LumaPix :: FotoFusion
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FotoFusion allows you to use and create templates - pre-defined arrangements of frames that you can load and populate with your own images. Users with an internet connection can download templates for both pro and craft-type projects from the Marketplace.
A template can predefine:
| • | Canvas Size |
| • | Frame location (but not necessarily the frame contents) |
| • | Images effects for frames (e.g. a template frame can make any image dropped into it black & white) |
| • | Background texture and color |
| • | Shadow settings |
| • | Text frames |
| • | Graphic embellishments (e.g. backgrounds, decorations). |
You can find additional templates from several sources:
| • | Search for high-quality downloadable templates, created by LumaPix designers as well as other designers and manufacturers. dotScrap templates are useful for crafters and pro-photographers alike, and can be found using FotoFusion's Search feature (on the Create Screen or in the Organizer) or by clicking in the Start Zone's Marketplace area. You will be able to find basic templates and contact-sheet style layouts, as well as decorative layouts for wedding albums, portrait work, and other common layout tasks. |
Examples of downloadable templates
Some templates are included with your FotoFusion license. Click on the 
icon in the Start Zone to see what materials are included in your license. Others will need to be purchased with dotScrap credits.
| • | Select album companies have included a special limited-use edition of FotoFusion with their products, to allow the album users to print out selected templates included with the software. In this case, the templates are included with the product, via the Start Zone "Bundled Content" selection. Other users will not be able to access these materials. |
| • | Any page you have created can be saved as a template, to allow you to reuse the layout with new images. |
Resizing & editing templates
Some templates are locked by default. A locked template will receive your custom images and text, but cannot be altered in any other way. These include:
| • | Ready Made Pages in the Scrapbooking section of the marketplace |
| • | Projects using "page segments" to transfer items from a design page to a final printer or render-friendly section of the template |
| • | Multipage templates (eg. wedding albums) opened with a Scrapbook Essentials or Enhanced licence. |
If a template is not locked, you will be able to resize it, as you would any other project, move/delete/edit the frames around on the page, and so on
Opening your templates
Open the Organizer tab, and click on the SEARCH tab. Under "Types", select SAVED WORK >> PROJECTS or PAGES or, if you would like to use dotScrap store templates, search using a keyword (e.g. "basic" to get the basic templates). Click on the template thumbnail to launch it.
Extreme users working on a multi-page templates can append pages multiple templates simultaneously. Select multiple templates, then right-mouse-down on the selection. Select DOWNLOAD AND OPEN (or DOWNLOAD AND APPEND to add to an existing project).
You can also find your saved templates under FILE >> Open under the Templates subdirectory.
Saving your work as a template
Single page projects can be saved by choosing FILE >> Save as Template from the Menu. Single pages within a multipage project can be saved from the Pages hover; right-mouse select the page thumbnail of your choice, then choose SAVE AS TEMPLATE.
You will be prompted to strip the image content from the page; do so cautiously! If you choose YES to remove the image content, ALL image content, including background papers, will be removed. This will create an empty-framed template, ready to be repopulated with new images. Extreme users can save multi-page templates (saving them as a whole project or saving page by page), and then append pages to a new multi-page project.
You can save your templates to any location on your computer. However, there is a default folder available (C:\My Documents\My Collages\My Templates).
Once you have opened the template by clicking on the preview image, you can then add your own images, either by dropping them one at a time, or using the AutoPopulate feature.
Deleting and Renaming Templates
You can delete templates PERMANENTLY searching for them in the Organizer.
Click on the Source tab to choose the subdirectory where your templates are located
or click on the Search tab and change the "any type' drop box to "Saved Work (+) Templates".
Right-mouse-select the template thumbnail you wish to eliminate, and then send it to the windows recycle bin.
Using a Template with AutoDuplicate (Extreme only)
Extreme users can create a single template and set it to AutoDuplicate, to create a multi-page project spanning a series of images.
This is particularly useful for creating contact sheets. Click here to learn more.
