The Distribute tab helps you distribute things evenly across the page, or an even distance away from each other. Remember that if you group several items together, they will be aligned as a whole. You can choose what you are aligning things to: the page border, the margins, the first object you selected, etc. By pressing the top and left buttons in series, you can align top-left. The Align tab lets you align one or more items: left, right, top, bottom, horizontal center, vertical center. Access it by using the Windows->Align and Distribute menu item. Then align the layout on your page using the "Align and Distribute" window (see Tip 3), ungroup the layout (Ctrl+Shift+G or Item->Ungroup), and you can start adding your photos, captions, and text.īefore you get too far into creating your own album layouts (Tip 1), play around with the Align and Distribute window and learn how it works. You can use items in the scrapbook simply by drag-and-dropping them onto your Scribus page. Go look in that directory and you should see files like "Object1.sce".
Once your items are in the scrapbook, they are kind of saved automatically, I think. The names I chose look stupid, and I'm not sure they are much more helpful than the "Object1" names it suggests. Then you are asked to give the item a name. It might be a good idea to Group your items (Ctrl+G, or Item->Group) before you send them to the scrapbook. You can add items to your currently selected scrapbook (in the image below, it would be layouts3) by selecting the items in your Scribus window, right-clicking, and choosing the "Send to Scrapbook" item. The Open icon lets you open a directory that contains a scrapbook, and that scrapbook will show up as one of the vertical tabs in the Scrapbook window. The Create icon lets you designate a directory on your computer that will hold a new scrapbook. The Scrapbook window has a few icons at the top. You open the Scrapbook window by using the Windows->Scrapbook menu item. I created one layout folder for layouts with 1 photo, another layout folder for layouts with 2 photos, etc. Each separate scrapbook goes in a separate directory somewhere on you computer. Tip 2: Use the Scrapbook for your Page LayoutsĪfter you create all your page layouts, create scrapbooks for them. You can use the ClearMagenta script or something like it to remove all references to Magenta from your final photo album.ĭon't start doing this right away - read Tip 3 first! Otherwise, the edges of your photos may take on some of the tint from the Fill Color. If you do end up using a Fill Color in all your images to help you see the layouts, be sure to remove this before your do your final print. I organized it by putting all the layouts with 1 image first, then 2 images, then 3, and so on. Every time you need a new layout, just add it to your layouts document.
However, it can be fun, and it will definitely be a big help if you plan on making many photo albums. If I don't want a caption, I'll delete it later.Īdmittedly, this step takes a good deal of time. I also added in text boxes for captions below most of the image frames. I made all the image frames empty with a Magenta Fill Color, so it would be easy to see the layouts in a thumbnail view like you see below. I did this by recreating layouts that I liked from various photo album programs that are freely available. However, I'm going to talk about tips you can use to make creating a photo album by hand easier.Īfter you figure out what size your pages need to be (the size will depend on where you're planning to print your album), a great thing to do is create page layouts for the kinds of pages you think you'll use. There are these articles about Automatic import of images from a directory using a script and Automatic import of images: Versions not requiring Tkinter.
2.5 Tip 5: Image Wizard & Image Wizard Advanced.2.4 Tip 4: Custom Image Frame Techniques.2.2 Tip 2: Use the Scrapbook for your Page Layouts.
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