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Have you ever gone to an event and bought some of those plastic glasses. You know, the one's they sell at every fair and festival with "Thirteenth Annual Watermelon Seed Spitting and Bake Sale Invitational" on the side. There are 5 different colors, and you have to have them all. But think what happens to them. You bring them home, wash them, put them on the shelf, move them three or four times, and then stick them in Aunt Bessie's yard sale.
The same could be said for lots of clip art that is available now. 50,000 pieces of clip art on 1 CD for only $5!! the package touts. So you bring it home, it's mostly junky .BMP format that look more like something your next door neighbor's 5th grader drew in art class the other day. Maybe that's carrying it a bit too far, but most of it is UN-impressive and just as UN-useful.
Another problem arises even if you have several collections-- it's such a hassle to search through all of them to find something, especially if it's holiday related because every collection has something for Christmas, Easter, etc. Or maybe you have just one nice collection and then you either can't find the one item you really want and if you do find it, there is only one of them listed in the entire collection and you can't use it or it's the same one everyone uses. I know this is especially true around the holidays.... until now. Thanks to the fine folks at Broderbund and their recently acquired company Clickart., your holiday clip art worries are over.
First, with Halloween just past and Thanksgiving and Christmas around the corner closely followed by Valentine's day, head to your local retailer and pick up Celebrations and Holidays. Clickart has done all of your homework by scouring all of their collections and putting the holiday related ones in one really nice collection and all on one CD-ROM. And not only do they have a super Christmas collection, but how many others have Earth Day, Native American Day, AIDS Awareness Day, Chinese New Year, Hispanic Heritage Month, and United Nations Day. Each of those days and several others are listed as a separate category in their reference book along with nice clip art for the traditional 4th of July, Easter, etc
Sure, there are bigger overall collections available, but if making theme oriented cards, posters, newsletters or other items is what you do, then you should check out the Celebrations and Holidays collection from Clickart.. It's only $29.95 retail and instead of having to find another slot in your CD-ROM case, the disc sits nicely in it's own pouch in the back of the reference book. The images are all .WMF or .JPG so they will work in most any program capable of importing and since this is just one CD-ROM the only other system requirments 4 MB of HD space and of course a CD-ROM Drive.
Features Include:
- Over 8,500 year-round holiday images
- Artistically elaborate alphabets
- Classic and festive fonts
- Full-color Graphics Reference Book
- Premium quality nostalgic holiday images
- Images from thoughtfully traditional to fun and contemporary
- Full featured CompuPic image browser/viewer/converter/editor
For more information on this or other clip art packages or to order online, visit www.broderbund.com.
Additional reviews by Doug Hess Jr. are available at his web site, and he can be contacted via e-mail at dough@desktopPublishing.com as well.
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