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ImageAXS is a database for images╤an imagebase. Part 4 of this document guides you through some basic features of the software. This demonstration software will open or create collections that contain up to 25 records. The full version of ImageAXS handles collections of up to 32,000 records. For more information about ImageAXS, please contact New Media Solutions by phone at 0171-727-9727 or by fax at 0171-727-8200. Enjoy your tour and thank you for your interest in New Media Solutions imaging products!
Minimum Hardware and Software Requirements
Ñ Macintosh computer with 68020 or better processor, and a minimum of 8 MB RAM.
Ñ Color or grayscale monitor with 8-bit, 16-bit, or 24-bit color support; 24-bit is strongly recommended.
Ñ Hard disk or other mass storage system, with 3MB available.
Ñ High-density (1.4 MB) floppy drive.
Ñ System 7 or later; or System 6.0.5 or later with 32-bit QuickDraw installed. System 7 (or later) is strongly recommended.
Ñ QuickTime 1.6.1 or later. (QuickTime version 2.0 is included with this demonstration software.)
1. Place Disk 1 in your floppy drive and double-click the ImageAXS Demo Installer icon.The ImageAXS installer window appears.
2. Click the CONTINUE button. The Standard Install window appears. Standard Install creates an ImageAXS Demo folder on a drive of your choosing. This folder contains the ImageAXS Demo, a sample collection, and some sample image files. Standard Install also places QuickTime version 2.0 in your System Folder (under System 6.x) or your Extensions folder (under System 7.x), replacing any older version of QuickTime. QuickTime is not installed if you already have a newer version.
3. Click the INSTALL button to begin Standard Install. An alert box appears informing you that you will have to restart after installation and asking if you want to continue.
4. Click the YES button to continue. A file directory dialog box appears prompting you to specify the drive where ImageAXS Demo is to be installed.
5. Choose a drive and click the INSTALL button. A progress window appears as ImageAXS Demo and the other items are installed. If you want to cancel the installation, press COMMAND-PERIOD. When the installation is finished, you are prompted to restart your machine.
6. Click the RESTART button. Your computer will restart. If you have any open unsaved documents, you will be prompted to save changes before restarting.
PART 4- Getting Started and Viewing the Sample Collection
1. Locate and open the folder ╥ImageAXS Demo.╙ This folder is on the drive you specified during installation.
2. Double click the ImageAXS¬ Demo application in the ImageAXS Demo folder. ImageAXS Demo launches. No windows will open, but the ImageAXS icon appears to the right of your menu bar.
3. Choose OPEN COLLECTION from the File menu. A dialog box prompts you to select a collection to open.
4. Locate DCI CD Sampler in the ImageAXS Demo folder. Select it and click the OPEN button. When the collection opens, you are looking at a grid of small pictures. Each picture is called a ╥thumbnail,╙ and the entire grid is called the ╥Light Table.╙
5. Click the list icon in the upper left corner of the window (icon with horizontal stripes). The Light Table switches to another format known as the Text List. The Light Table and the Text List are the two formats of the ╥List View.╙ In the Text List, you see information about each picture rather than seeing the picture itself. Look at the headings of each column: ╥CD-ROM,╙ ╥Title,╙ and ╥Date.╙ These are all ╥fields╙ for descriptive information about the images.
6. Press the mouse button over the field name ╥Date╙ in the right column, scroll to select ╥Artist Dates,╙ and release the mouse button. Information from the Artist Dates field is now displayed. You can configure any column to display information from any field.
7. Click the SORT button. This orders the records according to the data in the first column of the Text List. In this case, the records are now in order by Title. You can sort by a different field by configuring the first column as you did in step six, above.
8. Click the Light Table icon in the upper left corner of the window (icon with small squares inside). The view returns to the Light Table. The images are still in the sort order specified.
9. Note that under each thumbnail there is a red X over an icon of a hard disk . This means the program cannot locate the original ╥source image,╙ the image used to create the thumbnail. Press the mouse button over any disk icon to see information about the location of the source image. To see other information about the source image, press the mouse button on the text next to the disk icon.
10. You will need to show ImageAXS where the source images are located. To do this, select the thumbnail titled Holbein and click the Info button. The info sheet for that image will appear. Choose UPDATE from the Entry menu. A dialog box appears prompting you to identify the source file to be acquired or re-acquired. Locate the Images folder inside the ImageAXS Demo folder. Open it, select the file Holbein and click the Open button. The source image for the thumbnail Holbein is now considered ╥on line╙ and will no longer display a red x. As you saw, ImageAXS shows you thumbnails, even when images are not on line. Now that the image is on line, you will be able to see a full size version of it. Before we go on, click the Save button in the Info Sheet to save the path to the source image you just updated. You may update the four other images included with the sample datafile; Tiger, Moody, Mummy, and Icon, in the manner described above.
11. Double click the thumbnail labeled Holbein. A new window appears containing the full size Holbein image. Double clicking the disk icon in either the Light Table or the Text List also displays a full size image. If you like, you can open several full size images at once. You can even automatically arrange multiple windows on your monitor using the TILE commands from the Window menu.
12. Click anywhere in the picture Holbein. Notice that the cursor becomes a magnifying glass when you move it over the picture. Clicking in the picture immediately zooms in to give you a closer look. Pressing the OPTION key while you click makes the picture zoom out.
13. Close the Holbein window by selecting CLOSE from the File menu. This returns you to the Light Table.
Searching the Sample Collection
1. Select Keyword search from the Browse menu. The keyword search helps you find images that have been assigned specific keywords.
2. Select ╥Oil Painting╙ from the list of keywords in the Keyword Search window. This will find all images with the keyword ╥Oil Painting.╙
3. Click the OK button in the Keyword Search window. The results of your search are displayed in the Light Table.
4. Click the Search button in the Light Table. The search window appears. In the search window you can search for images that meet your criteria in any of the data fields.
5. In the search window, select ╥Media╙ in the box labeled ╥Fields,╙ move to the box labeled ╥Comparators╙ and select ╥contains,╙ then move to the box labeled ╥Value╙ and type ╥Silk.╙ Move from box to box by using the TAB key or by clicking in the desired box.
6. Click the Search button in the Search window. The results of your search, images with ╥Silk╙ entered into the media field, are displayed.
1. Locate and open the ImageAXS application on your hard drive. If you used ImageAXS with the sample collection, you will need to choose Close Collection from the File menu before proceeding to step 2.
2. Choose New Collection from the File menu. A directory dialog box prompts you to choose a name and location for your new collection file. Fill in the name and choose a location and click OK. A blank, dark gray window will open.
Adding Records to a Collection
1. Select Acquire Image from the File menu. A dialog box prompts you to choose an image file to be added to the collection.
2. Select any 8BIM, 8BPS, EPSF (with PICT preview), JPEG, MooV, PICT, RJPG, or TIFF format file on your hard disk. Click the Open button. A thumbnail version of the selected picture is added to the Light Table. You have created a new record.
3. To add multiple images at once you can use the Acquire Folder command. Note that the folder you choose to acquire must already contain image files. Select Acquire Folder from the File menu. A dialog box prompts you to choose a location to begin acquiring. All images in the folder you choose will be added to the collection.
4. Select a folder on your hard disk that contains several images in any of the formats listed above. Click the Select button. The images in the selected folder are added to the collection. An ╥Activity Log╙ window describing all your ImageAXS activity appears so that you can review your actions.
5. Close the Activity Log by choosing Close from the File menu.
Customizing the Field Names
1. Click the Info button. The Info sheet appears. You will see that the field names appear as ╥Field 1,╙ ╥Field 2,╙ etc. To give the fields a custom name, choose Preferences from the Edit menu. The Preferences dialog box appears. Find the section ╥Would you like to change the labels on the data.╙
2. Click the Yes button. A list of the eight user-definable fields appears. The first one, ╥Field 1,╙ is selected.
3. Type ╥Name╙ (or anything else you desire) into the selected field. You may rename as many of the fields as you choose. Click Change to return to the Preferences dialog box.
4. Click the OK button in the Preferences dialog box. This returns you to the Info Sheet where you can see that the field names have changed. The Text List also reflects the field name changes.
Entering Data in the Info Sheet
1. In the Light Table view, double-click the text beneath one of the images you added. This will display the Info Sheet for that image. Double-clicking any text in the Text List also displays the Info Sheet for an image.
2. Type new information into any desired field in the Info Sheet. You can move to the next field by pressing the TAB key, or you can click any field to select it.
3. Click the Save button at the lower left side of the Info Sheet. This makes the data you entered permanent. If you forget to save, ImageAXS will remind you before closing the Info Sheet for an image.
4. Select Keywords from the Edit menu. The keywords dialog box appears. Keywords are descriptive words attached to images to facilitate their retrieval.
5. Type a keyword appropriate to your image into the box at the top of the Master Keyword List, and click the Create button beneath the Master keyword List. This adds your keyword to the Master Keyword List (the list of keywords you can attach to any record in your collection). This also adds the keyword to your Working List (the list of keywords that you can attach to the current record).
6. Add several more keywords to the Master List. Select one of the keywords from the Master List and click the Copy button. This adds the keyword to the Working List for the image you are browsing. You can add as many keywords to the image as are appropriate. You can jump directly to the correct position in the Master Keyword List by typing the first few letters of a keyword.
7. Click the Attach button beneath the Working List. This attaches the keywords you placed in the Working List to the current record. Notice that the title bar of the keyword dialog box tells you that there is one record selected. You can also attach keywords to multiple records at a time starting from the Light Table or the Text List and selecting several records before choosing the keywords command.
8. Click the close button at the upper right of the Keywords dialog box. This returns you to the Info Sheet where you can see the keywords are now displayed under the thumbnail.
9. Click the first left-facing navigation arrow in the upper left corner of the Info Sheet. The first record in the collection is displayed. You can navigate through records in the Info Sheet by using the FIRST, PREVIOUS, NEXT, and LAST commands in the Browse menu or the navigation buttons in the upper left corner of the window.
