Customer Reviews

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

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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!

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.

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.

The clip art is great but the Photos are from the 70's and 80' so if you need really old photos its great.

The search engine is awful. You must restart between disks. The clip art for the most part is not useable (OK I only checked the weddings / church). The people in the wedding clip art is not something I would send out or use. There is no holiday clip art that I could find. The church clip art is so limited that I can't imagine ever using it. I'm used to doing quality professional material and this will NOT help me. Glad they have a money back guarantee (at least that's something they have that is good that others don't)

This image collection may have 300,000 images, but it is IMPOSSIBLE to find any of them, because there is no real guide. The search engine only works on the particular disc that you are using at the time, which may only have six or seven categories. The way the pictures are organized is very confusing, and only useful for those who are very patient and those with lots of time on their hands. I use this with my high school journalism class, and my students are much too impatient to go through every single disc to find the pictures they want. The whole thing is practically useless. Don't buy this. The new version of Art Explosion is much better, because it has a book with the images in it, so you can look it up quickly.

The clip art may be good, but the installation is poor. Read their FAQ section of their website - [...]. It is apparent that the installation freezes computers and you have to download Portfolio Browser in many instances to install on your computer. The technical support is poor. Just be careful about buying this product until you have read their website.

This has more clip art then I will ever need! 14, I repeat, 14 CD's full of clip art. It has vector and raster images, web graphics, high res photos, and backgrounds. The variety of clip art is amazing. I will highly recommend this clip art to anyone in need of high quality clip art!!!!

drawn by a 5-year old. I'm sorry, most of the vector and raster illustrations contained here are of very poor quality in my opinion. And, like some of the other reviews, I was not impressed w/ the photographs. Looks like someones bad vacation photos in spots, I counted 8 out of focus exposures of what looks like a hawk or something at great distance. Who got paid for that junk? I will keep it, but only because of the classic illustrations on a couple of the discs, and the fact I got a rebate.

All Art Explosion Clip Art Programs are the BEST! I am still, after all of these years, using Art Explosion 75,000. I am just now ordering this 300,000. My 75,000 book is so torn and tattered, must be at least 7-10 years old. I have used this program for every project imaginable.

Whats so great about it?

*Easy to work with images ... You can ungroup the images in a program like Coral Draw and change colors, etc. Anything you want really.

*Easy to find images... No hassles

*Huge variety of images in all sorts of catagories, un-imaginable!

*Great quality images!

I cant say enough about these programs! They are the Best!