Re: Clipart - recommendations?

Hello...

http://www.arttoday.com

It is a subscription site, with a couple of million images. Some of them are
kind of cheesy, but they  have some really classy photos also.

Dusty

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Kear" <mkear(at)afpwebworks.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 10:26 PM
Subject: Clipart - recommendations?


> What do you all do for clipart?  (OR perhaps I should first ask 'do you
> use clipart'?)
>
> I often have need for photographic content, to spruce up my sites.  I'm
> not talking about feature photos, but as background, part of montages
> etc for 'atmosphere' on my sites.   For example I did a site for a
> company that finances commercial buildings, and wanted to find some pics
> of commercial buildings I could incorporate into the site. I ended up
> having to get into my car and go and find some buildings and take some
> pics myself.  It really didn't justify the effort, because it wasn't a
> feature of the site, just adding subtle indication as to what type of
> finance company this was.
>
> It's occurred to me that I really ought to be using clipart for this
> kind of thing rather than roll my own all the time.
>
> What do you all think of using clipart?  Do any of you real
> artists/designers use clipart?  (As anyone can tell looking at my sites,
> I'm what we call "design challenged" and more a coder myself, so I
> really need a lot of graphics help usually.
>
> And if you do use clipart, do you subscribe to an online service?  Buy
> CDs?  How do you do it?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Michael Kear
> Windsor, NSW, Australia
> AFP Webworks.
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