Epson S041885 - Storyteller Photo Book Creator User manual

Creating a Photo Book

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Contents
Welcome! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Your StoryTeller Kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Installing the Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Start Your Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Starting StoryTeller Publisher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Selecting Your Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Fixing Your Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Saving Your Photo Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Create Your Photo Book Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Adding Photos to Your Page Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Making Changes to Your Page Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Replacing One Photo with Another . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Resizing, Repositioning, or Rotating a Photo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Adding, Deleting, and Locking Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Adding Captions to Your Page Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Saving Your Photo Book to Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

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Print Your Photo Book Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Printing a Draft of Your Photo Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Printing Your Final Photo Book Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Epson Printers: Printing Your Final Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
HP Printers: Printing Your Final Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Canon, Lexmark, or Other Printers: Printing Your Final Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Create Your Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Adding Photos to the Front and Back Covers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Adding Photos and Text to the Flaps and Spine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Saving Your Cover Pages to Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
E-Mailing Your Front Cover Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Print Your Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Printing a Reduced Size Color Draft of Your Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Printing Your Final Cover Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Epson Printers: Printing the Final Cover Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
HP Printers: Printing Your Final Cover Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Canon, Lexmark, and Other Printers: Printing Your Final Cover Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

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Assemble Your Photo Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Attaching Pages to the Photo Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Attaching the Cover to Your Photo Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
If You Printed a Full-Length Cover Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
If You Printed Two 8 × 10-Inch or 5 × 7-Inch Cover Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Problems? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Uninstalling the StoryTeller Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Where To Get Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

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Welcome!
Ever wonder what to do with all those photos you took with your digital camera? Instead of storing them on your
computer or on a CD-ROM, you can create a personalized photo book that captures the family vacation, graduation
day, or a child’s birthday. And photo books make a great gift for everyone, for any occasion.
The Epson StoryTeller™ kit includes everything you need to make your own photo book. It comes with a hardbound
book, special glossy photo paper, panoramic sheets for your cover, and easy-to-use software. You can choose from
six different book styles (themes), each with up to 20 pre-designed page layouts that make arranging your photos a
breeze. And you can add your own captions and titles to make sure your photos tell your story.
This guide walks you through selecting and enhancing your photos, building and printing your photo book, and
creating and printing a cover page. Finally, it shows you how to put your book together.
System Requirements
To use the StoryTeller Publisher software, your system should have:
●Microsoft Windows®98SE, Me, 2000, or XP operating system
●Pentium®III processor, 750 MHz or faster (Pentium IV processor, 1.3 GHz or faster recommended)
●At least 2.3GB available hard disk space
●256MB RAM (512MB RAM recommended)
●16-bit color display, 800 × 600 pixels (higher resolution recommended)

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Your StoryTeller Kit
Check your StoryTeller kit to make sure it includes the following:
Hardbound book Glossy photo paper Two long cover sheets
Clear plastic cover
CD-ROMAdhesive strips

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Installing the Software
Follow these steps to install the StoryTeller Publisher software:
1Insert the StoryTeller CD-ROM in your drive. You see the following screen:
Note: If the screen doesn’t appear, click Start > My Computer (Windows XP) or double-click the My Computer icon on your
desktop (other Windows systems). Then double-click the Epson icon.
2Click Install and follow the on-screen directions to install the software.
Note: Installation may take several minutes. Don’t cancel the installation or start other programs.

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3If you see a message asking if you want to restart your computer, click Restart Later.
4When installation is complete, click Finish.
5When you see the product registration screen, register your software as instructed. When you’re done, close
your browser.
6Remove the CD-ROM and restart your computer.
Now you’re ready to begin creating your book. Go to “Start Your Book” on page 10.

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Start Your Book
This chapter explains how to start the StoryTeller Publisher software, choose your book format, and select the
photos you want to include in your photo book.
Starting StoryTeller Publisher
Follow these steps to start StoryTeller Publisher and choose your book style:
1Double-click the EPSON StoryTeller Publisher icon on your desktop. You see this screen:

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2Click Get Started. You see this screen:
3Select your photo book by size and page count. Then
click OK.
For example, if you have an 8 × 10-inch photo book that is
10 pages long, select the middle icon.
Selecting Your Photos
StoryTeller lets you browse the computer for your photos and view them in a preview area before you select them.
1Use the minibrowser on the left to locate your photos on your computer:
Use the minibrowser
to locate your photos

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2Double-click the folder where your photos are located. Thumbnails of your photos appear in the preview area
on the right.
Thumbnails appear
in the preview area
Use this slider to enlarge selected
photos; move it all the way to the
right to view one photo at a time
Click this tab to enlarge the
preview area; click it again
to view the minibrowser

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3To select a photo, double-click its thumbnail or drag the thumbnail from the preview area to the photo bin at
the bottom of the screen. (A red border appears around selected thumbnails.)
If you want to select several photos, do one of the following:
●Hold down the Shift key and click the first thumbnail in the group, then click the last thumbnail. Then drag
the entire group to the photo bin.
●Drag your mouse over the images you want to select, then drag all the selected images to the photo bin.
●To select images out of order, hold down the Ctrl key as you click the images you want, then drag the
selected images to the photo bin.
Drag and drop your
photos to the photo bin
Photo bin

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4If you decide you don’t want to use a photo, select its thumbnail in the photo bin and click the Remove
icon.
To remove a series of photos from the photo bin, select the first thumbnail in the series. Hold down the Shift
key and select the last thumbnail in the series. Then click the Remove icon.
Tip: You can also drag your mouse over several images to select them, or hold down the Ctrl key to select several images out of
order. After you’ve selected the images, click the Remove icon.
To remove all photos from the photo bin, click the Remove All icon.
To remove a photo
from the photo bin,
select it and click here

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5Optionally, you can rearrange the thumbnails in the photo bin in the order you want them to appear in your
photo book. Just drag and drop each thumbnail to its new place in the line-up.
Note: A blue bar appears to indicate where the thumbnail will be placed.

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Fixing Your Photos
You can fix red eye in your photos, apply special color effects like a sepia tone, sharpen the image, or enhance
brightness and contrast. Any modifications immediately appear in the preview image on the right side of the screen.
1Click the Fix Pictures tab. The photo selected in the photo bin appears in the preview area.
2To automatically enhance the photo’s brightness and contrast, click the Auto Enhance button.
To change these values manually, select a new setting in the Brightness or
Contrast controls:
Enhance brightness and
contrast automatically
Or use these controls to
change these settings
manually
Your first photo
appears in the
preview area

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3To automatically fix red eye, click Fix Red Eye.
4To sharpen the image, click Sharpen. Then select a new setting in the Sharpen control.
5To add a special color effect, click Color Effects. Then select one of the color effects
settings.
6To rotate the image 90° to the right or left, click one of the rotation icons at the top of the screen.
7If you change your mind about any of the changes you made, click the undo icon at the top of the screen.
Click the redo icon if you change your mind again!
Now you’re ready to add photos to your photo book. Continue with the instructions in “Create Your Photo Book
Pages” on page 18, or go to the next section to save your photo changes.
Saving Your Photo Changes
Once you’ve fixed a photo, you can save it to your computer or a disk and use it at a later date. Just click the icon
at the top of the screen. When you see the Save As dialog box, navigate to the location where you want to save it
and click Save.

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Create Your Photo Book Pages
You can add your own distinctive touch by arranging the photos yourself in StoryTeller’s pre-designed layouts. If you
want to change the way your page looks, you can replace the photos, switch them, or reposition them to better fit
their frames. If you don’t like a particular page layout, you can replace it with a different one.
Tip: The official Epson StoryTeller Internet site has more information about StoryTeller, including special offers and links to
troubleshooting information and the Epson Store , where you can buy additional StoryTeller paper. To go directly to the website,
click the Create Book tab, then click the icon to the right of the Book Style menu.
Adding Photos to Your Page Layouts
1Click the Create Book tab.
2Click Customize Book.
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Click Customize Book

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3Select your Book Style in the drop-down menu. The page layouts associated with this Book Style appear in the
Page Layout section. You’ll also see page layouts in the preview area.
Tip: If you want to view the page layouts in the preview area one at a time, click the icon in the upper right corner. To return
to viewing several page layouts at a time, click the icon.
Select your
Book Style here
Layouts for
your Book Style
appear here
Click here to
switch to single
page view in the
preview area
Preview area
shows page
layouts as they
will appear in
your book

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4Drag the page layouts you want to use from the Page Layout area over each of the 10 or 20 pages in the
preview area. Use the slider on the right of the preview area to move through all the pages in your book, and
the slider on the right of the Page Layout area to move through all the available layouts for your Book Style.
Tip: You can mix page layouts from different Book Styles. Once you’ve selected all the page layouts you want from one Book
Style, select a new Book Style in the drop-down menu. A new set of page layouts appears in the Page Layout area. You can
choose layouts from as many Book Styles as you want.
Drag the page
layout you want
over one of the
layouts in the
preview area
Use this slider to
scroll through
page layouts
Use this slider
to scroll through
all the page
layouts in your
book