Clip Art Suggestions?

Does anyone know of any good clip art collections other than Art Explosion? I have an older Art Explosion and I'm not too happy with it - bland images and too many duplicates.
I would like to find a clip art package that has decent, Macintosh-friendly file names to help with searching. With CoverFlow in Leopard, I don't need any previews, thumnails, or catalog programs. Having image metadata searchable via spotlight would be ideal, but I would be happy with file names better than TECHNOLOGY11.JPG, TECHNOLOGY12.JPG, etc.
I don't really want to use the online services because I like to have things local. I don't mind paying for it. I would buy Art Explosion 750000 if I were happy with my old Art Explosion 500000 (or whatever I have).
Thanks

Thank you. Thats what I am talking about. Except the collection I had seen at the printer's place, years ago, had a variety of subjects in each catalogue he had there. At $200 dollars per subject listed here, I think I'd better look up this printer, and find out what the names of the collections they had there. I hope I can get one of those collections for the two hundred or less.
From what I figure, clip art has been around for a century or more, used by newspapers and magazines for articles and advertisements. Some of the clip art that I had seen in those collections looked like they could have been created by artists back in the 1920s or earlier.
Don

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Don

Thank you. Thats what I am talking about. Except the collection I had seen at the printer's place, years ago, had a variety of subjects in each catalogue he had there. At $200 dollars per subject listed here, I think I'd better look up this printer, and find out what the names of the collections they had there. I hope I can get one of those collections for the two hundred or less.
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Hello All -
I was actually in an Adobe workshop last week with an Adobe goddess and she was not able to answer this question - so unfortunately, I do not have much hope. But the last question I asked on this forum was answered so quickly and accurately I thought I would give it a shot!
I am creating clip art for a client who has decided they can only use .wmf or .emf files for their application. My illustrations, when exported to .wmf, are around 3MB. Obviously, for clip art this is much to large, since these files are typically around 7-15 KB.
I have tried numerous ways to reduce my file size drastically, (including merging, saving as older versions, tiff's & png's and reimporting, correcting in photoshop...) and the only way that has produced a small enough file size was to remove any beauty in my illustrations and make them completely flat, solid, colors. At first, the client was pleased with the results, but has now decided they are not pleased and want to be able to use the original illustrations that I provided and still have a small file size.
Suggestions?

Your client is painting you into an impossibly small corner, and for no reason. Large posters such as you will be producing are printed on expensive inkjet plotters, operated by professional print service bureaus. Those people use professional graphics programs, including Illustrator. They would most likely prefer either native files (ie: Illustrator) or PDFs. Your client is asking for impossibly small EMF files because... well there’s no way to logically finish that sentence. Probably that’s the format they grew up with or that they were told works best with Microsoft Word. Perhaps it did, too, in the 1990s.
Since quality of image is probably the most important factor, anything you do to make smaller size or EMF compatibility a priority will compromise that, probably for no good reason. See if the print shop will accept PDF. See if the client can work with PDF, if the client feels some need to work with the files.

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I am having aproblem on multiple computers where the clip art images downloaded from the Internet are showing as .wav files.
I have cleared the Temporary Internet Files and temp folder on the hard drive. I have also verified that the image is (for example) and jpeg and the file is supposed to open with Windows Picture and Fax Viewer.
Nothing has worked and I am getting quite frustrated. I have checked the kb that Microsoft has on their web page and did what they mentioned, but we are also not using a proxy so that can't be the issue.
Any information anyone could provide would be great and appreciated!
Thank you

Dear Tiffany,
This issue usually occurs because of the un-proper settings in IE. Based on the current situation, I suggest trying some methods to troubleshoot the issue and check
if the problem can be resolved.
Method 1: Check the program that opens the clip art picture
=========
Right click the clip art picture and choose
Properties. In the General tab, make sure
Internet Explorer is selected after Option with. If Windows Media Player is selected, please click the
Change button and change it to Internet Explorer.
Check the issue again. If the problem persists, let’s continue.
Method 2: Reset IE settings
================
1.
Exit all programs, including Internet Explorer (if it is running).
2.
Click
Start. Type the following command in the
Search box, and then press ENTER:
inetcpl.cpl
3.
The
Internet Options dialog box appears.
4.
Click the
Advanced tab.
5.
Under
Reset Internet Explorer settings, click
Reset. Then click Reset again.
6.
When Internet Explorer finishes resetting the settings, click Close in the
Reset Internet Explorer Settings dialog box.
7.
Start Internet Explorer again and check the issue.
Please take your time to try the suggestions and let me know the results at your earliest convenience. If anything is unclear or if there is anything I can do for
you, please feel free to let me know.
Best Regards,
Sally Tang

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I'm looking for some free clip art for use in Keynote and Pages. Got any suggestions?

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Su

Su-Real wrote:
So if there isn't a clip art library included, does anyone have any suggestions for a good one to get?
If you are making documents for personal use, I suggest http://images.google.com/ .
Pictures that can be distributed legally can often be found at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page .
But there are more things out there: http://www.google.com/search?q=clipart

I have a question that I think I know the answer to, but am looking for confirmation. I have a dell computer at home that has clip art available on it for putting pictures into documents. Do I need to install an APP to get something similar to clip art?

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Sort of. There is an app called art shop that gives you a place to park clip art. But I don't think you really need it.
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How to make a clip art (diagram )interactive report?

Hello ABAPers,
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*& Report ZCLIPART_IR                                                 *
REPORT ZCLIPART_IR.
START OF DO NOT CHANGE***********************************
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      picture_control_1 TYPE REF TO cl_gui_picture,
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DATA: query_table LIKE w3query OCCURS 1 WITH HEADER LINE,
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END OF DO NOT CHANGE***********************
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PARAMETERS: p_dummy(4) DEFAULT '4' .
PARAMETERS: p_dummy1(4) DEFAULT '5' .
AT SELECTION-SCREEN OUTPUT.
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START-OF-SELECTION.
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FORM show_pic.
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When saving a document as a PDF for printing, I lose pages, clip art, and my orginal format. Help!

I have created some forms for our congregation to fill in with answers on adobe forms central. When I go to turn it into a PDF for printing for a hard copy, (not all our members have internet) when i save it to a PDF, it doesn't save all the pages and formats it differently then show on the screen i programmed it onto. How do I fix this issue?

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In the "Feature Tutorials/Help" linked from the top of the main page of the Forums: Feature Tutorials / Help
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Hello,
I am taking an on-line digital scrapbooking class at my local community college. We are using Adobe Photoshop Elements 12. I have been trying to get help so that I am able to see the clip art that my class is using. Yesterday before I uninstalled and then reinstalled my software, I could see the clip art/graphics but the ones with a blue triangle in the upper right corner would not upload. My internet is working properly since I was on-line for my class.
After reinstalling my software, all the clip art/graphics are useable, but I do not have the collection like before.
Please can someone help me so I can keep up with my class. Thank you in advance for any help that comes my way.
Thank you again,
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John,
Just to let you know Pages does not use .wmf and .pict is mostly history now.
*The main formats that Pages will use are:*
.jpeg, jpeg2000, .tif, .png, .gif, .pdf and .ai saved with .pdf preview.
Of the *Nova Art Explosion Clip Art* the most useful will be the vector .eps files which Pages will convert to .pdf when imported.
*Best is to open and convert the .eps clipart in Preview*
Which does several things:
1. It converts them to .pdf
2. It converts them to color managed cmyk
3. It shrinks the image selection to the image's bounding box ie gets rid of all the background and only selects the image.
4. As long as there is no opaque background drawn as part of the clipart, you will have a transparent background.
5. It will save the file as a very small .pdf file
6. The pdf file will be viewable in Finder on the *Icon Preview* or in CoverFlow, also when you view it in your *Open dialog box*.
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1. Drag and drop it into Pages from Finder.
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If you drop it on a non-text area it will create its own image box and fill it.
If you drag it onto an image placeholder box it will either neatly fit into the image box or be cropped, however the box has been set-up.
2. You can use +Menu > Import > Choose… > browse to image > select > OK+ This will drop the image into the middle of your page view at its original size in its own image box.
3. You can make a collection of clipart in a named folder then drag that folder into the top pane of the Media Browser:
+Menu > View > Show Media Browser > Photos+
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4. Pages has something called Shapes which you can add by going to the Shapes menu on the window Toolbar. These are native Pages drawings. They can be scaled, colored and contain text or images which are cropped by the shape.
Right at the bottom of the Shapes menu is a pen tool which lets you draw your own shapes, however it is one of the worst drawing tools I have encountered on the Mac.
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OmniGraffle has sets of clipart called Stencils, these can be cut and pasted into Keynote and possibly into Pages, but requires you to have a copy of OmniGraffle on your machine.
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How do I create a 12" x 48" banner & not have my clip art pixelate?

Hi everyone,
I'm new to this, so thank you for your patients.
We have a Konica Minolta Bizhub 353 printer that does 48" x 12" indoor banners.
We have been using Microsoft Powerpoint to create the banners.
The clip art we use either as a background or as a top graphic looks great on our computer screen in the design stage, but when we print it in the full 48" x 12" size, it pixelates badly.
I understand most of the art is in raster rather than vector.
Will pruducing the banners in Adobe Illustrator fix this problem?
Thanks for any help.
rms1000

Will pruducing the banners in Adobe Illustrator fix this problem?
No. Raster images are raster images and will always be bound by the restrictions of pixels.
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Thanks again.
MM

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2) Open your angel image (File >Open then browse to image)
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