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Elements Panel Guide

How to add text, photos, shapes, and design objects to your page

Written by Alex Reyes

Updated at April 20th, 2026

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Table of Contents

📚Elements panel 📍 Access the Elements Panel 🧰 Available Element Types 📝 Add Text 🖼 Add an Empty Photo Well 📏 Add a Line 🔷 Add Shapes 🎨 Edit Shapes 💡 Editing Tip 🧭 Related Articles

📚Elements panel 

The Elements Panel allows you to place design objects onto your yearbook page, including text boxes, image placeholders, shapes, and graphic lines. These tools help you build layouts, structure content, and customize page designs.


📍 Access the Elements Panel

The Elements panel is located in the left vertical toolbar while editing a page.

Steps

  • Open your page in the editor
     
  • Click Elements in the left toolbar


đź§° Available Element Types

The panel provides several draggable objects:

Text — captions, titles, and body text

Empty Photo — placeholder image wells

Line — decorative or structural lines

Shapes — geometric design elements


📝 Add Text

Select Text

Drag it onto your page

Click inside the box to type


đź–Ľ Add an Empty Photo Well

Useful when designing layouts before inserting images.

Select Empty Photo

Drag it onto your page


📏 Add a Line

Select Line

Drag it onto your page

Resize or reposition as needed


đź”· Add Shapes

Click Shapes to open the shape library

Drag a shape onto your page


🎨 Edit Shapes

After placing a shape:

Click the shape to select it

Adjust settings such as:

Fill color

Border/stroke

Shadow


đź’ˇ Editing Tip

Once placed, elements can be:

  • resized
  • repositioned
  • layered
  • grouped
  • locked

These options appear in the editing toolbar when an element is selected.

 


đź§­ Related Articles

How to Edit a Freeform Section/Page

Portrait Layouts

Adding or Editing Captions

Alignment and Grouping

Object Locking

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