Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
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Label
. This is where you tell Elements whether to put text on the photos. If you
don't want any text, leave the Content menu set to None. If you want text, you can
use the filename, copyright, description, credit, or title from the file's metadata
(
Media View
), or enter custom text. The other options are for the text itself: font,
size, color, opacity, and position. If you don't want black text, click the color
square to bring up the Color Picker. The Rotate menu lets you tell Elements to ro-
tate the text so that, if your photos print sideways, say, the text still prints right-
side up on the photo. And you can use the Opacity and Position settings to create
a watermark.
If all these options aren't enough for you, check out the next section, which explains
how to customize a picture package even further.
4.
Adjust the placement of the photos
.
Figure 16-12
explains how to change the contents of a particular placeholder (Adobe
calls them
zones
). Keep clicking zones to put as many different shots on a page as
there are zones to hold them.
5.
When everything is arranged to your liking, click OK to create the package
.
If your settings required more than one page to fit the photos, then Elements creates a
separate file for each page. You can print them or save them in any format that suits
you, just like a single photo.
Customizing a Picture Package
You're not limited to the picture-package layouts Elements offers. You can customize a lay-
out in all sorts of ways and then save it to use again.
Start by choosing the built-in layout that's closest to what you want. Then click the Edit Lay-
out button in the Picture Package window's bottom right (it's visible in
Figure 16-12
) to call
up the dialog box shown in
Figure 16-13
.
