Simple Viewing Instructions
Dover Design Manager has two modes of operation: "Browser" mode for quick viewing of the contents of your Dover CD, and "Edit" mode for manipulation of a selected image.

Browser Mode
To open Design Manager in "browser" mode, double-click on the Design Manager icon on your desktop. The browser window opens. There are three panels in the browser window.

At upper left is the "file-tree" panel. All of the drives, folders, and files under "My Computer" can be viewed and navigated within this panel. When a Dover Clip Art CD is placed in your CD drive its icon and name will appear in this panel at the level directly beneath "My Computer." Clicking the "+" sign beside the Dover CD icon will open it and allow you to view its contents; you can continue to navigate downward by clicking the "+" sign beside subsequent sub-folders. All Dover Clip Art CDs have an "Images" folder, inside of which will be either sub-folders or image files depending on the type of clip art (Color or B&W) and the number of images on the CD. Once you've navigated down to folders containing images (they have names like "001-150," or "151-300"), you can click on one of these folders to display its contents in the "thumbnail" panel.

On the right is the "thumbnail" panel. When a folder of images on the Dover Clip Art CD is clicked on, small "thumbnails" of those images are displayed in this panel. By double-clicking a thumbnail the image is opened full-size in "edit" mode.

At lower left is the "preview" panel. When a thumbnail image in the right-hand panel is single-clicked a medium-sized copy of that image appears in the preview panel.

Edit Mode
To open an image in "edit" mode

• launch Design Manager by double-clicking on the program's icon (a blue square with a white letter "d") on your desktop.
  
  
• Click on "File" on the menu bar; then slide down to "Open."

  A dialogue box appears that says "Open Picture."

• Beside the words "Look in" scroll to "My Computer."
  
  The name of the Dover CD will appear in the panel beneath "Look in."
• Double-click on the CD’s name; then double-click on "Images."
  
  If the abbreviations TIF, BMP, JPG etc. appear in the panel, double-click on any one (TIF for example); this will bring you to folders containing images, or to the image files themselves depending on which CD you have purchased. Image folders have names like "001-150," "151-300," etc. Double-click on any image folder; inside you will see a list of images with names like "001.TIF" or "001.BMP." Double-clicking on any image file will open it in Design Manager. Once the image is opened you can use the program's tools (accessible through the menu bar) to edit the image in many ways including resizing, rotation, colorization and filtering.

   

To view the color images on CDs with both black-and-white
and color images

With the Dover Design Manager browser window open:

• Go to the 'file-tree' panel in the upper left hand corner.
• Double-click on the Dover CD icon under 'My Computer'
• Double-click on the 'Images' folder
• Double-click on the 'Color' icon
• Click on any folder

  This will display thumbnails of the contents of this folder in the browser window. Single-click on any thumbnail to preview it in the preview panel. Double-click any image to view and edit it in 'Edit' mode.