Clip Art Collection

I’d post the question to the clip art newsgroup

"Major Malfunction" wrote in message

Yeah, I know, I’m supposed to make my own art with PhotoShop. Sometimes, however, I need either a jumping off point or I need a real simple image

and

I’d like to pull one out of a stock collection. Does anyone work with a packaged collection they really like?

I’m looking for non-photo images as well as some stock photos. I’ve run across packages like Art Explosion and The Big Box of Art from Hemera, but

I

have no idea of the quality of the images or what type of indexing they

use.

Any suggestions from experienced users would be welcome.

could you tell us where the clip art newsgroup is please?

Glenn Pechacek wrote:

I’d post the question to the clip art newsgroup

"Major Malfunction" wrote in message

Yeah, I know, I’m supposed to make my own art with PhotoShop. Sometimes, however, I need either a jumping off point or I need a real simple image

and

I’d like to pull one out of a stock collection. Does anyone work with a packaged collection they really like?

I’m looking for non-photo images as well as some stock photos. I’ve run across packages like Art Explosion and The Big Box of Art from Hemera, but

I

have no idea of the quality of the images or what type of indexing they

use.

Any suggestions from experienced users would be welcome.

alt.binaries.clip-art is one group

"Martin Chiselwitt" wrote in message

could you tell us where the clip art newsgroup is please?

Glenn Pechacek wrote:

I’d post the question to the clip art newsgroup

"Major Malfunction" wrote in message

Yeah, I know, I’m supposed to make my own art with PhotoShop. Sometimes, however, I need either a jumping off point or I need a real simple image

and

I’d like to pull one out of a stock collection. Does anyone work with a packaged collection they really like?

I’m looking for non-photo images as well as some stock photos. I’ve run across packages like Art Explosion and The Big Box of Art from Hemera,

but

I

have no idea of the quality of the images or what type of indexing they

use.

Any suggestions from experienced users would be welcome.

"Glenn Pechacek" wrote in message

I’d post the question to the clip art newsgroup

Thanks, I’ll give that a try aas well.

"Major Malfunction" wrote in message

Yeah, I know, I’m supposed to make my own art with PhotoShop. Sometimes, however, I need either a jumping off point or I need a real simple image

and

I’d like to pull one out of a stock collection. Does anyone work with a packaged collection they really like?

I’m looking for non-photo images as well as some stock photos. I’ve run across packages like Art Explosion and The Big Box of Art from Hemera,

but

I

have no idea of the quality of the images or what type of indexing they

use.

Any suggestions from experienced users would be welcome.

I purchased all the Hemera stuff…but, I have been satisfied with just annually subscribing to www.clipart.com for $99. 80% of the
clipart is from Hemera…and, I like the spontaneous search index of online versus digging up a bunch of CD’s. I used them for 90%
of the vector clipart and it has done me fine. The photographs, fonts and other stuff does not get me too excited.

"Major Malfunction" wrote in message

Yeah, I know, I’m supposed to make my own art with PhotoShop. Sometimes, however, I need either a jumping off point or I need a real simple image and I’d like to pull one out of a stock collection. Does anyone work with a packaged collection they really like?

I’m looking for non-photo images as well as some stock photos. I’ve run across packages like Art Explosion and The Big Box of Art from Hemera, but I have no idea of the quality of the images or what type of indexing they use. Any suggestions from experienced users would be welcome.

I like the products from Hemera Technologies. The PhotoObjects are pretty handy especially since they include an Alpha channel to mask out the background. All of their products when installed interface with one browser which is nice. The prices are pretty good.

I do suggest however you go for DVD versions and not CD versions. Few disks to worry about. I copy the contents to a second hard drive so I don’t have to swap disks.

Robert

"Major Malfunction" wrote in message

Yeah, I know, I’m supposed to make my own art with PhotoShop. Sometimes, however, I need either a jumping off point or I need a real simple image

and

I’d like to pull one out of a stock collection. Does anyone work with a packaged collection they really like?

I’m looking for non-photo images as well as some stock photos. I’ve run across packages like Art Explosion and The Big Box of Art from Hemera, but

I

have no idea of the quality of the images or what type of indexing they

use.

Any suggestions from experienced users would be welcome.

"nospam" wrote in message

I like the products from Hemera Technologies. The PhotoObjects are pretty handy especially since they include an Alpha channel to mask out the background. All of their products when installed interface with one

browser

which is nice. The prices are pretty good.

I do suggest however you go for DVD versions and not CD versions. Few

disks

to worry about. I copy the contents to a second hard drive so I don’t have to swap disks.

Robert

With that kind of volume, I’d definately copy all the material to a directory. What type of search capability is there with the Hemera line and will it function if you move the material to a new location? Also the name implies they are all photographs and this is something I’m not interested in. I’d use less than 10% photos as oppoed to traditional clip art: cartoon art, drawn illustrations and the like.

"Major Malfunction" wrote in message

Yeah, I know, I’m supposed to make my own art with PhotoShop. Sometimes, however, I need either a jumping off point or I need a real simple image

and

I’d like to pull one out of a stock collection. Does anyone work with a packaged collection they really like?

I’m looking for non-photo images as well as some stock photos. I’ve run across packages like Art Explosion and The Big Box of Art from Hemera,

but

I

have no idea of the quality of the images or what type of indexing they

use.

Any suggestions from experienced users would be welcome.

I cannot find this newsgroup in my list? can u enlighen as tio why?

thanks

Glenn Pechacek wrote:

alt.binaries.clip-art is one group

"Martin Chiselwitt" wrote in message

could you tell us where the clip art newsgroup is please?

Glenn Pechacek wrote:

I’d post the question to the clip art newsgroup

"Major Malfunction" wrote in message

Yeah, I know, I’m supposed to make my own art with PhotoShop. Sometimes, however, I need either a jumping off point or I need a real simple image

and

I’d like to pull one out of a stock collection. Does anyone work with a packaged collection they really like?

I’m looking for non-photo images as well as some stock photos. I’ve run across packages like Art Explosion and The Big Box of Art from Hemera,

but

I

have no idea of the quality of the images or what type of indexing they

use.

Any suggestions from experienced users would be welcome.

in article Dnuzb.1371$, Martin
Chiselwitt at wrote on 12/3/03 3:31 PM:

I cannot find this newsgroup in my list?

hahahahahaha.

Too bad.

"Martin Chiselwitt" wrote in message

I cannot find this newsgroup in my list? can u enlighen as tio why?
thanks

Could be your ISP does not carry them. newsgroups are services your ISP pays for. I have several that I can see, but can not access because of this problem. I’m sure someone can recommend a pay service that will get around this or a premium service that allows limited access, as in so many megs per day / week / month for free. I don’t know of any, but I know they exist.

"Martin Chiselwitt" wrote in message

I cannot find this newsgroup in my list? can u enlighen as tio why?

Could be your ISP does not carry them. newsgroups are services your ISP pays for. I have several that I can see, but can not access because of this problem. I’m sure someone can recommend a pay service that will get around this or a premium service that allows limited access, as in so many megs per day / week / month for free. I don’t know of any, but I know they exist.

Again, i can only thank you for such a constructive posting. FYI, the problem was with my news-server.
Could you teach me how to chew biros and dribble all day?

WhatChaWant wrote:

in article Dnuzb.1371$, Martin
Chiselwitt at wrote on 12/3/03 3:31 PM:

I cannot find this newsgroup in my list?

hahahahahaha.

Too bad.

You can search by collection, by image type (vector, photo, photo-object, etc.) and by keyword.

As for the content it depends on the package. The Photo-Objects packages are all photo’s of objects with alpha channels (if you wish) so that you can remove the backgrounds. The BizArt and the Big Box of Art packages contain both Photos, Photo-Objects and Vector art. I have PhotoObjects 1, 2, and 3 as well as BizArt and the Big Box of Art 615,000. All of the packages interface in to one browser which is a really nice browser with good features for exporting.

You do want the DVDs (makes it easier to copy the files to your hard disk, less disk swapping). I have an extra 200GB drive that I use for clipart only and this is where it put them.

From the sounds of it the Big Box of Art 615,000 is what you would want.

Robert

"nospam" wrote in message

You can search by collection, by image type (vector, photo, photo-object, etc.) and by keyword.

As for the content it depends on the package. The Photo-Objects packages

are

all photo’s of objects with alpha channels (if you wish) so that you can remove the backgrounds. The BizArt and the Big Box of Art packages contain both Photos, Photo-Objects and Vector art. I have PhotoObjects 1, 2, and 3 as well as BizArt and the Big Box of Art 615,000. All of the packages interface in to one browser which is a really nice browser with good features for exporting.

You do want the DVDs (makes it easier to copy the files to your hard disk, less disk swapping). I have an extra 200GB drive that I use for clipart

only

and this is where it put them.

From the sounds of it the Big Box of Art 615,000 is what you would want.

I have several other recommendations for that package and I am looking into it. Thanks for the help!