MDS Tutorial: Remove Photo Box From Template

With the release of our My Digital Studio software, Stampin’ Up! offered a series of webinars, quizzes, and assignments to their demonstrators under a certification program.  I’m pleased to announce that I am now My Digital Studio Certified!  This means that I am here to answer your questions and help you with your projects.  While I can obviously only offer this personal service to those who purchase the software from me, I thought it would be a great idea to share some My Digital Studio tutorials here on my blog for everyone. 

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I thought I would start by showing you how to remove a photo box from a pre-made Designer template.  In this example, I started with the Christmas Cocoa II Designer 12x12 Template (available as part of an extra download to MDS, Item #120880).  As you can see from the screen shot below, this template has 4 photo boxes.  

Now, let’s say that I only want 3 of those boxes because I only have 3 photos.  It’s easy to remove the extra one.

1) Click on the photo box you want to remove.  In this case, I want to remove the lower box.  When you click on the box, a set of gray “handles” will appear around the digital element to indicate that it is selected.

2) Now that the photo box is selected, click the Delete key on your computer keypad (or in your software, go to the Edit menu bar and select Delete Object from the dropdown choices).  Here’s how your page will look with the photo box removed.

3)  Now I want to resize the white cardstock digital element to remove the extra white space below the remaining photo boxes.  Click on the white cardstock element until the gray selection handles appear.

4) Now move your computer mouse over the bottom middle handle until an up/down arrow appears.  Drag the handle up while holding down the left mouse button until your cardstock is resized as desired (in this case, just shy of the bottom black photo box).  Here’s how your page will look.

5) Now drag & drop your photos into the photo boxes and type in your journaling into the text box to complete your page. 

Here’s my finished page with bottom photo box removed from the designer template.

My Digital Studio elements: christmas cocoa II 12x12 designer template