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3. You can optionally choose Page Guide Limits, which show a green line around the intended collage page to help you position the photos within. You can choose Printer Page Layout if you intend to print the collage rather than send it over the web for viewing. Press the Select Printer button to have the page guides set for a specified printer, paper size and orientation. Choose 8x8 Inch Collage or 12x12 Inch Collage for common scrapbook page sizes where you can also see your on-screen layout in inches or cm. The Custom Page Size allows you to set arbitrary inch or cm dimensions. Unlike Printer Page Layout, these choices show collage rather than page boundaries and normally center the collage on the printer page. Or just choose No Limits and make the collage as large as you like. FxFoto automatically resizes the collage photos as needed to fit the entire collage inside the viewer window or printer page. For a more compact show intended only for the FxFoto Viewer rather than printing, make sure that Keep Maximum Photo Resolution is not checked. 4. If you chose Printer Page Layout page guides, check Inches or Centimeters to have the collage print at a fixed size to fit the selected printer page. You can also check Grid Scale to make FxFoto show a grid of regularly spaced dots along with left and top scale numbers that help you to layout photos, text and other objects in inches or centimeters. For example, if you choose 2 Dots / inch and the printer paper is 11 inches, then there will be 22 grid guide dots across the collage within the page guides, spaced at half inch intervals. Spacing photos three dots apart would place 1.5 inches between them. The Grid Scale dots can optionally also be used to automatically align images onto the grid using the Snap to Grid Dots toggle command in the View menu. Use the Hide Grid Scale toggle, also in the View menu, to temporarily view your collage without the dots and scale. You can adjust the grid spacing later using the Collage Settings Page Guides dialog. You can optionally change the Maximum Size for Added Images to make collage photos larger or smaller when first opened. But you can also resize each photo with pull tabs as described later. 5. If desired, change the Background Color by clicking the colored button and press Finish to start the new collage. You can optionally check Image and choose a Background Image to specify a scrapbook background paper image to be used. Use Window Fill mode to have a single large paper image fill the page or press Fill Pattern to repeat a small paper pattern throughout the collage page. FxFoto includes a number of simple Fill Pattern repeating patterns. Larger Window Fill paper images can be downloaded or purchased from various scrapbooking vendors and should be JPEG, PNG or GIF image files. Or you can use a photograph as the Background Image for Window Fill mode. Press  .
to start the new collage.
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