Customizing a Print Job

For creating basic prints, the steps on the previous pages are all you need. But you can go beyond the basics to customize many aspects of a print job.

Change the eye candy. Every print theme lets you add a text caption and choose various design layout options. Even the Standard theme provides customizing opportunities, including the ability to print borders and text captions.

Adjust the photo. Here’s one of those “local editing” opportunities I discussed back on page 50. You can crop a photo and adjust its exposure, sharpness, and other settings for just a single print—no need to edit the original (and thus change the photo’s appearance elsewhere, such as in a slide show).

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