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Here's my second handy hint about file management. Don't muck about with your hi res files outside Photojunction after they've been imported. The key words there are outside Photojunction. If you want to keep the software smiling, they're important. It means you need to think about when and how you copy image files, and when you are going to do your artwork. Here are three alternative scenarios, which all keep PJ happy if used properly: 1. Do art work on your images before importing them. This is so you can import one set of finished files without lots of extra images, sub-folders etc to confuse you. But it probably means you need to choose the images before you import them, and that may not be a good thing since PJ has so many good client interaction tools built-in. 2. Do the art while you're working in Photojunction. You do this using the tools in Photojunction, and not necessarily just the built-in effects or borders. The Open In Editor button at the bottom of the tools window could be one of my favourite buttons in PJ. This allows you to open up the image of your choice in Photoshop, do the art work that you require and then save it back into Photojunction. You can decide if you want the artwork on the original image, a copy of the original image or the cropped version you've used in the album layout. The changes and copies get saved back to your hi res files. Great if you want to preserve the original or use it for other projects. Photojunction is still happy and still knows where to look for the file when it comes time to export. And, unless you turn it off in Preferences, Photojunction now automatically replaces the image in your album design with the new copy. 3. Do your art work after the album layouts are exported. This tends to be a common option, and for certain things I can understand why. However the drawback for me is that you still have a high res file that is not art-worked. Remember, the exported layout becomes an entity in its own right. This means that if you go back into your album in Photojunction, the ex-girlfriend that you removed from the group shot on the exported layout will still be in the original hi-res and the proxy image in Photojunction. "So what?" you may say, but this means the reports PJ generates (which we use as a guide when assembling the album) now won't look like the exported layouts, which could mean a query back to you to make sure we are using the correct files. After all, we want it right just as much as you do, and things like adding text or swapping out images after exporting causes confusion. This doesn't mean you shouldn't edit the layouts by doing things like adjusting colours or replacing PJ's border effects with your own secret recipe. Simple stuff again! Cheers, Pete
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Peter
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May 13, 2011, 5:06 am
said:
Hi Tate, Thanks for the feedback. 1. Not sure whether you're doing this, but if you export the files you're editing in LR to the same filename and location (ie you overwrite the original) PJ will know and warn you. You'll see the warning triangles on the image in the event window, or it will warn you when you go to export the page layouts in PJ. If you're actually created a new file in LR, PJ has no way to know about it, and yes, it could be a PITA. 2. If you've only imported an album-full of images to PJ you could also select them ALL and "reimport from original", whether you've edited them or not. probably quicker than looking for them all. 3. Right now you can only "reimport from original" on the Event window. Being able to do that from the Layout window as well would be a cool new feature and we've told the dev team. It wouldn't hurt to lobby for this on Facebook if you're keen! http://www.facebook.com/photojunction?sk=app_46468144668 Cheers Peter
 
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Peter
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October 28, 2011, 2:29 am
said:
Hi Roy, Just checking in to see how you got on with your sharpening. Cheers Pete
 
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Roy
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October 25, 2011, 6:09 am
said:
Hi I export layouts for Queensberry Classic albums, do photoshop work (ie sharpening the layout, adding text to the layout), then send the order. I want to do the same for press printed books, but their is not the intermediary export step - it just goes straight to order. Can anyone help with this please?
 
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Tate
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May 13, 2011, 11:49 am
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Hi Pete - one of the issues for me is that all of my editing is in Lightroom. My workflow is that I edit the images, export from LR and then import to PJ. Fairly frequently I want to make further edits to some images, so I edit in LR, re-export and then the issue is getting PJ to refresh the images. The hassle is that if an image is already in a layout I have to go to the "Used Image" collection and then try to find the photo, then right click and select re-import. You can probably appreciate that with a lot of photos it's a bit of a PITA to find the right one(s) to re-import. It would be great to have a re-import context menu on images in a layout, or even allow PJ to auto-reimport when an image changes.
 
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