Customer Reviews

Art Explosion 750,000

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After struggling with an on-line clip art service and it's down-times vaguaries, I purchased the Art Explosion 750,000. I have never used clip art from CDs, but this was super easy to get the hang of. Stick in the CD, click on it, pick a category, then browse, drag clip to Photoshop icon or download to disc and voila! I have an iMac and a G4 and the clips really fly by. The selection is fabulous-from retro to abstract and and they always print out true-to-color, high resolution and non-jaggy. A bonus is the inclusion 2 gigantic books of the images, alphabets, photos and fonts so that you can get the general idea of what your're after. Also included: a collection of fonts from Agfa and Bitstream as well as an extensive photo collection, raster art collection and alphabets and backgrounds. It is so much bigger (48CDs), faster and more convenient than I ever envisioned, I'm sorry that I didn't get it sooner. Really a help in my hectic typesetting business!

I just got a Mac G5 with 2 GB of RAM and was looking forward to using this product. I would have to agree that from the book most of the clipart contained in this set is cartoonish, but my worst complaint is that I just couldn't install it. On install all you'll get is a window stating you don't have enough RAM and fail to continue.

Nova Development software support wasn't any help either. They were VERY familiar with the problem and the tech made it clear that a fix would NOT be coming out anytime in the near future. He immediately gave me the phone # to call and get a refund ... and I'll use it.

I bought this book mainly hoping I could find good illustrations of a diverse selection of people. I find that most of those illustrations are too cartoonish for editorial use, and don't show much variety. The high resolution photos were of no use either as they are actually only "medium" resolution. They would be great for web usage but not for print. Also, I wasn't able to use the electronic image catalog and was unable to search the photographs effectively since the file names are not descriptive.
If you're looking for illustrations of things rather than people, then this is a good source. The vector images are well organized and the print catalog is easy to use. Overall, I'd say this is a good product, but I don't think it offers much more than the 525,000 or 600,000 image versions.

You really can't beat the price on this set of clip-art. Many of the graphics are low quality vector illustrations which I wouldn't use... but the portion that is usable is well worth the price. The photos included are mostly useless for a serious graphic designer like myself. Most are 72dpi and many are poorly taken photographs. All of the business and people photos are outdated by about 10 - 15 years going by the clothing and equipment. The photos are not searchable by key word... you have to browse (which is very time consuming). Don't get me wrong - if you're looking for one set of clip-art that has just about everything, this is it.

I bought this product based on what I thought were some good looking images on the box, but once I opened it... Yuck! If you want some really great clip art, best go to a site like Artzooks.com, where you can at least preview the images, buy and download only the images you need.

I used this collection when I worked at a major college newspaper. I never got tired of browsing the discs and I always found perfect images for ads. It has everything. The antique images are great, as are the photographs. I can't stress how many images this thing has!

This is one massive image library. The package is so large that 48 CDs are provided. A catalog comprised of over 1250+ pages accompanies the discs in this collection. The categories/subcategories that the art is divided into, as well as the catalog make for quick, simple searching.

There are many pictures included, such as baked goods with different toppings and textures, as well as different perspectives. this is definitely a useful collection; I can see it being especially well suited for graphic artists, web designers, and amateur craft lovers.

Part of what helps with these clip art libraries that are so huge, is a good, easy to see printed book. This one said it came with two books and showed that they were of decent size. I received a very small, single book that is hard to see all of the artwork. It will be very hard to be creative with this small printed book.

Art Explosion is a valuable tool for clip art basics. It could use more silhouettes and less cartoons.

The image library book, however, does not coincide with the discs!

This clip art collection is great. I now have all the clip art I will ever need for my mac