Create "highlighted" or "shadowed" text

1. Create a caption box
2. Type your caption hit enter
3. Duplicate the text box - either right click the text box, click edit, click duplicate or click the text box and hit crtl+d 
4. Change the color of the font on one of the text boxes - click the text box, click the arrow next to the font color on the text toolbar, choose a color
5. Move the text boxes on top of each other, then offset them to get the desired effect. (Use your mouse and drag the box or click a text box and use your arrow keys to move it)

You can change the order of your text boxes (front to back) by right clicking the text box and choose order, send to back, front, etc.

The examples below show text highlighted with one color and two colors...

Share a copy of your photo book online

1. open your saved photobook

2. at the top, next to the Send to PICSonPAGES button click the Share Online button

3. wait for the export to complete

4. after a moment a message box will appear, click the OK button

5. type in a title of your photo book, a description, and your email address then click the set info button

6. a web browser will open... at the bottom of the window, type in your friends and your email addresses, click the Send Email button

Remove the caption from Leather Hard Cover Window

If you wish to have a picture only without a caption on the front (window) cover of the leather photo books, just leave "type picture caption here" without the quotation marks in the caption box and it will remove any caption when sending to print.

Created with a caption on front of leather cover

Created without a caption on front of leather cover

If you typed text in the caption box and later change your mind, just replace the text with "type picture caption here" without the quotation marks.

Verify the cover window is as desired when you get to the box that allows you to view the pdf files of the cover and pages before sending to PICSonPAGES...

Custom Design

The following is information you will need to consider if creating your pages in Photoshop® or other software...

The page bleed allowance should be 1/8 inch (.125”) at all four sides of the page. The bleed area (i.e. beyond the crop marks) will be trimmed off. If you use a background color or image, it should fill the entire page including the bleed area. For example, if your printed page size is 8 inches wide, your page design should be 8.25 inches wide by 8.25 inches high with the bleed (.125” + 8” +.125”).

2 Page Spread – this is a page design than spans both right & left-hand pages. The pages are centered at the gutter where they are bound into the spine. Approximately 1/4" of the spread will be bound into (and thus hidden within) the spine. This alone is not a problem, but it does require a bit of special attention when using an external tool, such as Adobe Photoshop to create your page designs:

Be sure to leave bleed on all 4 sides. The PICSonPAGES Photo Book software will automatically adjust any background used as if it has a bleed designed into it.

Keep important design details at least 1/8” from all sides of the page (1/4” is even better) so that unwanted trimming does not occur.

Keep important design details an extra 1/4" away from the center binding (this is in addition to the bleed you leave on all 4 sides of the page). This is an issue specifically for single page designs.

The software will adjust the spread pages for the 1/4" lost within the spine. To this end, the spread should be designed to be 1/4" smaller than the size that it would be if you were to include the gutter. When creating a two-page spread, you do not need to double the bleed. Simply double the page size and add the bleed amount for the outer edges. An 8x8 two-page spread would be .125” + 8” + 8” + .125” (16.25” x 8.25”).

Also, keep in mind that although page spreads are well suited for panoramic picture backgrounds, fine details may be partially obscured within the binding.

Use the measurements in the following tables as guidelines to create your photo book page layouts. Design your pages with the recommended resolution of 300 dpi.

Dimensions for Single Page Design

Dimensions for Two-page Spread Design

Dimensions for custom cover Design

Once you have your pages designed you will need to save them as .jpg and add each page as a single page (or two-page spread) background in the PICSonPAGES software.