Use this section of the Print module to create a canvas print from your photo or photos. Three types of prints are available – a picture on a canvas, on a Kapa board, or on a Smart board. A picture that is printed on a canvas is affixed to a wooden frame 2 cm thick. Kapa boards and Smart boards are plastic composite sheets and have different thicknesses. Smart boards have a thickness of 5 mm, and Kapa boards have a thickness of 10 mm.
During printing, the edges of the picture are printed as well. The edge of the picture is represented in the project preview with a blue dashed line. The edges of the picture must mainly be taken into account when printing on a canvas, because here the edge is the roughest out of all the options. The picture can be viewed in 2D or in 3D. To switch between these options, use the 3D Display button in the top toolbar above the image preview.
The formats offered differ for each picture type. A preview of the formats is available in the right panel.
Project Template – use this to set the print’s background colors and number of canvases. A single project can have from one to five canvases. If you have set a number of canvases higher than 1, extra options appear: Canvas Padding and Orientation.
Canvas Padding – use this to set how far away the canvases are from each other. This option is especially useful when a picture has been split among multiple canvases.
Orientation – a canvas can be oriented Horizontally or Vertically.
Layout – this section’s contents depend on how many canvases you have selected in Project Template. If one canvas is selected, a selection of frame layouts with 0 up to 9 pictures on the page is offered here. The menu offers layouts both with text and without text. If multiple canvases are selected, this section instead offers One photo on multiple canvases and One photo per canvas options.
Break Layout Into Objects – anchored pictures on the selected pages are changed into freestanding pictures that can be moved around freely. The page layout is then changed to the default with the number of anchored photos set at “0”.
Use Photo Placement Mode to adjust the page layout and the alignment of the photos you place.
The Layout style section offers 16 predefined page layout styles. Each of the styles is set up through the defining of inside and outside frames for pictures. For the outside frame, you can set pictures’ background color, opacity, width, and indentation. The inside frame is defined through a background color, opacity, width, and rounding. A rounding of greater than zero gives pictures rounded corners.
All of the changes are reflected in the chosen print template immediately.