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In this tutorial
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we'll investigate the use of clip
art images within your MegaEdit products
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whilst having many similarities
with the image galleries.
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Clip Art Categories
vary in a few different ways,
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so clip art
will not interact with image fields
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that you've already added to your canvas,
and customers cannot upload new clip art,
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but they can be allowed access
to predefined clip art categories.
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So clip art categories are defined
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independently from your MegaEdit products to begin with.
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And then we assign those clip
art categories to your products.
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So I'm going to start off
by just going to my general data
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for MegaEdit, which can be accessed
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catalog product types
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MegaEdit and then MegaEdit general data.
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You'll see here
that we've got a few different tabs
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related to a few
different types of resource.
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For now, we're going to be
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sticking with clip art galleries,
click on add new record
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sticking with clip art galleries,
click on add new record
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type name and description.
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You have the option to allow this
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to only be accessible by administrators
if you wish to do so.
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So for example, if this is required
by administrators just to generate
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templates, then you might not want
to make it accessible by customers.
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However, leaving that unchecked will mean
that end users can access
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these clip arts as well
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and go to insert.
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And then we can configure.
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And this is where we actually upload
our clip art from resources.
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You'll see there that it's
expecting the file format of JPEG, PNG
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or PDF.
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So you can either drag and drop files
onto the upload or click to launch the
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browser window
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and you can locate files from there.
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Resources that have been successfully
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uploaded will be shown
at the bottom of the screen.
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So with a category generated,
we then need to apply that clip
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art category
to one of our MegaEdit products.
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So if I go back, which will take me back
to our general data,
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I can get quick access to my mega
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edit products by going on this dropdown
and going to products.
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Alternatively, we can still access it
from the list on the left hand side
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catalog product types MegaEdit
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and then MegaEdit products.
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When to identify one of my MegaEdit products and edit
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to get to the resource specification area.
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So this is, for example, where
we've previously specified which canvases
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we want to use
stocks, fonts and output types.
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So far
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in this case, we'll go to clip arts.
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You'll see our available clip art category
is now listed and it's just a case
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of specifying the gallery or galleries
that we want to make available
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and clicking save changes
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from here.
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I'm going to access our MegaEdit editor
for this product.
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Now what you'll see is that on the left
hand side of our screen,
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we have an additional tab there
which wasn't present previously,
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which is to do with clip arts.
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So as I mentioned,
these are now static imagery.
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The user can’t upload any additional
images to this and they don't interact
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with the text or image fields
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that we've already defined.
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We can have multiple clip
art galleries available.
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In this case we only have one, and it's
just a case of dragging and dropping
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from one of these images
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over to our main canvas.
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And you'll see that if I hover over the
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image field,
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it doesn't try and place it
within the image fields.
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Also,
if I try and place another quick part
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over the top of this, it won't overwrite.
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So it's not doing the same behavior
as our previous image
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field.
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So as with Image Fields,
we may get some resolution
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and positional issues with clip galleries
as well and clip art frames.
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So if the clip art has been scaled
so that image quality may be poor,
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a warning will appear in you
of resolution issues.
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So you'll see that these frames here,
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they have the warning triangle.
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If I click to the bottom right,
which shows me the errors,
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it gives me more detail
on those particular issues.
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as we've seen with other entities
that we've added to our canvas,
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we can double click on a clip art image
that we've added to our canvas
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and get some additional image options
associated with it.
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Now there's a few different types
and behaviors available here
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and we'll work our way through the first
tab is our image options.
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So this allows us some basic
transformation, such as flipping the image
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and arrangement so we can change the
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z-axis arrangement of
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our clip art.
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And then you can delete
and you can duplicate
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the next tab.
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Along is the effect options tab.
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So this is very similar
to what you will have seen
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on the
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the image fields such as we've got up here
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where you can modify
things such as brightness, contrast, tint
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and so on.
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We have border and background options.
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So that allows us to assign
a border to our clip art,
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which you can modify as we see fit.
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And to apply a background cover,
we deem it
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necessary.
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We have our shadow options
so we can apply a shadow to the field.
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And then finally we have the details tab.
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So from an administrator and a template
designer perspective, the details tab
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is the most critical option on here.
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So within this particular tab,
you can control the clip
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art customization options
that a customer is able to access.
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Now there are a lot of options
on this tab, essentially enabling
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or disabling
the individual customization options
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which we've discussed in these previous
tabs and the transformation behavior
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that we get
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when we're operating within the canvas
itself.
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In addition
to disabling those individual settings,
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which you'll find somewhere in this list,
there are some regularly used options
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in this list as well,
which might have a more
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global control in terms
of this particular piece of clip art.
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So for example,
we can set a restriction on movement.
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So I can say, for example,
that this has gone from free to fixed.
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So that means it can no longer be moved
by our end user.
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We can also disable the ability
to change the size
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and disable the ability
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for rotation.
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We have got the ability to control this
on a a bit of a wider level though.
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So let's say, for example,
that we don't want our customers
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to be able to interact with this clip
art at all.
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That's
going to be a fixed piece of clip art.
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If we scroll down,
then we've got these options
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here, which are probably quite useful
for this purpose.
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So we've got do not open pop up.
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That completely eliminates the ability
to get this whole pop up window
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so none of these options can be accessed.
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We've got do not delete
so the customer can't delete the image
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and we also have do not select.
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Now this is particularly useful
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if you have multiple layers,
one on top of the other.
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And what it means is that regardless
of the the z-axis position
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of that particular clip frame,
that can never be selected.
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So anything else
that overlays it or sits behind
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it will be selected by default.
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Now, if we want to check that
this behavior is actually
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as we expect, then we're going
to need to put on our emulate use mode
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If we're in our current mode,
which is the administrator mode,
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then we can still access
all of these individual options.
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So if I go to menu and then emulate user
mode, this will now show me the canvas
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as the user would see it and allow me
to interact as the user would see it.
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So these two clip
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art frames here
I've not put any restrictions on.
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So you can still I can see
I can still access a lot of these
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different properties.
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Even as a customer,
I'm able to make these changes.
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However, this one on the top left
where we did apply some restrictions,
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you can see that I'm no longer able
to interact with that at all.
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So that is now a fixed piece of artwork
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on this particular product.
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If a clip art gallery
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is accessible to your customers
and it is not set to admin only
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and that was done for a member
in the admin area,
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then they will be able to add
additional images
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from that category by dragging
and dropping from the clip art.
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tab
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So if you've set to
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admin only and you're working
from a user perspective,
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so you emulating a user,
you won't see this clip art category.
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However, if it is not set to happen,
only then the user will also be able
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to make changes
by dragging clip art onto the canvas
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So just to reiterate, clip art
will not interact with the image frames.
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So unlike the images
which are shown in the images tab
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where you can drop, drag
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and drop images into an existing image
field,
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the same
behavior is not true of clip arts.
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So if I drag from the clip art category,
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it does not put that inside
our image field.
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It is completely independent.
