TECH – eDesign Photo Features Release

We’re happy to announce the release of several new eDesign photo editing and management features!

Photo Editing: Picnik.com and Aviary.com are our partners for photo editing features. These tools provide a far more rich editing capability than anything that exists within a yearbook tool today. Picnik features are available in eDesign today, and Aviary features are coming soon.

To access the Picnik photo editor, right click any candid, portrait or art image in the eDesign Library or Library Panel. Click “Copy to Photo Editor” and off you go. There is also a new series of help videos that outline how to use these tools for common photo editing purposes. Please watch these eDesign help videos to reduce any confusion you or your staffs may have.
Aviary will become available within 1-2 weeks. When it is released, it will still be in Beta testing. Note that these tools require a connection to the partner site in order to work.

Save Images back from eDesign: Right-click an eDesign library image and click “Save Image As” to save a copy of the image back to your computer. Very useful if an original image has been misplaced, or you’d like to have an offline copy of a particular edited image.

Upload 50 images at a time: the upload limit has been expanded to 50 files at a time. Of course, you’ll still want to encourage photographers to screen out any images that aren’t usable, or are duplicates. Otherwise, the staff will have to comb through many more images to find what they are looking for.
Distribute Feature: Thanks to the efforts of the development team, the distribute function is ready for a re-launch! This feature had positioning issues previously, and has since been corrected. Simply select multiple page objects, and distribute buttons will appear in the control panel. (Note for the InDesign users: this feature does even distribution.)