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1. If the texture is not saved somewhere
to your hard drive, do so now. It is highly recommended that you store
backgrounds for use in Photo Impact in a separate folder than the regular
PI folder.
2. Create a new folder in the easy palette
for your backgrounds
3. Right click on a folder name in your
easy palette gallery section. Any folder will do, but I'm using the fill
gallery.
4. Click on the words Add natural texture
thumbnails...
5. Browse to the folder in which you stored
the backgrounds.
6. Click open. Another box will open. This box
allows you to outline the shape of the thumbnail. You can choose one, which
uses the whole image as the thumbnail, or 2, which creates a square for
you to slide to the best part of the image to use as a thumbnail, or 3,
which allows you to outline any size rectangle or square for the thumbnail.
Unless your background is large, is is easiest to use the first option.
You may want to use choices two or three if your image is so large that
in thumbnail size it would be too small to tell what the background looks
like.
Do these steps for each background you wish
to add to the gallery.
Here's how to share your background gallery
with others.
1. Make sure your images have all been stored
in the same folder on your hard drive. If not, delete thumbnails from backgrounds
in different folders, and make new thumbnails for these after you have
moved them all into one folder.
2. Go to the gallery in the easy palette,
and click on it so that it displays in the right side. Right click on the
name of the gallery, and click export. Note: you cannot click on the group
names. You have to click on the gallery name.
Name your gallery and save it in the same folder
in which your backgrounds are stored.
3. Open the backgrounds folder in Windows,
and click edit, select all. Right click on the name of the smp file, and
click "compress to zip".
4. Share this zip file with your PI buddies.
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