You had always wanted to superimpose a frame or border over your image but the image will be covered. Now with the Set Transparent feature, you can.
The set transparent feature allows you to pick a color that you want to make transparent. Once the color is selected, the portion of the image that contains that selected color will become transparent. You can set as many transparent images on a page as you like.
To set transparent:
Right click on the image and select Transparent.
Your mouse cursor will change into an eye dropper with trailing color settings. The Red/Green/Blue color setting indicates the color to be selected. For example, Red: 255 Green: 255 Blue: 255 refers to the white color.
Once you can decided on the color you want to set transparent, click your left mouse button and the all the portions of the image that contains that selected color will become transparent.
With the image transparent, you can now add another image (using Insert Multi-Media Object), send it to the back to create the superimposed effect.
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Note: There would be instances where not all the relevant portions of the image becomes transparent. This could be due to the different shades of colors used or due to the compression from the original image to JPG format. This Set Transparent feature would work effectively if you use it on a image that has been originally designed for transparency. |
Set 3D/Shadow Effects
Enhance your images by adding effects to them.
Add 3D Effect:
Right click on the picture you want to add the effect to.
Select Effects and click 3D.
To remove the effect, repeat the same steps and click 3D again.
Add Shadow Effect:
Right click on the picture you want to add the effect to.
Select Effects and click Shadow.
To remove the effect, repeat the same steps and click Shadow again.
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Note: You can apply both the 3D and Shadow effect to your images. These effects do not affect your original image. |
FlipAlbum® provides cropping shapes for you to enhance the look of your images.
Right click on the picture and select Crop Picture.
Click Select Crop Shapes.
Select a desired cropping shape and click OK.
To remove a cropping shape:
Right click on the picture and select Crop Picture.
Click Remove Crop Effect.
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Note: This cropping effect does not affect your original image. |
You can also create your own crop shape and add it to the program.
Use any 3rd party program to create your crop shape and save it as an .EMF format. Be sure to save it in 2-bit color (black and white).
Click the Add Shapes button.
Navigate to the folder containing your desired crop shape, select it and click the Open button. Your shape will be added to the existing shapes.
You can now add a frame around your image without having to use a third-party image editing tool.
To add a frame around your image:
Right click on your image and select Set Frame.
Select Add/Edit Frame to add a frame. The Set Frame dialog box will be displayed.
Select a frame type by clicking one of the 6 options shown.
Set the width of the frame (4 to 30) by increasing/decreasing the value of Frame Width.
Choose either a square or round frame corner and set the corner radius (0 to 30) by increasing/decreasing the value of Corner Radius.
To change the color of the frame, make your selections for the frame and shadow color by clicking on the color shown.
Click OK.
To make changes after you have added a frame, repeat steps 1 to 7.
To remove the frame, right click on the image, select Set Frame and select Remove Frame.
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Note: Please note that not all the effects can co-exist.
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