User Styles
Ready-made print projects cannot possibly cover the entire range of creative ideas. Therefore, StudioLine allows you to completely design your very own print projects. With "User Styles", you freely place images and text on a blank page.
Select any image you would like to use for your user style and open the "Print Projects" panel – either by clicking "Print Projects" on the QuickStep Bar or by clicking the print button on the toolbar and then choosing "Print Project".
In the panel "Print Project", choose "User Styles" and "New Page".
After clicking "Continue" you get to name your page. Enter a name and click "OK" to proceed.
Using the "Page Setup" panel you define the page format for your project. You can later review and change those settings by choosing "Page Setup" from the "File" menu. Click "OK" to access a blank page in the StudioLine page editor.
The white canvas represents the paper format you've chosen.
Layout Your Page
To place images on your page, click the "StudioLine Explorer – Image Archive" button on the toolbar. 
In the StudioLine Explorer, navigate to an Image Archive folder with images you'd like to use. Drag the images from the StudioLine Explorer panel to the page editor work space.
You can now select one or multiple images and move them freely around the page. Press the "Ctrl" key to restrict the movement to either horizontally or vertically. For minute control, use the arrow keys on your keyboard. Each time you press an arrow key, the image will move 10 pixels in the chosen direction.
Overlapping images are stacked in specific order. Initially, the order is controlled by the order in which they were placed on the page. For a collage, you can change the stacking order by clicking the right mouse button on any image that needs to either be stacked above or below another image. From the context menu, choose "Stacking Order" and then one of the stacking actions:
- Bring to Front: Moves an object to the very top of the stack.
- Send to Back: Moves an object to the very bottom of the stack.
- Step Forward: Places the image on top of the next image in line.
- Step Backward: Places the image behind the previous image in line.
If a single image is selected, then the selector frame will have 8 sizing handles.
Click and drag any of the four corners to resize the image proportionally. The aspect ratio is maintained.
Click and drag any sizing handles in the middle of each side to stretch or shrink the height or width of the image; this will leave the image distorted.
Stretching and shrinking is useful to accurately fit layout elements such as shapes or lines.
Design Elements
Graphical elements, such as colored shapes or lines, help perfect your layout. You can import shapes into StudioLine like any other images. For many applications that won't even be necessary.
Click the right mouse button on the page background. From the context menu choose "Insert", then "New Design Element".
The newly created design element can be moved like any image. The sizing handles can be used to resize, stretch and shrink the design element to suit your needs. For pixel-perfect sizing, click the right mouse button on the design element and choose "Size" from the context menu.
Other display options are controlled by choosing "Design Element Properties" from the design element's context menu.
The panel "Design Element" opens up some interesting possibilities to add a decorative touch to your page:
- Background and Color: Deselect the "Fill Background" option to create empty frames. To create a color pane, select the "Fill Background" option and pick a suitable color.
- Lines and Corners: Use the long "line" controls to choose for each of the four sides, whether your design element will have a border and its color and thickness. Use the "corner" controls to create square or rounded corners. For rounded corners, you can define the radius. (You can define rounded corners even if your design element doesn't have any borders.)
- Top and Bottom Color Bands: You can fill the top and/or bottom portion of the design elements with unique colors.
Additional effects for the design object can be accomplished with the help of the image toolbox.
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