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Step Four:
Now that our photo is in position, let's
move our studio name Identity Plate below
the photo. Click on it (up in the top-left
corner of your slide) and drag it so it ap-
pears under your photo (when you drag it,
it does this weird Spiderman thing of cling-
ing to the edges. This is supposed to help
you center your text by having it snap to
the edges. At least, that's the theory).
TIP: Zoom to Fill Frame
If you see a gap between the edges of your
photo and the margin guides, you can fill
that gap instantly with a very cool feature
called Zoom to Fill Frame. Turning on this
checkbox (found in the Options panel at
the very top of the right side Panels area)
increases the size of your photos propor-
tionally until they completely fill the area
inside the margins. Give this a try—you'll
probably use it more than you'd think.
Step Five:
To customize your Identit y Plate text, go
to the Overlays panel, click on the little
triangle in the bottom-right corner of
the Identity Plate preview, and choose
Edit
to bring up the Identity Plate Editor
(seen here). Type in the name you want to
appear below each photo (in my case, I'm
using one of my studio Identity Plates,
where I typed in Scott Kelby | Photography
in the font Myriad Web Pro at 24 points—
you get that little bar by typing Shift-\
[backslash] on your keyboard. I clicked on
the color swatch here and changed the
font color temporarily to black, to make it
easier to see), and click OK. Choosing the
right point size isn't so critical, because
you can change the size of your Identity
Plate by either using the Scale slider (in
the Overlays panel), or by clicking on your
Identity Plate text on the slide and then
clicking-and-dragging any corner point
outward (which scales the text up).
