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Imagemixer Label Maker User Manual
Clip Art
Clip Art Search
If you want to search for clip art images on your computer's hard drive(s), click on the Art
Search tab near the top of the program's main window. Then follow these steps:
Type something to search for into the "Search for:" field. The search will find any file names
containing the text string you've entered here. If a directory name contains the string you've
typed in, the search will find any images in that directory and its subdirectories. If you leave the
"Search for:" field blank, the search will find all images in all directories.
Choose the image types that you want to search through, in the "File types:" combo box. If you
select "All", the search will find any image types that the program supports. Currently this
includes file extension types .bmp, .dib, .jpg, .jpeg, .png, and .pcx.
Click the "Search" button. The button will change into a "Stop" button. Clicking on it again will
stop the search. Once the search has finished, it will revert back to a "Search" button.
Any images that the search finds will show up in the thumbnails list. The search will only find
files on your computer's fixed drives -- it will skip floppy drives, CD-ROM drives, Zip drives, etc.
If you need to search on a removable drive, you'll have to click on the
Clip Art Explore
tab and
use our explorer control to find the clip art you're looking for.
Clip Art Explore
If you want to use the traditional Windows-Explorer style interface for finding clip art on your
computer, click on the Art Explore tab near the top of the program's main window. This will
bring up our explorer-tree clip art window. Instead of a list of file names, though, our explore tab
displays thumbnails of all the images in whatever folder is currently selected. Call us crazy, but
we think it's easier to find the pictures you want by looking at the actual pictures than by
deciphering their file names.
The Art Explore tab pane contains two windows. The top window is a Windows Explorer tree.
Use it to find the folders where your clip art resides. Click on the + sign beside a folder or drive
you want to dive into, and the tree will expand to show the subdirectories that the folder or drive
contains. Click on the name of a folder or drive, and the Art Explore pane's lower window will
fill with the images that are in that folder (not including the images in any subdirectories it may
have), should it have any.
Changing the Explorer Tree & Thumbnail Window Sizes
You can change the amount of space devoted to the explorer tree window vs. the thumbnails
window by clicking on the border between them and dragging it up or down. The mouse cursor
will change into a little vertical resizing arrow when it's over the resizing border.
About the Clip Art Cache
The program caches the thumbnails of any clip art images it finds. Or, translated into English:
the first time the program displays the thumbnail of a clip art image, it will take longer to display
than it will any time from then on. That's because the first time through, it has to create the
thumbnail that gets displayed. But it saves the thumbnail in a special cache, so anytime the
program displays that thumbnail from then on, it can retrieve the thumbnail from the cache
instead of creating it, so it will be much faster.
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