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1 GETTiNG STArTEd Hoover Printing Photo Books, a fun way to preserve and present your cherished photo memories in an elegant manner. Creating your own customized photo books has never been easier! Hoover Printing Photo Books offers a wide array of tools and features to design and enhance your project, including: - Individual page layout - Flexible placement of pictures or snap-to-grid - Templates can be applied to all or part of your book - Picture cropping, resizing, & rotation Getting Started Download and install the Photobook software from HooverPrinting.com and following the instructions. Double-click the Hoover Printing Photo Creations Application button on your Desktop. Hoover Printing Photo Creations Click Photobooks, figure 1. Click Create New, figure 1. Using an Apple computer the application will reside on your desktop. Using a Windows computer the application shortcut will be on your desktop, the application will reside in your Program folder. - Picture borders, Page backgrounds - Drag & drop placement of pictures - Image color enhancement & red eye reduction - Fading control of pictures and backgrounds - Resizable picture frames - Black & White and sepia filters - Easy picture distribution Photo Books Create New Book Book Sizes New Book Wizard - Captions anywhere you like - Drag & drop placement of design elements - Use your own Photoshop files - Work and save files on your own computer, not on-line Start Empty Book figure 1 Now, choose either New Book Wizard or Start Empty Book and size for your photo book and select a size, figure 1. NOTE: All photo books must contain a minimum of 20 pages with a maximum of 300 pages.

2 AddiNG PHOTOS Using the New Book Wizard, select your Theme option then click Next, figure 2. Using the Start Empty Book, Click the + next to Load images for Your Book Here, figure 3. You can use photos from your Facebook account etc. and pictures Theme & Next Arrow figure 2 on your computer, you would choose User, your name, iphoto or other picture file, then choose your pictures. Figure 3 shows images placed on the desktop in a folder marked 103d3000. Now select the images you wish to use by checking the checkbox for each image. See the menu bar above your images to check your total image count. Click OK below your photos when you are ready to move on to create your book. After selecting your photos, it will state how many pictures and approximately how many pages it will take. If you have a blank page or are using a low quality image you will get this window shown in figure 4. If this happens, select additional images to fill the blank pages or a higher quality image. Both wizard and empty books are fully editable. Blank Page Error Message Facebook Users image Folder image Count Save figure 4 The Save window, figure 3, will automatically open to prompt you to save your file, follow the instructions and click OK to save your book. You should now see the Photo Book workspace. If you chose the New Book Wizard your pictures will have been added to the pages for you. Add Photos Photos Selected figure 3 If you chose Start Empty Book you will use the Image Browser at the bottom of the work space to add your pictures to each page as you would like.

3 LAYOUT AdjUSTMENTS You may load any additional pictures to use for your photo book. To do so: Click the Add Image/(+) or Add Folder (of pictures) (++) icon at the left of the Image Browser, figure 3, Add Photos. You can then drag & drop pictures directly from the Image Browser and onto your photo book pages. If you are using layouts or templates, you can also use the Distribute Pictures command (under the Layout menu), figure 5, to automatically distribute your pictures amongst the pages. Page Layouts preset arrangements of picture-ready picture frames. Once applied to a page, you can still rearrange the layout elements any way you choose, figure 5. Page Backgrounds various colors, textures, and designs you can apply to your pages. You can click and drag to rearrange the pages of your photo book. To navigate the pages of your photo book, click the desired page in the Pages Browser. You can also navigate using the navigation arrows located on the tool bar. Picture Borders borders of various color and thickness you can apply to pictures. Drop shadows may be applied to photos as well. Templates themes that can be applied to your entire photo book. Once applied to a page, you can still rearrange the template elements any way you choose. All of these items can be dragged & dropped directly onto a page (or frame, as the case may be). The Reverse side of the Front and Back Covers will remain blank. Page Layout Menu Move, rotate resize photos Page Browser reverse Cover Blank drag The Page Layout From Here Background Options drag Background Templates, Themes, Clipart, Borders, etc. figure 5 figure 6

4 When you re done designing your photo book, click the Send To Upload Files To Hoover to upload your project. A progress window will open. Hoover Printing Creations COMPLETiNG YOUr OrdEr Send to Print Preview Progress figure 8 figure 7 Preview your work, click the approval and continue. At any time you wish to make adjustments prior to uploading, click cancel, go back to make your adjustments then click Send to Upload Files To Hoover again. A progress window will open, depending upon the size of your book this may take several minutes. Upload Complete, click OK to continue, figure 9. A shopping cart will open in a new window to complete your order, figure 10. Click OK figure 9 Your Photobook Creation will be shipped or ready for pick up here at Hoover Printing within 3 business days. Check Out figure 10

5 Two-Page Spreads Any of your pictures can be used as a background for a twopage spread. Just drag a picture from the Image Browser to a page (but not onto a frame), and when asked How to drop? click the Two-page Spread Background. NOTE: When using a landscape picture for a two-page spread background, it s often best to use a portrait orientation book. Also, faces should be kept out of the gutter, as some of their fine details may be lost or distorted within the spine. Hoover Printing Creations PHOTO BOOK TiPS Adjusting & Cropping Click on the photo you wish to adjust, rotate or resize. Use your scroll wheel to resize your photo in its frame. A Warning for low resolution image may appear, don t zoom in to far. Use filters for Black & white, Sepia or Fading. Right click on your image for easy access to these options. Move to crop or enlarge How to drop? drag Photo Filters 2 Page Spread Low resolution Warning right Click Black & White

6 PHOTO BOOK TiPS Photo book cover The design process for the cover of your photo book is the same as for the interior pages, except that you cannot use separate backgrounds for the front & back covers, nor can you see the front & back covers at the same time. Otherwise, frames, captions, grids, and so on behave exactly as they do within the book. Photoshop: If you plan to design some or all of your pages using Photoshop, there are a few more things you need to know: Bleed when one or more sides of a printed image touch the edge of the paper. The use of bleed guaran tees that the finished page will look neat & precise. The page bleed should be 1/8 inch at all four sides of the page. The bleed area 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 print ed page size is 8.5 tall, your page design should be 8.75 tall with the bleed ( = 8.75 ). Here is an example of a page with full bleed, in Photoshop this page is for a book which will be 11 wide x 8.5 tall, including the bleed the canvas size is wide x 8.75 tall. Please save your images as jpg files. 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 hidden within the spine. This is not a problem, but it does require a bit of attention when using an external tool, such as Photoshop to create your page designs. 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. Be sure to leave bleed on all 4 sides. The Hoover Printing Photo Books 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. 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. Also, keep in mind that although page spreads are well suited for panoramic picture backgrounds, fine details may be partially obscured within the binding.