Album companies and labs may update their product offerings by adding or removing products, or changing the design parameters associated with book designs. To ensure that you have the latest information, it's important to obtain the most recent data provided by the supplier, which can be found in the .tpk file used for importing. You can check the supplier's website for product availability, as the data in ProSelect is provided by the supplier an...

ProSelect includes a "Working with Books" section where you can design and produce both composite (digital) or traditional matted books for almost any supplier. This article covers a few frequently asked questions but for more information about designing and producing books see the Books section in the ProSelect Reference Manual (open under Help Menu in ProSelect). Adding a Book to the Order To add an order for a book in ProSelect for the purpo...

By default, Books pages are labelled sequentially as "Side 1", "Side 2" and so on in all books created in ProSelect. Double-spread pages are named "Side 2-3", "Side 4-5" and so on. However you can optionally change this to use the name of the template that was use to create the paeg by changing the Preference setting:  Preferences-> General Settings -> Templates, Rooms & Books -> Book De...

This article covers the best way to create books for Asukabook in ProSelect. It is not yet complete but includes the currently known "gotchas" when doing this in ProSelect: Asukabook's requirements do seem to make it harder than other book manufacturers. Below is a list of things that you need to be aware of. Since Asukabook expects inside pages (the second to second last page) to be one full width file, you only use double-spread templates in ...

Hi-Res Production (available in ProSelect Pro) will split spreads into two parts if you have: (a) Selected to "Split Doublespread Book Pages" in Preferences -> Hi-Res production -> Output Settings -> Output File OR (b) If you have used two single sided templates to make up your double spread book page. In the later case, if you do not want the pages split, you can use "Join Book Pages" (under Album Menu) to combin...

When building books with ProSelect's Book Builder (Working with Books), it is important to setup and select your final Book Design before you start creating your book because, as you add templates to the book, ProSelect will be automatically resizing and/or reshaping those templates to fit your selected Book Design page size and shape. By default, ProSelect includes a default book design (called Default Book Design!) which is for a 12"x12...

ProSelect will produce any size of book with each page being output as a jpg, tiff or .psd file. So you simply need to setup your ProSelect "book design" to match the Labs requirement. Information from your Lab which will be helpful is: Required DPI Out file type (.jpg, .tiff or .psd) Overall page size including any bleed (such as 3/8") for each side Do double spread pages need to be produced as one big file ...

With ProSelect 2011r1 and newer you can create square books with one image per page in just a minute or so using the Auto-Populate feature: Create a square template with one opening in the center in a landscape orientation. eg a 12x12 page size with a 8x10 opening. Create a square page Book Design to the page size that you want in either a single or double-sided format. Assign that Book Design to an empty book. ...

To set up double page spreads in your book design, you need to do the following: The template must be set to be a double-spread type (under Templates menu --> Edit Templates) The book design for your book must be setup to be double-sided (under Templates menu --> Edit Book Designs). Double-spread templates have thumbnails that are twice as wide in thumbnail view so they are easy to see.   If in Hi-Res Production, you a...

If your Book cover dimensions are different from the rest of the pages in your book, then these steps show you how to create and produce a cover page. Create a new Book Design for the size of your book cover in Edit Book Designs (under Templates Menu). You don't specify that the design has any covers since you can use the first one or two pages for the covers. Then in Working with Books mode and in Thumbnail View, select a different B...

If you add a template to a book in ProSelect and part of it appears to be missing, then this can happen in the following circumstances: If you are using Book Design for a Traditional Matted Book, then all of the templates that you are using SHOULD be the same size as the page size that you have setup in the Book Design. If the page size is smaller than the template size, some of the template will be cut off where it is wider or ...

Sometimes you may want to create a another copy of a book in ProSelect so that you can work on an alternative layout or produce the book in a different size or format.  Copy of a Book of a Same Size This can be easily done as follows: While Working with Books, change to Thumbnail View. Select an empty book from the Thumbnail bar (one without a check mark in it). Set the Book Design for the new book to be the same as the or...

When you import the "Composite Album Collection I" of templates into ProSelect, it also adds a number of book designs to match the size of the templates provided in the collection. However, we noticed that in the initial version (released early 2008) that the rectangular book designs were setup with the page width and page height reversed. (The page widths should be wider than the page height). This issue has been fixed in the curren...