A travel map with your photos pinned where you took them.

Pin each photo to the place you took it

Every photo belongs to a place marker on the map. The place holds the location and the photo holds the picture, so you can move a stop and its photo follows.

1. 1

   Add the stops

   Click the map with the Place tool (P) for each stop, or paste a list into the place spreadsheet as Name, Longitude, Latitude, with up to 300 rows at once. Give each place a short label.

2. 2

   Attach a photo

   Open Layout › Photos, choose the place under Attach to and click Add local photo. Leave it on New pin at center to drop a fresh place in the middle of the map, then drag it into position with the Select tool.

3. 3

   Write the captions

   Each stop gets a caption of up to 200 characters. Three or four words read best under a small photo: "Glencoe, day 3" says enough.

4. 4

   Choose where photos appear

   Turn on Photos on the map for round or square pictures sitting on their places, the Numbered photo strip for a row of squares above or below the map, or both. The first photo you add switches on Photos on the map for you.

5. 5

   Draw the way between

   Use the Route tool to join the stops. Road follows real roads by car, on foot or by bike, Arc draws a curve for flights and ferries, and Straight joins the points directly. If you recorded the trip, import the GPX file instead.

The Photos panel

All photo settings live in Layout › Photos. The photo on the map and the tile in the strip share one number, so readers can match the two at a glance.

• Attach to

  Pick an existing place from the list, or New pin at center to create one. Removing a photo keeps its place, and deleting a place removes its photo.

• The photo list

  Stops are numbered in the order you add them, so add photos in trip order and stop 1 is the first morning. Each one has its own caption field.

• Photos on the map

  Circle or square, 5 to 100 mm across, with a border colour of your choice and the stop number in the corner. Pictures are centre-cropped, so keep faces and horizons near the middle of the frame.

• Numbered photo strip

  Square tiles in a row above or below the map, 12 to 100 mm tall, with captions underneath. With the strip on, captions move off the map and into the strip.

How big each photo prints in the strip

The strip divides the width of the map between your photos, with a 3 mm gap between each tile, and every tile is square. The more photos you add, the smaller each one gets, so it helps to know the numbers before you choose a page size.

Tile size is also capped by the strip height. With captions on, a tile can be 12 mm shorter than the strip, so set the strip height to the tile width plus 12 mm to use the full width.

• For more than about ten photos, move up a page size or turn the page to landscape for a wider strip.

Photo sizes the editor accepts

Photos are embedded in the project, so the project file carries them wherever it goes. They stay on your device and inside that file.

Formats

PNG and JPEG.

Each photo

Up to 1 MiB and up to 2048 pixels on each side.

Per project

Up to 24 photo stops, about 4.5 MB of image files and 16.7 million pixels across all photos together.

Captions

Up to 200 characters per stop.