🧩 Overview

The Autoflow Photos feature in Creator Studio allows you to quickly populate freeform layouts with photos from your project folders. 

• Autoflow automatically places images into available photo placeholders, matching image aspect ratios to the most appropriate positions within your layout.
• Autoflow works with any freeform layout, whether it has already been applied to a page, selected from the Layouts tab, or added from Templates.
• This feature is especially useful for candid pages, themed layouts, and full-page spreads.

📖 Step 1: Open a Page in Your Ladder

Open your project and navigate to the Ladder.

• Locate the page you want to design.
• Click the page to open it in the editor.
• You can use a page with an existing freeform layout or apply a new layout.

🎨 Step 2: Select or Apply a Freeform Layout

Autoflow works with any freeform layout containing photo placeholders.

You can use:

• Existing Layout: A freeform layout already applied to your page.
• Layouts Tab: A layout selected from the Layouts tab on the left toolbar.
• Templates: A layout selected from the Templates panel, including layouts from your project's current theme.

For this example, we'll select a candid template from our current theme.

• Open the Templates panel.
• Locate your current theme.
• Select a candid template, such as Kinder Candids.
• Drag the template onto your page.

• If the selected template is designed as a spread, Creator Studio will prompt you to convert the page into a spread.

• Click to confirm the conversion.
• Your layout will now display photo placeholders ready for Autoflow.

🖼️ Step 3: Autoflow Your Photos

• Select the Layouts tab from the left toolbar.

• Locate and click the Autoflow Photos button.

• Select the folder containing the photos you want to use, such as your Candids folder.

• Click Autoflow to begin placing your photos.

• Creator Studio will automatically populate the available photo placeholders, matching the aspect ratios of your images to the layout.

📌 Note: Portrait folders are disabled from selection.

🔄 Step 4: Continue Autoflowing Additional Pages

You can continue using Autoflow to populate additional pages throughout your yearbook.

• Return to your Ladder and select the next page you want to design.
• Use an existing freeform layout or apply another layout from Layouts or Templates.

• Convert the layout into a spread if prompted.
• Open the Layouts tab and select Autoflow Photos.
• Choose your photo folder and click Autoflow again.

• You can continue selecting the same photo folder when populating additional pages.
• Creator Studio will select different photos from that folder for subsequent layouts, helping you quickly fill multiple pages without manually placing each image.

💡 Why Use Autoflow Photos?

⚡ Save Time: Populate multiple photo placeholders automatically.

📐 Match Image Proportions: Photos are assigned to placeholders based on their aspect ratios.

📚 Build Pages Faster: Fill candid pages and full spreads without manually dragging each photo.

🎨 Flexible Layout Options: Use existing layouts, layouts from the toolbar, or templates from your project's theme.

With Autoflow Photos, you can transform empty freeform layouts into completed photo arrangements in just a few clicks.