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## HELP: QBIC Color Layout Editor Page

#### This QBIC editor page is where you can create your own color layout searches. This method is useful when you vaguely remember what the picture looks like or know the location of a prominent colors in the picture.

With color layout you can do a rough sketch of a picture by drawing the colors you want in the location you want. The rough sketch consists of 12 by 9 boxes that you can fill with any color from the Color Picker (the large image with 256 colored boxes to the left). In the default sketch pad, all boxes are filled with background colors(in Netscape/Web Explorer it is the background color of your browser. In Mosaic, it is a box with an X in the middle).

### Color Layout Search Quick Start

Lets say you want to find a picture with a yellow fire hydrant in the center: (Note: if you didn't remember where the fire hydrant was, you may want to use the Histogram Color method). The following steps will retrieve the picture.

1. Click on a bright yellow box in the Color Picker. This will set your active fill color to yellow.
2. Draw a 3 high by 5 wide yellow box in the middle of the DRAWING AREA by first clicking on the top left corner and then the lower right corner.
3. Hit the "Submit Search" button above the Color Picker and wait for the results.

### Drawing Basics

The drawing area is a 12 x 9 set of small boxes. This is where you create your rough sketch.

Drawing Techniques
  There are 2 different ways to draw:
  (1) Rectangular Fill - Default Method
    You fill a region by first clicking on the top left corner and then the bottom right corner.
  (2) Block Fill - Faster
    You first select the size of the block to fill by specifying the height and width. Then click on the top left corner of the fill region in the DRAWING AREA

Erasing Mistakes
  You may either use the BACK button available on most browsers to achieve the equivalent of undo or you can select the ERASE fill color and draw as usual. Except this time, the fill region will be erased.

### Reference Section For Buttons

#### Submit Search

  Start a search for pictures similars to the parameters you customized

#### Number Of Results - immediately to the right of Submit Search

  Select the top X number of similar pictures you want ranked according to how similar they are to the search parameters.

#### Clear Form Entries

  Clear the screen and reset everything to default values.

#### Comments?

  Please mail comments, suggestions and criticism by clicking on the "mailto" link at the bottom of the browser or editor pages