Clip-art (from the English. Clip art ) - a set of graphic design elements for creating a holistic graphic design. Clip art can be both individual objects, and images (photographs) as a whole. Clip art can be presented in any graphic format. To work in a vector graphics editor - vector, and raster - to work in a raster. Using clip-art, you can create wallpapers for your desktop, sites. They are also used in the design of advertising posters, etc. The collection of clip-art is a necessary tool in the work of any webmasters.
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- 1 Name
- 2 History
- 3 See also
- 4 References
Title
The name comes from the technology of preparing illustrations for wall newspapers and similar "self-made" publications in the pre-computer era - pictures were cut out from magazines and pasted into the wall newspaper. When photocomposition appeared in the 1970s, this technique was occasionally applied to him.
History
The first clipart for the IBM PC came out in 1983 . In 1985, laser printers and Aldus PageMaker entered the market - from that moment on, it was possible to prepare print-quality documents on a PC (which means there was a demand for clipart libraries).
Adobe Illustrator appeared in 1986 , and already in 1987, T / Maker released the first vector clipart library, which quickly became the industry standard. In 1995, the T / Maker library of 500 thousand pictures was released.
Around the same time, Microsoft Word 6.0 included 82 WMF pictures. Today, Office includes about 140 thousand clipart-pictures.
Nowadays, clipart libraries are sold primarily over the Internet. Typically, the pictures are licensed "for non-commercial use." There is an Open Clip Art Library , all of which are in the public domain .
See also
- Open clip art library
Links
- Clip Art in the Open Directory Project Link Directory (dmoz)
- Free clip art for non-commercial purposes