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Templates Editor

The templates editor is a powerful Graphical interface to create and edit templates.
To launched the templates editor, select from the main menu Templates and click on New Template, this will create a new template from scratch. To edit an existing template, click on Edit Template.
When you open the templates editor, you will be presented with the following:

Examining each part on its own:

The Templates Editor Menu

This is the main menu of the templates editor. To create a new template, click on the New button. To load an already saved template, use the Load button. Click on the Save button to save the current template (the template being edited).
To add watermarks to the template, use the Add Text and Add Image buttons. As their names, Add Text adds a text watermark and Add Image adds an image watermark. Finally, to remove an already added template click on the Delete button.

The Templates Editor Left Controls

The watermarks list contains all the watermarks added to the current template. These are text watermarks and image watermarks. Click on a given watermark and the templates editor automatically adjusts the properties to reflect the watermark properties.
The position and orientation allows you to control where and how the watermark will be placed. There are 9 pre-fixed locations, these are: top left, top middle, top right, middle left, center, middle right, bottom left, bottom middle and bottom right.
To rotate move the rotation slider. Moving the slider to the right will rotate the watermark in the clockwise direction, moving the slider to the left will rotate it counter in the clockwise direction.
The alpha slider controls the transparency of the watermark, the more to the left the slider is the more transparent the watermark will be.
Finally, you can tile your text watermarks (that is repeating your watermark all over your photo). There are 4 pre-fixed tile styles:

Horizontal tile: Will repeat your watermark horizontally.

Vertical tile: Will repeat your watermark vertically. This will rotate your watermark before applying the tile.

Left Rotated: This will rotate your tile 45 degrees to the left before applying the tile.

Right Rotated: This will rotate your tile 45 degrees to the right before applying the tile.

The Templates Editor Preview

Here you will be shown a preview how your image will look like. Every change you do on the template editor is reflected directly on the preview.
The sliders on the right and bottom of the preview are watermark position sliders. Using these sliders, you can adjust the position of the selected watermark horizontally (using the bottom slider), or vertically (using the right slider).

The Templates Editor Main Watermark Options

Here you define your text and style. You can choose the text alignment (effective for multiline text), your text font, size and color. In addition, you can underline, shadow outline and emboss your text. Experiment with the different text parameters in order to get familiar with the different styles.

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