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What is Trendbook Editor?
Trendbook Editor, or presentation editor, allows you to create professional fashion presentations for customers. We have two types of editors that let you either create a presentation automatically or make a professional customized presentation.

Smart Trendbook Editor
This is a smart fashion presentation tool based on AI image recognition and intelligent typesetting engine. It allows you to create a professional style or fabric presentation automatically. Hyperlink elements such as styles, fabrics and even texts to 3D effects, videos, fabric and more in a presentation. Share it with your customers via a link, email or post. You can save it as a PDF file, which, however, comes with no hyperlink feature.

Custom Trendbook Editor
This editor allows you to customize a presentation that tailors the need of your customers. Create one or more blank pages. Add styles, fabrics, fields and other details to a presentation. Move and adjust elements as you like. Add hyperlinks to more styles or fabrics. Share it with your customers via a link, email or post. You can save it as a PDF file, which, however, comes with no hyperlink feature.

When Do You Need Trendbook Editor?
If you want to to send a style presentation to customers for selection, you can use our editor to create a professional collection presentation. You can connect fabrics or styles with 3D effects, videos, links and more to visually attract your customers.
Besides, you can also use this tool for reviewing styles collections launched on schedule in your team.

How to Access Trendbook Editor?
There are two ways to access trendbook editor.
● Go to All menu>Application Center>Trendbook

● Add "Trendbook Editor" to your favorite and access it from "My Menu".

 

Menu Interface
My Trendbook: Access all presentations created by yourself. These files are only visible to you.
Public Trendbook: Access collections created by colleagues. Click "Public" to make it accessible to all those in your company.
Sent: You can view all presentations sent and unsent. Presentations come from "My + Public".
Template: your own presentation templates that are commonly used.
New: Click "New" to create a new collection on the editing page.

 

Trendbook Settings
Click "Settings" to configure the profile of presentations. You can check to select fields which will show on the profile once you hover the mouse over each presentation.

Note:
1. It's necessary to enter details on trendbook editing page once you choose these fields. Otherwise, you won't see the details on profile.
2.If you want to have more fields on presentation profile, you can go to All Menu>Settings>Basic Data Management>Trendbook to customize fields.

Configure Smart Trendbook: check the fields that need to be displayed in smart trendbook.

 

 

Other settings:
Intelligent image selection: enable this mode before you choose a style picture, which should be either in front view, side view or in back view, and then our platform can intelligently display it in different views, including front, side, back and detailed view separately for typesetting.
Language: choose language as Chinese or English
Title: choose a field that you want to make bold and bigger. Once chosen, the field will be displayed in the first line of each slide.
Slogan and logo: you can configure slogan and logo. But slogan will only appear when the whole typesetting looks well-structured.

 

 

How to change view mode?
You can switch between large image mode and list mode.
How to check out trendbooks added to favorites?
Click on the icon below Filter to view your favorites.
How to check out deleted trendbooks?
View the deleted trendbooks in Recycle Bin, in which files can be “restored” and “permanently deleted”.

 

Create a Smart Trendbook
Learn how to create a smart trendbook with build-in styles:
● Click "+New" to add a “Smart Trendbook” and you can see the “Beginner's Guide” pop-up.

 

● “Beginner's Guide” offers a series of built-in styles using which you can quickly learn how to create a smart trendbook.
Note: You won't see Beginner's Guide after you've tested out the built-in styles. Instead, if you create a new trendbook without trying them out in advance, you will see the integration of your own styles with build-in ones in your collection.
Create a professional smart trendbook with styles you like:
Once you've learned how to use this feature, move to "Design Center" and choose styles you like and click "Next". Then, you can see the trendbook generated automatically.

 

Edit the trendbook if necessary with basic editing tools on the sidebar. Refer to "About menus of Trendbook Editor" for more details.

 

Create a Template Trendbook
Click "+New">Template Trendbook

Choose a template from official templates or your own template. Customize the size of template if you need.

 

Enter the name of your trendbook and choose its type from garment, fabric and support materials before you click "Confirm".

How to create a template?
Go to "Template" and click "Add Template".

Configure the template, including name, type and size.

Create a Customized Trendbook
Click "+New">Customized Trendbook

Choose styles from Cloud.

Enter basic info on left side bar.

Edit the trendbook to customize effects with basic editing tools on the sidebar. Refer to "About menus of Trendbook Editor" for more details.

About menus of Trendbook Editor:
About Top Right Menu

 

● Settings: Modify trendbook dimensions

● Undo: Go back to the previous step
● Redo: Revert to the next step
● Save: Save the current operation
● Preview: Preview results
● Exit: Exit the current editing page

 

About Top Left Menu
Background

Click “Background” icon and you will see a pop-up as below.
Choose a background for the slide you've chosen. You can choose a black or white background, upload a picture background from your device, or connected assets.

Styles

Click "Styles" icon and you will see a pop-up as above.
Choose a style from public assets, your own styles, clients' styles, or my collaborative folder.
Use filter to find the styles you need faster.

Click on styles you like and click "Confirm" to add them into your trendbook.

From left to right, seven icons in the red box of the picture below stand for Fabrics, Trims, Custom Colors, Patterns, Album, Function Icons, and Rendered Images.

 

If you want to add elements mentioned above to your trendbook, click on the relevant icon and choose the element and then click "Confirm".

Hyperlink Feature
Hyperlink feature, also hot spot, allows you to hyperlink the elements in your trendbook to fabrics, garments, support materials, links, videos, and more.
Click on the last fourth icon on the menu and move your mouse to the slide before you can see a "+"icon. Drag the "+"icon to draw a transparent-orange rectangular hyperlink area.

 

Move to the right side bar and click on "Linked" and then you can see different types of elements for you to add hyperlink, such as fabrics, garments, trims, links, videos, and more.

 

Choose the element you want to hyperlink and then you can see a pop-up. Enter the name of the linked element. Choose whether or not to show the name of the hyperlink to your audience. Click the big "+" button to choose or upload relevant element.

Click "Confirm" before you add it as a hyperlink successfully.

Then, the transparent-orange rectangular hyperlink area will turn into transparent-grey.

 

Below is an example of how you create hyperlink in your trendbook with a style.

How to change the hyperlinked element?
Click on the transparent-grey connected area and then you can see the three-dot dropdown menu on the right sidebar. Click to replace the linked element or delete it.

 

 

For 3D elements, you can also make adjustments. Click "Adjust" and then you can see four icons on the left. You can preview the connected element in full screen, drag to adjust how the element is placed and snapshot or refresh it.

Shape
You can add some built-in graphics to your trendbook, or you can use a brush to draw lines and shapes.

Pictures
You can upload pictures from local devices to your trendbook.

Text
Click on "T" icon and hit a blank area on your slide. Double click to enter texts such as a title.
Click on text you've entered and you can see the text editor on the right. Adjust font, size, color or make texts bold if you need.

 

How to move, copy or delete a slide in trendbook?
Drag the slide thumbnail you want to move and drop it to the place you want.
Mouse over a slide thumbnail and you can see a three-dot dropdown menu. Click on it and choose "Create a copy" to reproduce a slide in the same trendbook. Click "Copy to" if you want to copy it to another trendbook. Click "Delete" if you need to delete the slide.

About Sidebar Menu- Edit Template Details
You can edit the details of template from sidebar menu, which makes it easier to manage your trendbooks.
Type: Choose a trendbook type from garment, fabric and support materials (required field).
Enter name or theme of the trendbook (required field).
Add and choose styles brand, year and seasons (optional).
Enter the name of the collection that styles used in trendbook come from (optional).

 

 

Dropdown menu of trendbooks: Share, copy, download and more

Share: Share a trendbook with your customers and more. Refer to this file.
Statistics: Check out data about a trendbook
Send: Send a trendbook to customers that you've connected in Cloud platform.
Edit: Edit or modify a trendbook in editing page.
Copy: Copy and reproduce a trendbook
Delete: Delete a trendbook
Public: Make a trendbook public and accessible to those in your company.
Download: Download a trendbook as a PDF file.
Like: Add a trendbook to your favorites.

Statistics
Go to All Menu>Application Center>Trendbook
Statistics: Click “Statistics” and you can see a new interface as below.
View the data in different time periods as per your needs.

Examples of Smart Trendbook