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In this tutorial we'll learn
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how to apply placeholder images to image
fields.
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Placeholders are simply grayed out
images sitting in empty image fields
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prior to a user placing an actual image
within that field.
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The primary use is for aesthetic purposes,
ensuring a dynamic document
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isn't simply full of plain
gray boxes, essentially.
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So the first thing we need to do,
I'm starting off on my MegaEdit
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product
screen is navigate to general data.
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Now again,
this can be done on the left hand side
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or you can get to it through the resource
links on the top, right?
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When you're on the MegaEdit
products screen.
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So if I go to General Data,
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my fourth tab along is placeholder
categories.
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You'll see that I have one example of this
already in there.
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Setting these up is pretty much identical
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to the process
we saw for clip arts and for masks.
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So we simply add a new record.
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We can restrict
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the utilization of these placeholders
to admin only if we wish to do so.
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So if you don't want to allow
your customers to change the placeholders
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and then you can insert
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next we go to configure
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And it's simply a case
of uploading the files
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that you want to use
as your placeholders in JPEG, PNG
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or PDF format.
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So once those resources
have been uploaded,
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you'll see the thumbnails at the bottom.
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Then if we go back to our product.
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So if we go to the resource links
and go to the product section,
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we need to actually apply
that placeholder category
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to one or more of our products.
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So if I'm modifying
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the actual MegaEdit product itself
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about halfway along this list of tabs,
there's a placeholder tab
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where I can select a placeholder category
or multiple placeholder categories
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if I wish to do so.
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Hit save and then I'm just going to load up
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the MegaEdit editor
for this particular product.
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Now what we see
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is that we already have one empty image
frame
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on this particular MegaEdit products
that I've ordered up.
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So if I zoom in on that slightly
and you'll see that even by default,
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that's
now been replaced by a placeholder image.
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So it is still quite
clearly an empty frame,
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but it's a bit more interesting
to look at.
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We can change the placeholder
that's being utilized
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by double clicking on the frame,
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going to the details tab
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and then scrolling down
until we find the option
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to do with placeholder image.
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And that will just give you a selection
list of all the images
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that have been uploaded as a placeholder.
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Once we apply an image
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to that frame,
the placeholder is no longer utilized.
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So if I just drag and drop any old image,
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we'll see that the placeholder
is no longer valid.
