Exporting

You may need to use images that were optimized in StudioLine in other applications such as word processing or desktop publishing. StudioLine allows you to convert images to the most common graphics formats and store them on your hard disk or other media.

Open the StudioLine Explorer “My Computer” by clicking the appropriate button on the toolbar .

Navigate to the target folder where the exported files should be stored, or create a new one. In the Image Archive, select all images to be exported, click and hold the left mouse button on one of them and drag the mouse pointer to the StudioLine Explorer.

Alternatively, you can start by selecting images to be exported and then click the right mouse button. From the context menu choose “Export (Save As)”.

In the panel “Export Object as…” (see below), define details such as the image size, file format and file name.

Export the Original

The option “Export Original” will export the unedited image in the original file format and size. You will have the choice to enter a different file name.

Saved Settings

You may find that certain projects or certain clients demand specific file formats or sizes. To save frequently used settings for easy recall, choose the appropriate export options and then click on “Save Settings” near the bottom of the panel.

Later, simply recall the same options from the “Saved Settings” drop-down list.

Maximum Image Size

The “Maximum Image Size” drop-down offers a choice of standard sizes. The “Use Original Size” option will export images in the size of the Image Archive originals. You can also use the width and height controls to pick any custom size.

The standard or custom size you choose may not yield those exact dimensions for the exported images. For best results, StudioLine will never enlarge images beyond their original sizes or distort images if the selected width/height proportions don’t match the images’ proportions.

Instead StudioLine uses the “underfill” technique. The size you choose defines a bounding rectangle into which StudioLine will proportionally scale the images, as necessary.

The example below illustrates a custom size of 400 by 400 pixels into which a portrait or landscape image is scaled until their respective largest dimension is 400 pixels:

The checkbox "Automatically Adjust for Orientation" will consider the orientation of each image and use the larger specified "size" with the longer "side" of your image, and vice versa. If you were to define a size of 640x480 pixels, then a landscape image would be exported 640 pixels wide, while a portrait image would be 640 pixels high.

Next to the two size controls is a drop down list for the unit of measure, either pixels, inches or centimeter. Images intended for printing or desktop publishing can thus be exported in their proper size based on the preferred unit of measure. The field "DPI" will let you control the print resolution.

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