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In this step, you choose a photo album style and configure a few settings specific to the selected style. For information about the various styles available, see “Understanding photo album styles“.

When you’re finished with this step, click Next.

In this step, you create a list of the image files you want to include in the photo album. You can add images to the list either individually or by selecting entire folders full of images. You can also specify caption settings for thumbnails and/or full-size images in this step.

• To add individual image files, click Add Files. In the Open dialog box, navigate to the folder containing the desired image file(s), select the desired image file(s), and then click Open. (To select multiple sequential image files, click the first image file, and then click the last image file while holding down the Shift key. To select multiple non-sequential image files, click each while holding down the Ctrl key.)
• To add all the image files in a folder, click Add Folder. In the Browse For Folder dialog box, select the desired folder. If you want to include images in subfolders of the selected folder, click Include subfolders. Then, click OK.
• To remove some of the image files from the list, select them and click Remove Selected. To remove all image files from the list and start over, click Remove All.

To add captions to the thumbnails and/or the full-size images, click Captions. You can specify caption information independently for thumbnails and full-size images. Caption information is specified as a sequence of codes and characters. Each code stands for a piece of information about the image. For example, &w stands for the image size (pixel dimensions) and &d stands for its creation date. You can string several codes together; for example, “&w &d” will create captions showing both image sizes and creation dates. You can insert ordinary characters, such as spaces, commas, and periods, between codes to improve readability; for example, “&w – &d” will put a hyphen surrounded by spaces between the image size and the creation date.

The available codes are defined below:

&f	image file name
&e	image file name extension
&w	image dimensions
&s	image file size
&d	image file creation date
&n	image sequence number (the position of the image in the photo album)

One additional code, &b, inserts a line break in the caption.

When you’re finished with this step, click Next.

(This step does not appear if you selected the Gallery style in Step 2.)

In this step, you specify options relating to the appearance of thumbnails. You can also specify resizing settings for the full-size images, if desired.

• Under Effects, select the desired border style for the thumbnails.
• Under Thumbnail size, specify either a uniform width and height (in pixels) for all thumbnails, or a percentage of each original image’s size. If you select Uniform size and the Constrain proportions check box is selected, the size of the thumbnails will depend on whichever of width and height you specify last, while the other number is ignored.
• Under Image size, specify size settings for the full-size images. By default, full-size images are shown at 100% of their original size (that is, not resized at all). If your original images are too large to fit in a typical browser window, you should consider resizing them. You can specify to resize to a percentage of each image’s original size or to a uniform size for all images. If you select Uniform size and the Constrain proportions check box is selected, the size of the images will depend on whichever of width and height you specify last, while the other number is ignored.
• Under Background, choose whether you want thumbnails to have drop shadows. If drop shadows are enabled, you can specify their color, offset, and degree of blurriness. (Note that some border styles enable a drop shadow by default.)
• If you enable drop shadows or choose certain kinds of border styles, and your document has a non-white background, you may need to change the thumbnail background color from the default, which is white. Click the Background color box and select a color.
• If you want to apply the same effect (border style and drop shadow) to the full-size images as to the thumbnails, select Apply same effect to full-size images.

When you’re finished with this step, click Next.

In this step, you specify options relating to the table that will contain the thumbnails (or the full-size images if you selected the Gallery style in Step 2). Check the preview area at the top of the dialog box to see the effect of any changes you make.

• Specify the number of columns the table will have in the Columns box. (The number of rows is determined automatically depending on the number of images.)
• (optional) In the Table width and Table height boxes, specify the table’s width and height in pixels or as a percentage of the available space. Note that if you set the table’s width or height smaller than the size required to display the thumbnails, the specified size will be ignored. The default value of 0 for width and height means the table will be just big enough to fit the thumbnails.
• (optional) Use the Horz alignment and Vert alignment boxes to specify the horizontal and vertical alignment of each thumbnail and caption within its table cell. By default, thumbnails and captions will be centered both horizontally and vertically within their cells.
• (optional) In the Border type box, choose a preset style for the cell borders, or specify the border thickness (in pixels) in the Border width box. (For information about table borders, see “Controlling the appearance of table and cell borders“.)
• (optional) Use the Border color, Light border, and Dark border color boxes to specify the color(s) of the cell borders. (For information about table borders, see “Controlling the appearance of table and cell borders“.)
• (optional) In the Bg image box, enter the path or URL of a background image for the table, or click the Bg color box and select a background color for the table. (For information about table borders, see “Using background colors and images in a table“.)

When you’re finished with this step, click Next.

You can always modify the properties of the thumbnail table after completing the wizard, in the same ways as with any other table.

In this step, you specify where to save the thumbnail image files, copies of the original image files, and the wizard-generated HTML files (if any). You can also choose whether to save the current photo album settings to a file so you can reuse them in the future.

The location of the folder containing the current document is shown in Current document path. All of the save paths that are specified in this step are relative to the current document path. By default, thumbnails, full-size images, and generated HTML files are all saved in a new subfolder “PhotoAlbum1″ under the document’s folder. If necessary, you can change the save path for any of these items to another folder.

• Under Original images, specify where to save copies of the original images used in the photo album. The Photo Album Wizard always creates copies of your original images; it never uses the original copies.
• Under Thumbnail images, specify where to save the thumbnail images that the wizard will generate. You can also specify the image file format and naming convention for the thumbnails.
• Under HTML documents, specify where to save the HTML files that the wizard will generate. You can also specify the naming convention for these files. Some album styles do not use generated HTML pages, so this control section may be disabled.
• If you want to save the current album settings for later reuse, select Save album settings and specify the save location. You can use the saved settings in the future by clicking Use Existing on the first screen of the Photo Album Wizard.

When you’re finished with this step, click Finish to close the wizard. Namo WebEditor will generate the photo album and insert it into the current document.

Saved photo album settings do not include the list of images that are used in the photo album. If you reuse saved photo album settings, you will still need to specify the images to be used in the album.