Print Module: Basic Information
Print Module Interface
Important Information on Work in the Print Module
Use the Print module to present your photos via photo products and more. It contains seven types of projects (Photo Book, Calendar, Canvas Print, Collage, Print Photos, Magnets, and Contact Sheets) are used for preparing printing jobs. Before creating a photo product, we recommend that you visit the folder with its intended source photos in the Manager.
In Pages mode, you can see all of a project’s pages at once. In Preview mode, you can only see one page of a project, but it is shown in full detail, and the pictures on the page can be clicked and edited individually. A small control panel is shown with buttons for switching between the Change Crop and Replace Photo modes. There are also options here for rotating the picture, restoring default settings, and deleting the picture. The top part of the control panel shows the name of the file. Click and drag a photo to change its position, size, or rotation.
When Guidelines have been turned on, a ruler is shown in the top left part of the project. Click this ruler and drag to place a horizontal or vertical guideline into the project. Guidelines can be moved after placing them. To delete a guideline, drag it into any space outside the project preview.
If the bottom of the window shows the warning message Check your photos’ resolution, then hovering the mouse over the file’s name in the top part of the small toolbar will show details about this warning. A warning can be either orange or red depending on severity. If it is in orange, then the DPI has dropped below 300, and if it is in red, then the DPI has dropped below 150 (or 200 for calendars). In both of these cases, printing is still possible, but high-quality printing cannot be guaranteed.
In the Side Panel on the right, beneath the symbol for the selected function, there is a drop-down menu for choosing one of the predefined sizes for the selected project. For projects of types where it’s possible to order photo products (Photo Books, Calendars, Canvas Prints and Print Photos), price information is shown under the choice of basic format. If the green “Add to Cart” button is not lit and no price is displayed, then the dimensions you have chosen cannot be ordered as a photo product; however, you can still print the project with these dimensions on your own printer (if your printer allows it) or export it.
After this is a toolbar with these buttons:
Order the production of photo products. For this variant, print data is sent to the company that prints and makes the products. A shipping and invoicing address need to be filled in and payment need to be made during this process. The payment is made in a browser window. After the product is produced, it is sent to the shipping address. A working internet connection is needed in order to complete the order.
The toolbar with buttons for work with pictures and text:
Important information on work in the Print module
Data Location
When you are creating a project, the photos used are not stored in the project. The project only stores links to the photos’ locations. If you change the location of a source photo, or its name, or overwrite it with another photo, it will not be possible to upload that photo for printing. Photo data is not uploaded until the order is sent off.
Limitation of Printed Items
Some printing functions have special limitations due to the professional printing process for photo products, which can hide part of a photo in certain areas. For example, calendars have a ring binding sewn in at the top. For photo books, there’s the book’s spine and the area in the middle of a photo that’s spread across two pages. Canvas prints have similar spots at the edges, which are stretched around the edge of the frame in the finished product. We do not recommend putting anything important in these areas!
Color Space
We recommend that you use files in the sRGB color space for your projects. Unfortunately we cannot take responsibility for color differences caused by the fact that files were in a different color space.