Page 620 - Xara Designer Pro X17

620 Working with Templates

Save Spread/Save Drawing/Save Selection
You can:

• Save the entire area (the spread). This can create very large files especially if you
select more than 256 colors.
• Or save the area covered by the drawing.
• Or save the area containing all the selected objects. Everything within the area is
saved including any unselected objects.

Working with Templates

Using the templates available in the Online Content Catalog is the quickest and easiest
way to create high quality designs.

To load a template, open the Content Catalog and double click on a template thumbnail
in one of the design categories. Once loaded, you can customize the template to produce
your own personalized high-quality design. Typically you’ll want to replace any photos
with your own, enter your own text and perhaps change the color scheme, all of which is
trivial in Xara Designer Pro X. This chapter describes how to do these customizations
easily.

Replacing photos

To replace a photo simply drag your own image file (JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP) from your
Windows File Explorer and drop it on top of the picture that you want to replace. Your
photo will automatically be scaled appropriately to replace the template photo. The new
photo will be selected together with the smartphoto adjustment handles (on page 370)
enabling you to easily adjust the position and scale of your photo if desired (see below).

Alternatively you can load your photos into the current design using "FILE" > "IMPORT".
This adds a new photo object to your design and also adds it into the BITMAP GALLERY
(on page 350). Remove the new photo from the page by selecting it and pressing
"Delete". Then drag your photo from the BITMAP GALLERY and drop it onto a template
photo to replace it, as described above.

There is also the option of importing stock photos from the Online Content Catalog. You
can either browse the catalog from the File menu. "FILE" > "NEW FROM CONTENT
CATALOG". Or you can replace a photo by right-clicking it, and then choosing "REPLACE
PHOTO" > "WITH STOCK PHOTO" from the context menu.

By default when you replace a photo, any other copies of that photo on the current page
are also replaced. This is usually what you will want, because some templates have
multiple copies of the same photo which need to be replaced, including some on hidden
layers. E.g. perhaps a large version of a photo and a thumbnail version of the same
photo. However if you want more control over the photo replacement, hold down CTRL
while dropping your photo and then you’ll be asked which instances of the photo you
want to replace.