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Stuff You Can Do WIth Clip Art

When you see a clip art image in Acoustica CD/DVD Label Maker, you will be looking either at a hopeful thumbnail under the Art Search or Art Browse tabs, or a proud, happy clip art image that you have added to one of your labels. The actions you can take differ depending on which of these two situations you're facing. We'll start with:

Stuff You Can Do with a Clip Art Thumbnail in the Art Search or Art Browse Tabs

• You can drag your mouse cursor over it and just let it sit there. This will cause a tooltip to pop up and tell you the clip art image's name, folder location, size, and date and time when it was last modified.
• You can left-click on it and drag it onto your label.
• You can double-click it. This will make it your label's background image.
• You can right-click it, which will pop up a menu with these options:

Set as Background: this will bring up a submenu with these options:

1. Centered (overlap): make the selected clip art image your background image, and center it on the label. This will cover the entire label with the selected image while preserving the image's aspect ratio. If the image's aspect ratio differs from the label's aspect ratio, a portion of the image will get clipped.
2. Centered (underlap): Like the centered overlap option, except that if the image and label aspect ratios are different, the image will underlap the label instead of overlapping (cropping) it. This means that if the image & label aspect ratios aren't the same, a portion of the label won't be covered by the background image.
3. Stretched: make the selected clip art image your background image, and stretch it to cover the entire label. This will make the selected image cover the label exactly, but it could change the image's aspect ratio. If the image's aspect ratio is dramatically different from the label's aspect ratio, this option could make the image appear stretched or scrunched.
4. Tiled: make the selected clip art image your background image, but instead of stretching it, tile it to cover the label.
5. Add to Label: add a copy of the clip art image to your label's foreground. This has the same effect as clicking on a clip art thumbnail and dragging it onto a label.
6. Show Full Size: pop up a window that displays the selected clip art image at its actual size. You can't edit the image or take any other useful actions with this window. It's just there so you can take a closer look at it.
7. Set as Wallpaper: Lets you set the selected clip art image as your Windows desktop wallpaper. It has nothing to do with creating labels. It pops up a submenu with these four options:
   1. Tiled: Sets the clip art image as tiled wallpaper.
   2. Centered: Sets the clip art image as centered wallpaper.
   3. Stretched: Sets the clip art image as stretched wallpaper.
   4. Stretched without Changing Aspect Ratio: Sets the clip art image as stretched wallpaper without changing the image's aspect ratio. This means that the image won't get funhouse mirrorified if it's not the same aspect ratio as your Windows desktop, but it may leave a blank vertical or horizontal band on the desktop.

If you try to set as your Windows wallpaper an image of a type that Windows can't automatically set as wallpaper, or it needs to be stretched in some way that Windows can't handle automatically, the program will save the image in the correct size and format as a file called wallpaper.bmp in your My Documents folder and tell Windows to set this new file as your wallpaper.

Remove from list: Removes the selected clip art image from the thumbnails list. It doesn't delete or modify the actual clip art image's file in any way.

Rename file: Lets you change the clip art image's file name. This will affect any other programs that expect to find the image under its old file name.

Delete file: Deletes the actual clip art image file. Use this option with caution.

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