Book Designer Screencasts

Learn to to use the Designer software easily with these informational videos

Drag and Drop Images



Changing Page Templates



Rearrange Pages



Add Captions



Cropping Photos



2-page Spreads



Uploading and Managing your Photos



Importing from Flickr



Design Your Cover in the Book Designer



Uploading a Cover



Purchasing a Book



Uploading a PDF



Explanation of Crop Guides



Upload a PDF from your DropBox Account



Enter a PrestoPhoto Photo Contest



Explanation of Privacy Settings



How to preview your die-cut or dust jacket cover



How to use the 2-page spread tool




Full Process from Upload to Checkout

This in depth tutorial starts from the beginning and walks you through creating your book, uploading images, arranging your pages, adding text, designing your cover, and checking out.

Watch a little to get started, watch it all to be an expert!

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Creating Book Designer Templates Screencast: To begin the movie, simply click the image above.

ADVANCED

Introduction to Template Creation

See videos in the instructions for Advanced Template Creation.

Comments

Cropped cover?

by ellayxg, 12 Dec 2010 (07:57 UTC)
Hi, I'm confused about the first video — if I understand the crop guides correctly, doesn't it mean that the back cover of that beach trip photobook will have the top of the lady's head cut off and the left of the baby's?

Or does using Book Designer take care of scaling/cropping/bleed issues? I have photos with impt elements that do go all the way to the edge and I don't see any way of getting around the crop problem short of manually adding a safety border to all my photos, which defeats the point of having an easy to use software.

I've read the help pages but don't understand how it works since a lot of the advice given seems directed at people uploading completed pdfs as opposed to using Book Designer (where you don't get to specify the size of the final picture uploaded, just the dimensions).

Please help?

Re: Cropped cover?

by PrestoPhoto Support, 14 Dec 2010 (21:01 UTC)
Hi, Ellaxg,

We recommend keeping all important elements at least a half inch away from the border. If you are using a template in the book designer, this should already be accounted for in the template. Let us know if you have any other questions.

PrestoPhoto Support

Audio on Screencast

by Nancy Snythe, 15 Apr 2009 (15:41 UTC)
I can't hear film. I am having a difficult time getting started since I don't understand and am a visual person. I want to see what I need to do to create a wedding book for friends. I thought I would have more flexibility that with Shutterfly, but perhaps I should use their simple layout instead, even if my cropped photos don't fit their styles.

Re: Audio on Screencast

by Christian, 15 Apr 2009 (16:04 UTC)
Hi Nancy,

I just checked the Audio and it works correctly. Can you verify the sound settings are working on your computer, ie make sure other movies play like at youtube.com for example. This page is described creating your own drag and drop Quick Pages. It is a pretty advanced topic! Let us know what questions you have, and be sure creating your own reusable templates is what you want to do.

Video Tutorial

by Cristi, 18 Mar 2009 (17:34 UTC)
Not sure if it's just me, but it seems that at about 4 minutes or so remaining (when the uploaded pdf is processing) the video stops and there is just audio.

Re: Video Tutorial

by Fred Hsu, 13 May 2009 (00:18 UTC)
Yeah, the last 5 minutes of this video (right after the PDF file was uploaded) contains only sound, not actual video. I am watching this video in Firefox on a Mac.

Re: Video Tutorial

by PrestoPhoto Support, 31 Mar 2009 (19:06 UTC)
Thanks for the heads up. We'll have a tech rep check it out

Re: Video Tutorial

by mandi, 14 May 2011 (22:13 UTC)
(:evil:)On 31st March you said you'd get a tech to look at problem of faulty video, ie only sound at 5 minutes, well its now 15 May and it's still the same. Doesn't give us much confidence in your service.

Re: Video Tutorial

by PrestoPhoto Support, 16 May 2011 (15:20 UTC)
Dear Mandi,

Thanks for letting us know! We are actually in the process of re-doing these screencasts since we have made so many updates to the site since these were created. Please email support@prestophoto.com if you have a specific question.

PrestoPhoto Support
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