BIG BOX OF ART 615,000 (WIN 95,98,ME,NT,2000,XP)

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• ASIN: B0000664K0
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 8, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,973 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #91 in Software > Graphics > Image Capture

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

With more than 615,000 available images, the Big Box of Art is sure to include the clip art you need for all your important projects. Add the perfect image to your project in seconds with Hemera's highly acclaimed, user-friendly image finder. The Big Box of Art also contains tons of vector clip art, plus Photo-Objects, photographs, illustrations, Web graphics, animations, and textured photos.

Also included is GraphicsDesk, an easy way to find, manage, and use images, with the option to access your images online anytime, anywhere. The Big Box of Art also features PhotoFont Maker and three bonus applications: T-Shirt Creator, Greeting Card Creator, and CD Designs Creator.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome collection, but needs a better search engine, February 5, 2003

By 

Richard Dean (Colorado Springs, CO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: BIG BOX OF ART 615,000 (WIN 95,98,ME,NT,2000,XP) (CD-ROM)

There is no question, this is an incredible collection of clipart; however, there are a number of things about it that annoy me.

My set came with 24 numbered CD's (1 & 2 are install disks) plus 2 more disks of web graphics. If you have the disk space, it is not actually necessary to do constant disc shuffling. You can copy the CDs to your hard drive, then set the option for 'Also look for images in the following locations:' so that the CD is unnecessary.

Annoyance 1 (minor)

When I choose to turn off viewing of certain window panes the choice is not persistent -- i.e. the next time I run the program I have to turn them off again.

Annoyance 2 (minor/moderate)
The database is not in a standard format which would allow the keywords etc. to be extracted and imported into another application. The searches are slower than what I would expect for a real database -- only about 350,000 of the images (everything except web graphics) are indexed/searchable, and searching that should be very fast.

Annoyance 3 (major)
Only simple searches are supported -- "match all words" and "match any word". You cannot specify a search for (keyword <A> AND <B> OR <C> OR <D>), also there is no "NOT" functionality. These advanced searches are essential for a product capable of returning hundreds of thousands of matches.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars About that search engine . . ., March 12, 2003

By 

J. E. Barkan (Asheville) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: BIG BOX OF ART 615,000 (WIN 95,98,ME,NT,2000,XP) (CD-ROM)

Both variety and quality of the images are excellent, and the Export Wizard makes it very easy to use them. The search engine, however, can only be described as "primitive," and you will need time and patience to find what you're looking for. I used the keyword "girl" as a test and got both appropriate images and others that left me scratching my head - many pics of soldiers in battle among them. As I scroll through search results, I've taken to copying good, but unrelated, images to a document in case I can't find them again! Overall, very good but could be great with a better search engine.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Ok, but not as good as I'd hoped, July 4, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: BIG BOX OF ART 615,000 (WIN 95,98,ME,NT,2000,XP) (CD-ROM)

The search engine is a HUGE negative. Results are not reproducable consistently, so if you see an image you might like at some point in the future, you better save it because the chances you'll find it again are slim. Simple searches will turn up 10s of thousands of results, many having nothing to do with the search term.

I was wildly frustrated trying to find, and refind images.

When you can find what you're looking for, they're useful, and I didn't have any trouble with taking them to press in high resolution. They are very heavy on only happy people - if you want to find a slightly sad or impoverished-looking individual you won't find them. (Or maybe you will, but I sure can't.)

If they can manage to upgrade the search - or even produce some kind of thumbnail set that people could view or print easily - I would recommend it more highly. As it is, it approaches adequate.