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Photos and your layout

What happens. Upload photos in the Images pane, then place them on

the canvas. Each placed photo can be moved and resized with its handles,

like a placed piece of text.

What does not change. A photo does not make a person's bar taller or

push their row apart: the arrangement of the family is the same with or

without photos.

For print. Place photos where they leave the people readable, and check

the page in Edit Borders before you print.

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What makes a TreeLine feel balanced

A balanced TreeLine distributes branches evenly, avoids long stretches of empty space, and keeps connectors short and unambiguous. Balance is part aesthetic, part mathematical — TreeLine optimises for both.

Why rendering happens in stages

TreeLine separates arrangement from rendering so that style changes — colours, paper size, fonts — can be applied instantly without repeating the expensive layout calculation.

The Pane Buttons

The **icon rail** down the side of the screen opens the **panes** — each one a focused set of controls. Click an icon to open a pane; click it again to close. The panes include: - **TreeLine Settings** — the searchable settings for this TreeLine: layout, style, labels, and **Paper and printing** (paper size, orientation, sheets and borders). - **Arrange** — move the people you select up or down, and put brothers and sisters in order. - **People** — a searchable list of everyone, with their Events. - **Person** — the selected person's details, parents, relationships and events. - **Images** and **Maps** — photographs, and the places in your family's story. - **Recipe** — the steps that arranged this TreeLine, one by one. - **History** — view or restore an earlier design. - **TreeLine Info** — what this TreeLine is and who can see it. - **Help** — these guides; **Feedback** — tell us what works and what does not. Panes are where you go to **change settings and review** the tree, a topic at a time. Open one, make your changes, and close it again.