TrestleBoard

Photographs

The rule underneath everything on this page: your original photograph is never altered. The file goes into the newsletter as it is, and every change you make is a recipe applied when the page is drawn.

Getting a picture onto the page

Insert a picture… (Ctrl+Shift+P), or drag the file onto the page. Dragging is always the quick way and never the only way — every command in TrestleBoard can be reached without a mouse.

Making the writing flow around it

Choose the picture and take Make the writing flow around it (Ctrl+Shift+W). The paragraphs break around the picture and close up again behind it if you move it away.

A newsletter page where the paragraphs break around a photograph, leaving a clean margin down the side of the picture.
The words keep their margin down the side of the picture, wherever it is put.

It came out dark

Choose it and press Fix this picture (Ctrl+Shift+F). That is the whole answer for most hall photographs — it evens out the light without asking you anything.

If it needs more, Change how it looks… (Ctrl+Shift+A) has three large sliders — brighter or darker, more or less contrast, more or less colour — that apply as you drag them, with a quarter-turn button and a Start over that puts the original back.

The photograph adjustment window: three large sliders for brighter or darker, more or less contrast, and more or less colour, above buttons to turn the picture a quarter turn or start over.
Three sliders, each with a plain name, each showing its effect while you move it.

The wrong part of it is showing

Choose which part shows… moves the picture behind its frame rather than resizing either, so you can bring a face into the middle without changing the layout around it.

The position window, showing the whole photograph faintly behind the frame with the visible part bright, and large buttons for moving it.
The whole photograph is visible behind the frame, so you can see what you are bringing into view rather than guessing at it.

Dragging a corner makes the picture larger or smaller and keeps its shape. Dragging an edge changes the shape of the frame, which is how you crop. Two different jobs, two different handles.

Swapping one picture for another

Swap this picture… (Ctrl+Shift+O) puts a different photograph in the same frame, keeping the size, the position and the caption. This is what template pages are for: they arrive holding empty frames that say what belongs in them.

A newsletter page from a template with empty photograph frames, each saying in words what kind of picture belongs in it.
An empty frame says what it is waiting for, rather than sitting on the page as a grey box.

Captions, and describing a picture