Digital Photography: The Missing Manual

More Elements Creative Projects

EasyShare, Shutterfly, and Snapfish make it easy to create photo books, calendars, and other projects. They give you tons of options, but you’re still limited to choosing from templates, layouts, colors, and designs created by others. Starting from a completely blank slate is intimidating even for professional designers, though, so Elements gives you just about the best of both worlds. The program helps you through the process while giving you full creative control.

Elements’ Create projects make it easy to whip up photo books, album pages, greeting cards, calendars, and more. All these projects use easy-to-follow wizards, which launch from the Creation Setup window (Figure 17-13). Furthermore, you’re not locked into purchasing your finished project from any one place. Elements produces your project as a PDF file, which you can publish as you see fit. Depending on your equipment, you can print it out at home, deliver it to a copy shop (by email or CD), or upload it to Kodak EasyShare Gallery for printing.

Figure 17-13. Elements’ Create projects are very easy to put together. Just follow the steps as Elements leads you through them. On the start page, shown here, the small icons above the OK button (circled) indicate the different ways you can share your completed project. Hover your mouse over each icon for details about each option.

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