Artisan Features

Many features found normally in more expensive and difficult to use products are available in just a few clicks, allowing you to create a limitless number of effects.

  • Create pages in Artisan format, allowing manipulation and modification of all elements on page.
  • Choose from a wide selection of predesigned art, or use Artisan’s powerful design features to create your own papers and embellishments to use in your projects.
  • Switch between tasks easily with a ribbon interface that is organized around what you want to do––insert, cut and fill, color, and other primary actions.
  • Begin with Basic settings to explore the software and progress to Advanced for access to all of the options available. Or start with the Advanced settings right away. Artisan only gets better as you become more comfortable.
  • Add photos to a page from the local computer or directly from an online site like Facebook or Flickr.
  • An Internet connection is not required to use Artisan because it resides on your desktop.
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Use the wand tool to create custom shapes and trim photos.

Editing Made Easy

  • See the big picture with a two-page spread editing view.
  • Edit pages with features for arrangement, sizing, rotation of elements, snap-to-grid options, user-settable rulers, and more.
  • Work on what you want with easy drag-and-drop page editing.
  • Add writing with text boxes that support full rich-text editing, with mixed fonts, colors, and styles. Text editing also supports text wrapping around other elements on the page.
  • Create captions with text paths, text shown on user-created path, that also supports rich text.
  • Add a full calendar to a page in two clicks with the Built-In Calendar element. Customize, drag-drop photos, and add text to individual calendar date cells.
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Artisan contains advanced text-editing tools that allow you to wrap text around elements, place text on a custom path, and create photo captions with text paths.

Automatic Fixes

  • Let the software figure out which pictures belong together on predesigned pages and automatically create an entire book for you with the auto-populate feature.
  • Change the colors of everything else on the page to coordinate with the selected photo according to options the auto page color change feature suggests.
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The auto-populate feature automatically creates a book for you by figuring out which photos belong together and placing them in a predesigned layout.

Design Capabilities

  • Create a rubber stamp from any photo or artistic element on page with just two clicks to reuse in your choice of color and saturation.
  • Add variety with cutters, including straight cut, faded-edge cut, decorative-edge cuts, paper tears/rip.
  • Cut out text, using any font, from a photo, paper, or other source.
  • Add simple mats or more decorative frames including multiple mats, bevels, and decorative frames with Frame Effects.
  • Cut out any shape from any part of a digital paper with the Cutting Board.
  • Adjust or change colors and add shadows.
  • Modify your photos or other design elements with a wide range of filters.
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View your project as single trimmed pages, spreads, or view all artwork on an uncropped page.

Full Photo Editor

  • Make use of automatic adjustments or complete your own custom adjustments.
  • Edit pictures quickly with cloning, touchup, brushes, and cleanup tools.
  • Select a portion of the photo and edit just that portion with a variety of tools including color tools, filters, and effects.
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The Artisan Image Editor contains tools that allow you to adjust temperature, hue, curves, levels, contrast and more.

Features for Content Management

  • Use elements from commercial art kits containing predesigned pages, digital papers, additions, shapes, cutters, and colors.
  • Create personal art kits containing digital art you have created or downloaded from the internet.
  • Organize content using simple tags.
  • Store content on multiple drives or CD/DVDs.
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Add your own custom content or use the predesigned content provided. Organize your content the way you want to using simple tags.

Ways to Share

  • Print online or at home.
  • Create almost any kind of project—bound books, posters, greeting cards, calendars.
  • Edit or save files in standard formats like JPG or PNG.
  • Share creations with others via Facebook, Flickr, or other social media platforms.
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Share your layouts the way you want to.

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