Imagine the following scenario.
Mom’s birthday is coming up and you’ve decided to make a photo book for her birthday present. It’ll be quick and easy, since Mixbook already has the perfect Mother’s Day Linen theme that you can easily turn into a birthday present. However, as you start gathering photos, you begin to realize that an even better photo book could be made if you could just pull pages from the Elegant Easter theme and even the Halloween theme. If only you could seamlessly change from one theme to another!
It’s a good thing Mixbook is one step ahead and has already implemented this feature! With three clicks of your mouse, you’ll be able to switch from Mother’s Day Linens to Elegant Easter.
Here’s how.
Begin by choosing our Mother’s Day Linen photo book. Once your project is open in the editor, we’re ready to start counting clicks.
Click #1
Locate the Theme button in the Options and Title bar and click on it to open the following box within your editing window:
Click #2
Scroll through the themes until you locate the theme you would like to use; we are using Elegant Easter in this case. Click on the theme in the left hand column and it should now be displayed in the right hand field (as shown in the screen shot above).
Click #3
Click on the orange Change Theme button, and you’re just about done. Once you have clicked the button, the following confirmation should be displayed:
Once you have clicked “Okay” (we realize this is technically four clicks, but let’s just call this one Click #3.5 instead of Click #4) the window will disappear and you will be allowed to make changes in the editor once again. If you take a look at your page tray you will notice that all your pages look the same —what did you do wrong? Absolutely nothing! When changing themes within the editor, the new themed pages are not automatically added into your book. Instead, they are added to your Layouts Tab and can now be added to your project.
You can either replace the existing pages with a new layout, or add some pages to your project. The following two screen shots show what happens when a Mother’s Day Linen page layout is replaced with one from the Elegant Easter Theme.
We hope that this has been very helpful and will help you create the perfect gift for your mom—or whomever may be lucky enough to receive a Mixbook from you!
To see this feature in action, watch our YouTube video tutorial here:
Tara Anderson March 12, 2012 at 3:19 pm
I have been wanting to mix and match themes for so long! Thanks for listening to your customers, Mixbook!
Debbie March 12, 2012 at 5:38 pm
I used your product for the first time and really enjoyed all the options you had for backgrounds, fonts, embellishments, etc. My only complaint was the paper weight. Do you think you will ever be providing a better paper as an option? I would be happy to even pay a bit more for thicker paper. I have used Shutterfly and My Publisher and their paper is a bit thicker so more durable. I like to leave my books out on the coffee table for guests to see, but with the weight of your paper, I am leary about leaving it out for lots of hands. Just a suggestion!
Thanks again.
Deb
Elle Daquioag March 13, 2012 at 8:59 am
Hi Debbie,
Leaving your photo book out as a coffee table book is a great idea, but we can see how you may be hesitant about guests accidentally ripping the pages! We currently do not offer an upgrade in paper, but we will definitely pass this along to our creative team! If you have any further suggestions or idea, please feel free to e-mail them to support@mixbook.com. We love hearing from our users on how to improve our site!
We’re happy to hear that you are enjoying our site!
William December 11, 2012 at 9:33 am
Hi,
I am trying to change the theme on a calendar, but cannot figure it out!!
Is there a way to change theme, mid project, in a calendar??
Thanks!
Mixbook Customer Care Team December 11, 2012 at 5:43 pm
Hello William,
You can certainly use multiple themes in your calendar! To do so, please click on the yellow “Change Theme” button in the upper right hand corner of the Editor. Then, select which theme you would like to work with.
Please note that once you select a new theme, the content on your page will not change, but rather, the content available to work with will reflect your newly chosen theme. This allows you to use multiple themes in one project.
We hope this helps! Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns.
-Kyle
William December 12, 2012 at 9:52 am
Thanks Kyle!
However, I still cannot find that legendary button you speak of.
I see: “Save”, “Invite”, “Help”, “Order”
Under that I see: “Manage Events”, “Add Text”, “Undo”, “Redo”
I’m using a Mac, is that the problem?
Anyways, let me know!
Thanks Again!
Will
Mixbook Customer Care Team December 12, 2012 at 5:27 pm
Hi William,
We’re really sorry for the confusion but at this time, it appears the theme feature for calendars has been disabled at this time. In order to use different theme items within your project, you can simply go to the stickers and backgrounds tab near the top left of the editor. Once you click one of the tabs, you can click the orange “browse backgrounds/stickers” and you can view various backgrounds and stickers within other themes. We hope this helps and if you have any additional questions, please feel free to email us at “support@mixbook.com”
- Dyrelh
Denise December 26, 2012 at 5:13 pm
I am having the same issue with my calendar and it’s driving me crazy! I have made a number of books and calendars, but this year I can’t seem to change the calendar theme. I love being able to change the themes within a book and it would be nice to do this within a calendar as well. Thanks for listening.
Denise
Mixbook Customer Care Team December 27, 2012 at 11:26 am
Hi Denise, at this time we do not offer a feature that allows customers to change themes in calendars. In the meantime, you can always browse different stickers and backgrounds from other themes. Simply click the “Stickers” or “Backgrounds” tab in the Mixbook editor. Once in this tab, click the “Add sticker” or “Add Background” button and a pop up window will appear. Click the “Theme Content” tab to browse stickers or backgrounds by theme or click the “Browse Content” button for items by color, style, category or type. We hope this helps and if you have any additional questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us!
Heather Adam May 20, 2013 at 11:29 pm
Hi, I’ve started a book and am halfways through and want to add a page earlier that I missed. How do you add a new page in the middle of the book?
Mixbook Customer Care Team May 21, 2013 at 2:00 pm
Hi Heather!
To add new pages individually to your book, please locate the “Page Tools” box at the bottom right of the Mixbook editor and click on “Add Blank Page.”
If you’d like to add a random themed page, click on the triangle to the right of the words “Add Blank Page” and select “Add Theme Page” from the drop-down menu. If you’d like to select the layout of a themed page instead of getting a random one, we would recommend that you add a regular blank page, and then select a themed layout from the “Layouts” tab on the left side of the editor.
If you want to copy an existing spread, select that spread and then press “Duplicate Page.” This is a great way to maintain a consistent format throughout your book. For example, if you’d like to make sure that each page has one photo with a caption, and you’d like the formatting of these elements to remain consistent, you can simply duplicate the spread, then drop a different photo in the photo slot for each page.
We hope this helps! Please let us know if we may be of any further assistance!
Cheers!
Veronica