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7. Choose a layout .
After Elements creates the collage, the program displays some new options. Below
the Create panel is an icon labeled Pages. A collage has only one page, so when you
click this icon, your page's thumbnail is displayed in its lonely glory. (For projects
that have multiple pages—like photo books—this is where you'd navigate among
thumbnails of the project's different pages.)
If you like the preview that Elements shows you, there's no need to change anything.
But if you click the Layouts icon below the Create panel, you see a bunch of alternat-
ive designs, grouped by the number of photos. To audition a different layout, either
double-click its thumbnail or drag it onto the collage in the preview area. If you don't
like it, undo it (Ctrl+Z/ -Z) and try another one.
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If you plan to use only a couple of photos, one fast way to get rid of the extra
photo frames in the Basic layout is to scroll down the Create panel till you see a
layout with only one or two photos. Double-click the layout you want and the ex-
tra frames go away.
8. Adjust the photos .
If you haven't already picked photos for this project, drag a photo from the Photo Bin
into a frame. (If you don't see the Photo Bin, click the Photo Bin button below the
preview area to display it.) Or click the placeholder text in an empty frame in the col-
lage, and then choose a photo using the dialog box that appears.
Regardless of how you get photos into the collage, you can make a number of adjust-
ments to them once they're there. The next section ( Customizing Your Project ) ex-
plains everything you can do with photos and frames in a Create project, but for now,
here are a couple of quick changes you can make:
▪ Once you click a frame, you should see the Move tool's bounding box around it.
(If you want to see the Move Tool's Tool Options, just click the Tool Options but-
ton below the preview area.) Use the Move tool to stack your photos in the right
order, and align or distribute them, if you want.
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