Album Turbo Design has a main menu at top of the window (or screen in Mac) and some popup menus available by clicking the right mouse button (on Mac you may also press Ctrl and click the mouse) over, this popup menus are:
Pictures list
- Add pictures: After clicking at this option you may select multiple pictures from a folder to be added to the album database
- Update pictures: This options allows for designing and album and later retouching the pictures (with Photoshop or any other photo retouch software) and finally use this option to update all the pictures in the list and the designed sheets with the already retouched pictures, if you generate the sheets the new retouched pictures will be used.
- Sort pictures by name: sorts the pictures in the list by file name
- Sort by Exif date: sorts the pictures in the list by date of capture
- Pictures preview: Enables the picture preview at largers size while hovering over the pictures in the list. The picture preview is shown at mouse location
- Remove selected: Deletes the selected pictures from the album database; it is only possible to delete pictures not used in any spread.
- Hide used pictures: Enables or disables the view of used pictures in the spreads, if disabled used pictures are shown framed with the color set at Preferences
- File path: will reveal the image file in Mac OS X Finder or Windows File Explorer
- Delete the picture from the sheet
- If the picture has a mask applied you will get also an option to remove this mask
- and an option to select a brush to retouch the mask. Mask retouching only works in simple view mode and you have to press the spacebar while dragging the mouse over the picture.
- Edit, edits the picture with the integrated editor and updates it in the spreads where it has been used.
- Edit the picture in the external editor selected in Preferences
- Rotate pictures to correct horizontality
- Rotate selected picture layers
- Add frames (centered at border) and shadows to the pictures. Frames and shadows can be applied to the selected picture or to all the pictures in the sheet.
- Fit to picture, resizes the picture layer to fit the size of the picture and show the whole image.
- Convert pictures to black and white.
- Convert picture to Sepia.
- Locked, locks the position and size of a picture.
- Bring to front a picture. This option is only needed on overlapped designs and one picture is hidden by another, with this option the selected picture comes to the front and is visible over all other pictures; to modify the visualization order of several pictures just bring them to the front in the desired order starting on the most hidden one until the front one.
- Save as template. Saves current layout into the layouts database of the application for reusing.
- Save as 2/3 template, saves the current layout for the 2:3 mode. You should only use this option if you have designed the spread in 2:3 mode respecting the aspect ratio of the pictures.
Pictures in the sheet
Backgrounds
- Remove background, removes the background from the sheet.
- Hue and saturation, opens a new window to set Hue and saturation for the background.
- Opacity, sets the opacity of the background. If a background color has been set this may be partially visible and colorize the background
- Delete: Allows to delete a clipart of the sheet and rotate it the indicated degrees. Remember that you may resize a clipart by dragging it with the mouse while you press the Shift key and reposition it by simply dragging with the mouse.
- Rotate clipart: Rotates the clipart
- Color: Colorizes the clipart
Cliparts in the sheet
Texts in the sheet
Enables the text edition, selection of another color or font and to delete a text.Remember that you may resize a text by dragging it with the mouse while you press the Shift key and change the position by simply dragging it.
Allows for deleting a template / layout from the list and enables showing of layout variations with vertically and / or horizontally flipped designs; variations are marked with a red triangle at the left top corner.
By default layouts are shown taking account of the images orientation but you may enable showing all layouts independently of this orientation.
Layouts
