Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Step 17:
There is one more Background option,
but before we get to that, look up at the
top of the Background panel and you'll
find a checkbox that repeats your current
background throughout the entire topic
(if that's what you want. It saves you the
time of adding a background manually to
every single page). Okay, now onto the last
option: using a photo as a background
(very popular in wedding albums, but we'll
do it here just to show you how). Start by
turning off the Graphic checkbox, then in
the Filmstrip, find the photo you want to
use as a background, and drag-and-drop it
onto the square background graphic well
in the center of the Background panel (as
shown here) and that photo becomes your
page background. I usually like this back-
ground photo to be very light behind my
main photo (so it doesn't compete with it),
so I lower the Opacity quite a bit—usually
to between 10% and 20%. By the way, to
remove your background image altogether,
Right-click on the background graphic well
and choose
Remove Photo.
Step 18:
Okay, now I want to show you another
of my favorite topic features—having
one photo appear all the way across a
two-page spread. This really adds a lot of
impact to a topic, and I usually include
at least two or three two-page spreads
like this per photo topic. To create one,
click on the photo page that you want
to make a two-page spread, then click
the Change Page Layout button in the
bottom-right corner of the page to get
the Modify Page menu, and choose
Two-Page Spreads
. This brings up a
scrolling list of different layouts (the top
one is a full-bleed—all the way to the
edges—the next puts a small border
around it, and the rest are really cool,
as well. Some cover ²⁄3 of the two pages,
leaving room for text). For this project,
we'll choose the full-bleed template.
