| Art Explosion 800000 |  | From: Avanquest Software
Category: Software
List Price: £79.99
Buy New: £59.98
You Save: £20.01 (25%)
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 993
Platforms: Windows Nt, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Xp, Windows 95
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 9
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.6 x 2.4
MPN: ARW
Model: ARW
UPC: 727298401776
EAN: 0727298401776
ASIN: B0001XWNSS
Release Date: October 8, 2004
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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Product Description
Art Explosion. Its the brand that computer users everywhere keep coming back to again and again. And for good reason. Art Explosion products are well known for unparalleled variety andthe highest quality possible. And they offer the kind of truly stunning
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 Not as good as expected March 25, 2008
Bertie Spud (England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was after business photos to create professional marketing material and instead received a product with no professional business photos on it at all. Instead what you get is a batch of photos that are of Africa, Animals, California, Transport (mainly American biased), Flowers, Landscapes, Path of Christ, Paris, the sand and the sea, winter scenes and the wilderness. Not a broad selection at all and very disappointing. The only business images are all clip art with the majority being like cartoons. It is so 1980's tin its style and not with it at all. If you want 800,000 images that a school child would find useful for their art project or if you wish to create a silly poster then this CD is for you but it isn't for anything more serious than that unfortunately.
 An excellent collection of images January 1, 2006
M. Scott (London)
31 out of 31 found this review helpful
This is undoubtedly a fantastic collection of clip art and graphics - hundreds of thousands of images in dozens of categories and mostly of a very high quality indeed. As this review is intended to assist other potential buyers, I'll just list the most important points.
1. Every one of the 800,000 images is in the box - no need to download any - and spread across 34 CDs. (Fewer DVDs would have been nice, but I guess not everyone has a DVD drive). However, the collection comes with a 2000-page electronic catalogue on one of the discs, containing of all the clip art in the set, making it easy both to browse for a suitable image and to find the appropriate CD quickly.
2. The collection comprises:
Almost 200,000 "vector" images, mostly in colour, in Windows Metafile (WMF) format. These can be resized with no loss of quality.
Over 35,000 "raster" images, as 300-DPI TIF files and mostly in colour. These cannot be scaled in the same way as vector images, but can be edited using programs such as Adobe Photoshop.
Over 1,000 works of fine art in TIF format.
About 50,000 classic images from the Dover art library, all in black & white and provided in TIF format.
Over 20,000 traditional images, all in black & white and TIF format.
Over 110,000 colour photographs, as 24-bit 72-DPI jpg files.
Over 11,000 backgrounds, also as 24-bit 72-DPI jpg files, that can be placed behind text.
Some 15,000 high-resolution (240 DPI) colour photographs.
More than 5000 vector-based technical symbols, designed to be used in drawing and CAD applications such as CorelDraw.
Web graphics - buttons, bullets, banners, animated gifs - designed to be used on web pages.
About 1,000 photo clip art images - photographic images in JPG format on a white background so they can be used as clip art.
3. The images are divided into over 500 topics and sub-topics (in corresponding folders), making it easier to find exactly what you're looking for.
And my own impressions:
Most of the images in this collection are of a very high quality indeed, although I do find the photographs rather uninspired and of a poorer quality - a bit like looking through someone's holiday snapshots. Some of the CDs appear not to have been pressed too well, as my CD drives have trouble in reading them (but always do eventually). (If you have about 20GB of available hard disk space then you can copy the entire collection to disk for quicker and easier access). The wallets the CDs come in are made of card, and it's difficult to get the CDs out without scratching them - I would recommend buying a proper CD storage wallet to keep them in good condition. The topics are very much geared towards the American user, with many being subdivided into "United States" and "Rest of World", but that's just a minor gripe.
In summary, an excellent collection of images and definitely worth the money - if you need clip art, this is the only package you'll need.
Nealy a million little pixies... err I mean piccies September 16, 2004
Marvin Angel (Manchester, UK)
34 out of 37 found this review helpful
From the point of view of my girlfriend, paying this amount of hard earned cash was foolish for 800,000 silly little pictures... This of course is true if they sit on the shelf and you don't use them... Quite the opposite is true however if you're a design student who needs images FAST and lots of them. This package saves nearly as many hours as images in design work. If you've got a spare couple of quid and want to blow the pants off your mates who either a) Have to draw the images themselves, or b) Put up with shabby Word clipate... buy it. Now.
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