The Big Box of Art 215,000 Images

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4.9 pounds
• ASIN: B00005Q5IW
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,298 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #2 in Software > Graphics > Home Publishing > Clip Art
  • #97 in Software > Home & Hobbies
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Big Box of Art from Hemera is a digital collection with a variety of images, including clip art, Hemera Photo-Objects, illustrations, photos, Web graphics, and more. It's easy to use and features a search engine to quickly locate the perfect image.

Included are 10,000 Photo-Objects to use anywhere you would normally use clip art. The advantage of a Photo-Object is the quality of the image itself. Clip art is a line-art drawing of an object. A Photo-Object is a photo of the exact object. The high quality and resolution of each image allows it to be used in all types of projects for maximum impact.

The Big Box of Art includes:

• 110,000 vector clip art images
• 10,000 raster illustrations
• 10,000 Hemera Photo-Objects
• 20,000 professional color photos
• 10,000 professional black-and-white photos
• 2,000 textured photos
• 28,000 Web graphics
• 1,500 animations
• 500 PhotoFont textures
• Includes a 750-image catalog

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For designers moving to OS X, this is a must buy!, May 11, 2002

By 

Dennis A. Amith (kndy) (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Big Box of Art 215,000 Images (CD-ROM)

I was in a bind. A client wanted a big tent for their ad. Another client wanted a photo of an older woman for their ad. Another needed a family in their ad. These clients will not pay for royalty-free images that cost too expensive and since it's my freshman year of owning my own communications/design firm, I don't have an extensive library of stock image CD's. I had to think quick...where can I find a bundle of CD's with many images that is available for the new MAC OS X?

The answer is Hemera's "The Big Box of Art" 215K which has been upgraded for OS X use. The software installed like a charm and like most Hemera products, will install the image thumbnails and type a word and wala...images will come up pertaining to the type of theme you are looking for.

Already, this program is a steal for the price they are selling it for. It's currently one of the few image/graphic CD's available for the new MAC OS and user friendly. This software contains many graphics and around 10,000 photo objects. Some of you are wondering why does the PC version have more than the MAC version and is much cheaper. Well, if you compare the two...give and take, the MAC has more for the photo-objects side, the PC has more towards the vector graphics/clip art side (like around 100K+ more) and it's a lot cheaper compared to the MAC version. But I'm guessing it's because Hemera released the new version for the PC containing 615K and I can only hope that a MAC version will be released containing this much.

Anyway, before I end this review. It's a worth addition to your design tools and remember that the photos are not hi-res. They are from 600x600 photos but you can save them 300DPI and on bigger projects, you can save the image as a PNG which you can then output as a EPS on your desktop publishing program and then distill it later.

Anyway, this software saves time and money and designers who moved on to the new OS X, this baby is a must buy!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Useless, December 28, 2004

By 

M. Neal-Lunsford (Illinois, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Big Box of Art 215,000 Images (CD-ROM)

Crashed constantly when I first used it on my iMac running 10.3. After a while, it refused to load at all. The update only made the problem worse, so I've had virtually no use of it and can't recommend it to anyone. Whatever is wrong with it, the Hemera people should have fixed it, but they haven't and show no interest in doing anything.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Crash, Crash, Crash...no support, February 21, 2005

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J. Huber - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Big Box of Art 215,000 Images (CD-ROM)

I am running OSX3.8, and I have yet to get this application to even open. I have emailed Hemera customer support several times, with no response. Big Box of junk.