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# Customize Amazon Prints Projects

With Amazon Prints, you can use photos from your Prime Photos account to create Large Prints, Canvas Prints, and more.

## Table of Contents

- Add or Remove Photos
- Navigating Your Project
- Editing Photos in Your Project
- Customize Your Project Design

## Add or Remove Photos

Add or Modify Photos
To add or modify selected photos: Click the Photos icon from the tool bar on the left. This area is called the photo well. Drag and drop the photo you want to add into the project. Click Get Photos to add a different photo from your Prime Photos collection. Note: Used photos have a blue check mark. If you remove a photo from your project, it is unchecked in the photo well. You can select Hide Used Photos from the Options menu in the photo well to show only the photos you haven't used.

Remove Photos
To remove photo(s) from the well or the project: Click the "X" on the photo in the photo well. If the photo is in use, you’re prompted to remove it from the page where it is used. If the image is not in use, it is deleted from the photo well once you click the “X”.(but is not deleted from your Prime Photos account) If you restart your project, all the photos and changes are removed from the design but not from the photo well or from your Prime Photos account.

Size or Size & Frame
Some projects offer you a quick way to choose or change the size. The following offer different size options that you can change to while you are designing your item. Large Prints Canvas Prints Mugs Note: If you change the size, you may lose some of your edits. Be sure to save your project before changing sizes.

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## Navigating Your Project

Icon | Description
--- | ---
| ONLY available for Large or Canvas Prints. The orientation icon allows you to change back and forth between Landscape and Portrait view.

Shuffle

This feature changes the layout of photos on a single page and automatically rearranges the photos and photo sizes. You can shuffle through multiple options by clicking Shuffle again. As new layouts populate, you use UNDO to see a previous arrangement.

Icon | Description
--- | ---
| Shuffle Button Large or Canvas Prints ----The shuffle button is located to the right of the project workspace. Photo Mugs ---- The shuffle button is located below the project work space.
| Undo Undo is located at the top of the project builder and will undo the last action.

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## Editing Photos in Your Project

When you select a photo, Crop Mode opens in a tool bar above the selected image.

Note: Photos and text outside the dotted lines will not print. For more image tips, see Photo Quality Tips.

Icon | Description
--- | ---
| Slider Zooms in to or out of the selected photo. To zoom in or out, move the slider on the top of the image to the right. Once you've zoomed in, drag the part of the image you want to print to the area within the dotted lines. The photo is cropped to the size of the frame.
| Rotate Click this button to rotate a photo clockwise.
| Swap Switches (or “swaps”) the positions of two selected photos without affecting anything else on the page. Click the Swap icon, and then click the photo you’d like to swap places with the current photo.
| Delete Removes the selected photo from a page. This only removes the selected photo from the individual page, and not from any other pages or from the photo well. This will not delete the photo from you Prime Photos account.

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## Customize Your Project Design

Layout and Text

You can use the Layout tool to customize the layout of each page, by resizing and moving each photo space by opening the Layout tool on the page. The Layout menu provides options based on the number of photos you want on each page.

- Select Layouts from the tools bar on the left, to access the Layout Menu.
- Once you select an option, the layout menu will display layout options.
- You can change Text Color, Font, Size, and Alignment by selecting the text tool from the left menu.

Note: For Canvas Prints only, you have the option to select a Photo or a Color wrapped edge for the finished canvas.

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## Backgrounds, Textures, or Patterns

The background tool allows you to set different colors, textures, or patterns as the page background.

- Select the page you want to change.
- Open the Backgrounds tool from the left menu, and select a theme to expand the category.
- Click a color, texture, or pattern to set it as your page's background.

Backgrounds do not include any photos and only apply to the page you are currently editing.

## Adding Embellishments

To add an embellishment:

- Open Embellishments from the left tool bar and navigate to any category of interest.
- Drag and drop an embellishment to project workspace.

You can edit the selected embellishment using the tool bar above it. Editing options include changing stacking order (back or front, for overlapping objects), resizing, rotating, and deleting.

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