Although this chapter naturally focuses on recording your digital photographs, I'd like to take a moment to demonstrate how you can print a photograph from a PhotoRelay album. This program is wonderful for cataloging your images, and it's easy to print a photo directly from within an album—if you own a Hewlett-Packard photo-quality inkjet printer, for example, you can produce an image on glossy paper that looks as good as a print from a film camera!
✓ To print a single photograph from within PhotoRelay, follow these steps:
1. | Click on the Album drop-down list to display the names of the albums you've created, and click on the desired album. |
2. | Click on the thumbnail for the photograph you want to print to select it. |
3. | Click the Print icon on the toolbar (you guessed it, the icon that looks like a printer), and PhotoRelay displays the Print dialog you see in Figure 11.8. To print a single image that you've previously selected, click Print the current selected image. Figure 11.8. Will that be one photograph or many? |
4. | The second Print dialog (shown in Figure 11.9) allows you to add a title or frame—you can optionally center your photo in the middle of the page or even create a 5x5 jewel case label for a CD case. (A nifty feature, indeed!) Click the desired checkboxes to enable or disable these features as necessary. Figure 11.9. Setting options for our printed page. |
5. | Next, drag the slider on the right side of the dialog to change the size of the photograph on the printed page; PhotoRelay displays the effects of the resizing in the preview window. You can also click and drag the image placeholder around on the page to move it wherever you like. |
6. | If you elected to add a title to the page, double-click in the title placeholder to type the text; PhotoRelay displays the Edit Text dialog you see in Figure 11.10. Note that you can also highlight the title text in the edit box and choose a new font for the title. Figure 11.10. Changing the text for the page title. |
7. | By default, PhotoRelay prints a single copy of the photograph; to produce multiple copies of the picture, click in the Copies field and enter the desired number. |
8. | To print to your default Windows system printer, click Print—to choose another printer or to change printer options, such as DPI or image quality, click Printer Setup. |