As you all know, we’ve covered aligning your elements both in written and video form. While we absolutely love this feature, our wonderful engineers have taken it a step further to help ease our alignment woes.
Introducing Element Smart Guides!
These guides stay a step ahead, allowing you to align elements as you place them onto the page. The guide will appear when the second element is placed onto the page. Additionally, it has a snap-to feature, making alignment even easier!
**Please note, these guides will only be visible for same element alignment. If you would like to align different elements (for example, a photo and a text box), you will want to use the alignment tools.
Our favorite part about the Smart Guide feature is the ability to center your elements on the page! If you have ever wanted to have a large photo centered perfectly on your page, you’ll absolutely love the Smart Guides! These lines will help with center alignment, giving you the option to center horizontally, vertically, or both! Centering your photos on the page has never been easier!
Element Smart Guides helped us create the following page:
To see this new feature in action, and how we created the two page spread above, check out the following video:
We hope you enjoy this new feature! Happy Mixbooking!
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Hi, YAY YAY YAY. This is the one feature that I love in Print Shop and wished was in Mixbook. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
Carol
Awesome!! I’ve been waiting for this – thank you!!!
This is a great feature, but more importantly is that we need a way to see what size our photos are. Shutterfly solved the problem by taking the mouse and dragging to resize a box pops up showing the measurements of the photo as you resize the photo. While SF has some good features, they have made their workspace so tiny I no longer use them.
Hi Jeannie!
At this time we do not have a feature that allows you to see the exact size of your photo in our editor, and we do apologize for any inconvenience this causes! We will be happy to forward your suggestion and feedback to our engineering team!
Best Regards,
Veronica
I really like this feature because it sure makes it easier to align everything nicely. But it has introduced a couple of problems for me. I was half finished my book and able was to control exactly where the edges of the pictures overlap. This is really important on a page where the pictures rest up against each other and have a border, but the entire page is not covered with pictures. I now have pics where I can’t overlap just the border of two pictures, so that it only looks like a single border between two pics. Now, it looks as though the border is double the width it should be, which I don’t like and doesn’t match the rest of my book.
Another problem is that when you want two edges of your picture off the page so that you only see the border on the other two sides, it cuts off a lot more of the edge of the picture than it used to. I have many pictures where it cuts off too much and I can’t move the picture over to see the part of the picture I want without moving all 4 edges of the pictures back on to the page. This is not such a big deal, but it doesn’t match with the rest of the book.
How often do you release changes to the editor?
Up to this point I’ve been really happy with your website!
Hi Cari,
Thank you so much for your feedback! We will definitely pass this along to our engineering team!
If you would like to nudge your photos, may we suggest using the arrow keys on your keyboard? This will allow for more precise movement that your mouse doesn’t always allow you to do. If you want to move more than one photo at a time, click on each photo while holding down the shift key. Next, you can nudge the photos over using the arrow keys once more. We hope this helps!
OMG! That was exactly what I needed! Thanks so much for the advice.
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