Book Designer Screencasts
Learn to to use the Designer software easily with these informational videos
Drag and Drop Images
Changing Page Templates
Rearrange Pages
Add Captions
Cropping Photos
2-page Spreads
Uploading and Managing your Photos
Importing from Flickr
Design Your Cover in the Book Designer
Uploading a Cover
Purchasing a Book
Uploading a PDF
Explanation of Crop Guides
Upload a PDF from your DropBox Account
Enter a PrestoPhoto Photo Contest
Explanation of Privacy Settings
How to preview your die-cut or dust jacket cover
How to use the 2-page spread tool
Full Process from Upload to Checkout
This in depth tutorial starts from the beginning and walks you through creating your book, uploading images, arranging your pages, adding text, designing your cover, and checking out.Watch a little to get started, watch it all to be an expert!
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Creating Book Designer Templates Screencast: To begin the movie, simply click the image above.
Comments
Cropped cover?
Or does using Book Designer take care of scaling/cropping/bleed issues? I have photos with impt elements that do go all the way to the edge and I don't see any way of getting around the crop problem short of manually adding a safety border to all my photos, which defeats the point of having an easy to use software.
I've read the help pages but don't understand how it works since a lot of the advice given seems directed at people uploading completed pdfs as opposed to using Book Designer (where you don't get to specify the size of the final picture uploaded, just the dimensions).
Please help?
Re: Cropped cover?
We recommend keeping all important elements at least a half inch away from the border. If you are using a template in the book designer, this should already be accounted for in the template. Let us know if you have any other questions.
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Audio on Screencast
Re: Audio on Screencast
I just checked the Audio and it works correctly. Can you verify the sound settings are working on your computer, ie make sure other movies play like at youtube.com for example. This page is described creating your own drag and drop Quick Pages. It is a pretty advanced topic! Let us know what questions you have, and be sure creating your own reusable templates is what you want to do.
Video Tutorial
Re: Video Tutorial
Re: Video Tutorial
Re: Video Tutorial
Re: Video Tutorial
Thanks for letting us know! We are actually in the process of re-doing these screencasts since we have made so many updates to the site since these were created. Please email support@prestophoto.com if you have a specific question.
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