Lisa J.
Posted at 7:30 AM, Mar 18, 2011
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Top o' the mornin' to ya! (well, it may not still be mornin' where you are, but I am enjoying a little later time zone for a few days!!) So, I'll wish you a Happy St. Patrick's Day and share today's lesson with you!
Today, we are going to talk about using the *Fast Fill* option! This is a great way to add a large number of photos to your album lickety split! If you have trouble opening the PDF attachment (yesterday's gave us some trouble) please use the link to find it where I have it hosted online!
So, let's get to it! Enjoy your day, I'm wishing you lot's of good luck finding a wee little leprechaun, and your pot o' gold!
The PDF is attached, but as I mentioned, if you have trouble opening the attachment, you can find it here: *FAST FILL PDF*
Remember if you have missed any of the previous days lessons, you can always find them here in the MyMemories.com *March Into MMS* forum thread for your convenience! And, once again, I would like to say a VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU to our dear friends at "The Ettes" who graciously agreed to let me use the adorable kit, "Love Shack" in the design of both the PDF and the example album in most of the video tutorials. Thanks Fayette and Annette - you're the best! ("Love Shack is available in the Design Shop at MyMemories.com!)
Happy St. Patty's Day to ya me lads and lassies!!
... don't forget to make a memory today!
Share your family's story the way only *you* can with My Memories Suite software
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BarbaraInFlorida
Posted at 10:53 PM, May 03, 2011
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Regarding the Fast Fill for my many photos from my Dad. Been experimenting and found out this-may have to do my own tutorial!
Unless you want them willy-nilly in the album, you will need to separate them into folders so you can choose each one in order you want it placed in the album.
Then follow the tutorial in the forum to set up the album. Once you choose a the folder of photos and select all and fill the pages you will have the rest of the album blank.
Now is when I think is a good time to get the background in for each section if you are changing papers as I am for the different locations. I chose the option to apply to all the pages. Don't worry about the notice it cannot be undone.
Now is the time to add a shadow to photos using the Apply to all photos on the page. Otherwise, it adds a shadow to the embellishments too.
Then lock your page under Check Album.
Go to the next blank page; under Insert, choose Fast Fill. Go through the same process of opening the folder for the next group of photos and select all and finish.
If you want a different background paper for this group, choose it and apply to all the album pages. It will be added to all the pages that are not locked.
Then lock the pages with that background that you want to keep.
The program changes all the pages that are not locked but it is true that you cannot choose the Undo feature for that page. You can change the background of any pages by unlocking them and choosing the all page option.
You will have to spend some time with the Crop feature for each photo that does not match the template shape but they can all be adjusted or removed if there are extras.
I realize this is a lot of info you already know but it was neat to experiment with the fast fill. I will be using it a lot in the manner I described because the folder with the photos although alphabetical is not the order I want to have them in the album; I want them displayed in the time line the trip was taken. Once I found I could choose the fast fill while already working inside an album, I knew that was a real time saver.
You can then go back to each page, unlock and adjust and add all you want to.
I love this program already. It's just too bad my dad's slides were so deteriorated by the time I scanned them. Some outdoors are really great but the others are dark. Still they are memories I want to preserve. Will post some pages as soon as I get going on the real thing.
Thanks so much to everyone for all your advice and encouragement so far.
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