(Printing) PRINT MANY PHOTOS ON A PAGE

Click here to show the Print Custom Layout Screen.

There are several reasons why you would want to print many photos on ONE page.

You are interested in saving money

You want to print an ODD size, like 2x3 in.

You want many wallet sized photos all on a single sheet

You can save money because it's typically cheaper to print 4 photos of 3.5x5 on a regular sheet than it is to buy 4 sheets of 3.5x5 paper. Of course you will have to cut them out afterwards.

You can also select a "Photo Size" of "Custom Size" to indicate what size photos you want. So, you could tell it 5x9 and then poof when you print, it prints out a 5x9 print on a regular sheet of paper. You need to make sure that the paper you are printing on is AT LEAST as large as the custom print size you are wanting to print.

You can also have many wallet-sized photos all on one sheet of paper. It's a lot more convenient to print wallet size photos this way.

Just use the "Tools Menu" and select "Print Full Page or Custom Layout".

Once the Print Custom Layout screen is displayed, there are several options and checkboxes etc. that are available for your use.

Hint: The simplest way to use the Custom Layout Screen is to follow these 5 steps:

1. Select Photo Size

2. Drag a Photo From Thumbnails List

3. Drop Photo onto the paper Template preview area

4. Click Printer Setup from the Printer Functions and choose the correct printer and select the correct print quality etc.

5. Click Print from the Printer Functions

Select Photo Size:

Pull Down List: You can select Full Sheet which means that the largest possible photo will be printed onto your paper that you select with the "Printer Setup" button. There are other choices too: 5x7, 4x6, Wallet size, Fit-2-Perfectly, Fit-4-Perfectly and many other sizes too.

There are two SPECIAL options at the bottom of the list:
1. Custom Size
2. Replicate
Custom Size: This allows you to enter a WIDTH and HEIGHT manually and then click "Accept". This is used when the available photo sizes do NOT match anything that you want to use. So, you basically make up your photo size.
Replicate: This allows you to take a single photo and place as many as possible onto the selected paper. It asks you for the photo's smallest dimension side and it auto-calculates the photo's other dimension side based on the photo and then replicates as many as it can fit.

Drop Photos Onto Paper:

Auto Spacing Between Images: This will place the photos onto the paper in an EVEN fashion so that any margin space will be equally divided so that the resulting photos have an even white border around them. If you UN-check it, then all the photos will be smashed against each other. This is useful if you don't want white margins and you want as few paper cuts as possible to get your photos out.

Use Same Adjustments For Duplicate Photos: There are many adjustments that can be made to a photo. For example: Cropped area, Rotation, Color Adjustments, Mirroring etc. This is handy so that if you are printing several of the SAME photo on a page, then as you modify ONE slot on the page, all the other slots of the same photo will be adjusted as well. Big time saver. Of course if you want individual adjustments, then UN-check it.

Allow Dropped Photos To Fill Empty Slots: If you have a template that shows spots (slots) for 4 photos and you only have ONE photo loaded, then the other 3 slots will appear BLUE. If you were to drag a photo onto one of these empty slots, then that photo will fill up ALL of the empty slots. If you don't want this action, then UN-check it.
NOTE: You can empty out a slot by RIGHT-CLICKing on a slot and then choose "Remove the photo from this slot in template"..

Green Border: A green border around a photo indicates that the photo will fit perfectly on the page with no additional cropping.

Red Border: A red border around a photo indicates that the photo will NOT fit perfectly on the page and needs some cropping to fit perfectly.

TIP: You can drag photos from the thumbnail list onto any slot on the template preview area. You can also drag from your desktop or Windows file explorer too. You can also drag from one slot to another slot.

TIP: If your template shows more than one photo on the selected paper size, then you can also drag from one photo slot onto another photo slot.

TIP: In order to perform adjustments like cropping, just click on the slot that contains the photo you are interested in adjusting. Then that photo will appear in the big cropping window. At this point you can move the cropping handles or play with the various image adjustment buttons for Color, Rotation, Sharpness, Smoothness, Text Boxes and Logo/Image Insertion. When you click on another photo, the adjustments you just made are remembered.

Printer Functions:

Printer Setup: This section allows you to do "Printer Setup", to select your paper size and quality. Or you can switch between several printers too.

Print: Finally, you can click the "Print" button to actually print the photo.

CANCEL: After you click "Print", you can cancel the printing process if it's taking too long for you by clicking the "Cancel" button. The same button is used to Print and Cancel.

Enlargement Method: There are several methods available. The "REED" method is the best for enlarging by a large amount and you want the best smoothing and sharpness for photos. Use "GENERIC" if you want the FASTEST printing, but can never be the best quality. For more information about all the various resizing options, click here.

Cropping Area:

Save Button: If you wanted to save your CROPPED area of the adjusted photo for some reason, you can do so by clicking this button.

UnLock Button: Allows you to move the cropping handles freely instead of being locked to the shape of the printed photo.

Lock Button: Allows you to move the cropping handles in a locked fashion so that the resulting printed photo will always fit perfectly on the printed page.

Color Adjust Button: Allows you to do Color Adjustments to the photo,

Rotation Adjust Button: Allows you to rotate the image to any angle.

Sharpness / Smoothing Adjust Button: Allows you to sharpen the image.

Text Boxes, and Image Overlays: Allows you to add text boxes to the image. And allows you to add company logo image overlays to the image.

Flip Aspect Checkbox: Allows you to rotate the cropping rectangle sideways.

Mirror Photo Checkbox: Flips the image from left to right.

Flip Photo Checkbox: Flips the image from top to bottom

Thumbnails Area:

Portrait Thumbnails: This allows your thumbnails to be taller than they are wide. Depending on your folder of photos, this may or may not be what you want.

Auto Rotate: This is useful if you want the largest looking thumbnail. If you are trying to display a tall photo into a wide thumbnail, the image will have a lot of margin space on the left and right sides. But by AUTO-ROTATING the image, it will be larger and less margin space. It just looks better. Of course the auto-rotated images will appear lying on their sides.

Folder Options: On the right side of the thumbnails are the folder options. This is useful if you want to select a different folder for photos. You can also create new folders and delete folders as well. For a complete description of the folder options, click here.

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