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Still Perfection provides you with all the backgrounds, frames and design options to create your own Photo Album/Scrapbook online. It also allows you to create your own designs on a large range of products. The simple tools of the Product Designer, shown below, enable you to create your Project (e.g. Photobook, keyring, etc.) which will then be printed and delivered right to your door.
This is the Design Area
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You will see that the Menu is located at the top of the Designer.
There is also another options Bar on the right hand side, which enables you to access your Photo folders and all the images and options you can use on your Project.
The Center of the page is your work space with empty pages waiting for you to create.
The Product Designer uses a drag and drop system.
Once your Images have been uploaded (see details below for instructions), all that is required is for you to drag and drop items from the right hand side area, onto your Work Space.
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Still Perfection's Photo Book and Product Designer is FREE to use. There is also no Scrapbooking or Design software program needed to Install! It is all on Line. Then all you need to do is Click "ADD TO CART" to purchase your Item
Full Instructions - How to use ‘Product Designer’
The ‘Product Designer’ is a very simple-to-use program. To use it “Microsoft Silverlight’ may need to be installed. This is a free download which takes only a few minutes to download and install. Download will automatically come up if you need to install it. Print this Tutorial as a guide when first starting to use the Designer for ease of operation.
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Once you have selected your Product (i.e. album, key ring, mouse pad etc), remember to look at the recommended pixel size to ensure your photos can be printed to maximum quality.
Select the  Button and you will be taken to the Designer where you can upload your images and design your Product using the tools described below.
Note: Extra pages for albums can easily be added at any time
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The Menu Bar is located at the top of the Designer. It provides you with all the tools to make the Perfect project!
See below to read how to use each option
Menu Directions
HELP: Opens the Help page.
FULL SCREEN: Shows the Designer in full screen mode giving you a larger screen size to work with.
PREVIEW: This allows you to preview the product. If you are creating an Album, you can see a simulated version of what the actual book will look like. Clicking the bottom corner of each page enables you to turn the pages like a virtual book.
START OVER: Clears your current project and allows you restart your project.
SAVE/AS: Saves your project
ADD TO CART: Click this button when you are finished creating your product and are ready to finalize your purchase.
MY ACCOUNT: Exits Designer and takes you back to your Account
ZOOM: Zoom allows you to zoom in and out to view the project in a different way.
ADD/REMOVE: Adds or removes pages for your album easily
UNDO & REDO: Undo removed up to a maximum of 10 moves and clicking Redo restores the deleted moves.
ADD TEXT: Creates a pink text box that can be resized and rotated. If you double-click on the text box, it opens this window
which allows you to change the color and size, add text and change fonts using the options set out along the top bar.
Note: All text boxes are coloured pink.
ADD LAYOUT: Adds a green photo (layout) box onto your current page that you can drag a photo into.
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How to add a photo
The Images just need to be dragged from the right side, into a photo box to enable them to be positioned around the page. The whole photo box can then be moved around the page by dragging it, or the photo box can be dragged from page to page. The little button in the center of the photo box holds onto the image so that it can be positioned correctly inside the photo box. If images are not dragged into a photo box and just dragged onto the page, they will be added as a background and take up the whole area. Note: You can also use the Layout button for more placing options and ideas.
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When a Photo (layout) box is selected, an Image box will appear on the right hand side of the screen. It provides you with options to move pictures and images around inside the Photo Box's so you can have the perfect placing.
The ImageBox
THEME: Gives you the option of 35 different Themes to choose from.
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A Theme can be added to your whole Album or onto just one page and has the background, photo-boxes and text boxes already laid out for you. All you need to do is drag the Theme onto the page and add your images of choice into the green photo boxes |
COVER: Gives you a range of different covers with themes, colours, layouts and text for an Album Cover, all of which can be added to or changed, as desired.
- 6"x6, 8"x8", 9"x7" and the 12"x12" size Albums can be fully customized from back, spine to front. Use this 'Cover' tool to customize the hard cover of these Albums.
- 7x5 Albums have a standard hard-cover, with a special cut-out window in the center of the front cover. The cut-out window allows you to see threw the cover, to an image placed on the following page (title page). By clicking “change cover”, the designer will automatically change threw the cover colours available (view changes in the Preview). This size Album can not use the COVER option.
| BACKGROUND: This has a large range of folders, each of which contains further back-ground colours and designs, enabling you to have a huge selection of backgrounds to select from. A background is added by dragging it into the blank space on the page.
Note: Make sure the background completely covers the total area of the page (included the grey/shaded bleeding area). Leaving unfilled areas will result in white gaps showing in the final printing process.
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EMBELLISHMENT: Embellishments are fun graphics you can add to spice up and enliven your project.
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Emballishments can make all the difference to make a simple project into a wonderfully exciting project. All the hearts, letters and corner frames on this page are Embellishments. This include a huge range of buttons, feathers, ribbons, laces, lines, flowers, tags, textures, frames, seals, clips, patterns, bands, corner frames, trees, fonts, icons and lots more. Just drag and drop into place.
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LAYOUT: Allows you to choose from a range of page Layouts.
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The first step is to decide on the number of Images and/or text you want on the page. Select the folder and then choose the layout design and drag it onto the page of choice. You can now shift, change and delete if you choose. Simple! Note: Remember that text boxes are coloured pink and photo boxes are coloured green.
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BORDER: This provides a large range of shapes that can be applied to your photo boxes.
Simply click on the photo box and then the shape. You can also add a coloured border around the Image and vary the width size.
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KIT: If you like Scrapbooking, youll love KIT!
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The Kit option provides you with themed embellishments, backgrounds, ribbons, lace, words, frames, papers and materials to create a scrapbooking affect to your project. |
To switch and Arrange the pages around
- Just click on the page number (the font below each page) to select the entire page
- a purple frame will appear around the hole page once it is selected
- then press the shift key - while dragging the page to where you want it to be.
- This will cause both pages to swap places.
ALBUM: This is where all your uploaded Images, photos and files you want to present on your product are stored.
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To upload Images of Files:
Go onto "Album" on the top Menu
Just click  on the right hand side
and follow the 3 easy steps.
Note: Images may take some time to upload.
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To ensure your images can be printed to maximum quality, a warning sign  will appear on a image when the DPI (the file size/pixels) is not large enough to produce a good quality print. The photo-box will need to be resized to a smaller size until the icon disappears or you need to add a new larger sized image.
Remember, the quality of the product will only be as good as the quality of your Images
When printing the photo book, the printers uses CMYK colour processing. If you are using programs like Photo Shop or Coral Draw to alter or create images, then it is best to set the Colour mode to CMYK (rather than RGB Colour, Greyscale or Bitmap). This will provide the closest colour range to the processing mode used by the printer.
NOTE: Altering your Images too much can result in a lack of quality once printed, especially when altering colours! Accordingly, if your item is printed resulting in a bad print due to a lack in image quality, Still Perfection cannot be held accountable
To use a Voucher
when in the check out, type in individualized Voucher Number as showen
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