You are about to learn the final step, which is saving your completed work. Before that last step I want to explain a few things about that final process. There are two ways to save your final layout. As a common practice for your future layouts, I recommend that you use both.

 

The first way is to save your completed layout as a PDN file. Doing so allows you to work on it later in a very time saving way. Some of those reasons could be maybe you will want to use the same layout for another photo, to change only the background or to make coordinated sets of layouts. Maybe you will discover you spelled a word wrong in your text. Maybe a friend or relative really liked it and wants you to make the same layout for one of their photos, too. Regardless, there are many reasons you will want to save your work, once completed, in a way that allows you to easily edit it---even if you don't think so at the time.

 

You also need to save you completed layout as a .jpg or .png image file. A few of those reasons are that both are common file formats used at a number of places, easily sent in emails or from cellular devices, iPads, tablets, etc. Professional printing companies use them and various social media websites.  You can save your layout as a .png file then later open that same .png in Paint Dot Net to RESAVE it as a .jpg image file. I had to resave completed layouts and photos to use at Shutterfly, for it's photo book making process. At this time, unless their policy has recently changed, Shutterfly photo book printing company only allows you to upload your images in .jpg format. (I simply rename them when I resave them from a .png to a .jpg so I have my original .png layout or image. I print out completed layouts or images on my home computer using .png format. You can also do a Google search for the difference between a .jpg file and .png file.

 

NOTE: even in the beginning stages of making a layout you can save your layouts in the PDN file format every time you add an image or do something to the layout. If you lose power on your computer or the PDN program closes on you unexpectedly, for whatever reason, at least you won't lose your work and have to spend more time starting over again. What if the computer you are using is shared by others and you walk away from the computer for a moment while another person or child closes the PDN program, not realizing they lost all of your work. Just some food for thought.