Do it yourself templates

[Lylie'sMom]

I would like to see the ability to create your own templates including background colors, text, graphics and photo locations/sizes/rotations. This is GREAT software and I would buy a lot more books if I was able to be more creative. Thanks for considering.

Yes - why can't you do click/drag type boxes and size and locate pictures where you want them, including overlapping photos etc. Hate having to choose from a small number of pre-formatted pages!

Here is a suggestion. Design the page in a design program like Photoshop and up load it as a single image to a single picture page. It is a way around the programs limitations.

[beanfield1]

It would be so much better to have do-it-yourself layouts. I just created my first book, and kept thinking this would look so much better over here, or tilted a little, or overlapped. I think a lot more books would be ordered with more freedom to be original. Also more fonts-the few offered don't add much to the looks of the pages.

[Mark Ridout]

Here is a suggestion. Design the page in a design program like Photoshop and up load it as a single image to a single picture page. It is a way around the programs limitations.


Agree....thats how I create all of my books.

[freshstart19]

Yes, but how do you do a template in Photoshop. My daughter is gone for 2 weeks and I have a short amount to time to create a large book before she leaves for college. I want to surprise her so I need to finish this while she's gone. I could really use a 5 page layout or a 6 with more options. Does anyone have one already created that they can share? I'm clueless.

[mypublisher]

Hello -

I'm not sure if you've seen the templates or not, but in the Just Photos and Bestseller book styles (bestseller has the most templates) there is a 6 photo option, a 9 photo, and a 12 photo layout.

Sincerely,
MyPublisher

[freshstart19]

Thank you for the reply. I have been working with the 6 and 9 options. My book is approaching 100 pages, the max, now. 9 makes things way too small and there's only one template for 6 so if you have a horizontal image, it doesn't work out well.

[judy00]

In the current template, there's very little room to be creative... but I must say, software works really well and is easy to use

[mypublisher]

Thank you! We are working to expand the flexibility and number of templates to choose from.

[sc1460]

This is a WEAKNESS in the current software - currently we spend too much time trying to fit our photos to their fixed layouts. Making our own layouts should be the No. 1 feature of the next release.

cheers

[mypublisher]

Thank you for your opinion sc1460.

Sincerely,
MyPublisher

[jmmadland]

The problem with the Best Seller is that the pictures are all linear. Would love more templates like travel but without the "travel" background.

[mypublisher]

Coming soon! I promise!

[msam007562]

How soon are these new templates coming? I am in the process of working on maing 4 different books from our summer vacation and I totally agree I would love to have more options or templates or at least do it yourself templates.

If this improvement is coming soon, I want to hold off on making my books!!!

Please advise =)

[delmarphoto]

I would really like to see the ability to change backgrounds and have more page layouts that tilt photos (like in the travel book style).