Wednesday, June 15, 2011

TECH-eDesign Portrait Flow Enhancements

The eDesign team is pleased to announce the release of the new Portrait Flow wizard! We incorporated feedback from you and have included new features to improve the experience. Designing and preparing portrait pages has never been so easy!

1. The ability to track and manage flows. Now portrait flows can be given a name and the settings can be edited or copied to other flows. For example, you can create a flow called “1st Grade”, then copy those settings over to a new “2nd Grade” flow.

2. You can also choose to flow before the portraits even arrive, using placeholders. No more calculations to determine how many pages a flow will require. Simply pick the number of placeholders and flow. Then, the flow can be edited when the actual portraits are uploaded by the photographer, school, or plant.

3. The page margins and spacing can be customized for each flow, allowing more control of flow spacing.

4. A live preview shows exactly what the first spread of the flow will look like.

5. No more manually deleting page after page if a mistake is made. Simply edit the flow to change what is needed!

6. An updated Video Help series. These videos allow you to jump right to a specific step, or the whole series can be viewed to become a portrait flow master!

Additionally, there are great new page navigation options to help you proof portraits. Within the page edit view, there are “Previous” and “Next” arrows that allows you to move from spread to spread, without returning to the ladder. Looking over an entire flow has never been so easy. There is also an “All Pages” menu that allows you to navigate to a whole different spread, if desired.

For eDesign technical support, please contact the TSA hotline at 877-362-7750 or techadviser@herffjones.com.