Stacked images template question

Paulthebaker

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« on: September 16, 2025, 06:16:17 PM »

Hello,
I have a photo business. I have a background image that is 5x7 in both portrait and landscape. I want to place a nearly centered 4x6 on to the applicable background. This will happen in batches of 50-100 images at a time, so being able to do it over and over again without too many steps is important. I have figured out how to place an image on top of another, but then have to manually center it each time.
Any help would be greatly appreciated


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Re: Stacked images template question

« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2025, 08:20:03 PM »

You can create a layout to do that. Set your print placement to Freehand and add your 5x7 background to the page. Then scroll to the bottom of the thumbnails and add a 4x6 of the "Template" thumbnail and drag that on top of your 5x7 background image. Once you've done that and have things aligned the way you want, you can drop down the image placement and select "Save Current as Custom Layout" and give it a name.

Then whenever you open that layout (via that same print placement dropdown under the live view) and select "Load Layout" and choose that one, it'll be your 5x7 background with a 4x6 placeholder on top. As you add thumbnails to print (via the + button on thumbnails), they fill the red templates/placeholders on top of the 5x7 background image.

Regards,
Mike


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Paulthebaker

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Re: Stacked images template question

« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2025, 07:50:27 PM »

Thank you, I'm getting it slowly! another question, after I have made 20 or thirty images is there a quick way to delete the entire stack?


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Re: Stacked images template question

« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2025, 08:33:44 PM »

I'm not sure how to interpret that question because when you talk about deleting images, technically that means you want to delete actual images from your disk drive(s) - in the thumbnails. Or, you could mean remove all the prints from the live view/job. If you just want to clear the job, right click on the live view and select "Remove All".

Regards,
Mike


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