Operation Manual

Assets for Creativity 51
Searching for assets
The search facility filters assets based on preset and custom tags applied
to all of the Asset Packs shown in the Asset Browser.
To apply a search filter:
• For a simple tag search, type the word or letter you want to search
for in the Search text box, situated at the top right of the dialog.
This is useful for retrieving assets with custom tags attached.
Filtering assets
Filtering means that you can restrict the amount of assets on display.
• For category and/or pack file filtering, select a category or pack
file (or multiple instances using Ctrl-click). You can also search for
category and pack file combinations. For example, selecting the
Picture Frames category and then a Theme Layout gives you just
picture frames from that theme layout.
• For Smart tag filtering, select a tag name from the Smart Tags
section. Smart tags let you filter assets logically by subject matter
using a hierarchical and alphabetic tag structure. For example, if
you select the 'Food & Drink' tag you'll see all assets tagged with that
tag; if you want food-only assets, you could select 'Food', nested
under that Food & Drink tag.
• For single-tag filtering, select a tag name from the Tags section of
the Asset Browser. (You may need to scroll down the left-hand pane
to view). Use Ctrl-click to manually select multiple tags.