Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
page size. (After choosing this option, you may need to use your operating system's Page
Setup dialog box—described next—to change the page's orientation.)
The Page Setup Dialog Box
In the lower-left corner of the Editor's Print window is the Page Setup button. Click it to
bring up your operating system's Page Setup dialog box. Normally, you don't need to use
this dialog box—choosing your printer in the Print window's Step 1 area takes care of things.
But once you've got everything set up in Elements' Print window, you can use the Page
Setup dialog box to
override
Elements' settings. You can also select a printer here, but nor-
mally choosing a printer in Elements' Print window changes the Page Setup dialog box to
match.
Additional Print Options
Elements includes a number of other useful ways to tweak a photo for printing, like putting a
border around it, printing crop marks as guides for trimming the printed version, or even flip-
ping it for printing as an iron-on transfer. You'll find the following settings by clicking the
Print window's More Options button and then, on the left side of the dialog box that appears,
clicking Printing Choices:
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Photo Details
. You can print the image's shot or creation date, caption, and/or filename
on the page with the photo by turning on the relevant checkbox(es) here. Caption text is
what you entered in the Organizer; or you can enter it in the Editor by going to File→File
Info and typing something in the Description field.
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Border
. If you want to add a border to the photo, turn on the Thickness checkbox, and
then enter a size for the border (in inches, millimeters, or points). Elements shrinks the
photo to accommodate the border, even if there's plenty of empty space around the pic-
ture, so you may need to enlarge the photo a bit before printing to get the size you origin-
ally chose. Click the white square next to the unit-of-measurement menu to bring up the
Color Picker so you can choose a border color.
If the page has empty space you want to fill with a background color, then turn on the
Background checkbox and click
its
color square to bring up the Color Picker.
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Iron-on Transfer
. Turn on the Flip Image checkbox to reverse your image horizontally.
You'd do this when printing transfers for projects like t-shirts.
