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Layout
Q How can I change the layout menu?
Q How can I place captured or imported images in the layout window?
Q How can I change the size of the image placed on the layout.
Q How can I type in letters/text?
Q "Cannot find Printer driver" message kept appearing on my screen. What should I do?
Q How can I print my images? I can't print images.
Q How can I send my images by email?
Q How can I edit images I've placed on the layout section?
Q How can I change the font or text I typed on the layout section?
Q How can I change the background color for the "Title" menu?
Q Where are the layouts I have created saved?
Q Can I use the layout I have created in other applications?
Q How can I activate the grid option?
Q Can I edit templates?
Q How can I change the layout menu?
Q You can change the layout using the Change Layout menu button.
  1. Click the "Change layout menu" button.
    The "Layout menu" will appear. If a layout you created before is on your screen, you will see a message telling you to save your layout. Choose "Yes" or "No" and proceed
  2. Choose the layout you would like to use from the "Layout menu" dialog box.
  3. After clicking "yes", you will return to the layout mode.

The Layout menu corresponds with the paper size used by your printer. So if you do not have a printer driver installed in your PC, or you have not yet set up nor chosen your main printer yet, the layout function may not work. So please choose your printer driver in the "Printer setup"
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Q How can I place captured or imported images in the layout window?
Q Captured and imported images are automatically added to an album.
At the "Choose album" menu, if you select any of your albums, you are able to view a list of thumbnails of only still pictures in the window below.
  1. Choose an album at the "Choose album" menu. Thumbnails of the album content will appear below.
  2. Double click the thumbnail of the image you want to place in the layout or you can simply drag and drop it on to the layout.
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Q How can I change the size of the image placed on the layout.
Q Click once on the image/picture you have placed on the layout and 4 control points will appear on the edges. You can drag any of the points to change the size.
If you press the shift key whiles dragging the control points, you can change the size of the image proportionally without distorting the image.
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Q How can I type in letters/text?
Q You can type in text and letters with the "Edit text" button.
  1. Click the edit text button. The edit text window appears.
  2. Type message or letters directly in the "Text input window"
  3. Click "OK" after you finish typing.
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Q "Cannot find Printer driver" message kept appearing on my screen. What should I do?
Q You may have to install a printer driver in your PC. So please choose your printer driver in the "Printer setup" for Windows
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Q How can I print my images? I can't print images.
Q When the layout menu is in "Title", the print function is disabled. You cannot print in the "Title" layout.
  1. Click the "printer" button.
  2. Follow the instruction settings of your printer and proceed with printing.
    (Please make reference to your printer's guidebook for setting up your printer's driver.)
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Q How can I send my images by email?
Q You can only send images as mails in the HAGAKI ( Post Card) layout. The "send mail" button does not appear in the other layouts.
  1. Click the "Send Mail" button.
  2. Your mail software will then be activated. The image you created will be added to your mail as an attachment. You can then send your mail as usual.
    (For inquires about your mail software, please ask your mail software maker.)
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Q How can I edit images I've placed on the layout section?
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  1. You can edit images by double clicking on it; or you can select it and click the "edit image" button.
  2. The editing image mode will activate and you can then edit your image.
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Q How can I change the font or text I typed on the layout section?
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  1. Click on the typed object (text) you placed or typed in on the layout section.
  2. The "Edit text" dialog window will appear and you can then make changes to the font size and content.
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Q How can I change the background color for the "Title" menu?
Q The default colors for the "Title" menu is black for Windows machine and Blue for Macintosh machines.
When you add a layout to the movie-editing mode, the black area becomes transparent.
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Q Where are the layouts I have created saved?
Q Your layouts are saved in the (Userdata) folder inside the (HDD)-(Program Files)-(Pixela)-(Imagemixer) folder.
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Q Can I use the layout I have created in other applications?
Q You cannot use the layout you created in other applications. You can only use it in Image Mixer.
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Q How can I activate the grid option?
Q You can activate the grid in the "create new layer" mode.
  1. Click the "preference" button
  2. Type in the grid width (in pixel unit)
  3. Put a check on "Show grid"
  4. Click OK and return to layout section.
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Q Can I edit templates?
Q You cannot edit templates. Templates are the background images Imagemixer provided you to use.
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