Clip art comes in many forms, both electronic and printed. However, most clip art today is created, distributed, and used in an electronic form. Since its inception, clip art has evolved to include a wide variety of content, file formats, illustration styles, and licensing restrictions.

Guide

Clip art is a collection of graphic images of various shapes, sizes and colors, including maps, diagrams, illustrations, cartoons and designs, available to you for copying and pasting into your own page layout. You can shop for any activity that needs an image, such as business presentations, birthday/wedding invitations, sports events, holiday greetings, etc. People associate clip art with web decoration, but the images are also available in printed format. Clip art consists exclusively of illustrations, and excludes photographic images.

Clip Art History

Clip art started as reproductions of simple line art drawings. These drawings were pressed full size onto a board where text or additional images were used. The board would be referred to as a ‘mechanical’ and ready for photographing. In 1983 VCN Excuvision introduced a package of clip art for pc users, and in 1984 Macintosh followed up with its own release, graphical user interface (GUI), a term that has become synonymous with web images. Also in 1984, the package of illustrations called “ClickArt” was released.

It was not until 1985 when Aldus released Page Maker 5 for desktop publishing that clip art came into its own. Aldus made it possible for the home user to produce professional quality publishing, which rendered clip art very popular and in great demand. People started producing business presentations, newsletters, invitations, and brochures. Technology allowed for simple designs and basic colors. Steady progress was made in both home computing and clip art. In the early 90’s, the production of cd-roms with an array of electronic art became a necessity.

Through the years, clip art has been a steady add-on for computer programs and a revenue generator for companies. In the 2000’s, the emergence of the internet as a sales tool was recognized. Clip art on the web was sold by reputable websites that are still around today.

How to Use Clip Art

Most people don't realize that clip art is easy to use and makes wonderful cards and stationary. These few tips will help navigate the clip art world. Learn how to use clip art, inebars, bullets, borders, and other images on Web pages and in other projects. Clip art is used in many ways and for many purposes on Web pages. When clip art is used to enhance your Web site and to illustrate your Web page content it creates an inviting and interesting source of information or entertainment.

  • Backgrounds and Bordered Backgrounds: Web page backgrounds can be a solid color or can be a patterned, textured, designed, or even animated. A tile or full backgound covers the entire Web page. A Bordered background has a pattern or design down the left hand side or along the top of the Web page. Triple borders, or frames, have two or three different designs that frames the entire Web page, leaving the middle of the page for your content.

  • Bullets: Balls or other small shapes that are used to draw attention to a specific area, to highlight a specific group of text, or to set apart a list of items. Bullets are normally small in size and can be any color or shape, including round balls, diamonds, check marks, squares, and other images.

  • Titles or Banners: Used at the top of a page to proclaim the name of the Website or the Website topic. A title can be a plain text font, text decorated with clip art, flash animation, or any other designed title, header, or banner.

  • Borders or Corners: May be used at each corner of a page for decoration, or used around photographs or photos.

  • Frames: Frames may be used around a photograph or images, or the edges of a printed page for decoration.




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