1. Open the tray’s source menu and choose the LIBRARY collection you want to use.
2. Choose a photograph from the collection to place it on your print.
3. Change the source when you need another group of photographs.

A collection is shared with LIBRARY. When you rearrange photographs in a collection here, that order also belongs to the collection in LIBRARY and the other Studio tools that use it.

1. Drag a photograph along the tray. A thin line shows where it will land.
2. Release it when the line is in the right place.
3. To move several photographs together, click the first photograph, then hold Command and click the others. Shift-click selects a range.
4. Drag one of the selected photographs to move the group.

The selected photographs stay in their existing order as a group. Drag towards the edge of a long tray to move further along it. On a touch screen, hold a photograph briefly before dragging it into position.

Do this before making a year of calendars. Put the photographs in the order you want the months to have, then make the set.

1. Click a small print in the strip to make it the current print.
2. Choose + ADD PRINT when you’d like another print in the same project.
3. Use View larger for a closer look at the current print.

Each print can have its own photograph and words. Check which print is selected before changing a layout or applying a design to other prints.

1. Choose Focused workspace near the top of FRAME.
2. Work with the print in the larger workspace.
3. To return, choose the menu button at the top of the page (its label is Open menu). In that menu, under Workspace, choose Open.

1. Open SAVE.
2. Add a name under Name it (optional) if you’d like one.
3. Choose SAVE PROJECT and keep the project file somewhere you can find it again.
4. To return to that file later, choose OPEN PROJECT FILE.

FRAME also keeps your working project on the device you’re using. A saved project file gives you a copy you can keep, move between computers or return to later. DUPLICATE PROJECT starts another version of the whole project.

1. Click the photograph on the print to select it.
2. Drag the centre move handle to reposition the photograph inside its frame. Double-click to recentre it.
3. Use the selected photograph’s toolbar to try FILL, the flip icons, GRAIN or TONE.
4. Check the edges and the subject before clicking away.

Choose the lock icon, Lock photo, once the photograph is where you want it. In a layout with several photographs, select the space you want to adjust first.

1. Select the photograph you want to work on in the tray.
2. Choose EDIT ↗ beside the tray’s source menu.
3. Continue with that photograph in EDIT.

1. Open PRINT SIZE and choose the size you want.
2. For a size of your own, open CUSTOM SIZE.
3. Choose INCHES or PIXELS, enter WIDTH and HEIGHT, then choose USE CUSTOM SIZE.

The print’s shape changes with its dimensions. Check the photograph again after changing the size, especially if you have already adjusted its crop.

1. Select the finished print. Check that other prints are not ticked in the print strip.
2. Choose SAVE TO LIBRARY.
3. Choose the collection where you want the finished print to go. Choosing the collection starts the save.
4. Wait for the saved message before continuing.

This keeps an image of the print in LIBRARY. Keep a project file as well when you want to return to its separate photographs, layout and words.

1. Select the print you want to use.
2. Open SEND TO….
3. Choose Send to Zine, Send to Postcard, Send to Concept or Send to Social for the project you have in mind.
4. Check the print in the receiving tool before continuing there.

A finished print can become a page, a postcard or part of a larger collection. Keep its FRAME project to change the original design later.

1. Choose + ADD PRINT to add another print to the project.
2. Choose its layout and photograph.
3. Click between the small prints to compare them.

Keep a few versions together while you decide.

1. Click the photo space you want to change.
2. Choose a different photograph from the tray.
3. Select the photograph, then drag its centre move handle to adjust the crop. Double-click to recentre it.
4. Check the other spaces and the balance of the whole print.

You can use the same photograph in more than one space, to try different crops or repeat an image.

1. In LAYOUTS, find STARTING PRINTS and choose blank print.
2. Under YOUR LAYOUTS, choose + ADD A CELL for another photo space.
3. Use the cell’s plus button to add a photograph. Move the cell into position and use its corner handle to resize it.
4. Add more cells and arrange the photographs on the print.
5. Enter a name in name your design, then choose SAVE DESIGN to keep the layout.

Return to YOUR LAYOUTS to use a saved design again. Save the project as well when you want to keep this print’s photographs and words.

1. Open CLEAR CELLS in the tray.
2. Choose This print to clear the photographs from the current print.
3. Choose All prints only when you want to clear the photo spaces throughout the project.

Clearing the cells gives you room to choose photographs again. EMPTY THE TRAY is a separate action for the photographs available in the tray.

1. Click a photo space, then choose another photograph from the tray.
2. Work across the grid.
3. Use View larger to see the grid as a whole.

The photographs stay in the tray while you try arrangements. You can also rearrange the tray first.

To make a reusable custom arrangement, begin with blank print and build its photo spaces as described in A print with more than one photo. Give the design a name and choose SAVE DESIGN. It will appear under YOUR LAYOUTS.

EXPORT LAYOUTS and IMPORT LAYOUTS let you keep or bring in saved layout designs. Save your project separately when you want to preserve the photographs and the work you’ve made with them.

1. Choose a font under STUDIO FONTS, or use YOUR FONTS for a font of your own.
2. Open COLOUR AND CASE to choose LETTER CASE and CALENDAR COLOUR.
3. Open WEEK AND GRID. Choose WEEK STARTS to begin on Sun or Mon, and use FAINT GRID for a light guide around the dates.
4. Adjust WHITE SPACE while looking at the whole calendar.

With KIND, Dated gives you a calendar for a particular month and year. Perpetual is for recurring dates that continue beyond one year.

1. Add a ONE LINE for a short line of words with the month.
2. Under DATES TO REMEMBER, set MONTH and DAY, add a NAME, then choose ADD DATE.
3. Use the date display options to decide how the dates appear on the calendar.

Under NEW CALENDARS, choose whether new calendars Start with no dates or Start with these dates. Check the names and dates before exporting a calendar you’re giving to someone else.

1. Open MAKE THE YEAR.
2. Under MONTHS, choose One month for a single month or Choose months for a selection.
3. Set the month or select YOUR MONTHS, then check the year.
4. Choose your cover option and make the calendar set.

Choose particular months for a season, a small gift or a project that begins partway through the year.

When a month has been removed from a calendar set, FRAME can offer to put it back.

1. Click a remaining month from the calendar set in the print strip.
2. Open CALENDAR and find MISSING MONTH or MISSING MONTHS below MONTH.
3. Choose the button for the month you want, such as Add May.
4. Check the new month’s photograph and add any words or dates it needs.

The month returns to the set in calendar order. It takes its design from a nearby month. Its words and marked dates begin clear. If a spare photograph is in the project’s own tray, FRAME can use it. Otherwise choose the photograph yourself. UNDO reverses an added month.

If the button isn’t offered, the set may not be one FRAME recognises as having a missing month. A single calendar, a complete set, or a set made with chosen months has none to offer. For an older set, FRAME can find a gap between the remaining months. It can’t find a missing first or last month. Make that month separately using the steps under A calendar month.

1. Open EXPORT and choose Print.
2. Use PRINTS to select all the prints you want to include, or choose Choose prints… for a smaller selection.
3. Check the selection, particularly if the project also contains test prints or another calendar set.
4. Choose the file type and export.

1. Choose a COLOUR for the calendar.
2. Under WEEKENDS, choose Shaded or Plain.
3. If you’re shading weekends, choose Match the ink or Your colour under SHADE.
4. Choose WEEK STARTS and LETTER CASE for the week and lettering.
5. Look over the full poster before downloading it.

1. Check the poster’s SIZE one more time.
2. Choose DOWNLOAD PDF in YEAR POSTER.
3. Open the downloaded PDF and check it before sending it to a printer or printing it yourself.

The poster’s available sizes include familiar home paper sizes as well as larger poster sizes. Choose the dimensions your printer can produce.

1. Click the heading on the print to select it. Its toolbar appears beside the words.
2. Use A− and A+ for size. Click the font-pair name, such as Studio, to try the next pairing.
3. Use AA for uppercase and I for italic. The alignment icon cycles through the text alignment choices.
4. Click the ink initials, such as CH for charcoal, to cycle through the ink colours. Use − and + beside them to change text opacity.
5. Drag the words into position, then use View larger to check them against the photograph.

The toolbar follows the text you select. Hover over an icon to see its description, including Adjust letter spacing, Adjust line spacing and Lock position. Choose × to remove the selected text from this print.

1. Finish the words on the current print.
2. Choose apply this print’s text to all prints when you want those words across the project.
3. Click through the prints afterwards to check placement and make any individual changes.

Show text controls whether the text is visible. bring back the words restores a heading or subheading that has been hidden.

1. Find PAPERS in LAYOUTS.
2. Choose a Paper and adjust strength.
3. Try Grain and Tone while looking at the space around the photograph.
4. Check the print with View larger.

PAPERS treats the page for print and digital output. The separate PAPER TOUCH choices are for digital downloads. Check FINISH when exporting so the file includes the treatment you want.

1. Open FILM FRAME in FRAME.
2. Choose the film treatment you want to try.
3. Check the photograph’s edges and any label or caption options available with that treatment.

1. Open EXPORT and choose your output.
2. Open MORE OPTIONS and find FINISH.
3. Choose As designed to keep the designed paper and grain treatment.
4. Choose Photo grain to keep photo grain with a simpler surface, or Clean · no Paper Touch or grain for the clean finish.

Print starts with the clean finish. Image starts with As designed. Check this choice if texture is an important part of your print.

1. Under Label, choose Number, Date or None.
2. Enter the date if you’re using a date label.
3. Add a Caption if you’d like one.
4. Use A− and A+ under Size to adjust the text.
5. Move the text into position, or choose Reset text position to return it to its starting place.

1. Make the contact prints you want in the project.
2. Under Animation text, choose Hide or Include for the contact-print text.
3. Follow A moving collection of prints to export the sequence.

Choose RETURN TO REGULAR FRAME when you want to work with the regular frame treatment again.

1. Choose GIF.
2. Set GIF WIDTH for where you’ll use it. A smaller file suits email. A larger one has more detail.
3. Set SECONDS PER PRINT.
4. Choose Preview GIF and watch the timing.
5. Check EXPORT NAME, then choose EXPORT GIF and save the finished file.

A GIF repeats the sequence. Allow time to read any words.

1. Choose MP4.
2. Set SECONDS PER PRINT.
3. Choose Preview MP4 and watch the sequence.
4. Check EXPORT NAME, then choose EXPORT MP4 and save the finished file.

MP4 creates a silent video. The available output depends on your device’s video support, and the full sequence can be up to two minutes long.

1. Choose the calendar you want to print and open EXPORT.
2. Choose Print, then Sheet to trim when it is offered under INCLUDE.
3. Choose the available paper size under PAPER.
4. Export the sheet and print it at actual size, or 100%.
5. Use the corner ticks as your trimming guide.

The available sheets depend on the calendar’s size. The export panel shows which combinations will fit. For a 3 × 4 calendar, the print-size choices also include Two up on 4 × 6.

1. Open the downloaded file in the application you use for printing.
2. Select the paper size that’s actually in your printer.
3. Check the orientation and print scale. Use actual size or 100% when the file is already arranged to the dimensions you need.
4. Check the preview for clipped edges, unexpected margins or an extra scaling step.
5. Print one copy and check its size before printing the rest.

Your printer’s printable area can affect the edges. If you’re printing a sheet to trim, keep the trimming marks visible in the print preview.

1. Open EXPORT and choose Image.
2. Choose the prints and image SIZE.
3. Choose JPEG or PNG.
4. Check BACKGROUND and FINISH, then export.

For a calendar, Calendar block only · PNG exports the calendar part separately. Use it to bring the calendar block into another design.

1. Choose UNDO.
2. Click the photo space you intended to fill.
3. Choose the photograph again from the tray.

1. Check the tray source to make sure you’re looking at the project tray or the collection you intended.
2. If FRAME says an original is missing, open LIBRARY and use its locate-original recovery for that photograph.
3. Return to FRAME and check the photograph again before exporting.

Keep the project while you reconnect the photograph. A preview on screen may still be visible even when the full original needs locating.

1. Open TEXT and check Show text.
2. Try bring back the words if a heading or subheading has been hidden.
3. Check the current print and use UNDO if the last change moved or removed the words.

1. Select a remaining calendar from the same set.
2. Look below MONTH in CALENDAR.
3. If there is no button, see Put back a missing month under A whole year of calendars. It lists when FRAME can find the missing month.

1. Check INCLUDE to confirm you’re exporting the part you want.
2. Open MORE OPTIONS and check FINISH. Print begins with the clean finish; choose As designed if you want the paper and grain treatment.
3. Check BACKGROUND when exporting an image.
4. Export again and open the new file to check it.

1. Check that the prints have the same aspect ratio and orientation.
2. Read the message in the export panel about which prints are included.
3. Preview the sequence again after making your changes.

1. Open SAVE and choose OPEN PROJECT FILE.
2. Choose the project file you saved.
3. Check the prints and photographs before continuing.

For a problem that continues, note what you tried, what you expected and what happened. Say whether you saw it on the print, in the preview or in the exported file.

In the Studio app, choose Help → Email Kim and include your note.

You can also find the Studio’s written and video help under All tool tutorials at the bottom of this page.