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Modify the Aesthetics of your MegaEdit Workspace | ME_030

This tutorial will guide you through improving the visual appeal of the MegaEdit editor by adjusting the background and canvas settings. Learn how to eliminate unwanted borders, apply static colors, and create a seamless look for a tidier and more professional editing experience.

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Okay, so what I want to do next

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is work on the aesthetics of the editor
a little bit.

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So you see, as we've got at the moment,
you can see the entire canvas.

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You can see the checkered background.

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That is okay. But it's it could be better.

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You remember the one
we were looking at here again, it's still

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fairly simplistic, but it's just making it
so it's a bit of a tidier experience.

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It's all a single colour.

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and we can't see the square canvas.

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Now, there might be multiple ways
you can achieve this,

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so I'm just going to show you
one of the ways in which, I work with it.

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So what you'll see.

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Well, first of all, let's start off
with getting rid of this black border.

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We can see here and making the background
to be a static navy color.

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We'll start off with that process.

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And a lot of these things can be done

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within the product options.

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There's a lot of things in here.

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It's your first port of call for any,

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initial settings you're looking for.

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When you're trying to do things
in your MegaEdit product.

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So let's see.

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Let's change a couple of things in here.

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I'm going to say background
pattern is going to be a solid color.

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I'm going to specifically type

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in what a solid color is.

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And I'm going to make it so that my canvas
movement is locked down as well.

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So they can't move the label around.

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It's just fixed on the screen
and they can upload things to it, so

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it makes it look a bit neater as well.

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The other thing we want to do
is to get rid of that canvas

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shape around the square.

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Just because it's the square shape

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isn't particularly relevant
to what we're looking for.

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So what I'm going to do on that one is
look at this section here.

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So page rectangle colour.

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We'll get a bit of a bit smart with this.

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We'll say page rectangle color.

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We'll put an RGB value.

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And remember we can put a fourth value
in the RGB which is transparency.

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So we probably put a zero at the end
there.

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That will mean
that the border becomes transparent.

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So you see how the border disappeared.

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it's not updated the background color.

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But we do need to reload the product
to see that.

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Let me do that. Now.

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Okay, we're halfway there.

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You can see
I can't move the canvas around.

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It's all navy.

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The only thing we have
now is a big white square for our canvas.

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So here's where we can get
a bit more creative again.

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So what I want to do
is to actually put another

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one of these types of fields
over the top of our, our canvas,

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which is going to make it the same color
as the background,

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but it's not going to be on the eventual
printed output.

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So it's there for visualization
and for aesthetic purposes only,

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because ultimately, when we view
the preview and create the output,

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we still want it to be white
around the border, not Navy.

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So I've got a clipart just for this.

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So it's a navy circle.

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Now you can see here
if I make it the same size as my canvas,

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there's a little bit of a quirk where you
can still see the outline of the canvas.

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Easy way to get around
this is to actually make the image

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you're using for aesthetic purposes,
just to overspill the canvas a little bit.

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So I can I've resizing this,
I've created it this size for a reason

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and hopefully I know
the values this needs to be.

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And there we go.

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You can see now that because it overspill
is the edge of the canvas,

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it's all now a seamless kind of look.

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Now, if we actually looked
at this in the preview,

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it now means that our outline

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of the outside of the label is Navy,
which we don't want.

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And so what we want to do is make it
so that this new field,

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one, we don't want our customers
to interact with it.

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So I'm going to say do not select,

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but I'm also going to find do not print.

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So it means that even though it's on here,

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when I go to my preview,
we still see the white background.

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