Clip Art Tutorial

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Clip Art	Open the Server
	You can access the Clip Art as another server. Simply log in as a Guest, connect to the Clip Art option, and open the server icon when it appears on the desktop. Inside, you'll find icons for three CDs of clip art, containing nearly 25,000 unique images. You could search every folder of these CDs for the images you want, or use a search engine to zero in on exactly the right kind of clip art. In the Go menu, select Computer, double click on the hard drive (HD) and then a file called DeskGallery Catalog. After the gallery finishes loading, you'll see the default window containing a collection of images. Click on the Find magnifying glass icon in the top right to begin your search in the window below.
	The Word is the Key
	Your search must be performed using keywords which match the names of folders on the CDs. Many common categories such as people, animals or sports will return large results, so you need to use more specific terms such as babies, cats or basketball. However, any term that does not match a folder will just return a blank window. You can use the handout to enter specific terms that will return a set of images, and look inside these folders to find even more keywords. For example, to find household pets, look inside Animals>Mammals, where you will find folders for Domestic animals like Dogs and Cats. Entering Cats will bring up the window below.
	Tips to Enhance Searches
	Some categories can be found in more than one place. Flowers, for example, are inside the Plants folder, but also in the Designs folder on another CD. If you only want to browse the flowers in the Plants folder, you'll need to add more choices to your search. Click the More Choices button, and a new row of search parameters appears. Now you can enter Plants in one and Flowers in the other, and only that folder of clip art is available to browse. Many categories have a folder called MISC, for miscellaneous, that contain various images. Entering Sports and Misc, for example, will retrieve clip art for handball, volleyball and hang gliding, as well as games such as darts, cards, and chess. To see a full list of folders in the clip art collection, go here.
	Where Is My Art?
	Once you have decided on a clip art file to use in your pamphlet, you need to know where it is on the CDs. Click on the image you want and then on the Info button at the top center of the window, or type I. A window appears telling you everything about that file, including its location on the CD and each folder containing it. Use this information to navigate to the file when you use the Place command to import it into your document.
	Transparent Motives
	You will have to import two clip art files and perform two different tasks with them before including them in your pamphlet design. The first is to make a clip art graphic semi-transparent and blend it into a column of text. Navigate to the clip art file you found while browsing with the File>Place command. Make sure nothing such as a text frame is selected or the graphic may unexpectedly appear in it. Click the mouse and the graphic will appear. Most clip art files will be larger than your column, so you need to scale it down. You could use the scale menus in the Control Panel, but every graphic is different and results may be unpredictable. A more reliable method is to scale with the mouse. Hold the Shift key and grab one corner of the graphic frame, sizing it down until it fits inside one column. Then go to Object>Fitting>Fit Content to Frame, and the graphic reduces its size to the new frame. Next, find the Transparency/Opacity slider in the Control Panel and adjust it down to the range of 30 to 40 percent. Your clip art and text can now be seen and read in the same place.
	Wrap Artist
	The second task you will perform on a clip art graphic is a custom-shaped text wrap. This involves pushing some text to one side so it can flow around an illustration. Import a new clip art graphic as you did in the transparency lesson. Resize it so it is no more than half the width of a column of text, then position it on either side of the column but not in the middle. Now while your graphic is still selected, open the Text Wrap palette from the Window menu or type -option-W. Click on the second button. You will see all text disappear from inside the graphic's rectangular frame. However, we cannot begin adjusting our text wrap to fit the shape of our clip art until we separate its path from the graphic frame. To do this we must create a standoff. You can enter 1 pica values inside the four standoff areas in the text wrap palette, or you can open the Scripts panel, scroll down near the bottom, and double-click the Text Wrap for Pamphlet script. This little program creates the 1 pica standoff for you.   Now we will add anchor points to the text wrap path. Go to the tool box, click on and hold the Pen tool, and select the Pen tool with the plus (+) sign . This is the Add Anchor Point tool. The text wrap path already has four anchor points at each of the four corners, but we need several more on the vertical side directly facing the text. Click four or five times on this portion of the text wrap path (the outside blue line, not the inside!), and little dots will appear in each spot. Next, select the Black Arrow Tool, start at the anchor point at the top corner and move it toward the top of your clip art graphic, being careful to leave a little white space between them. Move down and pull the rest of the anchor points toward the clip art, stretching the lines of the path if necessary, again leaving just enough white space to keep the text from touching the clip art. When you get to the bottom corner and finish adjusting it, your custom-shaped text wrap is complete. Now you can return to the Pamphlet tutorial to finish your project.

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