Create Styles Set Up (category)
Follow these steps to create, edit, preview or apply custom styles to your yearbook text.
Create a New Style
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1. From the Menu, hover over Book Builder and select Styles. o The Styles screen displays and lists any custom or standard styles created for Headlines, Sub Headlines, Captions or Body Copy. § đ&#x;“šDefinitions: • Custom style: Created by you for your yearbook. You can create and edit your custom styles. • Standard style: Created by Lifetouch to use a default style in a new yearbook. It’s available for you to use but cannot be edited. • Headline: The main heading usually used at the top of an article or page. • Sub Headline: A smaller, secondary headline that usually elaborates on the main headline above it. • Caption: A title or brief explanation appended to an article, image, or embellishment. • Body Copy: Main text part of a yearbook article or page.
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To create any new type of style, you will follow the same process shown below. 1
2. Click on any Create Custom Style button to create a new style. o The Create New Custom Style dialog box displays. o đ&#x;šŠ Shortcut: Click on the button under the specific type you want to create to default to that type in the Create New Custom Style dialog box.
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3. Enter in a Custom Style Name. 4. Select the type of style to create from the Type dropdown. Options include: Headline Styles, Sub Headline Styles, Caption Styles or Body Copy Styles o đ&#x;šŠ Shortcut: If you clicked the specific type of style you wanted to create in step 2, this field will default to that style. 5. If you have created prior styles, select if you want to base your new style’s attributes on an existing style. o đ&#x;’ĄTip: This dropdown will be empty if you have not created any styles. 6. Click Create. o The Styles: [custom name] screen displays.
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7. Select the Font from the dropdown. Options are based on your account settings. 8. Select the font Size by entering a number or clicking the + or – signs. 9. Select any font Format by clicking once. Options include: Bold, Italics or Underline. o đ&#x;’ĄTip: These buttons toggle On and Off. Click a second time to toggle the formatting. 10. Select the Alignment from the dropdown. Options include: Left, Right, Center. 11. Select the Color by clicking on the pencil icon. o The color picker dialog box displays. Options include: § Eyedropper § Color Picker § HEX, RGB or HSL dropdown § Tint § Custom Colors § Lifetouch Colors 12. Select the Leading (line spacing) from dropdown. Options include: 0-74 (‘0’ being tight and ‘74’ being very spread apart) 13. Select the Tracking (text spacing) from dropdown. Options include: 0-12 (‘0’ being tight and ‘12’ being very spread apart) 14. When done, click Save. o The new style displays on the Styles screen. o To delete the style without saving it, click Cancel. o To remove any style setting updates without deleting the style, click Reset All. o Review the Style Preview section to see what your style looks like.
Edit a Style
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1. From the Styles screen, click the pencil icon next to the style to update. o The Styles: [custom name] screen displays. 2. Update the style settings. o Use the Create a New Style section above for more information. 3. Click Save. o The Styles screen displays. o đ&#x;’ĄTip: If you update a custom style, those updates will automatically flow to all of the prior places in the yearbook where it was applied. 3
Preview a Style
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1. From the Styles screen, click the magnifying glass icon next to the style to preview. o The Styles Preview dialog box displays.
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2. If necessary, click Edit Style link to jump to the Styles: [custom name] screen and make updates. o Use the Edit a Style section above for more information. 3. When done, click Done. o The Styles screen displays.
Apply a Style To apply a custom style to text in the Page Builder screen, select the Type of Text option from the text box’s menu. o All Lifetouch pre-defined styles and your custom styles will display. o For more information, see the Add a Text Box Element Help topic. đ&#x;’ĄTip: If you update a custom style, those updates will automatically flow to all of the prior places in the yearbook where it was applied.
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