Q: Photo book project - I can set a photo as the page background but can't see it to make edits
Hi everyone,
I'm making a photobook using the Projects functionality of the Photo software for Mac (Version 1.0.1 (215.65.0) running on operating system Yosemite (10.10.5 (14F1909).
On some pages, I want to have a single photo that doesn't reach the edges, and rather than just have a block colour as the background, I want to use a greyscale, high transparency version of the same image, zoomed to look nice, like an echo of the main photo. I am managing this by duplicating the photo and putting it into the project, then selecting the 'use image as background' option in the information pane on that page, and dragging the image into the page background area. So far so good.
The issue that I am facing is that the picture doesn't show up, so that I can use the controls to zoom and drag where the background sits, and adjust the transparency etc, but I can't see what I've done with each edit unless I click the back arrow in the top left and go back to the project overview, at which point I can then see the image as the background as I've intended, and check how the edit went.
With multiple pages that will be like this, and likely needing make multiple edits to get it to look right, it is very time consuming to have to go back to the overview each time to preview it! Is there another way of doing this? Is this a bug?
Has anyone else had a similar issue?
Thanks in advance!
Cheers,
Sarah
MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
Posted on Jul 30, 2016 12:56 AM