Customer Reviews

ClickArt 750,000

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I purchased Broderbund's Clickart 400,000 and have never felt more taken advantage of by a software company. You see only 150,00 of the images are actually in
the box I bought. The 750,000 only has 200,000 in the box. The rest I have to sit on my stinking 56K modem and wait for them to download. I could not believe this
when I realized it. I went and looked at the box and saw there was a tiny asterick saying that only some of the images are actually in the box and that you needed to
go online for the rest. If I wanted to buy an internet subscription I would have done that. I will never buy another Broderbund or Clickart product again. There are
plenty of reputable clip art products out there that do not try to fool their customers.

As a graphic artist I started with Clickart 25,000 and liked it. I upgraded to Clickart 125,000 and Clickart 200,000 as they were released. So far the Clickart 200,000 version has been the best. It came with 14 cds and 2 large volumes of well-organized thumbnails for finding the right image. I had expected more of the same. Clickart 750,000 was, unfortunately, very disappointing. No printed catalog and very few of the images I purchased were actually in the box. Most of them require online registration and downloading. That was not made clear during ordering or I would not have ordered. The book that IS enclosed titled: "Getting Organized in the Digital Age" seems to have very little to do with Clickart.
I own several Corel products and a few from Art Explosion. Clickart 750,000 does not compare well either with these or Clickart's previous versions. Be sure you know exactly what you are getting and are sure this is indeed what you want.

I have complaints about everything in this package. The extra software did not work and the whole package turns out to be a continual advertisement for Broderbund to buy more online products and subscriptions. Like the users above, I expected the box to contain the graphics advertised. It is just as well, since I found most unusable anyway. Junk. Cute junk but junk. Trite.

This has angered me so much that I will never purchase any product from Broderbund again.

Three quarters of a million clips and none of them graceful. All jarring junk and limited at that. Hard to use. Editing not possible. And now I have an icon on my desktop so I can order more with no trouble. (I don't think that will happen.) Still trying to find out what the web clip art is all about--beyond me. Regret I did not order through Amazon. I would have had a heads up and not gone forward.

The images are not beautiful and the software is not easy to use. I am very disapointed in the software and it is too bad that you cannot return the opened product!

Broderbund offers the worst customer service I've seen in years. Not only did the product refuse to install on a new all-Intel computer with Windows XP, it did so with a flashy notice that came on for a SECOND, declaring that I already had parts of it on the hard drive and would have to remove it before this Princessware would deign to continue with Installation.

If this package does contain duplicates of other Clickart packages, it's because THEY are issuing duplicates. They're generating more cash by dividing up one large messy pool of graphics and selling overlapping bits of it. Their own software realizes this! It's amazing that the software refuses to work with its own subsets. They couldn't even bother to rename files? Or insert duplication management functions? What kind of crazy policy is that?

I'm annoyed that this skinny little box contains mostly air anyway but the customer non-service put a capper on it. They run you round pages in circles. Finally, after clicking every possible button, you realize they only want email from folks who've bought the software directly from THEM, off their web site. I don't know why they bother to have retailers, if that's how they're going to treat customers. They're passing the buck to people who really shouldn't be the ones doing software support. It's Broderbund's mess, they should clean it up.

This program is SIMPLE to use. The fact that many of the images are online is OK with me (and should be for most broadband users) because this way I do not have as many disks to swap or room taken up on my hard drive! The images are wonderful and they go on forever. How can you not find what you are looking for with this many images? This really is a great product.

Had this on my old laptop but couldn't find the disc to load onto new laptop. SO happy I found this copy at Amazon. It is amazingly simply to use and to locate images. Usually has just what I need.