Acoustica CD/DVD Label Maker - Manual (Page 17)

* move the shape behind everything else on the label (except the background image, if any)
One of our favorite ways to waste time with shape objects is to drag them around the screen a
little bit at a time, as if we were creating slow motion pong games or sunsets, and then play
them back like movies by holding down the Ctrl-Z (undo) key until everything comes to a stop,
then playing them back in the other direction by holding down the Ctrl-Y (redo) key. This
accomplishes absolutely nothing, and will not help you create CD labels. But you might enjoy
that sort of thing.
Help Contents
Layouts
The layouts feature is a way to take advantage of other people's creativity. We're not always in
the mood to lay out each of our labels, and decide where we want to put the tracks listing, and
how to arrange it, and whether we want a title on the label, or a dedication, or any number of
other things. We want the program to do it for us. So we added layouts to the program. If you
click on the Layouts tab (near the top left of Acoustica CD/DVD Label Maker's main window),
you'll see thumbnails of pre-built layouts you can try. Just click on one, and Acoustica will
rearrange your label to match the layout you've selected. A layout can include text fields
(including tracks arrangements), colored shapes, and/or images. If you don't like a layout
you've selected, you can either click on another layout, click the "Undo" button, or click on the
"roll your own" layout, which will remove all layout-specific elements from your current label.
Creating Your Own Layouts
Creative genius that you are, you probably won't have played with Acoustica CD/DVD Label
Maker for very long before you wind up inventing a label design of such majesty that you want
to save it to reuse on future labels. When this happens, open the File menu, click on
Advanced, and select the Save Current Label as Layout option. You can't miss it; it's currently
the only entry on the File | Advanced menu.
Page 17 of 85
6/13/2006 file://C:\acoustica\cdlabelmaker\help\cd-label-maker-flat.htm