The Kudo Image Browser is a powerful tool for viewing, sorting, placing, and opening images. It is designed to be easy and intuitive to use. The button bar at the top of the Kudo Browser window contains five buttons. The first button on the left displays the images in small thumbnail view, the second button displays the images in large thumbnail view, and the third button displays the images in list format, which includes the assigned keywords for each image in addition to the large thumbnail.
The fourth button allows you to locate images by keyword. Keywords include image orientation information (horizontal or vertical), color information (red, blue, yellow, etc.), and other content-specific information about what is in the images. The fifth button displays technical information about the selected image, including file size in bytes, creation and modification dates, keyword information, file location, application creator and file type identification, and the image╒s canvas size. The image canvas size information can be viewed in pixels, inches or centimeters.
The images can be viewed in rapid succession in large thumbnail view by clicking on the riffle arrows located in the lower right corner of the browser window. By clicking and holding down the mouse on one of the arrows, the images are rapidly displayed one after another within a single window. The riffling speed can be increased by clicking and holding down the mouse and moving toward the end of the arrow.
The images can be previewed at larger sizes from within the browser application. On the Macintosh platform, double-click on the image. On the Windows platform, select the image and choose ╥Image Preview╙ from the pull-down menu or type Control-E. Depending on the size of the image and the speed of the computer being used, the preview may take several seconds to load.
The images can be opened by their parent applications directly from within the browser program if the appropriate parent application is resident on the computer. Double-click on the icon in the lower right corner of the image window when in large gallery mode, and the application will launch automatically.
The images can be placed directly into a layout application by clicking on the image, holding down the mouse button, and dragging the image from the Kudo Catalog Reader window to the picture box or page of the layout program. The image may also be exported to many layout and image editing applications by choosing ╥Place╙ from the ╥Image╙ pull-down menu and selecting the desired program. The export function works only if the destination application is running simultaneously with the browser application.
PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THE KUDO BROWSER USES THE MEDIUM CANVAS LOW-RESOLUTION IMAGES. Your project may require use of the higher-resolution files.
Export filters are routinely updated for use with revised versions of the supported layout applications and can be found at the WWW site ╥http://www.imspace.com/╙, which is maintained by Kudo creator Imspace Systems Corporation. Layout and editing applications currently supported by the ╥Place╙ command include Adobe PageMaker, QuarkXPress, Fractal Design Painter, Macromedia FreeHand, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere and Adobe Photoshop.
