# help: | # Using Templates
| Designs and Templates
| The list on the left hand side of the DiscLabel window in the Edit and Media functions is a list of designs. Designs are what you import tracks into, edit, and print. All designs you make are automatically saved along with tracks that have been imported. The design list is hidden in the Store function.
| Frequently it is helpful to first work from a template in order to make your design. A template is simply a design with no imported tracks assigned to it. DiscLabel ships with many beautiful templates. You can use them directly, import your tracks and print, or you can use them to form the basis of designs you make. To access the templates choose New Design from the File menu, and select a template category in the lower portion of the New Design From pop-up. From within the different template categories, preview any template by clicking to select it. Those shown on the left are from the category named DiscLabel Templates. The top three template categories are special:
Random Design Factory | Use the factory to generate a new label randomly.
Text with Image | Use this to quickly make a label with your own title and background image.
| Enter your title in the title box, and choose a text layout
| Select an image from iPhoto or another image source, and quickly see the results:
Blank | Use this option to start with an empty label. Add text and a background image here, or in DiscLabel's Edit function.
| In the New Design dialog, you can import a playlist to preview in the selected template by clicking the Select Tracks to Import button. This loads your playlists into the menu beneath. Choose a playlist to see what it looks like in the selected template. Note that if you want to import tracks from an application other than iTunes, you can do that by holding down the mouse on the Select Tracks button. You'll then get a menu from which you can choose an alternate application.
| When you've chosen the template you want to use, click OK. This makes you a new design from the template that you can now edit or print.
Design Elements You can choose to make an initial design with design elements for CD, DVD, Slimline CD, Slimline DVD, Super Jewel Box CD, Super Jewel Box DVD. For anything else, there is the Other/All category. Note that not all templates cover every possible combination, and may be limited to CD or DVD design elements. Saving your own Templates When you make a design you want to use as a starting point, again and again, with different tracks each time, you can save it as a template by choosing File–Save As Template from the menu. Your template is saved into the Make design from template category named My Templates, accessible from the New Design dialog. Sharing Templates with Friends A template saved in My Templates can be shared in one of four ways:
File | Export it by first selecting it in the Template function, and choose File–Export from the menu. Alternatively, drag the selected template to the Finder. Your template file can be imported by double-clicking it in the Finder or by choosing File–Import from the menu.
Bonjour | Choose DiscLabel–Preferences from the menu. Click Sharing in the Preferences window. Check Share "My Templates" with others. Make sure you've set your Shared name. Provided Look for shared templates is checked another computer on the same Bonjour network will be able to see your templates in My Templates listed as a template category named from the Shared name you have chosen.
.Mac | Choose DiscLabel–Preferences from the menu. Click .Mac in the Preferences window. Click Share “My Templates” with these .Mac members, and enter the .Mac members with whom you wish to share. Click Access templates from these .Mac members, and enter the .Mac members whose templates you wish to access. (These members must have .Mac sharing enabled but need not be running DiscLabel at the same time as you.) Separate multiple member names with commas. Note: DiscLabel will request access to your Keychain for your .Mac credentials.
Folder | Folders of templates can be accessed by adding the names of those folders into the Show templates from external folders area. Click the Add button to add a folder. With this feature several computers can have access to a folder of templates on a network.
Where are my Files Stored? How do I move them to a new Computer? Your files are stored in the folder ~/Library/disclabel where ~ is your home folder (Go–Home from the Finder). You can copy them to another computer by copying this directory into the same relative place in your home folder on your other computer. |
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