Portrait Pages

Adding Photos to Portrait Pages

Creating your Portrait Page Layout

Now that your images have been uploaded and sorted correctly, it's time to plan your portrait page layouts. You'll want to add a Flow Element to your portrait pages.

From the Page Designer (Create > Page Designer) navigate to the Designs tab. Within the Designs tab, use the Drop-down menu to browse through the categories of Templates. Expand the Portrait section by clicking the arrow. Within the Portrait section you can view all the different types of portrait templates.

NOTE: We usually use the portrait layouts numbered 7064 (left page) and 7065 (right page).

Customizing your Portrait Page Layout

Once you have your Flow Element placed on your portrait page, you can customize it to your liking!

Single-Click your Flow Element so that you can see the blue dotted lines around it. Then the editing menu will appear.

This menu at the top is called the 'Contextual Menu' because it's in context of whatever you have currently selected. You will only be able to edit the flow element if you have it selected.

From this menu you can customize the following:
Font, Font Size, Font Color, Font Effects (bold, italics, all caps, etc)
Text Color and Text Stroke (border around text)
Border around photo-boxes (stroke)

You can customize the size of the portrait boxes and the number of portrait boxes from the Flow Options menu in this toolbar (Flow Options looks like a 3x3 grid of squares)

NOTE: Always leave 2-3 extra picture boxes at the end! This is for any extra students we may have to add later. If they are never used you can turn them off before the yearbook is due.

Flowing the Portraits

To Flow your portrait images, open to the Flow tab in Page Designer.

Customize the following:

Category drop-down menu is where you choose the source of your pictures. All portraits are in the Portrait folder under the corresponding grade. Make sure you have the correct grade selected!

Name Format drop-down menu is used to format the names on the page. We use First Last.

Start and Stop page determines where your flow starts and stops. If you wish to flow to one page only, specify just that page (i.e. start 5 stop 5). If you wish to flow to several pages, specify the full range (i.e. start 5 stop 6). This is how you can choose to flow to a left page or a right page only, or flow to multiple pages.

To start your flow click the Flow button. If done correctly all the pictures and names will be placed in the picture boxes.

If something goes wrong or you have to make changes click reset to start over.

If you get a window that says you don't have enough boxes on your pages DO NOT select yes or continue. Your images will flow to the next page if you proceed. Just cancel, add more boxes, and start over.

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