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Managing Overlay Templates Caricature Studio includes tools to effectively manage your novelty overlay templates. This makes it much easier and faster to navigate to, and apply an overlay template from a sorted list, instead of scrolling through thumbnails to locate the desired overlay. Why is this important? For the average home user the default setting generally work fine, however in an event vending scenario, you may have 200 or more templates to choose from. Selecting from thumbnail previews would not be efficient, because the goal is to service your customers as quickly as possible and avoid long wait times. Overlay templates are located in: Program Files\Caricature Studio 5.0\Clipart\Templates\Overlays Within the Overlays folder, the directory that populates the thumbnail preview area is the Default folder. Any image file within the Default folder will populate the thumbnail preview pane. You can further organize your templates into additional sub-folders. This is useful because you can organize overlay templates by type, such as holiday, theme or scenario and load them into the preview pane at will. For instance, in this example we've organized our overlay templates info theme groups.
Remember that the Default folder loads into the preview pane when the Overlays function is launched. Use this directory for the templates you access most frequently. You can store all of your templates in the Default directory if desired, just remember that all overlays in this folder will populate the preview panel. Load One Template, Or Many To load a folder into the preview pane, simply select the Load Templates button at the bottom of the Overlays function window and choose the folder you'd like to load. Or.... To apply a single template, select it from the dropdown field. This field contains all of the files in all of the folders located within the Overlays directory.
Useful Tip: File names in the dropdown list are sorted numerically and alphabetically. You can control how images are sorted by preceding template names with a number (see example above). This is especially useful in event vending scenarios, as you can name and catalog your templates by number. By numbering your sample images, your customers can select by number, allowing you to apply the desired overlay very quickly by selecting it from the dropdown. Importing New Templates To add new overlay templates:
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