button in
the toolbar).
With MyAlbum is easy to print your album or your pictures!
MyAlbum allows you to:
This type of printout will allow you to print your album as pages of thumbnails. All the thumbnails displayed in the current view will be printed.
To print an album, just click the button in
the toolbar).
Before doing this, you may want to alter the settings: select the command Application Setup in the File menu and click the Printer tab. There you can adjust the printed size of the thumbnails, the margins, the title of the pages and the fonts.
You may also want to preview the printed result with the Print album Preview command in the File menu.
By default, MyAlbum will print the pages of the album using the thumbnails. That's a quick process but often leads to unsatisfactory results. To improve the quality of the print outs, you can uncheck the option Use thumbnails pictures in the Printer tab of the application setup. MyAlbum will then load each picture in turn to print a page, the quality will be improved but the processing will be much longer and will require a lot more of memory.
This type of printout will allow you to print a set of pictures (the ones currently selected in the album) using a fully customizable layout.
To print some pictures, first select the pictures you want to print, then use the Print the selected pictures in the File menu.
The MyAlbum screen will switch to an empty page used to define the sheet layout.
The layout is very flexible as it allows the printing of one or several pictures on the same page, choose the size, add text that can be fixed or linked to a picture. You can even repeat a picture (to print sheets of ID photos for instance!).
The layout can be saved in a template file so it can be reused later. MyAlbum comes with some template samples that you can use as they are or modify to suit your needs.
Use the Load layout command in the File menu and select one of these predefined templates. Note that these templates are for printing on A4 paper.
The opening of a layout template will start the Print preview mode that shows the pages as they will be printed. As the preview is using the thumbnails to speed up the display, the quality may appear heavily "pixelized" and of low quality. Don't be alarmed: when using the printer, it will be your pictures that will be used and not the thumbnails.
If you want to print just a picture, you have the possibility to build big posters by printing the different parts of the picture on several sheets of paper.
Once all the pages printed, all you will have to do is remove the unnecessary margins and glue or tape the pages together.