Moving a picture from behind to the front-please help!
Hi! Really silly question but I can’t seem to find the solution anywhere!
I want to move one picture to the back and bring one forward, so it is overlapping the one at the back – how can I do this, there doesn’t seem to be any options for this, which seems silly as this is an obvious thing to want to do – do I have to use a new layout??!
also, is it possible to delete a picture box, to leave a blank background? when there isn’t a picture in it?
thanks! kirsty
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Hi Kirsty Easy one first… If you don’t use a conatiner, you can’t delete it, but you don’t have to do anything with it… It will just be blank in the finished book. You can see what the page will look like by clicking on "Preview" mode – button bottom right… Next; NO, you can’t swap the images back to front in Booksmart. The layout is fixed. If you want a "designer" layout, you can create a "full-bleed" page in PhotoShop (or similar), import your images and lay them out as you wish, then flatten the image, save as a regular JPEg file, and then import that into BookSmart just as you would any other image.. Hope that helps; Cheers; Lee
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Thanks Lee for that tip. I will probably need to use that in the book I am making now.
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If I may chime in and add a little note along with Lee’s tip—
When you save JPG in Photoshop, be sure to save it as HIGH QUALITY by setting it to 12. Not by regular JPG.
Hope that helps.
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Another option for overlapping images is to use one of the Collage layouts. Say you’ve placed two images in two containers on a page. By clicking on one of the Collage layouts, the page layout will change and the software will plunk your images somewhere on the new page. Something like black magic, but not exactly.
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