Installation Requirements

• Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 or MAC OS 10.4 or Higher
• 1 GB memory (4 GBs is recommended)
• 150 MB of hard drive space
• Internet connection to install and use the sharing features
• Screen resolution of at least 1024x768

Auto Populate

• Create layouts in seconds with the auto populate feature
• Wizard prompts you to add the correct number of images to your project
• Swap photo feature
• Many themes available

Designing

• Real time designing on workable canvas at all times
• Drag and drop images and graphics onto canvas
• Automatic image resizing that keeps the image proportional
• Each object on the canvas has its own layer
• Layers are not lost after saving, exporting, sharing, or closing an album
• Auto-fit button
• Eye Dropper to select any color on your screen
• Special effects – built in B/W and Sepia options
• Built in Opacity Overlay for image fading
• Adjust saturation – make images black and white or apply any range of saturation to an image
• Add any color toning – perfect for applying a sepia tone to any image
• Change contrast and brightness
• Reset button to bring image back to original state (non destructive editing within Project Spinner)
• Mattes – inside sloppy borders
• Masks – Soft Edges, Shapes, etc...
• Borders – inside and outside stroke lines
• Frames – outside sloppy borders
• Copy Effects
• Aligning objects, photos, shapes or text
• Large selection of Backgrounds, Embellishment and Frames available for your projects
• Transform an image by double clicking the photo
• Move multiple objects together by holding down the ctrl-key
• Move objects with arrows keys or drag to a new location
• Ruler
• Zoom up to 500% on canvas
• Copy/Paste features through menu or keyboard shortcuts
• Delete objects through keyboard delete button
• Customize guides, margins, or gutters to identify safe zones on the canvas for designing purposes
• Guides
• Text tools
• Gradient fill on shapes
• Opacity on all objects
• Easy page navigation
• Right mouse click context menus on layers, templates, pages, all objects on canvas, and image list
• Delete objects or layers using the delete key on the keyboard
• Familiar keyboard shortcuts available
• Ability to edit images in any external application while in Album Spinner
• One click to make a background or an image the background
• Side and Pano view

Templates

• ALL templates work on ANY album size
• Automatically adjusts templates to reflect the current album size
• Filter templates based on photo count, sides, panos, system, lab or user
• Automatically get new templates
• Customize your own templates
• Themes available
• Template are fully adjustable

Importing

• Ability to import multiple folders and/or multiple files at the same time from various locations
• Automatically refreshes photos in a project design if adjusted in an external program
• Formats available: JPG, PNG
• Bring in your own Graphics (Backgrounds, Embelishments and Frames) (.png, .jpg)

Exporting

• Upload to any lab when full version is purchased
• Layers are not lost after exporting
• Export: Entire album, page range or just the cover page
• Formats available: JPG, TIF, PNG
• ICC profiles available
• 96 - 300 dpi range
• Use your own ICC color profile

Online Sharing

• One button click to share designs with customers
• Web-based viewing with password protected security
• Up-to-the-minute history of comments capabilities
• Customized email communication
• Personal logo embedded into emails
• Add email note
• Customize website to look branded with background and text color with company logo as header

Organizing Photos

• Programs keeps track of each time a photo is used in your design
• When a photo is used, the program automatically tracks how many times it was used
• Filter for all unused photos