Welcome to Vivid Collage. With Vivid Collage you can create collages of photos, text, sketches, and more.

1. Creating a New Collage

To create a new collage, tap on the "+" item on the "My Gallery" screen.

You will now be able to set background and size of your new collage.

Once you are satisfied with the settings, tap on "Create New Collage" to get started.

You will now be presented with the edit screen. Here you can tap "Gallery" to return the list of your collages, "Share" to share the collage, "Canvas" to alter the canvas settings, "Add" to add items, and "Pan/Zoom" to toggle pan zoom mode. You cannot change the collage while in pan/zoom mode.

Use the left and right arrows in the top left of the screen to undo and redo changes.

2. Adding Items

To add an item to your scene tap the "Add" button.

You can add:

1. Images like photos (e.g from your photo album) or drawings.
2. Text
3. Stickers (symbols) from Vivid Collage's library
4. Shapes like rectangles and circles

Tap on the type of item that you want to add.

3. Selecting and Manipulating Items

To select an item tap on it. Once selected you will see a number of control points surrounding the item, and a list of property categories at the bottom of the screen.

Items can be manipulated in four different modes:

1. Position. For changing position, rotation and size.
2. Crop. For changing cropping of e.g. images
3. Perspective. For chaining the perspective.
4. Warp. Adding and chaining warp effect.

The current mode can be changed by tapping on the mode selection icon at the top of the screen.

Deleting

You can delete an item by tapping on the white cross in the upper right corner of the item (when selected).

Position and scale

When the "Position" mode is selected, you can

• Reposition items by dragging them
• Resize by dragging corners or pinching. The corner control points will resize without stretching, while the control points on the sides will stretch the item.
• Rotate by pinching or using the yellow arrow.

The "Reposition menu" accessible from the "Reposition" item at the top of the screen, enables you perform simple positional changes and move an item to front or back of the layers.

Crop

In "Crop" mode, you can:

• Change crop frame of images and text by dragging the sides control points
• For images, you can also reposition, rescale, or rotate the photo inside the frame by pinching and dragging the photo.

The "Set Crop" menu allows you to reset the crop or recenter a photo

Perspective

In "Perspective" mode, you can alter the perspective of an item by dragging the control point corners.

The "Perspectives" menu enables you to choose from a range of predefined perspectives.

Warp

In "Warp" mode, you can "warp" items by dragging the control points of an item

The "Change warp" menu allows you to select from a number of predefined warp settings.

Properties

Items have various properties. E.g.:

• Reflection
• Opacity and blend
• Shadow
• Frames and filters for images
• Colors for text and shapes
• Font settings and alignment for text

These properties are all accessible from the different properties at the bottom of the screen when an item is selected.

Reflections

All items can have an artificial reflection attached to them. Example:

To add this effect, select an item and tap the reflection button.

You can adjust the gap between the item and its reflection and the top and foot opacity by dragging the sliders.

Opacity, Blend and Clip

The opacity settings, allows you to make items semi-transparent and use one of the blend modes for special composition effects. Additionally, you can use the "Clip to previous layer" option to clip or mask an item to that of the last non-clipped item in the layers list below the item.

Shadows

Items can have drop shadows. You can alter the offset, angle, blur and color (e.g. for glow effects) by dragging the sliders and tappings on the the colors.

Use the globe button for assigning "global shadows" to an item.

Frames and Filters

Images can have frames. You can select a frame from the frame options (under "More" on iPhone) and adjust its width by dragging the slider.

You can also add filters to your images. Filters are accessible from the "Filters" options. You can add multiple filters and Vivid Collage will try to apply the filters to the photo one-by-one in a meaningful order. Some filters can be adjusted by dragging the associated slides.

To remove or reset a filter, tap on the associated "Remove" button.

Editing Images

You can use the "Draw On" option to access the drawing tools that allows you to paint on and mask an image.

Editing Text

Once a text item has been selected, the text can be edited by double tapping on it to reveal the "Edit Text" screen.

On the "Edit text" screen, you can alter fonts and colors of individual segments of the text by tapping on "Font" or the color symbol in the lower right corner of the screen. Press "Done" to finish editing the text.

Fonts and Alignment

For text items, you can change the fonts and font size by tapping on the "Font" option at the bottom of the screen and selecting a font. It is possible to download and add additional fonts, by tapping on the "Install" button.

You can also change the alignment of the text, by accessing the "Alignment" options (under "More" on iPhone).

Colors

For text and shapes, you can pick colors for fill and stroke in the "Color" properties. You can use gradient colors to fill items.

4. Manipulating the Canvas

The canvas and canvas size properties are accessible by tapping on the "Canvas" item at the bottom of the screen.

Here you can alter the canvas size, the background, and also access the list of layers. Press "Done" to stop manipulating the canvas.

Canvas backgrounds can be color, predefined images, or a custom images (e.g. from your Photo Album). You can manipulate the background scale, position, and orientation by pinching and dragging while you have selected the canvas.

5. Layers

An overview of items sorted by layer is available in the layers list which can be accessed from "Canvas" on iPhone and using the "Drawer" on iPad. The drawer is opened by tapping on the drawer icon.

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The layer list displays all items in the current collage:

You can reorder the items by tapping on "Reorder" and dragging items up and down.

You can lock items, so that they cannot be selected outside the "Layers" list by tapping on the padlock. Unlock by tapping on it again.

6. Sharing

You can share your collage with friends and family by tapping the "Share" button

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You will now see a preview of the final collage.

Tap on the "Action" button in the upper right corner of the screen once you are satisfied with the preview, and you'll be presented with a list of of sharing options.

The share menu allows you to:

• Save to photo album
• Email
• Upload to Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr
• Upload to Dropbox
• Copy to clipboard or open in another app
• Export the image as document (e.g. to iCloud Drive)

7. Document Handling

To delete a collage, select the collage on the "My Gallery" screen without opening (single tap), and tap on the trash icon in the lower right corner of the screen.

You can also synchronize your collages using iCloud. Select the collage you wish to synchronize and tap on the "cloud" icon with an arrow below it in the lower left corner of the screen to enable synchronization for that particular collage.

8. Thank you

Thank you for buying Vivid Collage. Please contact us if you have any questions: vcollage@vividapps.com

Vivid Collage version 2.0 by Vivid Apps (2016)