🎨 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
- Go to the Photo menu
- Here you’ll see your current template
- 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
- Click New
- If prompted to save changes:
- Click Yes if you’re ready to start fresh
- Otherwise, use Export to back up your current template first
- Choose one of the pre-built templates (sizes and photo counts vary)
- Customize:
- Add a Background
- Add an Overlay if needed
- Done! You can now use or edit the template.
🔧 Opening the Editor
To open the full template editor:
- Go to the Photo menu
- 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:
- Select the layers
- Click Alignment
- 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