Art Explosion 300,000 Premium Image Collection [Old Version]

by Nova Development US

Product Features

• 300,000+ premium royalty-free graphics on 14 CD-ROMs
• On-screen image browser with full-color previews
• Convenient WMF, TIF, JPG, and GIF file formats
• 100,000+ scalable vector graphics; 50,000+ color photos and backgrounds
• All graphics in the box; no downloading required

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0001XWOIW
• Item model number: AHW
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 23, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,682 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #9 in Software > Graphics > Home Publishing > Clip Art

Product Description

Product Description

Art Explosion® 300,000 lets you easily make a powerful impression with 300,000 of the world’s finest images from the #1 selling brand of clip art software. You get 8 gigabytes of premium-quality graphics on 14 CD-ROMs. Best of all, Art Explosion 300,000 requires no downloads and no memberships. Everything you need is inside the box!

More than 80% of the images are in color and more than 100,000 are scalable vector graphics. Plus, you get more than 57,000 24-bit color photos and backgrounds. We’ve even provided a handy image viewer that gives you full-color previews to help you quickly and easily locate that perfect image.

Product Description

Art Explosion includes 8 gigabytes of premium-quality graphics on 14 CD-ROMs, making Art it an unprecedented value among clip art products.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't Buy it for the Photo Images, November 13, 2004

By 

JK (Minnesota, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Art Explosion 300,000 Premium Image Collection [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I have been searching everywhere for a product featuring professional, diverse photos. Where have they all gone? I am returning this product because I have no use for clipart and the photos are clearly pulled from somebody's old photo albums. They are no where near the professional quality shown on the box. Many photos are dark or horribly formatted and/or just plain cheesy. However, I am very impressed by Nova's "No Questions Asked Money Back Guarantee." Hooray for that!

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No keywords or search index, February 14, 2007

By 

Eric M. Burke (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Art Explosion 300,000 Premium Image Collection [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

This clip art collection is a big disappointment. The quality of the vector graphics is quite low, but a bigger problem is the search engine. They include a tool called Portfolio Browser, but it does not offer any keywords or text search. Instead, you must load one "portfolio" at a time by navigating to a folder on the CD. This is a very inefficient way to sort through 30,000 images, since each folder may contain only 100 or so pictures.

You can copy the CDs to a hard drive (manually), but when you open the portfolio folders it demands that you insert the CD to load the image. With such a large number of CDs, this too is unwieldy.

So to summarize, this is a collection of 30,000 low-quality images without a usable search or browsing capability. I do not envision myself ever using this.

32 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Best Clip Art Ever??, December 9, 2005

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Barking Dog - See all my reviews

This review is from: Art Explosion 300,000 Premium Image Collection [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I bought this after reading some of the glowing reviews. After actually looking at the clip art and photos at home, I don't understand why people rave about this collection. The quality of the free clip art and photos at the Microsoft Office Online web site are much better. Many of the photos look like they were taken by amatuer photographers, some of whom were not very good. Some of my own photos look better than these! Alright, there are some nice ones in there, but you really have to hunt for them.

I was lucky enough to buy this when there was a rebate, so it was pretty cheap, otherwise I'd return it. The quality of the photos and clip art was just too disappointing. There's quantity here, but not quality.