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MixUp App 1.9+ Photo Template Editor

🎨 Template Editor in MixUp

📸 What is a Photo Template?

A photo template defines how the final photo card will look after the session. You can configure:
  • Photo size
  • Number and position of booth photos
  • Background image
  • Overlay graphics
  • Printing options
The built-in template editor allows you to fully customize the final result.

🧭 Main Template Menu

  1. Go to the Photo menu
  2. Here you’ll see your current template
  3. Available actions:
  • Edit — edit the current template
  • New — create a new template
  • Import — load a template from file
  • Export — save your current template to file
  • Save Preview — save the final customized preview
  • Save Layout — save only the layout of photo zones
You can also:
  • Quickly replace Background or Overlay
  • Choose the Printer used for printing this layout (main, optional, or custom)
For advanced printer settings, refer to the Printing Guide.

✨ Creating a New Template

  1. Click New
  2. If prompted to save changes:
  • Click Yes if you’re ready to start fresh
  • Otherwise, use Export to back up your current template first
  1. Choose one of the pre-built templates (sizes and photo counts vary)
  2. Customize:
  • Add a Background
  • Add an Overlay if needed
  1. Done! You can now use or edit the template.

🔧 Opening the Editor

To open the full template editor:
  1. Go to the Photo menu
  2. Click Edit
You will now enter the extended layout editor. Let’s explore the Layers tab and all available tools.

🧱 Layers Tab – Working with Template Elements

Each image, overlay, or booth photo is a separate layer that you can fully manage.

🛠 Layer Actions:

  • Add image:
  • Click Add → Image
  • Select any image — it will appear on the canvas
  • Add booth photo:
  • Click Add → Photo from booth
  • A session photo placeholder is added
  • You can duplicate it to show the same photo in multiple places
  • Adjust layer properties manually (right panel):
  • X and Y — position
  • W and H — size (width and height)
  • Rotation — angle in degrees
  • Transparency — opacity
  • Layer controls:
  • 🔒 Lock — layer becomes unmovable
  • 👁 Show/Hide
  • 🗑 Delete
  • 📄 Duplicate
  • Select multiple layers:
  • Use the Select button to choose multiple layers for alignment, movement, or batch edits

🔲 Resize and Rotate

  • Gray corner markers — scale the layer
  • Green top marker — rotate the layer
  • To disable proportions:
  • Uncheck the box Keep aspect ratio

📐 Aspect Ratio

Each layer can be set to a predefined aspect ratio:
  • 1:1
  • 3:2
  • 4:3
  • Or stretch/fit to page
Select via buttons in the right properties panel.

📏 Alignment Tools

You can align one or multiple layers:
  1. Select the layers
  2. Click Alignment
  3. Available options:
  • Align center (horizontal or vertical)
  • Align left / right / top / bottom
  • Even spacing horizontally or vertically

⚙️ Additional Editor Functions

🎨 Background Color

In the Background Color menu:
  • Pick any color using the color picker

📥 Background & Overlay

You can load these directly in the editor.
These layers have special internal tags:
  • When you click “Replace Background” outside the editor, only this tagged layer will be replaced.
  • Other images are treated as regular layers.

↩ Undo / Redo

Use the Undo / Redo buttons (top toolbar) to step forward and back through your edits.
History is quite deep — you can safely experiment.

📐 Template Tab

Template-level settings:
  • Units:
  • Pixels
  • Centimeters
  • Inches
  • DPI — print resolution
  • Page size:
  • You can enter custom values
  • Or use presets (4×6, 6×6, etc.)
  • Orientation:
  • Portrait or Landscape
  • Content will rotate automatically to fit

📁 File Tab

Contains basic file actions:
  • New — create new template
  • Import / Export — load or save a template
  • Save Preview — save the final result
  • Save Layout — save photo zones only