pick up selected Any of these techniques will pick up the selected image holding it in the dropper for use elsewhere You can then add the image back to the canvas as you would any other image in the dropper Default Image Sizes You may find that images when dragged into a free form 39 canvas appear too large or too small The reason for this is that the default canvas DPI typically 300 DPI is being used to calculate the size of the imag
49. able gt lt td gt lt tr gt lt table gt lt center gt lt div gt lt div align center style width 1 height 10 gt lt div gt You have complete flexibility to modify any aspect of these files in a copied directory to change color choices add frames use CSS styles or do anything you like Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 117 4 9 4 Rendering to a flat file process tab When you are satisfied with your collage you can choose to export it to a flat file an image in a format such as jpg or png We call it a flat file because all the layers frames text backgrounds etc are all flattened into one image You will no longer be able to move the individual pieces of your collage If you still need to edit your collage you should save it as a collage 124 not render it into a flat file The process of flattening your file is also referred to as processing or rendering Typical reasons for doing this include e to give the work to a lab for printing e to use the collage in another application such as Photoshop s to print it on a machine that does not have FotoFusion installed see our note about quality 120 you may decide to install FotoFusion on your print machine e to use it as a windows desktop image e upload it to a public web gallery outside of FotoScraps 128 To flatten your collage in
50. abling Community you to communicate with other users in forums and stores Each of these tasks is accomplished in a dedicated area of the interface shown as a tab just below the menu bar Menu Bar and Tool Bar A menu bar appears along the top edge of the interface If you move your mouse over each item in the menu without clicking you ll see a description of what that item does displayed in the status bar at the bottom of the main FotoFusion window The most useful tools appear in a toolbar at the top of the window Hold your mouse over the buttons to see what they do and learn the keyboard accelerators are available Image Palette The Image Palette lies along the left side of the interface B Bs os Images B The palette shows pictures you have selected but not yet dropped into your collage Clickhere 104 for more information Color Editor The color editor is used to specify colors for frame borders background colors and text fills and outlines 2006 LumaPix Inc 134 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help 5 2 Or E Oe Rg OR a5 H Jo 000 deg Osfo a Gy o0 Simply drag or click within the colored regions to select a color or type a value within the various text fields to specify an exact value for red green blue hue saturation or value respectively Clicking on the R G B H S and V buttons changes the mode of the color editor to enable you to pick co
51. acity 0 5 Scale 0 01 Blur 0 See the section on editors 28 to learn how to adjust the parameters they contain Editing Parameters Interactively Many of the controls in the Toolboxes can be dragged interactively doing so will change an important parameter related to the selected object To drag the control simply press the left mouse button while hovering over an icon in the toolbox and move the mouse Step 1 Move the mouse over a button in the Toolbox for example the Borders button Frame Border Edit All l T T 1 1 IT Add Text Step 2 Press and hold the left mouse button then drag the mouse to the right The border thickness will increase interactively as you do so 2006 LumaPix Inc 26 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Frame Border Element Zoom ln Edit All Add Text Step 3 Release the left mouse button Frame Element Zoom ln Edit All Add Text Some controls such as that for Drop Shadows 83 shadow blur gt can be dragged both left right shadow offset and up down You can press esc before releasing the mouse button to cancel the changes if necessary Element Image Switch See Elements and Images 23 to understand the difference between these two interaction styles for frames To change an element into an image or vice versa click this button and choose a preference from the resulting pop up
52. an press the esc key to abort the drag if necessary Multiple Selection Note that you can move multiple selected frames at the same time 2006 LumaPix Inc 68 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help CTRL A will select all the items on your canvas CTRL click will allow you to select images or elements one at a time to create a group on which you can perform the same actions Overriding Snapping You will notice that the image snaps to the edges of other images as you drag the mouse This helps you align the frame other other frames on the canvas If you want to override this effect hold the ALT key down as you drag the resize handle This will turn snapping off Using the Keyboard To move a frame using the keyboard 1 select a frame or frames 2 tap the arrow keys the up down right and left arrow keys will nudge the image by a few pixels in the direction you select Press shift while tapping the arrow keys to move the selection more slowly and ctrl to move it faster Resizing Frames Frames can be resized in several ways e Resizing them interactively with or without snapping and fine grained control e Setting a size numerically e Snapping a frame to fit the image it contains Note that frames can be in element or image modes 23 gt which affects the resize handles available on the frame click here to learn more Interactive Resizing To resize a frame or multiple frames at the same time
53. area you may want to overlay crop marks turn on the Show Crop Marks option to include 1 pixel crop lines into the exported image Watermarking and Banners Watermarks and Banners options configured on the sharing tab will be used when processing to a flat file see the section on Sharing 109 for more details Rendering Double Page Spreads When creating a professional album layout you may wish to compose a double page spread meaning the canvas size represents two pages joined together by binding This is useful if for instance you wish to place a large panoramic image across two pages FotoFusion allows you to specify this type of layout in the Canvas Size editor 50 and will draw a center guideline if the page dimensions reach a particular aspect ratio 4 3 When it is time to render your double page spread you will have the option to render doubles separately If the checkmark is set to this option two separate files will be created for each half of the spread If this option is not selected then one large file will be created DPI and Resolution You can set the resolution or DPI dots per inch of your exported collage to fit your requirements FotoFusion never forces you to pick a size or resolution Setting the DPI will adjust the image resolution and setting the image resolution will adjust the DPI since both values are related by the canvas size Compression If you are saving in the JPEG file format the quali
54. as determines how big the pictures will be when it is dropped Size dropped images at Oa pe Le 5 of Canvas width To work with a freeform collage simply choose a set of dimensions in the new collage dialog and then click the browse button to find pictures to add images You can also drag and drop the images directly from Windows Explorer or use the Organizer 7104 tab to search for your images Having selected a set of images drag them to the canvas and arrange them wherever you like 57 gt If you set your canvas up with a bleed area 52 or a safe region 52 you will see red and green overlays on the empty canvas indicating the respective positions of these two areas Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved Grid Collage Grid based collages are created by subdividing large frames to form interesting yet orderly arrangements Simple grids are ideal for printing several copies of the same image on the same sheet Or creating evenly sized frames for a display of similar images 2006 LumaPix Inc 40 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Class of 200 Workflow To begin choose grid based collage from the new collage 33 This produces a canvas covered by a single frame Begin by dragging the split control on the image toolbox 24 gt 5 dialog 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 41 Frame Split lement Zoo
55. background textures from the previous example have been applied to images at a reduced opacity 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 89 Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 4 4 13 Fine Tuning Images Images in frames cannot be edited at the pixel level but global effects can be applied to improve their quality For example you cannot do red eye removal in FotoFusion but you can increase the overall contrast of an image This process is always non destructive your original files are never touched Remember that you can save presets 28 for the adjustments you make to images To adjust images you can work directly in the Image Toolbox or in the Image Editor Image Toolbox The Image control in the Image Toolbox can be dragged to edit the most important image effects for the selected frame s e Drag left right Brightness 90 e Drag up down Contrast 90 e Ctrl drag left right Gamma 90 gt Element Zoom In Edit All Add Text Image Editor The image editor opens when you click on the image effects button in the toolbox 2006 LumaPix Inc 90 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Image oo Ime Opacity t Angle 0 Brighi Contrast 1 CAR TPS t Blur D BAW Sepia lS R 1G i H 1 Emhyr Fill Opacity R 355 G ob d m L T Stow Th S a P Opacity os Scale 0 01 Blue 0 It contains controls for the image e Opaci
56. blishing them to a web page or 113printing them out or 120saving them to disk 1A If you would like to try a different arrangement for the images click autocollage again To jumble the images press autojumble Home Awubo Tools There are a HUGE number of things that you can do to your collage at this point including Resizing images 67 Color correcting images 89 gt Changing frame borders 795 Splitting frames 73 Resizing the canvas 50 Merging frames 73 Rotating images 715 Setting a background image 64 Firs rS ED Swapping images 69 Adding text 925 1 Duplicating frames 66 N aa a LE d P Cropping images 70 Changing the background 615 Adding hotlinks to images Changing the drop shadows 83 Watermarking the canvas 99 However we are going to assume that you are satisfied with your collage and move on to sharing it with friends by email 2006 LumaPix Inc 20 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Click on the Share tab Fz Lumarix Fl k u n Untitled Pile Edt Wiew Selection Tools Help K Create S Organize Images Pages Settings RRP SC images D Enter the name and Email ID of a Add to Recipients List recipient for example Name optional name The LumaPix Team The LumaFix Team Email ID support lumapix com E Mail 4ddressiesi supporb
57. c theDir lt theFile usemap FPMap0 align middle border 0 gt lt a gt lt BR gt lt tablegoeshere gt lt spacergoeshere gt lt BODY gt lt HTML gt Here is the default photo htm template with tokens in bold lt div align center gt lt center gt lt table border 1 cellpadding 0 cellspacing 0 width 1 style border collapse collapse bordercolorlight COCOCO bordercolordark 808080 gt lt tr gt lt td gt lt map name FPMapNav theMap gt lt area alt Previous Photo href theBack shape rect coords 0 0 20 20 gt lt area alt To Collage href Collage shape rect coords 20 0 44 20 gt lt area alt Next Photo href theNext shape rect coords 44 0 64 20 gt lt map gt lt center gt lt a name a anchor gt lt img border 0 src theDir PrevNext jpg width 65 height 20 usemap FPMapNav theMap gt lt a gt lt center gt lt td gt lt tr gt lt tr gt lt td gt lt center gt lt font size 2 gt lt a theLink gt lt img border 0 width theWidth height theHeight src theDir lt theFile gt lt a gt lt font gt lt center gt lt td gt lt tr gt lt tr gt lt td gt lt table border 0 cellpadding 5 cellspacing 0 style border collapse collapse bordercolor 111111 width 100 gt lt tr gt lt td gt lt font color 404040 face Arial size 2 gt desc lt font gt lt td gt lt tr gt lt t
58. computer related terms that we use in this documentation Term Meanins S Press and release a button on the mouse the left button if not Click Pe We C 11 specified as in right click Move the mouse while holding a button down the left button Drag ve ra as u if not specified as in right drag Double Press and release a mouse button twice in a row usually the click left button Move the mouse so that the pointer is over an object without Hover clicking If you have a thumb wheel on your mouse roll it forwards or RSI backwards not moving the mouse itself Here are some industry terms that you should know Term Meanina The size of a canvas as it will be cut for presentation Trim 52 A typical business card has a trim size of 3 5x2 inches a 5x7 print has a trim area of 5 by 7 inches An optional extra space around the outside of a canvas used to overprint so that when the print is cut to the trim area colors go cleanly to the edge of the cut print The bleed size can be set to any size you like This feature is available in FotoFusion PRO only Bleed 53 2006 LumaPix Inc Reference 137 Safe 535 Crop Marks Gamma Alpha Aspect Ratio 785 DPI JPG compressi on ratio Copy Paramete r The region within the canvas that is sure to be visible when the print is mounted A 5x7 print mounted in a photo album may be overlapped by 1 4 on each s
59. ct all objects of a specific type For example if you are building a contact sheet it is handy to be able to select all text frames with a single click for example to resize all of them interactively To do this 1 Click on the select by type button 2 Choose a selection type from the resulting pop up list kao Canvas Text Image Frames Image Text Template Frames Layer Filtering FotoFusion supports layers It is often useful to disable selection in specific layers so that clicking on objects in that layer will be ignored For example if you have created a semi transparent text frame in the watermark layer you may wish to disable selection in that layer so that you can work on the collage beneath the watermark without accidentally selecting or moving that watermark In this example frames on the Canvas layer have been protected and thus cannot be selected by the user _ Layers 6000 Layer See Through Protect Overlay C Template Text C Collage C Canvas C Click here for more detail on layers 7102 Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 4 6 3 Working with Layers FotoFusion provides a layer mechanism This simplifies working with dense collages and allows you to turn off interaction with various elements so that you don t make accidental selections while you work The top most enabled layer is the one which will receive images that you drop into the canvas 57
60. d If you select no all the images in frames will be removed including some types of digital scrapbooking elements if you have included these in your work Once the file has been saved you will see it in the template form with empty frames ready to be filled with images as the template will appear if the user selects the template at the new collage dialog Deleting and Renaming Templates To delete a template 1 Choose New Collage to open the new collage dialog 2 Click the VVV button below the large template graphic 3 Choose Browse to open the FotoFusion Browser 4 Select the template in question 5 Click the small green gt button to pop up a list of actions 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 127 Ermat Updates Sahu erae e Ol ae Saini Decades 5 1b fel el Le You can delete rename or open a browser to view the folder holding the selected template from this list Where the Templates Are Located By default the template files are stored in a specific subfolder 127 of the FotoFusion folder Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 4 9 7 3 Important Folders By default FotoFusion is installed into the folder named C Program Files LumaPix FotoFusion Within that folder are several sub folders that store useful things in a predictable place Contains graphics and htm files that serve as templates for collages exported to the Web or HTML Themes Email
61. d memory usage improvements e Fixed Bugs o Color editing now behaves correctly with multi selected text o Multi page render 118 can now be stopped o Page name now refreshes properly after renaming o Page segments now removed when user changes printer settings o Spikes in fonts no longer appear when increasing the thickness of text outlines Version 3 4 Version 3 4 is a maintenance update that includes the following e Features o Double width layouts now count for 2 pages o Rulers support metric and pixel dimensions o Frame number on canvas tile shown if source image is not found e Performance o Accelerated feedback when using EXIF information on remote hard drive Fixed Bugs o Several crashes fixed Loading an old project with flipped images no long causes issues at render time Appending a project no longer changes the name of the current project Problem with missing DLL fixed Leading spaces in text no longer ignored Dragging out a new frame while the dropper is active works again Web links for images in exported collages work again Closing FotoFusion after AutoCollage wizard doesn t prompt for save Editors do not open offscreen Forward back refresh stop buttons in community tab once again consistent with other browsers O O O O O O O 0 0 Previous version updates For your interest this section describes the evolution of FotoFusion through the versions Version 3 3 The following new features are available in FotoFusion PRINT v3 3 e Suppo
62. dP tii CF become H Comers c FADD Nea Jogan 8Q noe 36 a Fer t eH Rh Heip Pema Pa Hind era Things Not to Worry About In case you were wondering e FotoFusion will never delete modify move or otherwise affect your image files Operations such as rotating color correcting or removing from the database in FotoFusion do not touch your original media e Templates FotoFusion provides superb support for templates 125 but often you won t need them AutoCollage 34 gt is such a powerful feature for automatically arranging your images that you will probably come to rely upon it exclusively Things You Need to Know e FotoFusion does not load the whole image but works with reference images somewhat like enhanced thumbnail versions When you print or process your collage FotoFusion returns to the original images to collect additional information so that your output will be of good quality e Because FotoFusion works by maintaining a link from your collage to the original images you cannot move or rename the original files on your computer without breaking the link If you move or rename your images you will notice that the collage containing the reference images will only be working with thumbnails of the original photos You will not be able to get a good quality output because FotoFusion cannot find the files that contain the complete image information If the images have been moved you can reconnect them
63. des your internet access and often also provides you with an email address as well By default mails send from FotoFusion go through the LumaPix mail server the mails go from FotoFusion to www LumaPix com to the recipient instead of going via your regular email server This is done as a courtesy to our trial and paid customers to ensure that they have as smooth a demo of FotoFusion as possible the alternative having trial users configure their ISP settings would result in far fewer successful mails sent by trial users as ISP setups can be confusing Once users have upgraded from the trial version to a paid version of FotoFusion they have the option of continuing to go via the LumaPix servers or using their own ISP The advantages of using your own ISP are 1 Much higher maximum message size we limit mails through LumaPix com to reasonable sizes to protect the account from overuse 2 You own the mail pipeline from start to end Envelope Image Quality Watermark Banner Theme ISP Settings Configuration Send Using My Own ISP E Mail Settings Your e mail setup needs to be correctly SMTP Mail Server Enter the name of the server used to send mail From configured in order to share your vour computer Your Internet Service Provider ISP photos with Friends C Requires Authentication should be able to provide you with this information Your E Mail Address fe Some SMTP servers require a User ID and password to allow sendin
64. e Zoom Roll the mouse wheel e Pan Press the middle mouse button or wheel and drag the mouse If you prefer to work with the keyboard you can do the following e Zoom Tap the and keys on the numeric keypad Zoom Hold down the Z key press the left mouse button and drag the mouse Pan Hold down the Space bar press the left mouse button and drag the mouse Reset Press Alt A to frame the entire canvas You can also work with the toolbar Canvas 91 O 1 e Zoom Click the zoom in and zoom out buttons magnifiers 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 101 4 6 2 e Pan Click the pan button then press the left mouse button over the canvas and drag the mouse directional arrows e Reset Press the reset button 4th icon Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved Selection Tools There are several Selection tools available e Adding to and removing from selections 10T e Marquee Selection 101 e Select Next Previous 10T You can also use bulk tools to work with multiple frames at once e Select All 101 e Select by Type 10T You should also be aware of e Layer filtering 102 Adding To and Removing From Selections To select a frame click on it with the left mouse button To add another frame to the selection forming a multiselection hold down the Ctrl key and click on another frame Multiple frames can be selected at once by holding down the Shift k
65. e canvas toolbox This will create a new text frame to fit the canvas You can Change the contents of the text body 97 including EXIF information 97 in the PRO and STUDIO versions e Change the position 95 of the text body e Change the text s size 96 and other attributes 93 Note that you can also attach text directly to a frame 92 gt in the PRO and STUDIO versions of FotoFusion this is useful for adding labels to frames that move when the frames are moved Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved Adding Text to a Frame In the PRO and STUDIO versions of FotoFusion you can add text attached to a specific frame on the canvas This means that if you move the frame the text moves with it It also allows you to use information about the particular image as text 1 Select that frame The image toolbox 27 will open 2 Click the Add Text button in the image toolbox This will create a new text frame attached to the image frame 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 93 This frame will move and rotate with the parent frame although it can be independently sized and positioned This is useful for creating labels for individual pictures and contact sheets or other layouts Note that if you had multiple frames selected when you clicked the add text button all frames will receive text Your next move might be to e Change the contents of th
66. e parent frame Think of the text frame as a playing card that you are about to pierce with a thumbtack in order to attach it to a picture frame on a wall The Text grid of buttons determines where on the playing card the thumbtack will go top left bottom right The Frame grid determines where the pin will go into the picture frame Setting the Frame preference sets the text preference automatically as the text preference can usually be inferred from the Frame preference You can change it gain later if you like For example to put a text label on the bottom right corner of an image you would click the south east button on the frame box This would automatically choose the south east button on the text box so that the text appears within the frame If you would prefer to have the text appear BELOW the image you might choose to click the north east text button You can also position the text manually with respect to the parent frame simply drag it in the canvas to where you want it to go What you are really doing is changing the offset for that frame with respect to the pin positions as described above Note that this editor works well with multiselection turning the creation of a contact sheet into a simple and pleasant exercise Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved Sizing Text There are two ways to change the size of the text in a text frame e By setting the font size directly e By resizing the
67. e spelling in your text you should compose it first in a word processing software eg MS Word Word Perfect etc to check your work You can cut and paste it into FotoFusion s text editor after you have ensured it is correct EXIF information The PRO and STUDIO versions of FotoFusion allow you to extract information about an image and to use that to label the image in various ways 2006 LumaPix Inc 98 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help EXIF information refers to data stored within the image itself typically written by the camera when a digital photograph is taken It includes information about when and how the picture was taken and is therefore useful as identifying information for pictures Sample uses of EXIF information include e Adding file names beneath pictures to build contact sheets e Superimposing frame numbers on image to make it easier for a customer to describe them to you e Noting the shutter speed of an image to help determine the best settings for future photographs To include EXIF information open the attributes editor for a text frame and click on the Tags button Edit Custom Tags Tags gt o N Exposure Setting F Stop as O m Date i a Shutter Lock Size Flash File Path File Type j i Full Path e 0 01 Day Month Year Date File Size ut Image Width Image Height File Folder File Mame Ne Frame Mumber This will display a list of supported EXIF tags Click an entr
68. e text body 97 including EXIF information 97 in the PRO and STUDIO versions e Change the position 95 of the text body e Change the text s size 96 and other attributes 93 Note that you can also attach text to the canvas 92 itself this is useful for labeling the overall collage in such a way that moving frames or autocollaging does not disturb the text you have set up Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 4 5 3 Text Appearance To adjust the attributes of a text frame select it the text toolbox will appear Position Zoom In Edit All The Shadow part of the toolbox can be dragged directly to edit the text s shadow s Drag left right Shadow Offset 84 gt e Drag up down Shadow Blur 84 e Click Open Shadow Editor 83 gt color angle amount etc Click here 21 gt for more information on how to drag the controls Click on the T to affect the font size color and other attributes of the text 2006 LumaPix Inc 94 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Font ooee Sample Font Tass gt Anal wt R 5 G 25 B 265 Opacity 255 Bilur a Size 467 Lock Sie Show Cutline R G iB o M Opacity 255 Sire 0 61 Alignment WE Gow Style Bold Cl Strika Out RI ClUnderine You can change the following attributes of a text frame e Text contents including EXIF information in the PRO version 97 Font 945 Color and Transpar
69. e you are dragging in Size dropped images at 300 joer 40 of canvas width Suppose that you are creating a canvas with an aspect ratio of 10x10 Perhaps you intend to print it at 10 x10 on a printer which can handle 300 DPI You can always change your mind later and change the resolution up or down by changing the settings located in the CANVAS SIZE 50 dialogue box For example to print the image as a poster at 10x10 feet you can choose 10 x10 canvas by default Take the above situation of a 10 x 10 canvas at 300 DPI if you were to bring in an image from a web page say 100 pixels x 100 pixels it would appear quite small on the canvas you have created This is because 100 pixels takes up only 1 3rd of an inch at 300 DPI making it appear quite tiny on the larger canvas When creating a canvas it helps to know what sort of images you will be working with and what the target output type will be You can then set the default canvas DPI to a reasonable value 96 DPI for web pages 300 DPI for printed media and have useful default frame sizes when the canvas is populated with images If you need to change the default DPI 51 gt for the canvas follow the procedure described here Relationship with the Image Palette Images which appear in the dropper come from the Image Palette 104 If you interrupt dropping by pressing Esc you will still see the images you have picked up in the Image palette press D to con
70. ectly Frame G G G Border Width 0 05 R 255 G 255 B 255 Opacity 255 Blur Z Fit Image _ Shadow Inside Matte SP Hoart emf MP Blur U Hole Lock Position amp Sine x ja Y 1 39 mp Width 2 12 Height 7 d Angle 0 Inset 0 06 Note that you can also drag the Width and Height controls directly to set the width and height interactively from the Frame Editor Sizing Frames to Match the Images They Contain There will be occasions when an image has been cropped by the frame holding it but you want to see the entire image To accomplish this quickly right click on the image and choose Snap Frame To Image or press Ctrl F Sizing Images to Match the Frames Containing Them This action does not resize the frame but will resets the crop on an image to fill the surrounding frame as completely as possible To accomplish this right click on the image and choose Snap Image to Frame or press CTRL I Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved Swapping Images Between Frames FotoFusion makes it simple to swap two images 1 Move the mouse over the frame number for one image eg ea 2 Press the left mouse button 3 Drag the mouse over the frame you would like to swap with 4 Release the left mouse button The two images will be swapped Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 2006 LumaPix Inc 70 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help 4 4 4 Frame Statu
71. efault values If you have set background to canvas color enabled the color of your canvas will be used to set the email background color Crop to trim lines will cut away anything outside of the edges of your canvas leaving only the portion directly on the canvas Crop marks will be rendered on top of your collage if you enable show crop marks 2006 LumaPix Inc 112 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Adding Watermarks In the Pro and Studio versions you can add custom watermarks to your emails to protect them As a pro photographer you may be sending proofs to a customer whom you want to review the pictures but not print them out for their own use thus bypassing you for a potential sale Watermarks give you a way to label your work such that the customer can decide if the pictures are right for them but not be tempted to save them locally To create a watermark 1 Use an image editing application such as Adobe PhotoShop to create an image with a transparent background 2 Save this image in the PNG file format with transparency enabled into the Watermark 3 Place the PNG file into the Watermarks folder 127 where FotoFusion was installed Envelope Image Quality Watermark Banneri Theme ISP Settings Watermark File C workla Lumapix gqraphics watermarks GenericwWatermar 7 xd collage LU LU T L_ Originals LJ LJ L UU U UU U UU C UU U Banner File tworkla Lumapixgraphicsimails
72. ement or an Image 23 gt 2006 LumaPix Inc 22 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help This section describes what each handle does e Crop 22 Pan 22 Resize 22 Rotate 22 Swap 23 Crop Dragging the crop handles determines which part of the image is visible within a frame CROP Important Notes s If you do not see this handle on a frame it means that the frame is holding an element 23 elements cannot be cropped Pan Dragging the pan handle moves the image within the frame PAN Important Notes s If you do not see this handle on a frame it means that the frame is holding an element 23 elements cannot be panned Resize Dragging a resize handle resizes the frame RESIZE Important Notes e If you only see the side handles and not the corner resize handles then Aspect Ratios have been locked for the canvas toggle this behavior by pressing the A key e Also note that Elements 23 have their aspect ratio permanently locked Rotate Dragging the resize handle rotates the frame 2006 LumaPix Inc Getting Started 23 L ROTATE Important Notes e Hold down the alt key to snap rotation to increments of 45 degrees Frame Number Swap The frame number indicates three things e The Selection State 70 If the frame is unselected the number looks like this If the frame is selected the number looks like thi
73. ency 945 Blur 94 Text Size 95 Outline Color amp Width 955 Alignment 95 Style 95 gt Because the text appears in a frame you can also perform regular frame based manipulation on it including e Changing the Drop Shadow 83 e Moving 67 and resizing 67 it although text frames also offer specific positioning tools 95 to help snap to parent image frames You cannot add bold italics or other attributes to text within the Font Editor The attributes you select will be applied to ALL of the text within that particular text box If you require different effects for particular words or phrases you will need to create a separate text box Font The font can be changed to any true type font you have installed on your system simply drop down the list of available fonts and pick a style Note that if you have clicked in the font list twice so that it is closed but still selected you can use the up and down keys to move quickly through the font list the text frame will be updated as you change fonts FotoFusion uses the TRUE TYPE fonts which are available on your system in the Windows Fonts folder If you reinstall FotoFusion on a new computer which does not contain the same fonts as your original machine you will most likely find that your font list has changed If you know that you have installed a font on your system such as a free font you found on the web and it is not ap
74. er if you just turned off the top most visible layer Making layers semi transparent Making a layer see through is useful for e Seeing what is happening on lower layers e Adding a watermark 99 to your canvas Protecting layers Protecting a layer turns off interaction with the mouse you cannot select move resize or otherwise edit frames on protected layers By default the canvas layer is protected If you want to to move or resize a background image you must unprotect 63 gt the canvas layer first You will then be able to select the background image and manipulate it as you would any other image Once you have finished editing the canvas be sure to recheck the PROTECT box Moving frames to different layers To move a frame to a different layer right click on that frame and choose move to layer from the resulting pop up menu Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 4 7 Organizing Your Images The Image Palette 104 explains the contents of the Image tab to the left of the canvas area The Image Organizer 104 explains the Organizer Tab on top of the canvas area Viewing Original Images 106 explains how you can view the source of your reference images in FotoFusion in larger detail 2006 LumaPix Inc 104 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help 4 7 1 4 7 2 The Image Palette When you drag multiple images into FotoFusion they appear in the Image Palette This is is a midway poi
75. er as efficiently as you can e Printing the canvas at 1 1 even if it requires multiple pages to print This option will print your collage at exactly the dimensions that you selected when creating it o If your layout is 6x6 inches it will be printed at exactly 6x6 inches on an 8 5x11 sheet of paper o If you layout is 36x24 inches it will not fit on a single 8 5x11 sheet of paper FotoFusion STUDIO is capable of splitting printed output across multiple pages FotoFusion PRO and FotoFusion Standard can print to exactly one sheet at a time Note that the options for Full Bleed and Crop are only available when printing at 1 1 because these options are only relevent when printing precisely measured output and the fit option resizes the image to fit the page Crop Marks If you have created a canvas with a bleed area then turning on the Draw Crop Lines option will print crop marks where the canvas ends and the bleed area starts Full Bleed If you have created a canvas with a bleed area then turning on the Add Full Bleed Region option will print that region Centering and Orientation You can choose to print centered on the printed page You can also choose to match the orientation of the page For example if you have a landscape layout say 20x10 inches and you want to print it scaled to fit an 8 5x11 inch page then you might want to print it with the 20 width along the 8 5 axis of the portrait orientation page o
76. es 104 split 39 Split dialog 73 Splitting frames 73 Splitting using the split dialog 73 Splitting using the toolbox 73 Standard folders 127 Standard tokens 115 Studio 65 Style 93 Subdividing frames 39 Support 31 Swap 21 69 Swap images 21 Swapping images 69 T Tabs 131 Tags 97 Template 47 102 Templates 125 127 Terminology 136 Text 92 102 131 Text appearance 93 Text location 95 Text position 95 Textsize 93 Text toolbox 24 Text Tools 92 Tile 61 64 136 Tiles 85 127 Tilting 71 Toggling aspect ratio lock 78 Toolbar 131 ToolBox 24 131 Toolboxes 24 Transfering your work 117 Trim 136 Trim lines 52 True Type fonts 93 Turning layers on and off 102 U Upload 128 Use printer color profile 120 Using custom HTML themes 109 Using templates 125 Using the mouse 67 2006 LumaPix Inc Index Using the timeline 104 N Vertical orientation 71 Viewing original images 106 W Watermarking 99 Watermarking at export 99 Watermarking with text 99 Watermarks 127 Web 91 Web publishing 113 Web themes 115 What the layers do 102 Windows Explorer 55 www FotoScraps com 128 _7 Zoomin 24 Zooming 100 151 2006 LumaPix Inc Back Cover
77. ese appear as labels for the images when you export your collage to an HTML page 115 or toemail 109 In addition you can turn the images in your collage into clickable regions which link to pages that you define You may have to click the three green arrow button to see the box into which you can enter the link To set these options on an image select it and press Alt D or right click on it and choose Update Description from the contextual menu Enter a cesorintion for he img Tuen bom cick to ses hi vetet ei 1000 Che a Lez macs This beri v pipu Greg D neon eder Pep arre of Ea e mail Code Bree Eha maisa ver Sha gza R Fete arreb link for this mage Sten ress the weer can cick on the image and be taken bo the web she you enter here St eana C9 pE T 9 com Links must contain 4 veld prefix sich n gra of be foiea hihip maltesi Fiac eic 2006 LumaPix Inc 92 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help 4 5 4 5 1 4 5 2 Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved Text Tools FotoFusion allows all users to add editable text on their canvases 92 gt PRO and STUDIO users can also add text attached to frames 92 gt You can control many options for text color size position shadow opacity etc Adding Text to the Canvas To add text to the canvas 1 Click anywhere on the canvas The canvas toolbox 28 will open 2 Click the add text button in th
78. eset all info tips in the Help menu Online Video Tutorial Visit www lumapix com and click on the SHOW ME link to view the online video tutorials We highly recommend that you view the 15 minute beginner s video before you start to work in FotoFusion as you will see the software in action After you have mastered the basics you may wish to view the hour long video to learn about more advanced techniques Community Tab Click on the Community tab to connect directly to the LumaPix community A Community This will bring you to e The _LumaPix website e The _FotoScraps Forum a place for FotoFusion users to gather to discuss techniques answer challenges and learn together The FotoScraps Gallery a gallery of FotoFusion imagery for you to contribute to The _LumaPix Support Site Frequently Asked Questions database and Support Ticket System News recent updates from LumaPix Other sites a list of friendly sites that we tip our hat to click here to request membership in this list Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 33 4 Working with FotoFusion This section will provide you with in depth information about the main features of FotoFusion This section is divided into subsections to help you find the information you need quickly Creating a New Composition 33 gt Options for starting a new project Auto Tools 41 FotoFusion s q
79. ey and clicking on another frame If a frame is already selected clicking on it while holding down the Ctrl key will remove it from the list of selected frames To deselect all frames click on the canvas the area outside the ruler is generally the easiest place to do this Marquee Selection To select all the frames within a region 1 Move the mouse to where there are no frames just exposed canvas moving outside the canvas area is often the easiest way to get to a clear space 2 Press the left mouse button 3 Drag the mouse As you drag a marquee selection will be drawn a rectangle that selects every frame that it touches 4 When you have touched all the frames you want to select with the marquee release the mouse button All the items within the marquee have been selected Next Previous Buttons To select the next and previous frames either e Click the lt and gt buttons in the toolbar or e Hit the tab and shift tab keys to move to the next and previous frames respectively Note that the frame numbers 70 above the frames indicate the order in which the frames will be selected Select All To select all frames in the collage either e Press CTRL A or e Click the select all button in the toolbar or RI A e Choose Select All in the selection menu Selection By Type 2006 LumaPix Inc 102 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help It will frequently be useful to sele
80. ffset 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 Examples of Shadow Effects 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 85 Shadow Inside If the shadow is inside the border does not cast a shadow 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 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 made to match the frame Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 4 4 12 Background Color and Tiles Adding Color to a Frame You can add color to the background of a frame You can use this effect to add a color wash to an image or you can create empty frames with color To set the background color for a frame 1 Select the frame to reveal the
81. file Process tab raar anita trt gata NON ZEE EZ EEE ant NEE Ean EEE 117 PARIDO Ee E nts an E H SEI E T ene 120 Pro Cab rT 124 Managing and Saving Your Work ssssssssese eee ee cesse ess ss esse sese ennenen ennenen ennenen 124 Saving Loading and Deleting Collages c sssssssscccceccceeceeeeeeeeeeeesssseesecseceeseensaeaaeaeeeeeseeeeeeseeeeeeeeeseeeeess 124 E e el eee A eee en ce er ten NNE eee eee eer en er ee ee ee ee ee eee ree rere mere 125 AETV UIE ale T 127 w CAA ects E cence es 128 FOULS SChapS Online Galery aaae eaa en gaia GSE ab aea ER Een arete 128 Part V Reference 131 1 mtenace Map THT 131 2 K yboard E ely LO sssrinin E ne ene EREEREER 134 3 7 uU la LOG U r E E EEA E EER 136 Part VI Contacting LumaPix 141 Part VII Registering FotoFusion 143 Part VIII Credits and Attribution 145 2006 LumaPix Inc LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Index 146 2006 LumaPix Inc LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Welcome Welcome to LumaPIx FotoFusion v3 7 If you are a registered Version 3 user please update for free to Version 3 7 to benefit from the improvements to the software If you are running Version 2 we invite you to upgrade to enjoy all the new updates 8 The information in this help file will teach you to use FotoFusion quickly If you only have time to read one page of documentation we suggest that you read the GETTING STARTED 14 section A lis
82. forum for quick responses and an easily browsed list of questions from other users e Also note that there is a very active Yahoo forum on FotoFusion Regular Mail LumaPix Inc 192 Louis Lalande Boucherville Quebec CANADA J4B 6P6 Fax 1 866 658 5042 Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 2006 LumaPix Inc Registering FotoFusion 143 7 Registering FotoFusion To get FotoFusion up and running on your machine 1 Download a trial copy of FotoFusion Visit www LumaPix com and click Free Download This downloads and installs a free version which has watermarks to distinguish it from a registered copy 2 Buy FotoFusion from the store at LumaPix com You can do this in two ways 1 From within FotoFusion by choosing Purchase FotoFusion from the Help menu in FotoFusion or 2 By visiting www LumaPix com and clicking Buy NOW Either method will send you to the LumaPix web store where you can select the version of FotoFusion which is right for you Simply enter your contact and credit card information and submit the order NOTE do not provide an email address where an automatically generated email containing a license will be trapped as spam 3 Receive a license in your email Once your payment has been successfully processed you will receive an email containing information needed to register the software 4 Run FotoFusion 5 Choose Activate FotoFusion in FotoFusion s Help menu
83. frames Click here 66 for more detail on what can be done with frames ToolBox The Toolbox is a small floating window that appears beside selected frames 2006 LumaPix Inc 132 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Element Zoom In Edit All Add Text It provides quick control over frequently used parameters and access to editors containing less frequently used controls Click here for a complete description of how to work with the toolbox 245 Floating Editor Clicking on buttons in the toolbox opens a floating editor which contains relevant parameters for the toolbox button you clicked on image G C Imas Opacity i Angle 0 Bright 0 Contrast 1 LS TPS t Blur ls baw 0 Sepia D R isc iB 1 Bachan Fil Opacity i R 255 G db d M L l Sho Ti TE w Opacity D 5 Scale 0 07 Blur Click here 28 gt for more information on the floating editor Tabs FotoFusion is divided up by tasks a Tab Name fContents Create Where you create and edit collage layouts rne A view of all the image files on your hard drive that you g have told FotoFusion about Share A tool for sharing collages by email with friends amp family Publish A tool for publishing collages to web pages A tool for exporting collages to flat files for example Process 4 be printed at local photo labs 2006 LumaPix Inc Reference 133 A web space pointing to an online community en
84. g of e mails Consult your ISP la lumapix com Po settings For this information if your tests Fail Your Full Name The LumaPix Team Test This Setting z Click here iF you have problems sending Click here For help on the SMTP settings if Detect Detect My Settings e mails or Filling in the information above My Settings Fails To send email through your own ISP check the Send Using My Own ISP E Mail Settings box Click on DETECT MY SETTINGS to automatically connect and if you wish click on TEST THIS SETTING to send an email to yourself Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved Web publishing FotoFusion includes an integrated FTP client and allows you to publish your collage directly to a web site as an online photo gallery e Overview e Including Original Images e Image Attributes e Watermarking 2006 LumaPix Inc 114 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help e Banners e Custom Themes Overview To publish your collage to a web site you need to have e The name of a server to which you will publish e A login ID and password Go to the Publish tab Publish to Web Me Publish tp Lec 9 Fle Image Quality Wabermark Banner Theme Publish Location Server Logn ID Passvaned Poder Colage Narre fest Published Web Collages Enter your login information for the web site and choose a folder and name to store the remote file under Once you have published a collage to the web it will appear
85. ge or a template thereby removing it PERMANENTLY from your hard disk e go to the Menu Bar click on FILE gt Open or e go to the Task Bar click on HOME the little house icon then click on the vvv button under Existing Projects or the Template areas This will open a dialog listing the collages or templates you have created so far Select a collage you no longer wish to keep then click on the gt button to the right of this list and choose Remove from the resulting menu Open Project My Projects Default Kids In Florida test hest2 testa test Rename a Collage Projects Template Projects Remove Open Explorer in this Folder Yearbook Browse To delete several collages at the same time make note of their names then e open Windows Explorer e navigate to C My Documents My Collages e multiple select the files you wish to remove cntl click on the file names e hit delete on your keyboard Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 4 9 7 2 Templates FotoFusion allows you to create templates pre defined arrangements of frames that you can load and populate with your own images When you download FotoFusion you will receive a few sample templates to inspire your own compositions This section describes e Using Templates e Saving Templates e Deleting and Renaming Templates e Where the Templates Are Located Using Templates The New Collage d
86. gher compression will produce noisier images and smaller files Increasing the quality on a JPG export usually results in good looking images without producing a too large file BMP files tend to be very large they are lossless you won t lose any quality working with this format Images in this format 2006 LumaPix Inc 118 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help are typically used for work in Windows environments TIF images are more portable than BMP images but remain large compared to JPG files Only the PNG format can write out transparency if you want to have a canvas with a transparent background do this e 1 Set up the canvas with a transparent background 62 gt e 2 Choose PNG as a file format e 3 Export the image as described here Batch Processing FotoFusion STUDIO supports multi page rendering To process the entire collage out into separate flattened images choose all pages in the combo box in the options area sid File Type Selected Page ka H Selected Page All Pages ydd Banner Figured on Share tab All of the pages in your composition will be exported with the page number appended to the project name Cropping and Crop Marks If you have created a canvas with a bleed area 52 you can choose to include that extra space in the processed file or trim it away use the crop to trim lines option to remove the bleed area if desired If you are including the bleed
87. gmented rendering of double page spreads e Fixed Bugs o Certain text fonts were not properly sized o Default file type when importing images was incorrect o Minor issue when printing certain sized projects Version 3 6 build 26468 responds to frequent user feedback e Features o Images used in current project now highlighted in organizer 104 o Added new 2006 Calendar mattes 79 gt o Text frames 92 gt can be hyperlinks o Info bar displayed while dropping images e Fixed Bugs o Quality of canvas image during editing improved o Sepiatone color improved to match customer feedback o EMF WMF added to list of file types shown while browsing o Acting on images in organizer switches to Images tab Version 3 5 Version 3 5 marked the renaming of our top end product from PRINT to STUDIO reflecting this version s focus on Professional photographers studios producing albums and large format output who can benefit from direct connectivity to professional printing labs providing managed color pipelines e Features o Direct uploading to participating Pro Photo Labs STUDIO only o Preview window 106 in the organizer can be resized o Canvas width 50 gt is no longer rounded to two decimal places 2006 LumaPix Inc New in this release o Added option to remove LZW compression from TIF output o Printer color profile support added to STANDARD and PRO e Performance o Many speed an
88. gt e Opening the layer editor e Turning layers on and off Making layers semi transparent Protecting layers Moving frames to different layers Opening the layer editor N To open the layer editor click the layers button in the toolbar or in the canvas editor 28 The layer editor will appear 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 103 Layer See Through Protect Overlay L d Template L Text C 4 L L Collage C Canvas C la J What the Layers Do Overlay empty by default Useful for sending semi transparent images which need to float over the rest your work or guidelines to be turned off before printing or rendering Template 125 empty by default You can send empty frames to this layer to act as guidelines to be turned off before printing or rendering or lock off upper layer elements which you do not want to be moved while composing the rest of your images Text 92 gt all text is added by default on this layer Collage all frames 66 are added by default onto this layer Canvas 61 the background image which is just a very large frame covering the area is placed by default on this layer Turning layers on and off Click the checkbox beside the layer name to toggle the layers on and off This will have the following effects 1 The layer will appear and disappear from the canvas 2 Images dropped into the canvas will not land on that lay
89. hat will be visible through the hole in the album sheet The Safe area insets the size of the photo to take this into account The Safe area is indicated by margin lines drawn over the collage to indicate where the edges of the visible part of the collage will be The printed collage will still be cut at 5 x 7 but tools such as autocollage will respect the safe area and not place any images outside of this bordered area Canvas Size Printing Zones Bleed Inflate bw Safe Inset by EE by E 0 25 by 0 25 2006 LumaPix Inc 54 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Center Guide If you are working in FotoFusion PRO or STUDIO then canvases that are wider than 4 3 will automatically have a guideline drawn down their center This shows you where the crease in the center of a flush mount digital wedding album will appear a particularly useful feature if you are creating double page spreads 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 55 Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 4 3 3 Adding Images You can add images into a collage from e your hard disk 55 e from the web 56 PRO and STUDIO versions only After you have brought the images into FotoFusion the next step is to either e autocollage 34 to hold the new images e arrange 57 the resulting images into existing frames e add blank frames 66 on the canvas to hold the new images
90. he collage and specify a title Creative Enhancements Shadows Sparse Borders Backdrop Jumble Collage Title My First Collage Shadows 83 will drop a shadow behind each frame in the collage 2006 LumaPix Inc 38 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Borders 79 will add a default border to each frame in the collage Jumble 47 gt will produce a scattered random look for your layout A sparse 46 autocollage leaves spaces around the photos your layout The sparse option works well in combination with the backdrop option which selects an image out of your collection and sets it as the canvas background 64 645 Finally you can add a default title by replacing the text 93 My First Collage with your own choice of title The position color font and other attributes of this title can be changed using the text tools later If you don t want a title simply remove the title text from this dialog Multi Page Autocollage FotoFusion STUDIO supports multiple page 65 composition In the Autocollage Wizard STUDIO users can choose to have the autocollage run across multiple pages HMulti Page Number of Pages O Images per Page ps o T Beo o AO images per page If you click Number of Pages then you can choose a number of pages and have FotoFusion determine how many images to use per page for example 100 images over 5 pages will produce 5 pages with 20 images each If you c
91. he page up and page down keys Re Ordering Pages To move the currently selected page up or down in the current list of pages click the page up and page down buttons Images Pages Settings EF Removing Pages Click the delete page button to remove the current page Cloning Pages To produce a copy of the current page click the Clone button 2006 LumaPix Inc DD LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help This is useful for producing alternative versions of a particular layout Adding Pages from Exiting Projects or Templates To append a page from an existing project click the append page button this will open a browser allowing you to find and select an existing project or a template Images Pages Settings 03 RX This is useful for assembling albums out of pages that were created as single projects Processing Pages Multi page albums can be batch processed into separate image files in a single action allowing you to render an entire album with a few mouse clicks Click here 117 for more detail on rendering Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 4 4 Frame Tools A frame is a window placed on the canvas It consists of a matte where images colors or textures can be displayed and can have an editable border surrounding it The following section explains how use all the frame options in your project Adding and Duplicating Frames 66 gt to you
92. hem to the layout Greyscale Mattes o Greyscale jpeg bmp gif or tif files saved in the Mattes folder can be used as mattes black becomes transparent Of course PNG files with associated alpha transparency channels and EMF files for vector mattes continue to work as always Filenames in Organizer o Images in the organizer now have a filename for identification Version 3 1 Version 3 1 was a maintenance release which included many small enhancements and fixes including the following FotoScraps Integration o Layouts can be uploaded directly 128 to the online gallery at www fotoscraps com Printing o The printing options 120 were completely revamped to be easier to understand o Scaling output to fit onto a single page is now an option Color Picker o A color picker 133 was the most frequently requested feature addition on the support forum at LumaPix com Sparse Autocollage and background images o Autocollages can now include gaps that reveal an image set as the canvas background Color Shadows o Shadow colors 85 can now be set to any value EXIF enhancements o New EXIF tags 97 were added including filenames without extension e g Anna instead of Anna jpg o Filenames now preserve their case when displayed as EXIF text Common sense o When processing to a file 117 the default file name now corresponds to the project name The file name is not cleared after each preview when working in the process tab Frames
93. hen it is important to preserve the original aspect ratio of the image or to lock the aspect ratio of a cropped image during resizing Toggling Aspect Ratio Lock To lock the aspect ratio lock of an image meaning the ratio of width to height cannot be changed press the A key on your keyboard When the aspect ratio is locked images can only be resized by their side resize handles corner handles no longer appear You can increase or decrease the size of the image but only proportionately The shape of the frame will no longer change 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 79 If you wish to turn the aspect ratio lock off hit A again Showing all of the image all the time If it is important to you that pictures are never cropped 1 Select an image frame 2 Right click and choose Snap Frame To Image This will resize the frame to make all of the original image visible 3 Turn the aspect ratio lock on by pressing A Now you will be able to move resize and rotate images but not change their aspect ratio or crop pixels via resizing See also the definition of elements 235 Copyright LumaPix 2005 All Rights Reserved 4 4 10 Borders and Mattes Image frames support two types of edges Borders and Mattes e A Border is a rectangular region drawn around the outside of the frame the width color and transparency of the border can be adjusted e A Matte is a shape that carves awa
94. hoose Images per Page then you can select how many images you want per page and have FotoFusion determine how many pages will be necessary for example 80 images at 20 images per page will produce 4 pages with 20 images each Finishing up When you are ready with the options described above click Done FotoFusion will produce a new collage automatically tiling the pictures you have selected to fit the canvas dimensions selected If you aren t satisfied with the layout you can simply autocollage again instantly by clicking the autocollage button again see below The AutoCollage command Keyboard shortcut ALT Q The AutoCollage button creates a new arrangement for the frames currently found on the canvas and in the image palette 104 Home 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 Note that if you have pictures waiting in the image palette 104 they will be brought into the collage when you do this It will also automatically remove any lock aspect ratio command you may have attached to images on the canvas 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 39 4 1 2 4 1 3 Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved FreeForm Collage Freeform collages start with an empty canvas Dropping an image on the canvas will create a new frame to hold it Note that the DPI 136 specified for the canv
95. ialog allows you to choose a pre existing template 2006 LumaPix Inc 126 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Nee Collape Click S buthon po bay ims cut Tiraka as 4 starting point for vap heh You can choose to re open the last used template by clicking on the large template button Clicking the VVV button below the large template graphic will drop down a list of templates found in the template folder A template predefines e Canvas Size Frame location but not necessarily the frame contents Images effects for frames e g a template frame can make any image dropped into it black amp white Background Tiles and colors Shadow settings Text frames A typical use of a template is to 1 Load the template e g Contact Sheet 2 Populate 47 it with images e g drop pictures 55 gt into the ready frames the EXIF 975 tags in the text frames attached to each image frame automatically update with information taken from the images dropped into the frames 3 Update any textual labels as needed Saving Templates If you are particularly satisfied with a collage layout or which to create a series of empty framed layouts to speed your workflow you can easily save your work for use as a template Choose Save as Template from the File menu If you have images included within the frames of your template FotoFusion will ask you if you want to save the template with the images include
96. ictures either hold down the ctrl key and click on them one after another or drag from the first to the last picture you would like to select If you would like to add pictures that are stored in different folders 1 select a set of pictures 2 dick the add to list button IU 1 3 and move to a different folder using the gt button and repeat the process The pictures you select will be shown in a list on the left of the wizard You can look at your images in more detail by selecting PREVIEW which allows you to scroll and insert or remove images to your group of selected images Please note by selecting images to add to your collage you are not moving them from their current location on your computer but creating reference images to them Collage options When you click Next you are shown this window 2006 LumaPix Inc 44 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Creative Uaiians C Sparen Baek hr frete Leomark ci 1791 Sarii Setup Page Sep GS bre b Bet JA Canvas size You can set the canvas size Canvas Size Ly jia x za za M Frint Centered Width Height v Double Spread Respect Center Line Printer Page Size d F Units Size dropped images at Inches C Centimeters Q DPI O Pixels of canvas width Printing Zones Bleed Inflate by Safe Inset by o jbo e wo Printer Printer hp LaserJet 3015 PCL 6 e Your canvas can
97. ide by the album s frame this would produce a print with a safe area measuring 4 5x6 5 The safe size can be set to any size you like This feature is available in FotoFusion PRO only Lines drawn on final output to indicate where the print should be cut to produce the desired trim size An aspect of the color information for an image that can be controlled to produce more or less detail in the midrange of an image without affecting the black or white levels The opacity of an image Alpha 1 means the image is completely opaque Alpha 0 means the image is completely transparent The overall shape of an object expressed as a ratio of the width to the height without taking units into account a square has an aspect ratio of 1 1 whether it is a foot or an inch ona side Dots Per Inch a printing term describing the resolution of an image More accurately it should be called Pixels per inch It measures the number of pixels that fit within an inch for an output device for example a typical printer outputs at 300 DPI while a typical computer monitor displays at 96 DPI To FotoFusion DPI is really just a measure of the size of final output If you create a 10x10 collage and go to the output tab you can do this e Set the DPI to 300 and get a 3000x3000 image e Set the output resolution to 5000x5000 and have the DPI field update to 500 A number from 0 to 100 indicating the quality of image desired when saving to the JPEG or
98. il you send to match the color of the canvas Making the Canvas Transparent To make the canvas transparent bring the opacity of the canvas color to zero Click here 64 gt to learn how to make the background transparent 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 63 Canvas Texture To set the canvas texture 1 Click on the canvas or the area outside the canvas to open the Canvas Toolbox 2 Click on the fill control to open the Canvas Fill Editor 3 Choose a new background tile from the Tile list Canvas oo 6 Fa hipi rad A 24 09 b 36 Shc Te 4 Adjust the size and blur of the background tile by dragging appropriate controls directly below the swatches Note that you can have a color and a background tile active at the same time Simply reduce the opacity of the color to see the tile This will allow you to retint the background tile to better match your composition You can create your own backgrounds in tools such as PhotoShop Genetica or any other design program and store them in a specific folder We suggest a 3600 x 3600 pixel image at 300 dpi in jpg format to ensure a good quality of image Place your newly created tiles in C Programs LumaPix FotoFusion Tiles when you next run FotoFusion these new tiles will appear in the list of available tiles Alternatively you can save them in another folder of your choosing bring them to the FotoFusion canvas as you would any other
99. in the list of Published Web Collages allowing you to quickly review work you have already done The important decision of whether or not to include original images 110 should be made at this time You can choose to publish now or choose additional options on the Image Quality and Watermark tabs These options are identical between the Publish to Web and Share by Email areas and so we will cross reference these two actions Including Original Images 110 Image Attributes 110 Watermarking 112 Banners 117 Publishing When your options have been configured you can Preview or Send the results to your server If you already have an existing online web gallery you can easily produce a collage from it Reasons for doing this include 1 Sending emails to customers or friends with a collage of the contents of your web gallery inviting them to come to your gallery to browse 2 Producing collages and exporting them to HTML to integrate with your gallery as a more interesting table of contents 3 Printing out a collage of your recent work To bring an image from a web page into FotoFusion simply drag it from your web browser into FotoFusion Done HTML Custom Themes You can define your own HTML themes for both Email 7109 and Web output Click here 115 to learn more 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 115 Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 4 9 3 HTML Themes You can define y
100. invert the matte making positive space negative and vice versa Lock This toggle controls whether the matte resizes with the frame it is applied to or remains fixed at an internal aspect ratio Matte Blur The edges of the matte can be progressively blurred inward with this control To blur a rectangular shaped frame in this manner select the Rectangle matte Size and Position Controls The bottom of the Frame control allows you to specify a position size rotation and inset for the selected frame s Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 4 4 11 Shadows Image and text frames can both cast Drop Shadows Shadows can be adjusted directly in the Image Toolbox or in the Shadow Editor Image Toolbox 2006 LumaPix Inc 84 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help wn tj Element Zoom In Edit All Add Text The Shadows control in the Image Toolbox can be dragged to edit the shadow s Drag left right Shadow Offset 84 e Drag up down Shadow Blur 84 Click here for more information on how to drag the controls 25 Shadow Editor The Shadows editor is opened when you click on the Shadow area button in the Image toolbox Shadow 0 G 6 Show Shadow Offset 0 06 Blur 0 25 Angle 45 Amount 255 Shadow Inside l It contains controls for e Offset 845 Blur 84 Angle 84 Amount 84 gt Shadow Inside 85 Shadow Color 85 O
101. l out with precision These features are available in the PRO and STUDIO versions of FotoFusion 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 53 Bleed Area Consider designing a blue 3 x 1 5 business card If you create a blue rectangle that is exactly 3 x 1 5 across and print it on a regular sheet of paper you will need to be extremely careful when cutting the card out to ensure that you cut exactly the right amount of background paper away Too little and the card will have a white border too much and you will cut into the card The Bleed area expands the size of the card to say 3 5 x 2 giving you an extra 1 4 of blue border on each side plus crop marks to tell you exactly where to cut along the trim lines at 3 x 1 5 Now you can t miss when cutting the card out if you are a bit too small or too large the card will still have a perfect blue edge To create a Bleed area open the Canvas Size 50 dialogue box Alter the values in the Printing Zone resetting the Bleed Inflate by to a suitable amount Canvas Size D S by 15 Printer Page Size Printing Zones Bleed Inflate bw Safe Inset by by 25 fo Jelo Safe Area Suppose that you are building a 5 x 7 collage to be placed in an album The album will hold the picture with a slightly overlapped edge which may cover 1 4 on each side of the image the central 4 5 x 6 5 of the collage are w
102. lages as a set of local HTML files for further editing using FrontPage or Dreamweaver o Descriptive text for each photo which appears in e mail or web page ouput o Hyperlinks from each collage photo enabling viewers of e mail or web based collages to click on photos and follow links e Improved printing support o Unique print pre visualization tool shows exactly what each page of a multi page poster size printout will look like Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 2006 LumaPix Inc 14 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Getting Started What is FotoFusion FotoFusion is an powerful easy to use tool for creating high quality photo compositions from digital images Some example uses e Effortlessly share your image collections with friends or customers via e mail 109 Produce scrapbook style pages effortlessly Create and publish unique online photo galleries 113 Assemble poster size images for printing 120 on large format printers or your home printer Publish contact sheets class composites group or event pictures actor cards or calendars Any time you need to bring multiple images into a single final image FotoFusion is your tool of choice Which Version FotoFusion ships in three versions STANDARD PRO and STUDIO The STANDARD version includes all the basic features useful to scrapbookers and amateur digital photo enthusiasts e Create custom layouts e Email your pages to friends
103. lease the F key Un WN KA You will now have and empty frame on the canvas ready to accept an image from the dropper Adding Frames while Dropping Note that if you are dragging images and want to create a new frame on the fly you can do so even though you have images attached to the cursor Using the Menus To add a new frame from the menus choose Tools Canvas Add Frame Using the Keyboard To add a new frame from the keyboard press CTRL SHIFT F Alternative methods You can also split 73 gt an existing frame a good way to create grid based collages or duplicate an existing frame Duplicating a Frame 1 Select a frame or group of frames 2 Press CTRL D on your keyboard Deleting a Frame 1 Select a frame or group of frames 3 Press DELETE on your keyboard Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved Moving and Resizing Frames Moving Frames You can move a frame or multiple frames using e the keyboard 68 e the mouse 675 Using the Mouse To move a frame 1 Place the cursor over the frame you want to move Make sure that you position the cursor over the image in a place where no handles are visible so that you don t crop pan or rotate the image by accident on on the Frame number or you will accidentally pick the image up 2 Press and hold the left mouse button 3 Drag the mouse Release the left mouse button when you are satisfied with the new location for the frame You c
104. list 2006 LumaPix Inc Getting Started 27 d P B Element Element Type Zoom In E Image Type Edit All Add Text Edit All Frequently you will want changes made to one object to apply to all objects in the collage For example if you change the border thickness for one frame it s possible that you will want all frames to have that same thickness Simply click the Edit All button on the Toolbox this will select all objects of the same type as the selection Zoom In Clicking the Zoom In button will frame the current selection zooming the canvas to fit that object only Click it a second time to frame the entire collage Image Toolbox The Image toolbox appears when you select an image frame It contains a graphical representation of the various parts of the frame which you can click or drag directly e Image contents e Frame Border e Shadow e Splitter Tool Move your mouse over these controls FotoFusion will highlight them indicating that you can click or drag them to change the settings they represent Click a button or label for more information d d d Element zoom In Edit All Add Text Text Toolbox 2006 LumaPix Inc 28 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help The text toolbox appears when you click on a text frame whether canvas 92 or frame based 92 gt Click a button or label for more information
105. lors in various color spaces Transparency can be controlled by setting the value of the alpha slider Alpha is the correct term for the opacity value of a pixel the other components being red green and blue Clicking the picker icon will allow you to choose a color directly from the collage simply move the cursor over the color that you would like to use and click again to pick that color Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved Keyboard Shortcuts Most Frequently Used Keyboard Shortcuts For your convenience we have highlighted the keys that are most frequently used Most work is done using onscreen controls the keyboard is only rarely needed Close the currently visible Editor or Toolbox you may need to click in it first Esc Alt A Zoomlio to frame the entire canvas Ctrl page Reset the rotation 71 of the selected frame to be completely up vertical Ctrl Z Undo Ctrl Y Redo the last undone command 2006 LumaPix Inc Reference 135 F5 Page Up Page Down Less Frequently Used Keys Key Space Z Tab Shift Tab Home End Ctrl D Ctrl U Ctri Shift U Alt U Alt Shift U comma period T Alt M Alt D Ctri Shift F Toggle the preservation of aspect ratios 78 gt for images Removes corner resize handles to ensure that images are not resized to new aspect ratios Drop images 55 from the palette into the collage Pick up
106. m ln Edit All Add Text for example dragging the split control to the right will split the frame in half vertically Do this repeatedly to break the frames down into an interesting arrangement When you are done add images to the collage to populate the empty frames 57 gt Important Notes e The collage produced by subdividing frames 73 is no different from one created by autocollaging 34 or by manually moving 67 and sizing 67 gt frames into alignment the frames are independent and can be rotated 71 gt and resized as you like The splitting is merely a way to ensure that the images start off tiled neatly one against the other e The images within each frame can be inset 76 ito reveal the canvas background 61 or shadows 83 cast by frames in the collage while remaining in a grid e You can save your layout as a template 125 if you are pleased with the composition Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 4 2 Auto Tools FotoFusion can create layouts for you with a few simple clicks AutoCollage 34 quickly generates a random layout from your selected images to fill an entire page Sparse AutoCollage 46 quickly generates a random layout from your selected images but leaves breathing room to expose the background AutoJumble 47 randomly scatters your frames on your canvas AutoPopulate 47 gt assigns your selected images into any empty frames on the canvas
107. mattes 79 to produce interesting edges Add a texture 61 Set a color 61 gt Set an image 64 gt as the background 2006 LumaPix Inc 16 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Add Text Now that you have created your collage what do you want to do with it Publish to a web page Process to produce a file on disk e Add text to the canvas 925 e Add text to individual frames 92 PRO and STUDIO only e Size 96 and position the text e Add EXIF 97 gt information PRO and STUDIO only e Adjust font colors 935 sizes 96 transparency 93 blur 93 shadows 93 etc Choose whether to include original 110 images Watermark 112 and add banners to protect your work PRO only Pick a set of addresses and mail out 109 the collage e Choose whether to include original images Watermark 112 and add banners to protect your work PRO only and STUDIO Publish 114 to the web or a local file for additional editing e Choose a resolution and compression quality 118 e Process 117 the collage to produce a file Print Interface Map Lay out print pages 122 if necessary printing poster size on a home printer Print 1205 Click on this image to get more detail on what each part of the FotoFusion interface does 2006 LumaPix Inc Getting Started 17 Pe OE dee eiei S er OY aes R res Bo dee
108. me in this case how many and which pictures remain to be dropped 8 pictures in this case which is the next picture to be dropped the baby in turquoise in this case and as a new feature as of Version 3 6 file information name size and options before dropping This ability to see which image is next in line gives you enormous power over how images are selected In particular you can re order the pictures before they are dropped remove pictures that you do not want to drop stop dropping and then start up again later if you choose 2006 LumaPix Inc 58 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help e change the size of the image before dropping e drop more than one copy of the same image e and create a new frame to hold an image without leaving the dropping mode Dropping images To drop an image that is attached to the cursor click with the left mouse button e If you drop the image on top of an existing image the existing image and the first image in the dropper will be swapped e If you drop the image into an empty frame the frame will be filled with the new image e If you drop the image over empty canvas the frame will appear in a new frame Skipping images During dropping you can rotate the list of pictures that are waiting to be dropped e Roll the mouse wheel up or down e Press the left or right arrow keys This allows you to skip a picture that you do not want to drop and move to the next or
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110. me image rotation Support for presets O O O O 2006 LumaPix Inc New in this release 11 e Canvas Enhancements o Tiled background textures with interactive control over scale amp blur o One click to make an image the canvas background o Support for lockable and semi transparent layers o Bleed and crop lines o Interactive canvas resizing e Sharing o User templates for html export CSS styles new buttons frames etc o Customizable banners o Customizable watermarks e User Interface O O O O O Completely new editing mechanism Direct manipulation of important parameters at top level Slick new editor based workflow Editing is interactive real time all the time Selection by class for fast group selection Keyboard based nudging e Interop o Images on the web such as those in Kodak ProShots galleries can be included directly in FotoFusion collages without an import step o Images can be routed through other applications such as Adobe Photoshop for editing the updated files appear automatically in the collage when done Version 2 1 Version 2 1 was a maintenance version mostly consisting of bug fixes but with the following visible enhancements Version 2 0 Sharpen on export o Apro trick to bring out crisp detail in your images Handles always on top o Easy access to manipulation controls no matter how complex your collage is Improved Shadows o FotoFusion s shadows look even bette
111. me to output a collage to a web page a jpg file or the printer FotoFusion re reads your original images and renders all the effects in your layout such as text and drop shadows at the final resolution you are asking to export FotoFusion does NOT produce a single fixed size bitmap image that you resize up or down for the different output types your collage is completely and automatically rebuilt each time Printed output is LARGE Consider a printer working at a standard 300 DPI to print out a 10 x10 image The number of printer dots that are required is 3000x3000 some quick math shows that this is 9 000 000 dots each of which is described with 3 bytes for a total of 27 megabytes this is a comparatively small image for FotoFusion which can handle huge poster sizes but it gets the point across If you wanted to you could easily have FotoFusion render out that 27 megabyte image and then load that into some other graphics program such as PhotoShop and print it out The temptation to use file compression would be there for example to save the image using JPEG at 50 quality resulting in a much smaller and easier to manipulate file of course the quality of the printed results would suffer The advantage of using FotoFusion to print is that the entire 27 megabyte 10 x10 image is produced in memory and never gets compressed on the way out to the printer You get pristine output direct from your original images with high quality re
112. meline provides a visual reference to the number of pictures that were taken on your digital camer from the earliest to the latest date You can scroll the organizer by dragging within the timeline 2006 LumaPix Inc 106 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help 4 7 3 This time line only takes into consideration the date at which the images were digitally made This mean that if you have scanned in old pictures from your hard copy collection don t be surprised if the picture you have of your hard drive of your grandma circa 1923 appears on the timeline as last week s addition to your collection If your digital camera s date is misset you will also find your photos appearing in odd locations on the timeline Previewing Images at Full Size To zoom in on an image in the organizer select it and either e Click the Preview button or e Right click and choose Preview Selected Images from the pop up menu The image will appear in a larger preview window This window is resizable by pulling on its exterior edges so you can make the full sized image larger or smaller Spinning Images The Spin buttons will rotate frames clockwise and counterclockwise Your original image files are not affected Photo Moments A Photo Moment is like a bookmark if you select a set of pictures and make a new moment you will be able to select those pictures again quickly by picking that moment from the list To create a moment
113. n an image 90 degrees clockwise or counterclockwise click the spin buttons on the toolbar i Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 4 4 7 Splitting and Merging Frames Splitting Frames Frames can be split into two or more smaller frames For example you can easily create a contact sheet by splitting a frame Alternatively you might do several split operations one after the other to get an interesting arrangement of different size frames into eight parts This can be done using the Toolbox or the Split Dialog Splitting using the Toolbox To split a frame using the mouse 1 Select the frame 2 Move the cursor over the split control on the image toolbox 2006 LumaPix Inc 74 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help 3 Press down and hold the left mouse button 4 Without releasing the button drag the mouse to the right and down As you do this lines will appear on the frame showing you how the frame will be split 5 Release the left mouse button The frame will be split into the selected number of frames You can press the esc key to abort the split operation if necessary 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 75 Splitting using the Split Dialog Select at least one frame then either Press the T key or Click don t drag the Split button in the image toolbox or Select split from the Tools Frame menu The following dialog will appear
114. nd pick from among those alternatives when you click Render Simply left click the button to be asked which editor you would like to send the output to if you have not configured an editor for use by FotoFusion choose manage from that pop up menu You will be asked to select an editor to use Choose Editor Program Current Editor Programs Remove Add To add a new program such as Photoshop 1 Click Add 2 Navigate through the folders of your hard drive until you find the program you want to run such as C Program Files Adobe Photoshop 7 0 Photoshop exe 3 Click OK Now when you click the Render button you will be given the choice of routing your image through Photoshop for further editing P X a g Viewer HE Cancel Esc Adobe Photoshop Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 2006 LumaPix Inc 120 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help 4 9 5 Printing This section describes e Why printing collages from FotoFusion is preferable to printing flat files through other applications 120 Printing Overview 120 Fitting vs 1 1 Printing 12 Crop Marks 12 Full Bleed 12T Centering and Orientation 12 Changing the Printer 12T Cropping 12 Previewing Output 121 Printer Page Segments 1225 Why printing collages from FotoFusion is preferable to printing flat files through other applications FotoFusion works with references to your original images When it is ti
115. nhancements Additionally you can choose attributes for the collage and specify a title Creative Enhancements Shadows Sparse Borders Backdrop Jumble Collage Title My First Collage Shadows 83 will drop a shadow behind each frame in the collage Borders 79 will add a default border to each frame in the collage Jumble 47 gt will produce a scattered random look for your layout A sparse 46 autocollage leaves spaces around the photos your layout The sparse option works well in combination with the backdrop option which selects an image out of your collection and sets it as the canvas background 64 64 Finally you can add a default title by replacing the text 93 My First Collage with your own choice of title The position color font and other attributes of this title can be changed using the text tools later If you don t want a title simply remove the title text from this dialog Multi Page Autocollage FotoFusion STUDIO supports multiple page 65 composition In the Autocollage Wizard STUDIO users can choose to have the autocollage run across multiple pages HMulti Page Number of Pages L 7 Images per Page Boae S Bo AO images per page If you click Number of Pages then you can choose a number of pages and have FotoFusion determine how many images to use per page for example 100 images over 5 pages will produce 5 pages with 20 images each If you choose
116. nly Click AutoCollage There are two ways to work with AutoCollage e as a Wizard takes you step by step through the process or e as a command The AutoCollage Wizard The AutoCollage Wizard can be found by returning to the main New dialog 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion Desa i IRC Ke r Be Leken got H pa mpa poe Emr k dr ha berries a Dolo Fani p AP oe i B L riia gO ed rait Ha RCR TOR E ren sibie rore m airi Er benm n ie sgis n er pre T ype PM A P AP a Pt eer aH s lT as The thumbnails represent the image files found in the currently selected folder Browsing to a different folder 35 You can change folders by clicking the gt button to drop down a list of parent and child folders of your current location Click here or press ESC bo close Browse lt Move Up One Folder gt lt Back to Previous Folder gt My Pictures My Documents My Shared Documents No Folders Here Selecting images for the collage Pick the thumbnail sized images which you would like to turn into a collage by clicking on them 2006 LumaPix Inc 36 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help To select multiple pictures either hold down the ctrl key and click on them one after another or drag from the first to the last picture you would like to select If you would like to add pictures that are stored in differe
117. nt between the computer s filing system and your collage Think of it as a backstage area where you can organize which images you want to drop to your collage By default it appears to the left of your collage under the IMAGE tab B BS os Images 6 N You can drag images from the Image Palette on your canvas directly or press the Drop Now button e The Remove button clears any selected images in the Image Palette but does not affect the original file on disk for those images e The Clear button clears all images in the Palette s Pick Up The Drop Now button will activate the dropper 57 gt e The button allows you to pull images out of their frames and put them into the Image Palette for example to drop them into another frame elsewhere on the canvas You can also right click on images in the Image Palette to preview the images 106 Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved The Image Organizer The image organizer allows you to scan your hard drive for images and view them as a single long list sorted by date with a timeline view to help distinguish important dates 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 105 2 Lumas Fatal ian Untitled lans rar rei T ORO Fhe Sears arle dal lra IE ali Mee File lt bere ee ep eee nore eee ge eres Z GP OT pa TED pees a Kaez Saturday September ZD 0573 dres 3 802 L tora t Era Shahan Neel Images
118. nt folders 1 select a set of pictures H 3 and move to a different folder using the gt button and repeat the process The pictures you select will be shown in a list on the left of the wizard You can look at your images in more detail by selecting PREVIEW which allows you to scroll and insert or remove images to your group of selected images Please note by selecting images to add to your collage you are not moving them from their current location on your computer but creating reference images to them Collage options When you click Next you are shown this window Creative Options Creative F rda prenit F Shala BECS far Bodies Bk dr C hante Coly Tie Ny Fra College Canvas size You can set the canvas size Cany as Sire Tas o Lina amp Printer Page Size e at Cee el e Te ea eee d elan am pp To crams to Seen L Piesk CS 40 99 d Crt hh Peg Prelim me s Reel Deviate by 0 by 6 Pis oer 271120 bct Page Se BS be C imaget pe Page 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 37 Canvas Size D 10 lln 20 v Print Centered Width Height Double Spread Respect Center Line Printer Page Size a Units ite Size dropped images at Inches O Centimeters O V C Pixels Le SOF canvas width Printing ones Bleed Inflate by Safe Inset by e Jelo d e wo Printer Printer hp LaserJet 3015 PCL 6
119. nt in FotoFusion anything else will be rendered at the native color Due to Illustrator s thin support for the EMF format transparency is NOT supported as of this writing you cannot export a 50 opaque stroke from Illustrator in the EMF format Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved Interoperability with Graphic Editing Software FotoFusion works with references to image files This means that you can do detail editing those original images in other applications such as Photoshop and see the results in FotoFusion without having to rebuild a collage from scratch This is useful if you need to affect the image in some way that FotoFusion does not support for example paint out some dust from a film negative or remove red eye To open an image while working in FotoFusion 1 Right click on that image and choose Edit from the resulting pop up menu 2 Pick an option e lt lt an entry in the list of available editors gt gt This may be empty if you have not associated a graphic editing program previously e Manage Add your program of choice by navigating to its exe file 3 Edit that image in the graphics editing program you choose to use 4 Save the file in the graphics editing program 5 Change tasks back to FotoFusion 6 Hit F5 to refresh the canvas The changes made in step 3 appear in the image in the collage within FotoFusion 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 109 4 9 4 9
120. nter Line Printer Page Size a 5 Units Inches Centimeters Pixels Size dropped images at To Screen 300 pPI P b of canvas width GO 40 es Printing Zones Bleed Inflate by Safe Inset by 0 byio o by 0 Printer Printer hp LaserJet 3015 PCL 6 Page Size Letter You can choose a canvas size in any of the following units of measurement inches centimeters or pixels ee safe and 89 center of Keep in mind that the canvas can be resized at any time and that you can increase or decrease the resolution of the canvas at export time 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 51 Clicking on the green gt button will pop a list of presets these will fill in the size fields with the values for common sizes If you check the Printer Page Size checkbox FotoFusion will check the currently selected printer s page size taking the printer margins into account and set these values automatically The biggest canvas you can create is determined by your license type STANDAR 12x12 D PRO 13x19 STUDIO Unlimited The Default Canvas DPI The default canvas DPI field allows you to decide how big pictures should be when they are dropped onto the canvas 57 Size dropped images at Ols jor 40 5 of canvas width The simplest setting is to use a percentage of canvas width if you drop an image into
121. on users have been creating e Upload where you can send your work to the FotoScraps Gallery 128 e The Forum where you can chat and ask questions to expert users e The FAQ which brings you to the LumaPix Support website e News where LumaPix lets you know about developments for FotoFusion e Other providing links to preferred sites The store is not open at the time of publishing FotoFusion Version 3 7 There is also an active Yahoo discussion group centered on the use of FotoFusion for scrapbooking Drop in Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved FotoScraps Online Gallery www FotoScraps com is an online community based on FotoScraps that is maintained by LumaPix It includes a gallery a forum and a store The gallery is a fun free place to share your layouts with friends with a particular focus on scrapbooking Check it out FotoFusion provides a direct pipeline to upload your layouts right into the FotoScraps gallery just click upload This is a huge improvement over the normal pipeline from packages like Photoshop into online galleries which require you to save the file as a jpg image then go to the gallery and click upload then find the file you saved out of Photoshop FotoFusion provides a streamlined pipeline that keeps the busywork to a minimum Step 1 Register at FotoScraps If you aren t already registered at FotoScraps take a moment to do so it s free Click here to get set up Step
122. on v3 7 Help CH 0 000 deg Os o zA OR 100 Hy Use the eyedropper tool to select a color from within your canvas you can match your frame to the image it contains You can also adjust the brightness darkness of a color using the gradient slider bar or pick a color directly from the rainbow gradient Other Border Settings The Opacity selection can allow you to turn down the transparency of the border This can create an interesting effect of a see though border The Fit Image option will cause the entire image to fit into the border The Shadow Inside option will cause the image not the border to cast a shadow this is useful for attaining glassy borders on frames hs lefault border settings A pa nd shadow amp No border Matte Selection You can scroll through the list of Mattes to make a selection They are useful for giving your images a unique look and also to create decorative elements on your page when you apply background textures 85 to them Here is an example of one of the mattes available 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 83 The mattes are stored in a specific folder 127 in the FotoFusion installation You can create your own custom mattes using external graphics tools and saving them in the appropriate folder click here 108 for more details You cannot use a matte and a border at the same time Hole This toggle allows you to
123. operty gt 0x8827 lt property gt lt iso gt lt date gt lt ui gt Date lt ui gt lt property gt 0x9003 lt property gt lt date gt lt shutter gt lt ui gt Shutter lt ui gt lt property gt 0x9201 lt property gt lt shutter gt lt flash gt lt ui gt Flash lt ui gt lt property gt 0x9209 lt property gt lt flash gt lt exif gt For example suppose you have defined a custom EXIF tag representing family name to be used to label a set of school pictures If you had defined that tag as ID 0x1234 then you would insert the following into the EXIF file before the lt exif gt tag lt FamilyName gt lt ui gt Family Name lt ui gt lt property gt 0x1234 lt property gt lt FamilyName gt Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 4 5 7 Watermarking with Text There are many ways to add a watermark to a canvas including the following 1 Using the Watermark Laver 99 2 Manually creating text and making it semi transparent 100 3 Adding a watermark when the collage is exported published or shared 1005 Using the Banner Layer 1 Create a text frame with your watermark 2 Right click on the frame and choose Set as Watermark The text will be moved to the Banner layer above the collage Note the banner layer may not be visible by default Click the layer control to check the state of this layer if the text simply disappears 2006 LumaPix Inc 100
124. or instance you were editing a previously saved project and wish to keep both the original and the new version By default FotoFusion saves your work to C My Documents My Collages This will allow you to view them in the Existing Projects folder If you choose to save your collages anywhere other than in this folder you will not be able to see them in preview Keep in mind that a saved collage is a composition and not a regular image file it is used by FotoFusion to recreate the work that you have created If you want to share your work with others you should export to a flat file such as a JPEG image 117 Loading To load a existing collage meaning one you have already created and saved e Choose Open from the file menu or e Click the VVV button in the New Collage Dialog and pick an existing collage or e Press CTRL O 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 125 e Or click the HOME button above the Canvas and select the Existing Projects menu Keep in mind that if you have saved your work in any other directory than the default locations C My Documents My Collages you will not be able to view it in the Existing Projects area Also keep in mind that you cannot reopen a rendered collage If you have saved a copy of your work under the Process Tab eg it is now a jpg tif or other format other than collage you will not be able to reopen it to work on it Deleting To delete a colla
125. original files because of this To get back to the original images from a collage right click on any image in the collage and choose view original image s at full size This will open a window showing you the image and the path to that image 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 107 E l Sime Ye Pia _ r rsr lial nann Uel pro panpan praga sudan jpg lt Previcun rat gt From this window you can do the following tasks a Spin Prev Next Insert Remove High Quality Explore Click the left and right circular arrow controls to spin 71 the image left and right Preview the next or previous image in the selection if there was one or the current collage if not If you are previewing images that have not yet been inserted into a collage e g you are previewing images in the organizer then clicking insert will place the current image into the image palette 104 ready for inclusion in the collage If you are previewing images in the image palette clicking remove will remove this images from the image palette 104 but not harm the original image files on disk of course Turning this option on will produce a better looking view of the image you are previewing Opens the Windows Explorer on the folder that contains the original image being previewed the path is listed below the image Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Right
126. our own HTML themes for both Email 109 and Web 113 output This allows you to match the look of collages exported from FotoFusion to your existing web pages or email look Any CSS styles custom graphics buy now buttons etc in your current web pages will still work you simply include a set of tokens that define where FotoFusion should insert the collage images and other associated data Where the files live Each HTML Theme is stored in a folder with the following structure Parent folder e c program files LumaPix FotoFusion HTML Themes e click here 127 for other standard folder names and locations Folder name e myTheme lt lt the folder name is used for the theme name in the FotoFusion email or web publishing interface Folder contents e Anything you like as long as it contains Collage htm and Photo htm Web Themes vs Email Themes A collage that points to a set of original images can produce either a set of web pages Collage htm embeds collage jpg Originallmage1 htm embeds Originallmage1 jpg Originallmage2 htm embeds Originallmag21 jpg OriginallmageN htm embeds OriginallmageN jpg OF a Single email which includes the collage and all the originals laid out one after the other Collage jpg Originallmagel1 jpg Originallmage2 jpg OriginallmageN jpg In either case one template is needed for the layout of the collage itself and another template is needed for the repeated structure of the original
127. pages 65 Replacing images 69 Resize 21 Resizing frames 67 Resizing images while dropping 57 Resizing text frames 96 Resizing the canvas 50 Resizing the canvas to Fit the Collage 50 Restarting dropping 57 RGB 85 89 Roll 136 Rotate 21 Rotate a frame 71 Rotating 71 Ruler 136 _S Safe 136 Safe area 52 Sample pictures 127 2006 LumaPix Inc 150 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Saving 124 Saving collages 124 Saving templates 125 Scan 104 Scanning for Pictures 104 Selectaframe 101 Select all 101 Selecting images 34 41 Selection 100 Selection tools 101 Semi transparent text 99 Send backward 91 sendto back 91 Send using my own ISP E Mail settings 109 Sepiatone 89 Set as canvas background 64 Setting the text s content 97 Settings 61 Setup button 120 Shadow color 83 Shadow editor 83 Shadow inside 79 83 Shadows 83 Share 109 shortcuts 134 Show Drop Photo Here when Empty 85 Showing all of the image all the time 78 Size and position controls 79 Sizing frames to match the images 67 Sizing frames using numeric values 67 Sizing images to match their frames 67 Sizing interactively 50 Sizing text 96 Sizing the canvas 50 Sizing using a dialog 50 Skipping images 57 Snap 59 136 Snap frame to image 67 78 Snap image to frame 67 Snap to 45 degree increments 71 Snap to vertical 71 Snaps 59 Space around the images 76 Sparse AutoCollage 46 Spinning 71 Spinning imag
128. pearing in FotoFusion there are several reasons this may be the case The font may not be a true type font or it may not have been constructed properly and as such FotoFusion will not be able to display it for use Color and Transparency Clicking the color control opens a color editor 13T allowing you to pick a new color and transparency for the the text fill the text outline color is controlled separately Blur 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 95 Drag the Blur control to interactively set the blur on the text Text Size 96 You can choose to lock size or not s Inthe default unlocked mode resizing 67 the text frame in the canvas by dragging the corner resize handles 21 will automatically resize the text to fill the frame holding it This is often the most efficient way of working e Inthe locked mode you need to specify a size for the text by dragging the size control The advantage of doing this is that the text will stay locked at a particular size no matter how much text you add to the text frame An example of this is in the creation of contact sheets where each frame in the collage has a text body containing text that should be the same size each text body has a different amount of text reflecting for example variations in file name length and so if the text sizes were unlocked they would each have different sizes Outline Color amp Width The outline for the
129. previous image in the drop order Removing images from the dropper To remove the image that is about to be dropped e Press the Del key Note that your original picture on your hard disk is not affected FotoFusion never changes or deletes your source images Stopping Restarting dropping You can suspend the dropping operation at any time by pressing ESC on your keyboard e This will leave the pictures in the image palette 10A ready to drop To continue dropping them either e Drag them from the image palette 104 onto the canvas or e Press the D key or e Click the Add Images To Canvas button Resizing images while dropping You can change the size of the an image that you are about to drop if you have a mouse with a wheel While the dropper is activated hold CTRL and dial the mouse wheel up and down to change the size of the image When you are satisfied with the size of the image release the mouse button to drop the resized image An alternative method to drop images at a particular size is to draw a frame 66 for them as you drop them Dropping multiple copies of the same image You can drop more than one copy of an image onto the canvas Simply hold the CTRL key down as you release your mouse button A copy of the image will be placed on the canvas but not be removed from the dropper thereby allowing you to place additional copies on the canvas Adding a frame while dropping A true FotoFusion power tool is the
130. r Support for SMTP Servers requiring authentication o FotoFusion can now communicate with mail servers using higher levels of security Version 2 0 was another huge step forwards from version 1 1 Version 1 1 One click autocollage o Produce amazing results effortlessly Drop Shadows and Frame borders o Set the thickness color and transparency for borders Interactive Color Correction o Fix gamma brightness and contrast problems smoothly and intuitively Final Resolution Preview o Preview of the final results at full resolution at any time Fast Photo Swapping o Switch pairs of images fast Improved Printing o Margins can be set directly Completely Revamped UI o Gorgeous new look Previewing tool o Zoom in on pictures in the image palette image organizer autocollage wizard and the collage itself Pixel dimension collages supported o Web Designers can work natively at the final resolution Version 1 1 provided significant upgrades to the output options in version 1 0 including Comprehensive support for sharing collages by e mail o Collages embedded directly inside the e mail message rather than as an attachment 2006 LumaPix Inc 12 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help o Original photos can be attached automatically resized and compressed e Completely new toolsets o Ability to publish collages as HTML web pages o Integrated FTP client to upload collages directly to a web server can also save col
131. r canvas Moving and Resizing Frames 67 gt Swapping Images between Frames 69 Frame Status 70 selected and disconnected images Cropping and Panning Images 70 making your images fit better in the frame Rotating Flipping Tilting and Spinning 71 gt changing the orientation of your image in the frame Splitting and Merging Frames 73 gt how to make a mosaic or grid Frame Inset 76 gt the distance between frames Aspect Ratio 78 length to width of images explained Borders and Mattes 79 gt Shadows 835 Background color and tiles 85 for effects on images and empty frames Fine Tuning Images 89 adjusting color brightness and other options Frame Order 9 placing frames above or below each other Adding Hotlinks 91 creating images for web use 4 4 1 Adding and Duplicating Frames Adding an Empty Frame There are three ways to add an empty frame to the collage e interactively in the collage 67 even while dropping a set of images 6 to the collage e using the Menus 6 e or using the Keyboard 675 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 67 4 4 2 Interactively in the Collage To set a size and location for a new blank frame follow these steps Press and hold the F key Press the left mouse button Drag the mouse creating a new frame on the canvas as you go Release the left mouse button Re
132. r have the orientations match so that the 20 width has been rotated to print along the 11 axis of the page Changing and Configuring the Printer Clicking the Setup button allows you to select a different windows printer as well as configure the print quality and other printer specific options The Use printer color profile option available in PRO and STUDIO tells FotoFusion to respect the color profile currently configured for the selected printer Use the Windows printer configuration dialog Setup to select a profile If this option is not selected FotoFusion will ignore the printer s color profile and process the collage directly to the printer Cropping There are two options for cropping e Include frames outside the canvas If you have frames that extend past the edges of the canvas this option will expand the canvas to include those frames e A typical use is to correct for rotated frames in a jumbled collage with this option set those frames will not be cut off Note that this option will change the dimensions of your printed canvas slightly if you are printing 1 1 e Crop to canvas edges With this option set your canvas will be printed exactly to the edge of the canvas and any frames that hang over that edge will be cropped Previewing Output To preview your printed output choose print preview This will result in an onscreen preview of your printed output While previewing several new buttons appear at
133. r select REFRESH PHOTOS under the VIEW menu item All images in your collage will be re read from disk and reprocessed to reflect any changes Please note that if you saved your photos under a different name after editing them you will have to replace the existing copy on your canvas as FotoFusion will not be able to recognize the new file name If you do not swap images then your output will be a significantly lower quality 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 65 4 3 9 Also if you have moved a file from one folder to another on your computer you will have to reconnect the effected images To do so go to TOOLS on the menu select RECONNECT CANVAS IMAGES and specify which folder the image s are located Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved Working with Multipage Studio only FotoFusion STUDIO allows you to compose and to render multi page projects This makes it considerably simpler to produce projects such as wedding albums as it eliminates the need to load and save individual projects for each page in the album You cannot however email multiple pages at once nor print multiple pages All page controls appear on the page tab T dN R KW Adding Pages To add a new page click the add page button Images Pages Settings Changing Pages To move from one page to another simply click on that page in the list of available pages You can also press t
134. 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 Snap to 45 degree increments While rotating your frame you can hold down the ALT key to have the image snap to increments of 45 degrees 0 45 90 etc Snap to vertical To snap a rotated frame back to a vertical orientation 1 Select it 2 Press CTRL Page Up OR Right click on it and choose snap upright in the resulting contextual menu Flipping Images can be flipped left right and top bottom Simply select the image s and click the flip button in the toolbar side to side arrows up and down arrows Image Seo Tilting Images can be rotated within their frame You can use this feature to correct for cameras that were not perfectly level when the picture was taken or to create a fun effect FotoFusion makes this simple 1 Select the frame holding the image that needs to be corrected 2 Click on the Image part of the Frame Toolbox Element Zoom In Edit All Add Text 3 Drag the angle parameter while holding down the left mouse button 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 73 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 Spinning Spinning an image refers to rotating it within an unmoving frame To spi
135. rt for multiple pages o An entire multi page album 65 can now be created as a single project o Autocollage 34 can now create a multi page album automatically o Batch Processing 118 of all pages in a multipage album to JPEG files is now supported e Custom EXIF tags o Custom EXIF tags 98 can be used for complex frame label The following new features are available in FotoFusion PRO and PRINT v3 3 e Midpoint Guide o Panoramic canvases include a center guide line 52 Tor avoiding album seams The following new features are available in all versions of FotoFusion v3 3 e AutoPopulate o An entire template can now be filled with images 47 in a single click e Rotation Snapping o Holding down the alt key while rotating 71 gt now snaps to increments of 45 degrees e Image Flipping o Images can be now be flipped 715 left right and top bottom Settings Area o You can now choose to work in floating toolboxes 24 or a new docked Settings Area e Try It First o The various versions of FotoFusion STANDARD PRO and PRINT can now be tested prior to buying e Centralized Help o A single starting point for help now provides a one stop help desk Version 3 2 2006 LumaPix Inc 10 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Version 3 2 added a few minor features Reconnecting Images o If you move the source images for a composition to a new location on your hard drive you can now reconnect t
136. rtrait 1 Load a template Ree ee M pas om Cm n Pm 8 am zonte dga kes dive sees debs 7 All Star 2 Select the images you want to apply to the image 2006 LumaPix Inc 48 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help 4 2 5 raia a Fit gre AFEN PG TAFEA Dee Me iiei Diez G eee AP lene T e Places L Die N pn 3 Click the AutoPopulate button Home Aubo T ols ie R A ee R L R LAE A DEH8 92 hea GO ue S66t GEE Y All Star You can swap images 69 from one frame to another or reposition and crop 70 them if you wish to fine tune your arrangement Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved AutoDistribute The AutoDistribute menu entry produces an even grid of all the images that appear in the collage and the Image Palette 104 AutoDistribute strives to produce a grid with the number of rows and columns as close to equal as possible Simply choose AutoDistribute from the Tools menu 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion F FTF F FF F Sound Effects Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 4 3 Canvas Tools The canvas is the main workspace the background onto which all other elements will be placed This section will teach you how to change the size and appearance of your canvas Sizing and Resizing the Canvas 50 gt Canvas Guides 52 gt Adding Images 55 gt Arranging Images 57
137. s If the image within the frame has become disconnected from the original image the number will look like this Click here 17 gt to learn the cause and the remedy to this problem e The Frame Number This is used to know which frame the next and previous frame selection buttons will move to 10T The frame number is also useful as a reference when discussing collages with others To swap images 69 gt between two frames drag the frame number from one frame into another the images in the two frames will be swapped To start picking up images 57 click on the frame number as opposed to dragging it You will now be able to pick up other images by right clicking on them or drop images into other frames by left clicking on them See dropping images for more detail Elements vs Images An Element is a graphical object such as an image of a rusty key or a clip art flower which is meant to be arranged within a collage without being cropped It can be resized but not stretched or widened An Image is a picture such as a shot of a bride which is meant to be cropped and tilted within a frame Frames are in one of these two modes at all times and the mode determines which handles appear on the frame Resize Resize Rotate Rotate Pan Crop Swap Any frame can be converted from one mode to the other by clicking on the Element Image button in the frame toolbox 2006 LumaPix Inc 24 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7
138. s The status of a frame is indicated by the color of the frame number e Green selected ready to edit e Blue not selected e Red the original file for the image cannot be located Reasons 1 The file has been renamed 2 The file has been moved to another folder 3 The file is located on a drive that is currently not accessible eg memory card CD or DVD external hard drive etc Fixing a disconnected image If you have a red frame number you need to determine the reason why it has become disconnected to the reference image displayed in FotoFusion If the file has simply been moved you can click on the image go to TOOLS on the menu and select RECONNECT CANVAS IMAGES Navigate to the directory which holds the disconnected image and repoint FotoFusion to it The red frame number will disappear If the file has been renamed you will need to redrop it onto the canvas and replace the disconnected image If the file has been deleted or lost from your system you will not be able to render the image at a good quality as FotoFusion has no other information about the image other than the reference image Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 4 4 5 Cropping and Panning Images Cropping Cropping an image refers to zooming in on a particular region of an image without affecting the size of the frame holding it To crop an image 1 Select it 2 Press the left mouse button over a crop handle 22 gt 3
139. s 125 are useful if you need to conform to a particular style that has been defined in advance The alternatives Free Form 39 gt and Grid 39 based collages are really just collage canvases containing zero or one frames by default Collage Sizes Each collage type will ask you to specify an initial size for the collage click here for more details on sizing a collage 50 gt Existing Project When you start FotoFusion after having worked on a collage in a previous session you will see a thumbnail for that collage in the Existing Projects window Just click directly on this image to open this collage To access a list of other recently edited collages click the VVV button below the thumbnail for all other projects saved in the default C My Documents My Collages folder Other Operations Clicking on the VVV arrows underneath the template will allow you to choose a template or browse to find templates stored in other folders Similarly clicking on the VVV arrows underneath the existing project will allow you to select or browse for other existing projects Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved AutoCollage The core of LumaPix FotoFusion is a patent pending layout mechanism called AutoCollage This tool takes a set of images and arranges them to fit gracefully within the canvas respecting the aspect ratios of the original images and doing the minimum cropping required to have the images fill the space clea
140. s Reserved 4 8 Interopterability with Other Programs FotoFusion is a free standing application that does not require any other software on your Windows machine However it can work with other design software allowing you to create your own custom graphics or improve the overall quality of your images 2006 LumaPix Inc 108 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help 4 8 1 4 8 2 Building Custom Mattes Mattes are special shapes sometimes coupled with effects eg gradients or light flares which allow you to place an images within them Mattes can be defined in two ways e As EMF files Enhanced Meta Files vector drawings saved by Adobe Illustrator e As PNG files bitmaps with an alpha channel saved by Adobe Photoshop Corel Paint Shop Pro and other tools All trademarks of their respective companies To create a matte in a tool such as Illustrator or Photoshop e Start with a blank canvas the higher the resolution of the canvas you create the more accurate the matte will be in FotoFusion e Draw a matte using a 100 black pen or brush the black represents the portion of the image that will be visible e Save or export that matte in the PNG or EMF format to the Mattes folder 127 in the FotoFusion installation Any EMF or PNG files found in that folder when FotoFusion is started will appear in the list of available mattes In Illustrator any stroke which is 100 black will be rendered as transpare
141. sing the Process tab 117 to bring it to your lab of choice you will flatten the images not allowing for color correction What is the difference between the limited use and a fully registered version of Studio The members of the LumaPix Network offer their clients a free limited use version of FotoFusion Studio This version allow full creative control the ability to email and the ability to upload to the lab that provided the software The limited use version however does not allow for printing or local rendering without applying the LumaPix watermarks The fully registered version of FotoFusion will remove these watermarks Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved Managing and Saving Your Work This section will teach you how to e Save 124 your collages so you can work on the later load them back into FotoFusion and remove unwanted projects from your system e Use Templates 125 to help your work process e Learn about important folders 127 related to FotoFusion on your system Saving Loading and Deleting Collages Saving To save a project either to preserve or to work on at a later date e Select Save from the Tool Bar the diskette icon under the Menu section or e Press CTRL S or e Go to the top menu under FILE and select SAVE If you have not already named your collage you will be asked to pick a name and folder to save it under Choose Save As to save the project under a new name if f
142. sion with FotoFusion usually follows these steps 2006 LumaPix Inc Getting Started 15 Start with images from your local disk downloaded from your digital camera Automatically create a starting point for a collage Finalize the set of pictures you want to use Arrange the pictures to get the composition right Adjust image quality Adjust Borders and Frames Set the canvas properties No steps required you don t need to import or pre process your images as is the case with other software Click AutoCollage 34 gt Pick a set of pictures Choose a canvas size 50 and bleed crop safe area The starting point for your collage is built automatically Add 66 gt and remove pictures to get the final collection you want auto collaging as often as you like Drag images in from local storage 55 jor web galleries 56 Use the organizer 10 to find images by date Use AutoCollage 34 AutoJumble 47 and AutoDistribute to create an interesting composition Swap 69 images between frames Crop 70 gt the pictures to focus on regions of interest Rotate 71 gt and resize frames as desired Color correct problems with brightness amp contrast 89 gt Apply sepiatone 89 black and white 89 or blur 89 gt effects Correct tilted 71 gt images rast the border width color and transparency 795 Use jagged
143. sizing of the source images and no compression Printing Overview As with most modern applications FotoFusion allows you to preview your output before printing it Printing Options Scaling and Tiling Printer Resize up or down to fit a single printed page Beater a Sci Sone Print canvas size on one or more pages l agg TU Deed regio Ira Use default color profile How to Print Copping Center on printed pagels Include frames outside the canvas Match onentation of printed page Crop to canvas edges Typically the process looks like this 1 Click Preview to launch the Printing Options dialog The icon for Print Preview in located in the tool bar toward the right its icon is a paper with the magnifier 2 Adjust printing options 3 Click Preview to try those options out 4 If the output is not as you expect close the print preview and go back to step 2 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 121 5 Otherwise click Print Fitting vs 1 1 Printing There are two main printing options in FotoFusion e Printing to fit on a single page This option does as you expect it fits your layout within a single printed page on the selected printer o If your layout is bigger than the printed page it will be printed at a reduced size if it is too small it will be printed larger o Use this option if the precise dimensions of your printed output don t matter you just want to use pap
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145. stored in subfolders under Web and Email respectively 115 Mattes Contains the set of mattes that appear in the list of available mattes 79 for an image See here 108 for more details on creating your own custom mattes Sample Pictures Contains pictures that ship with FotoFusion for learning purposes Contains the set of default background tiles 85 that ship with FotoFusion Tiles You can add your own tiling images in this folder and then set them as background tiles the next time you run FotoFusion Contains the templates 125 that are visible in the list of known templates when you create a Templates new collage Contains PNG format watermark images to overlay over 112 emailed and 109 published Watermarks collages 1135 Contains PNG format clickable Banners to append to 112emailed and 109 published collages Banners IA Presets Contains presets for many editors in a variety of subfolders Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 2006 LumaPix Inc 128 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help 4 10 4 10 1 Community FotoFusion is all about sharing with others sending collages of travel shots to workmates proof sheets to the newlyweds or postcards of your kids to the grandparents dees The Community Tab gives you quick access to http aw Fokoscraps com qallery index php redir gallery amp From clientauserid e The FotoScraps Gallery 128 to view what other FotoFusi
146. t an object and open an editor for it image border text or shadow 2 Click the gt gt button 3 Choose the preset from the list of presets that drops down Dealing with Multiple Selection FotoFusion does an excellent job of handling multiple selection you can select several frames add text to them all with a single click and then change the font for all text without breaking stride You can select all items on the canvas simultaneously by hitting CTRL A on your keyboard You can select all like items all frames all text by selecting EDIT ALL after clicking on one item and thereby launching a dialogue box You can manually multiple select items by holding the CTRL key as you click on the items you wish included in the group Once you have finished selection items the appropriate dialogue box will appear e g frames text etc and you can begin editing the items Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 2006 LumaPix Inc Getting Started 31 3 6 Other Learning Materials InfoTips As you work in FotoFusion you will frequently see InfoTip windows like this appear 1 k Click this button to access preset page sizes Keep in mind that the page dimensions take into account a half inch margin on each side Click anywhere to close the tip and click the red no sign circled in red to never see the tip again If you change your mind and want to see the tips again select R
147. t of what s new in this version of the software is available in the New in this Release 8 section Your feedback will help complete the process and guide the continued evolution of this product and this community Send your thoughts to support lumapix com Thank you for your interest and your involvement in the FotoFusion story Enjoy The LumaPix Team Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 2006 LumaPix Inc LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help 2 New in this release Version 3 7 build 29964 fixes a minor bug e Color Correction Quality Color Correction is applied before conversions to B amp W Version 3 7 build 29421 fixes a minor bug e Blur Quality Highly blurred images now exhibit less aliasing Version 3 7 build 28175 has three significant changes e Features Color profiles can be set on processed output STUDIO only e Free Trial functionality Emails can be sent without watermarks from trial version Compositions can be sent to participating labs for processing from trial version Previous version updates For your interest this section charts the progress of FotoFusion through the versions Version 3 6 Version 3 6 build 27059 responds to user feedback e Features o Polaroid matte added o Improved text rendering quality e Fixed Bugs o Instability caused by Matrox PowerDesk fixed Version 3 6 build 26688 fixes a few minor issues e Features o Se
148. text can have a unique color and transparency typically a black edge around a text body in addition to the shadow 835 Drag the size control to make the outline wider or narrower Examples of Text Effects Alignment Click these buttons to determine where the text lies within the text frame The text frame itself can be positioned relative to the parent frame using the positioning controls 95 Style Click these buttons to turn off various familiar options for text Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 4 5 4 Positioning Text Text can be positioned in several ways e By dragging 67 the text frame directly in the collage s By setting the alignment 95 in the text editor e By choosing a position relative to the parent frame This page describes the last option in more detail It is frequently useful to position text in the bottom right of an image to serve as a label or to the right of the image for a contact sheet and so on FotoFusion provides tools to do this quickly which are accessed by the Position button in the text toolbox Clicking this control opens the text position editor 2006 LumaPix Inc 96 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help 4 5 5 Position Frame Text U OU O Uo U U U U LU O UU O LU Offset 1 682 0 9256 Clicking the buttons on either side of this editor position the text with respect to th
149. text frame interactively Setting the Font Size Access the Font Editor by a Clicking on existing text then on the T icon in the dialogue box OR b from the TOOLS menu select Add Text to Canvas all versions or Add Text to Frame PRO and STUDIO 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 97 4 5 6 Font ooo Tampe Font Toje gt Arial w R 255 G 265 B 255 Opacity 255 Blur a Sine qo7 Lock Sie IZ Show Carne R OG BbB i E Opacity 255 Size 0 04 Alignment WE Sw Style Bek Cl Strika Out RI CUnderins annan The Font Editor includes a Size control Simply drag or click this control to set a size for the text in the currently selected frame Note that doing so will check the lock size option for that text box this becomes important if you later want to resize the text by the second method namely manually resizing the Text Frame Resizing Text Frames Text frames can be resized just like any other frame If the text in that frame is not locked the default then resizing the frame by pulling on the outer handles will make the text in the frame get larger and smaller to fit the box holding it Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved Setting the text s content including EXIF Replace the Sample Text with any text you want It can be a few words or entire paragraphs nee Font 0 G G 69 Sample Text There is no spell check in FotoFusion If you are concerned about th
150. that hang off the canvas edge are drawn with a border to make them easy to find Cropping 70 is preserved when images are swapped 69 between two frames or autocollage is pressed again Double clicking on a text frame now opens the text editor 93 gt inor issues The canvas no longer allows the user to resize it inside out The canvas tile can be set at all times Bad refreshes when panning very large collages have been fixed The color in email backgrounds now matches that in the create tab The edges on images drawn without borders are now smooth instead of jagged The color editor 135 text edit fields behave predictably Thumbnails for PNG frames now appear correctly when dragged to the canvas Splitters are now below all other handle O O O O O O O O WOO 90 Q Version 3 0 Version 3 0 was a massive upgrade with two models STANDARD and PRO and the most radical changes to the user interface since the first version The PRO version included all the following features the standard version includes a subset e Text o Amazing interactive text manipulation All truetype fonts supported Control over blur edge amp fill transparency rotation and more EXIF tags for building contact sheets Rendered at export time text is razor sharp at poster size O O O O Frame Enhancements o Customizable vector based frame mattes for jagged edges Sepiatone and black amp white image processing Interactive per image blur Within fra
151. the top of the page which allow you to e Print what is being previewed e Go to the next previous page if you are doing a multi page print job FotoFusion STUDIO only e Show two pages at once FotoFusion STUDIO only 2006 LumaPix Inc 122 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help e Zoom in out expand the preview to see more detail e Close close the print preview and return to what you were doing Printer Page Segments The following functionality is only available in FotoFusion STUDIO FotoFusion STUDIO includes the ability to segment a very large canvas into several individual printed sheets This feature allows you to print layouts that are larger than your printer is able to output directly as pieces which fit precisely together when assembled on a suitable background medium The core is a resizable frame called a printer page segment that indicates the content of one printed sheet Suppose that we want to print a 16x12 collage on 8 5x11 paper To begin click the show hide printer segments button in the print toolbar This will create a set of printer page segments to cover the image with a grid of pages p B r Kee et a Bs E a lad Ps Er Kera amp fer Ko m fang oo Bo vod arut Se PEET There are 4 page segments one in each quadrant of the canvas Notice that the page segments happen to fall nicely along an edge between two pictures in the center of the image highlighted in green below
152. ties dialog and make the change Sizing Interactively with or without Resizing Frames To resize the canvas interactively drag the blue handles on the top and left ruler with the left mouse button 2006 LumaPix Inc 52 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help This will increase and decrease the size of the canvas as you drag with all images on the canvas being interactively resized to match the new canvas dimensions If you would prefer to simply add or remove space from the canvas without resizing all existing frames hold down the Shift key while dragging Sizing using a Dialog To resize the canvas using a dialog e Select Canvas Properties from the tool menu or e Click on the Canvas Size icon in the Canvas Toolbox 28 Canvas Size pm i me La Layers Zoom In Edit All Add Text Resizing the Canvas to Fit the Collage To quickly resize a canvas to exactly fit the images that it contains click on TOOLS in the menu and choose Resize Canvas to Fit Collage or right mouse click outside of the canvas area to select this same menu item This will crop or expand the canvas to hold all frames currently on the canvas without rearranging them Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 4 3 2 Canvas Guides There are three types of guidelines that can appear in FotoFusion e the Bleed Area e the Safe Area e and the Center Guideline The Bleed and Safe areas are regions used to lay printed materia
153. tinue dropping them into the canvas The Image Palette is essentially the docking bay for the dropper Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 4 3 5 Adjusting the frame s position with snaps 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 collections of images This magnetic effect is felt anywhere a vertical or 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 shared edge a Snap a small draggable control is placed on ruler at the position of the shared edge 2006 LumaPix Inc 60 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help me Dragging the snap will resize all frames that have an edge that aligns with that snap Dragging a snap is a quick way to resize many frames at once it converts tedious layout problems into a trivial action Moving Snaps Using the Mouse TO move a snap 1 Move the mouse over the snap 1 4 i 5 2 Press and hold the left mouse button 3 Drag the mouse All images that are affected by that snap will resize When you are done release the left mouse button You can press the esc key to abort the drag if necessary 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 61 Copyright LumaPix 2006 All Rights Reserved 4
154. to a regular image file format click on the Process tab Location to export this image to Resolution and Quality File Mame T FileType pa w Dats Per Inch Size 1633 by 2133 Folder C Documents and Settings Lynne E Ls Selected Page we Quality Hy J Crop To Trim Lines C watermark Collage Very high quality Large size Show Crop Marks Add Banner insert Color Profile Sharpen reduced images Render Doubles Separately Preview Render Local Viewer You will also be sent to this tab if you choose export from the File menu which we have added to make the tab easier to find for some users The options are as follows e File name and location 1 File type 1A Batch processing 118 Cropping and crop marks 118 Watermarking and banners 118 Double page spreads 118 DPI and resolution 118 Compression 118 Previewing and final Render 118 Viewer 1195 File name and location To pick a name for your file you can either enter a name directly in the File Name field or click the button to open a windows explorer The folder can similarly be entered directly or navigated to using the gt button just as you would to save any other file File Type The following file types are supported by FotoFusion BMP GIF JPEG PNG and TIF JPG is a compressed format which means that image quality can be traded off against disk space lower compression will produce sharper images and a big file hi
155. ty slider will allow you to adjust the amount of compression used to save the image More compression produces smaller files at a lower quality less compression produces larger but higher quality images Previewing and Final Render 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 119 Clicking preview will process the image to a temporary file so that you can get an idea of what the final output will look like click render now will produce the file on disk that you specified Internal and External Viewer When you have finished processing a composition to a flat file it is often useful to open that file in another application For example you may want to edit the file in PhotoShop FotoFusion can be told to display processed output in any of the following e Local Viewer FotoFusion will display the processed image directly in the process tab e External Viewer or External Editor FotoFusion will open the tool you have selected to load the rendered output and display the results there Why the split between viewing and editing Most graphics users have multiple applications installed that can be grouped into two basic categories lightweight viewers such as IrfanView which boot quickly and are designed to display images and editors such as Paint Shop Pro which boot more slowly and are designed to manipulate images with paint and other tools FotoFusion allows you to configure a set of programs in either category a
156. ty 90 Angle 90 Brightness 90 gt Contrast 90 Gamma 90 Blur 90 Black amp White and Sepiatone 90 RGB 91 Opacity Alpha is the correct term for transparency an image is completely opaque when it has an alpha of one and completely transparent when it has an alpha of zero In practical terms reducing the alpha of an image will reveal the background color for a frame and if that background color is itself transparent the frames and canvas behind that Angle Images can be rotated inside their frames for example to correct for a tilted camera Drag this control left and right to adjust the image you may need to crop the image 70 when you are done Brightness Brightness is a measure of the overall level of intensity in an image Increasing image brightness shifts the intensity of all pixels higher black pixels eventually become white and white pixels are clamped at white Contrast Contrast is a measure of the range between black and white occupied by an image Increasing contrast stretches the gamut of the image making dark pixels darker and light pixels lighter Gamma Gamma provides a means to distort of the middle range of intensities in an image without affecting the darkest or lightest portions Increasing Gamma will bring out details in shadows while decreasing it will bring out details in washed out areas Blur Blurriness can be used to create a sensation of
157. uick click methods for getting the job done fast Canvas Tools 49 gt Options for the size and background attributes Frame Tools 66 How to create your image layout and apply a variety of decorative attributes to them Text Tools 66 Options for labels journaling and other text techniques Selection Navigation and Layers 100 How to manage your project within FotoFusion Organizing Your Images 10 How to manage your images within FotoFusion Managing and Saving Your Collages 124 How to organize your FotoFusion projects Interoperability with Other Programs 107 How FotoFusion can work with other software Output Options 10 What to do with your finished compositions Community 128 Learn more about the FotoFusion community and how you can share with them 4 1 Creating a New Composition You can create a new collage e By choosing New from the File menu e By pressing ctrl n e By clicking on the Home icon in the main toolbar Doing this presents you with the following options Nee Collage Click S buthon bo bey ima cat Tirak as 4 starting point fpr vap thet 2006 LumaPix Inc 34 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help 4 1 1 Template 125 Open an Existing Project 124 Free Form 395 Grid based 39 AutoCollage 34 If you want to make a layout with 3 or more images the AutoCollage tool makes the best starting point Template
158. y the image in a frame to reveal the background for example to create a jagged edge on a picture Borders can be adjusted directly in the Image Toolbox or in the Frame Editor Image Toolbox 2006 LumaPix Inc 80 LumaPix FotoFusion v3 7 Help Frame Border d d Element Zoom In Edit All Add Text The Border control in the Image Toolbox can be dragged to edit the border Frame Border Element Zoom n Edit All Add Text e Drag left right Border Thickness 81 Frame Editor The Borders editor is opened when you click on the image effects button in the toolbox 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 81 Frame L OG 6 v Border Width 0 05 R 255 G 255 B 255 Opacity 255 Fit Image Shadow Inside v Inset Width 0 06 mette T e f Blur 0 _ Hole Lock Position amp Size x 0 823 Y 0 706 Width 2 9 Height 3 09 Angle 0 It contains controls for e Border Width 81 Border Color 81 Other Border Settings 825 Matte Selection 82 gt Hole 83 Lock 83 Matte Blur 835 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 2006 LumaPix Inc 82 LumaPix FotoFusi
159. y in this list to add that tag to the current text contents The tag will appear as TAG in the editor and be replaced with the actual EXIF information in the collage itself You can enter tags manually for example as Day in the text contents if you like Custom EXIF Tags FotoFusion PRINT allows you to edit a configuration file that defines the EXIF tags available within FotoFusion If you choose Edit Custom Tags from the list of EXIF information you will see the contents of that file open in a text editor lt l This file contains definitions for the exif data to be extracted from photos with attached child text To add a new definition simply add a new group and specify the numeric value of the property to extra from the image file The type is known by FotoFusion and is converted to text accordingly Numeric values can be specified as OxNNNN where NNNN is a 4 digit hexadecimal value or simply by specifying a decimal value REQUIREMENTS The lt exif gt lt exif gt tags must not be changed All tags must be lower case This file must reside in the application folder gt 2006 LumaPix Inc Working with FotoFusion 99 lt exif gt lt exposure gt lt ui gt Exposure Setting lt ui gt lt property gt 0x829A lt property gt lt exposure gt lt f stop gt lt ui gt F Stop lt ui gt lt property gt 0x829D lt property gt lt f stop gt lt iSo gt lt ui gt ISO lt ui gt lt pr

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