Design
Good design supports your message
Alongside carefully choosing your words and pictures, good design that reduces visual clutter and guides the reader through your document is one of the most important tools you can use when creating good quality Easy Read.
Design functions in Photosymbols take the more time-consuming and difficult elements out of laying out your document, allowing you to focus on the quality of your message.
Software built specifically for Easy Read
If you’ve used a standard word processor to write an Easy Read document you’ll know that juggling pictures and text can be fiddly and often involves compromise such as using tables to get things in the right place. Graphic design software can get better results, but may be costly and involve a steep learning curve.
Our Design function was built for Easy Read, and is based on our team's extensive experience over decades of creating accessible information. It's geared towards making the process easy for you and accessible for your reader. Everything is customisable in a few clicks, and works alongside our full suite of features.
Get the right image every time
Our powerful document creator is fully integrated with the classic Photosymbols image library. You can browse thousands of images relevant to people with learning disabilities. To speed up your workflow, you can easily draw on recently used images and favourites from our library.
Good Easy Read is person centred and specific to the needs of the reader. Use our in-built Picture Editor to combine two or more images and create new meaning. Or you can use personal images such as logos or pictures of real locations, all from within Design Mode.
Flexibility, variety and quality
Mix and match pages within Design to tailor your template to your needs. Our intuitive drag and drop function allows you to add, remove and reorder pages. Get templates based on our team’s decades of experience in creating Easy Read. You don’t have to be a design expert to get high quality documents every time.
With over 20 customisable page designs included there are endless combinations for quickly building your layout, and through our ongoing work with Expert Advisers we add new template pages whenever we hit upon something that we think you’ll find useful.
Quicker and more consistent Easy Read
Create templates for the documents you use again and again. There’s no need to start from scratch with every day tasks like appointment letters or reports. Choose whether to keep your templates personal to you, or share them across your team for a consistent approach to communicating with your audience.
You can share one-off projects with your team too, allowing colleagues to download them and use them as they are, pick up with editing where you left off or even copy them and use them as the basis for creating their own work.
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