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Laying Out Your Book
The main part of the layout area displays the current page of the book on
which you’re working. The photos that you can add to the book appear in the
scrolling photo browser along the top of the layout area. You use the buttons at
the left side of the browser to switch between the photo browser and the page
browser. The toolbar at the bottom of the layout area has layout and photo
adjustment tools.
Let’s start putting your book together.
1 On the cover image, in the layout area, click the book title placeholder and
type a title, and then click the subtitle placeholder and type a subtitle.
When you click the title and subtitle placeholders, the text is selected so
that what you type immediately replaces it.
2 Drag a photo from the photo browser to one of the photo placeholders
on the book’s cover in the layout area, and then drag another photo to the
other placeholder.
When you place a photo in the book, a checkmark appears under it in the
photo browser to indicate that you’ve used it so you can see which photos
you’ve used and which photos you haven’t. Of course, you can use the
same photo more than once in the book if you want.
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3 Click the Page button at the top left of the photo browser.
The photo browser becomes a page browser. You can scroll through
the browser to see how your book lays out. Beneath each item in the
page browser is a page number or page name.
4 Click page 1 in the browser to show it in the main layout area, and then click
and type to replace the placeholder text on the page.
Although this page is intended to contain a title and some introductory
text, you can type whatever you want, or even delete the text and leave the
page blank if you prefer. It’s your book!
5 In the toolbar, click the right side of the two-part View button.
The page browser and book layout area now show the pages individu-
ally. The View button lets you switch the page browser between two-
page spreads and individual page views. You can still tell which pages
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are included in each spread by the browser’s background shading, which
groups the pages by spread.
Next, you’ll change the layouts of the pages in the book. A photo book
must have at least 20 pages for it to be professionally printed by the service
iPhoto uses. However, there aren’t enough photos in the Bhutan Event to
fill out the book right now because many of the pages require multiple
photos—some pages require as many as seven photos! You’ll change all of
the multiple-photo pages to single-photo pages.
6 Click page 3, and then, in the toolbar, choose Layout > One.
Page 3 currently requires seven photos. The One submenu shows you all
of the page layout choices that require only one photo.
Many of the page layout choices have caption areas in which you
can enter descriptive information about the photos. You can adjust the
caption fonts and sizes by clicking the Settings button on the toolbar. If
you’ve entered descriptions of your photos in iPhoto’s Information pane,
those descriptions will be used for the photo captions in the book when
you select the Settings dialog’s “Automatically enter photo information”
checkbox.
7 Choose a one-photo layout from the One submenu, and then proceed
through the rest of book’s pages, changing all of the multiple-photo page
layouts to single-photo page layouts.
You can change the background color of a selected page by click-
ing Background in the toolbar and choosing a background from the menu
that appears.
8 In the toolbar, click the Autoflow button.
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