Q&A: LR4 photo book design tutorial

Question:

I’m using LR4 Book Module to design my book. I’m curious if there is a way to use one of the provided page layouts and take one of the picture squares to use it as a text box? I’d love to just pop my text into one of the picture squares from a page layout that doesn’t have a text area. I feel like this should be easy to insert text where I want but I cannot figure out how! Any insight on this would be so so appreciated!

Answer:

Great question!  I agree, text is not the easiest to include in the Book Module. This may be something they are fixing in the upcoming LR5 release.But it is possible. Here’s what I did! I selected a 4 photo page:

Then instead of filling the fourth photo, I selected the photo above (top right) and selected “Caption.”

This is the key, I adjusted the offset in order to get the text to line up with the other photo.

 

Next, you can adjust the style/size of font to suit your book.

 

There you have it! A simple way to cleanly add text to your layouts using the LR4 Book Module. Do you have a question about how to use the Book Module? Leave a comment below and I’ll address it in an upcoming post!