clip art

[melcam]

how can i download clipart for free?

anybody there who could help me?

thanks,

mel

 

[Graham Mayor]

There is a mountain of free artwork available on the internet. Use your
favourite search engine to locate what you want.

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[Carrie]

Put in search "free clip art" and if you want something specific put that
in, too.
I have a folder set up in FAVORITES for links to this, but I usually just
put it in again, when I'm looking for something else.
Anything you like, or use or think you might use, save in a folder in your
computer.
I think there's a way of setting this up so it goes into the clip art
folder that comes with Word, etc but I'm not sure how. I just scroll to it
when I'm looking for something I can't find in the built in clip art.
Carrie

 

[Mary Sauer]

If you have Microsoft products, there are over 150,000 clips on the Office web
site.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/FX101321031033.aspx

 

[Carrie]

If you have Microsoft products, there are over 150,000 clips on the Office
web site.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/FX101321031033.aspx

What does that mean "if you have Microsoft products"?
It looks like anyone could open the page and use it.
It doesn't ask if you have Microsoft products first.

I just looked at random, clicked to copy, and pasted it in a Word Doc. Then
pasted it into FLASH MX and as a new image in Corel PSP X
I mean just to try it.

Maybe you mean it's copyright and only legal to use it with MS products? (I
didn't use it, I just pasted it to test)
That sure is a lot of clip art! I usually forget about the online sources.

 

[Mary Sauer]

If you don't have the Clip Organizer or the Clip Gallery you cannot download the
clips. If you do not have a Microsoft product you cannot download the ActiveX
control.

 

[Greg]

What does that mean "if you have Microsoft products"?
It looks like anyone could open the page and use it.
It doesn't ask if you have Microsoft products first.

I just looked at random, clicked to copy, and pasted it in a Word Doc. Then
pasted it into FLASH MX and as a new image in Corel PSP X

Well, you probably used IE to do that, since that "click to copy to
clipboard" item doesn't show up when you visit the page using Firefox.
That's a semi-quibble, since getting a Windows system without IE is
pretty hard. Were you on Linux, different story. Then just the low-rez
images displayed in the browser are available, I'd guess (can't test
it). Maybe Opera or other browsers decode the MS-unique stuff on that
page better, or masquerade as IE better, or something.

But: What he was probably referring to was that the MS online library is
more integrated into Word & PPT than into others: You can select a
bunch of them, after which a single click sucks them all into your
Word/PPT/whatever local clipart library, along with tags letting you
search them by content.

I mean just to try it.

Uh huh.

Maybe you mean it's copyright and only legal to use it with MS products? (I
didn't use it, I just pasted it to test)

I think the first page has the copyright story. You basically can use it
in stuff you don't sell. School projects, your own reports, all OK.

That sure is a lot of clip art!

I agree!

I usually forget about the online sources.

Once upon a time I actually bought a CD with a big collection of
clipart. I'm amazed that such things are still for sale. These days, my
first stop for almost anything is Google.

 

[Carrie]

Well, you probably used IE to do that, since that "click to copy to
clipboard" item doesn't show up when you visit the page using Firefox.
That's a semi-quibble, since getting a Windows system without IE is pretty
hard. Were you on Linux, different story. Then just the low-rez images
displayed in the browser are available, I'd guess (can't test it). Maybe
Opera or other browsers decode the MS-unique stuff on that page better, or
masquerade as IE better, or something.

But: What he was probably referring to was that the MS online library is
more integrated into Word & PPT than into others: You can select a bunch
of them, after which a single click sucks them all into your
Word/PPT/whatever local clipart library, along with tags letting you
search them by content.


Uh huh.


I think the first page has the copyright story. You basically can use it
in stuff you don't sell. School projects, your own reports, all OK.


I agree!


Once upon a time I actually bought a CD with a big collection of clipart.
I'm amazed that such things are still for sale. These days, my first stop
for almost anything is Google.

I know someone who works for a local newspaper, doing the page set ups, and
she says they subscribe to something (clipart.com?) where they pay a yearly
fee and sign in and get anything they want, as needed. To use on the ads and
various places in the paper.

I don't usually think of clip art, when I insert something I go to my own
files and look first.

I used to belong to an egroup that sent around clip art, some made some
found online. It was really too much, I couldn't keep up with it. The people
on it must have spent every waking minute looking for clips to include or
making them, or setting up "signatures" for themselves and others.

When I first joined I asked if it was okay to use the clip art, was it
"free for the taking?" and was told if it was on the group, it was okay to
take and use. I don't know what they based this on. I have an idea once
something gets on the internet, and passed around and used and reused and
changed and used, the orignal source of it (and any rules for using it) are
lost.

But, there sure is a lot of it, that's for sure.