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Still Perfection provides you with all the backgrounds, fonts, embellishments and design options to add a design onto any of our wide range of products. The simple tools of the Product Designer shown below, enables you to create your Project, which will then be printed and delivered right to your door.
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 seconds to a few minutes to download and install. Download will automatically come up if you need to install it. You can print this Tutorial as a guide when first starting to use the Designer for ease of operation, but the designer is very simple to use.
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 yellow  Button and you will be taken to the Designer.
This is 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
The Product Designer uses a drag and drop system. Once your Images have been uploaded (see “Album” details below for instructions), all that is required is for you to drag and drop items from the right hand side options area onto your Project. (Teddy Bear has been used for eg)
Menu Help
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 if you are creating an album.
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 box onto your current page that you can drag a photo into.
Images need to be dragged 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, 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.
Some of the below options are not necessary for some projects so will not be displayed in the Menu.
THEME: Gives you the option of 35 different Themes to choose from.
 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.
7x5 albums have a standard hard-cover, with a cut-out window in the center. This window allows you to see the image placed on the following page (title page). By clicking “change cover” designer will automatically change the covers color (view changes in the Preview).
8"x8" and 12"x12" can be fully customized from back, spine to front. Use this 'Cover' tool to customize the hard cover of these Albums.
BACKGROUND: This has a large range of folders each of which contains further options of back-ground colours and designs enabling you to have a huge selection of background 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 area). Leaving unfilled areas will result in white gaps showing in the final printing process.
EMBELLISHMENT: Embellishments are fun graphics you can add to spice up and enliven your project.
 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.
LAYOUT: Allows you to choose from a range of page Layouts.
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.
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.
KIT: If you like Scrapbooking, youll love KIT!
 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 swop Hole pages to another placing – 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) then press shift-while dragging the page to where you want it to be. This will cause both pages to swop places.
ALBUM: This is your Album where you upload all the graphics, photos and files you want to present on your product.
 Just click  and follow the 3 easy steps.
Note: Images may take some time to upload.
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 a new larger sized image added.
Remember, the quality of the product is only as good as the quality of your Image
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
The Image box is located on the right hand side of the screen. It provides you with options to move pictures and images into the correct placing.
To add a Voucher
when in the check out, type in individualized Voucher Number as showen
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