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Basic Instructions

(See below for ClarisWorks/Appleworks)


FLOWERscape - (User-friendly, for all)

To make a Garden Design:

- Access the linked file, "120 FLOWERscape Flowers of Our Lady" on
  this web site; save to disk; and keep window open or print out in
  hard-copy, for reference in selecting flowers for a FLOWERscape
  Mary Garden design.  Also, for general Mary Garden design
  principles, access (pre-computer) "Mary Garden Design and Plant
  Selection Guide".

- Open FLOWERscape; "dig" a garden bed; and "plant" flowers,
  following the simple FLOWERscape menu commands.  (Place all
  desired plants on plant strip and then plant, or select and
  plant one by one, as preferred). Leave space for a statue.
  Adjust positions of planted images to provide balance and
  clarity for the design.

- Save a copy of the design to disk using the menu "Save" command
  (saves design file in FLOWERscape "Grdn" format - re-openable in
  FLOWERscape for later plant image re-positioning and additions).

- Print out hard-copies of the design; the "Garden Plan" with
  plant list; and the bloom period "Summary" - using the 3 menu
  Print commands.

- (Optional.  Use computer Screen-Save ("Screen-Dump") key command
  to save an additional copy of design to disk, in PICT format (not
  re-openable in FLOWERscape), in preparation for re-opening in
  ClarisWorks for the addition of statuary and/or other Flowers of
  Our Lady images.  (Note: FLOWERscape "Save as PICT" menu command
  may not save a file re-openable in ClarisWorks.)



ClarisWorks/Appleworks - (Requires basic graphics editing skills) 

To add a garden statue or other flower image to a 
FLOWERscape design:

- Access from this web site (in GIF file format), with your web
  browser, an image of a garden statue or additional flower with
  white background to be "pasted" to your FLOWERscape design -
  choosing from the following linked list.  Use web browser to save
  the GIF file to disk. (Or, for a more reliably openable, in
  Clarisworks, saved file, use computer Select-Save or Screen-Save
  ("Screen Dump") to save the browser-accessed image in PICT
  format.)

 Linked List of Statuary Files (2-1/2" height - proportioned to the
  Flowerscape designs, to which they are to be pasted):

           Statue                          Reference
    Our Lady of the Angelus   - St. Joseph's Church, Woods Hole, MA
      Artist: V.M.S. Hannell      Copyright: not known
    Mary, Seat of Wisdom      - Mary's Gardens, Philadelphia, PA
      Artist: Ade Bethune         Copyright: Mary's Gardens
    Virgin and Child          - God's Garden, Wareham, MA
      Artist: not known             Copyright: not known
    Our Lady of Grace         - Ravenhill Academy, Philadelphia, PA
      Artist: not known             Copyright: not known
    Mary of Nazareth          - St. Mary's Church, Annapolis, MD
      Artist: Leo Irrera          Copyrght: Leo Irrera
    Mary, Model of the Church - St. Catherine's Church, Portage, MI
      Artist: Jerry Westgerdes    Copyright: Jerry Westgerdes
    St.Joseph, Garden Workman - St. Joseph's Church, Woods Hole, MA
      Artist: Ade Bethune         Copyright: Mary's Gardens
    St. Francis               - Trinity Church, Boston, MA
      Artist: not known             Copyright: not known

 
- Open Clarisworks in "Drawing" mode.

- Open in Clarisworks the GIF (or PICT) file image of the statue or
  Flower of Our Lady accessed and saved with the web browser. (Open,
  as "Painting" Document Type and "GIF" (or "PICT") File Type).

- Select "transparent fill" from the Painting window ToolKit (upper
  left square in fill palette)

- Select "Paint Bucket" tool from ToolKit, and "pour" transparent
  fill into white space surrounding statue or flower image. (An
  invisible operation.)

- Select "Lasso" tool from Toolkit, and double-click it (or draw
  lasso around statue or flower image) to "select" it.
  (Lasso closes to image edges when lasso tool pointer is released.)

- "Copy" selected statue or flower image to Clipboard buffer

- Open in ClarisWorks the screen-saved FLOWERscape garden design
  PICT file (see FLOWERscape, above).  (as "Drawing" Document
  Type and "PICT" File Type.)

- "Paste" statue or flower image, copied to the clipboard buffer, to
  the opened garden design image. (This initial pasting has white
  rectangular file background, blocking out some of design graphics
  around newly pasted image.)

- Select "transparent fill" from fill palette in Drawing ToolKit, to
  make white rectangular file background transparent.  Pointer-move
  image to desired position.

- (Repeat the above steps for any additional images to be pasted)
 
- Save garden design image, with added images, as PICT file.

- Print out hard copy of augmented garden design

- (When garden design image PICT file has been closed, it may be
  re-opened at any time in ClarisWorks for selection and
  re-positioning of any of the images added, so long as they remain
  as originally pasted - "ungrouped".  Once they have been
  "grouped", the "ungroup" command does not apply here).


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