Canvas & Project Settings

The size of the canvas background is shown by the ruler bars on the top and left side of the canvas.
Your canvas size can be (re)defined at any time: at the time of creation or during the editing process.

You can choose to make your canvas a predefined size, or you can create a custom size of your choice.

Canvas Size Limitations
The canvas size may be limited by four factors:

1. Your license type
Scrapbook Essentials users can make canvas up to 12x12" (and render to a maximum of 2000x2000 pixels); Enhanced users can make canvases up to 13x19" (and render up to 3900x5700 pixels). Extreme users have no official limit, other than their computer's own memory limits. YearbookFusion users may be limited to the sizes preselected by their album manufacturer.

2. Your computer's memory resources
Your computer's memory resources will limit the size of your ability to print and render very large sizes. This will mostly affect Extreme users making poster-size output. Lower the dpi of your output at rendering; this may allow you to export the project (keeping in mind, the larger the image, the lower the dpi can be, since large output will be viewed at a distance).

3. Using a template from the Marketplace
Some templates have a locked size canvas size; usually these templates contain design pages, which transfer all or part of the design onto printer or render-friendly pages of a particular predefined size. Other templates will be constrained based on your license type; for instance, Extreme and YearbookFusion users can resize multi-page albums from the Marketplace, whereas Essentials and Enhanced users cannot.

4. Project Settings
If you have chosen a predefined project setting (also called form factor) from a particular album manufacturer, the canvas size will be predetermined by the manufacturer's settings. Note: YearbookFusion users may be limited by their publishing company to only use their manufacturer's preset sizes.

Page Types
Extreme and YearbookFusion users will find several different page types available. Depending on the type of page you select, FotoFusion will behave in a different manner. Essentials and Enhanced will see only one option.

•	Sheet: refers to an individual separate sheet which will be printed as a stand alone, such as a poster or a single photo print. Essentials and Enhanced users are limited to this type of project for new projects.

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Album Side: refers to a single page that is part of an album. Album sides will display an indication of a gutter (where the page will be bound into a book). The gutter indication will not print -- it is simply displayed on the Canvas as a guideline. Album sides will auto-assign itself as a left or right-side page, but these can be changed on the Pages hover.

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Album Two-Page Spread: refers to two pages of an album that will be printed adjacent to each other. Generally, two-page spread will be twice as wide as an album side, but the same height. A gutter guideline on the canvas to indicate the two sides of the page.
Using two-page spread allows you to use a single image, color or texture across both pages. However, be careful when using an image across the gutter: the binding technique on your completed album may obscure the image content in the gutter region (eg. a person's face may be squished in the binding!). Two-page spreads can be rendered as separate pages, and can have page numbering added on each half of the layout.

•	Cover Sheet: A cover sheet allows a dimension to be entered for a spine of your album, and, in the case of a dust cover, interior flaps that wrap around the inside of the book.

Form factors
Form factors, introduced in Version 4.5, allow canvas settings to be applied to an entire project according to presets.
Form factors can be defined by an album manufacturer, or you can also create your own custom page sizes and types.

If you create a project using a predefined form factor, all pages of the album will conform to that form factor's preset sizes and guidelines.

For multipage projects (Extreme & YearbookFusion users), different page types within a single project will be assigned the appropriate dimensions. Album sides, single pages, two page spreads, and cover pages will auto-size to match the manufacturer's default dimension and guidelines for each page type. Form factors guarantee that your album project will meet the album company's specifications every time.

New pages and appended pages or projects will conform immediately to the project's selected form factor within a multipage project, and you will not be able to insert new pages that are outside of the form factor's presets or accidentally resize pages. For instance, Extreme users can open a wedding album template from the Marketplace, then specify which manufacturer they will be using to produce the album. The entire album (album sides, double-pages) will immediately conform to the manufacturer's specifications. There is no need to define each page separately.

Users can resize projects to a new form factor -- for instance, using the presets of one manufacturer on a template, then resize the whole project automatically to meet another size album, all pages at once. For example, a wedding album might be created as a 10x10" finished album size, then rendered. If the client wishes to also have a smaller album produced for family members, a new form factor, such as a 7x5" book, can be selected and applied to the entire project, then rendered again. The entire project will be resized at the same time, respectful of frame placement and page type

User preferences

Extreme & YearbookFusion users can change the default way FotoFusion adds pages to an album project.

Click on the Edit menu item and open the User Preferences item.

Under the Single Sheets Detected in Album option, you can choose how FotoFusion will or will not prompt you to deal with single sheets when added to an album project type.

For example, if you append a template that is a single sheet, FotoFusion can:

•	Ask User: prompt you to convert or not convert the page to an album side

•	Always Convert: no prompt will appear. The single sheet will automatically become an album side

•	Never Convert: single sheets will remain as such, even if no single sheet option exists in the project type selected.

* LumaPix welcomes the addition of new album manufacturer presets to this list. Manufacturers of albums are invited to visit our website to learn how to submit specs for inclusion in FotoFusion's presets at no charge. Please note: users cannot submit specs on behalf of an album manufacturer, but are invited to contact their preferred vendors to encourage them to contact us.
Inclusion of manufacturer presets does not constitute explicit endorsement or a stated preference on the part of LumaPix to its user base.