The APM Creative Collections Plus component, formerly known as APM Greetings, enables customers to create basic, single-sided multi-image greeting cards on the APM. This was the original creative template system for the APM software, and legacy support for these types of cards still exists.
**Note: Cards that use Creative Collections templates are referred to as Exclusive Cards in the APM software, and will be referred to as such for the rest of this section.
Before exclusive card products can be ordered, templates must be installed on the system. They can be obtained from Lucidiom or other third-party providers (as long as their templates are in the Lucidiom format). Templates purchased from Lucidiom will automatically install into the correct folder on the APM. If you have templates that you or other design companies have created, you can install them in three ways:
Flat Cards Button
- Insert the Template Installer CD into the CD drive and run the Template Installer(s) available on the Template Installer CD.
- Go to the Admin Menu from the Intro movie screen and select the Install Templates button to automatically install the templates from the Template Installer CD.
- Manually place the templates in their native form in the C:\APM_FOLDERS\Packages folder, and the software will locate and recognize them.
Once templates are installed and you enable the Creative Collections Plus in the Setup Wizard, the APM software will display options for customers to order exclusive card products. All exclusive cards are available for ordering on the Product Selection screen.
To begin ordering of an exclusive card product, select the Flat Cards category under the By Product tab on the Product Selection screen.
You will then be prompted to choose a size for the exclusive card product. Use the scroll arrows to browse through the size options. For example, you can select 4x8 Exclusive Card to being ordering a 4x8 greeting card using the standard Creative Collections Plus templates.
At any time during the selection process, you can use the Breadcrumb Buttons at the bottom of the screen to backtrack to the Product Selection screen by pressing the Products button. Once you have chosen the size of the card, you will be taken to the Template Selection screen.
Use the category tabs on the right to scroll through the available list of templates. Choose the template you would like you use with your photos by selecting it. If there are 6 or more categories available, use the View More arrow buttons that will appear at the bottom of the tab list to scroll through additional categories. Use the Back button to choose a different size or template category. Once you have selected a template, you will be taken to the Image Selection screen, outlined in the next section.
Template Selection Screen
