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English: The main reason i have been making these templates is to tidy up my album presentations. The problem is that due to the way Flickr works, when you create an album and assign an image as the the album cover, unless it is a square format, Flickr auto crop the image which sometimes doesn't look very good. By using a square photo as your album cover it looks ok in your album list but when opening the album, the main photo header often looks terrible. The way i have got over it to some extent is to create a square photo montage like the one above. The critical area is across the center as this is what shows up as the header when opening the album. Unfortunately Flickr still fades out the borders of the photo. Why? who knows.. Anyway if you are interested in trying to improve your album presentation here is a link to a photo template i have made you can download it if you want to try it out and obviously change the design to suit your needs. but remember the critical area is across the middle... www.flickr.com/photos/locosteve/32142082666/

Another interesting thing i just found out is that if you use this template As your Front page header, the second row of images from the top get displayed on your photostream Which could be useful if you wish to change your photostream photo's.... The template size is 5120 x 5120 pixels. You will obviously need some form of photoshop. I use a combination of Microsoft picture it! Photo premium 9 which i have had for years and often use ipiccy which is a free app that is pretty easy to use.. Anyway.. using Microsoft picture it! Photo premium 9 you would simply have to cut out the second row of photo's and replace them with your choice then upload the template with the new images and set them as your photostream header.. I know someone will probably send me details of a simple app where you add three photos and it does all the work for you : ) If there is such a thing!

So just to recap.. If you used the above image as your photostream header you will see my current header display or if you click on my Empire builder album you will see the middle image as the header...