Preset arrangements of picture-ready picture frames. Once applied to a page, you can still rearrange the layout elements any way you choose.

Various colors, textures, and designs you can apply to your pages. There a many more backgrounds at our backgrounds community that you can log onto and download.

Borders of various color and thickness you can apply to pictures.

These are themes that can be applied to your entire photo book. Once applied to a page, you can still rearrange the template elements any way you choose.

All of these items can be dragged & dropped directly onto a page (or frame, as the case may be).

To navigate the pages of your photo book, click the desired page in the Pages Browser. You can also navigate using the navigation arrows located on the toolbar.

When you’re done designing your photo book, click the Send To MyPicTales button to upload your project to our production facilities.

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Using the Book Monitor feature, you can see issues that arise in your photo book in real-time. By default, the Book Monitor is set to on. If the Book Monitor has been turned off, go to the View menu and click “Show Book Monitor.”

A new bar will appear underneath the photo book pages scrollbar. If everything is 100% fine within your book, the bar will be blank. If however, there are issues with any page, color-coded boxes will appear for those pages with errors.

The color of the arrow at the left indicates the most serious of the problems within the book. Placing the cursor over a color-coded error box will display a page’s problems, and allow you to go directly to the page to make changes.

Multiple problems on a single page with the same color-code will be represented by a single box of the pertinent color.

Use the zoom in/out icons to crop. Reposition the photo inside the frame by using the cursor arrows on the image.

Use the filter icons on the image editor bag, or right click the image and choose your option from the pop out menu.

Ctrl Click all the items you want aligned, right click and select alignment. Then select the choice of alignment. You can also select on the menu, layout, alignment and then choose an option.

To delete a photo simply click to select, and hit delete on your keyboard. Or right click, then select edit, delete. To duplicate an image, right click, and select duplicate. A new duplicate image will now appear on the page.