Picture Book Studio

Paste in a story you wrote or a lesson text and every character is annotated with pinyin automatically. Upload your own photographs or drawings, choose a layout, and export a multi-page PDF that is ready to print and bind — annotation, polyphone correction, layout and paginated export all happen on one page, with no shuttling between programs. When a polyphone is resolved wrongly, click the character on the canvas to fix its reading and the change carries through to the exported PDF.

Three layouts

• Text on its own page — the page is text, with the illustration reduced to a narrow band at the top. Best for longer passages and transitions between scenes.
• Text on top of the illustration — the image bleeds across the whole page with the text floating above it on a translucent panel. Best for short lines and emotionally strong images.
• Split page — image and text each take a band, and the ratio can be dragged straight on the preview. The most common layout in books for young children.

Export PDF downloads a real multi-page .pdf file rather than a print dialog for you to save yourself, and the text you type and the illustrations you upload never leave your device — the draft is stored only on your own device.

The full guide lives in the Tutorials hub

Only the essentials are kept here. Layout trade-offs, repositioning and zooming an illustration, why overlaid text gets nine fixed positions, page sizes and printing, drafts and project files, and the questions people ask most often are all written up in the Tutorials hub:

• Picture Book Studio — the full guide — every feature explained, plus FAQs;
• How to make a pinyin picture book — the manual route from story to bound book;
• The Tutorials hub — pinyin fundamentals, task-based guides, reading advice and classroom material.