Art Explosion 300,000 Premium Image Collection

List Price: $29.99 Discount Price: $14.09

Features:

• 300,000+ premium royalty-free graphics on 14 CD-ROMs
• On-screen image browser with full-color previews
• Convenient WMF, TIF, JPG, and GIF file formats
• 100,000+ scalable vector graphics; 50,000+ color photos and backgrounds
• All graphics in the box; no downloading required

Customer Reviews:

No keywords or search index [Posted on 2007-02-14]
This clip art collection is a big disappointment. The quality of the vector graphics is quite low, but a bigger problem is the search engine. They include a tool called Portfolio Browser, but it does not offer any keywords or text search. Instead, you must load one "portfolio" at a time by navigating to a folder on the CD. This is a very inefficient way to sort through 30,000 images, since each folder may contain only 100 or so pictures.

You can copy the CDs to a hard drive (manually), but when you open the portfolio folders it demands that you insert the CD to load the image. With such a large number of CDs, this too is unwieldy.

So to summarize, this is a collection of 30,000 low-quality images without a usable search or browsing capability. I do not envision myself ever using this.

Awful [Posted on 2007-07-01]
The search engine is awful. You must restart between disks. The clip art for the most part is not useable (OK I only checked the weddings / church). The people in the wedding clip art is not something I would send out or use. There is no holiday clip art that I could find. The church clip art is so limited that I can't imagine ever using it. I'm used to doing quality professional material and this will NOT help me. Glad they have a money back guarantee (at least that's something they have that is good that others don't)

New version is MUCH better [Posted on 2007-10-18]
This image collection may have 300,000 images, but it is IMPOSSIBLE to find any of them, because there is no real guide. The search engine only works on the particular disc that you are using at the time, which may only have six or seven categories. The way the pictures are organized is very confusing, and only useful for those who are very patient and those with lots of time on their hands. I use this with my high school journalism class, and my students are much too impatient to go through every single disc to find the pictures they want. The whole thing is practically useless. Don't buy this. The new version of Art Explosion is much better, because it has a book with the images in it, so you can look it up quickly.

Great Value [Posted on 2007-12-02]
I am very pleased with this product. More pictures and images than you could possibly need in every category. I'm very happy with the value for the money.

NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE [Posted on 2008-05-09]
If you bought the older version that came with a book, you won't be happy.

The computer version comes with an awkward reference library that has too few items per page with lousy quality. You have to open all the files to see what's really there. If you need to work fast. Forget it! If you like to put cats and flowers on stationery, it might be OK.

I used the previus 40,000 version on paying projects. The art was easy to find use, color, alter, etc.

After you buy it, you may be unhappy with customer service. After being on hold for 1/2 hour. I got defensive vague answers when asking if the older art was included?...some are! Do you have a pdf or higher quality freference to offer? ...Nope. Can I get my money back? No. Can I speak to a manager? Nope.

Do not buy this book...or any of the art explosions!!!

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