CLIP ART FILES FREE
Many of you work with limited resources so the free clip art vector illustrations that Microsoft made available was important to getting your work done. In PowerPoint, the most common vector images formats are. Vector images also tend to have smaller file sizes because they have to store less information about the image. When you scale a vector image it remains crisp because you’re not scaling pixels. Vector images are based on a mathematical formula to draw lines and shapes. If the image is scaled up, the pixels become larger and we get that blurry pixelated look. For example, if an image is 300×300 it is going to have 300 pixels from left to right and 300 pixels from top to bottom to form a grid of 90,000 pixels. What’s the difference between vector and bitmap images?īitmap images are a grid of cells we call pixels. And later when you need money for illustrations, you’ll sound more sophisticated and avoid some of the eye rolling you’d get asking for a clip art budget. So if you’re still using clip art from the site, start calling them vector illustrations.
Vector Illustrations RockĬlip art gets a bad rap but you don’t see the same complaints about “vector illustrations.” However, most clip art images offered through the Microsoft site are actually vector illustrations. It also puts some pressure on organizations to finally commit some of their training budgets to graphic and visual design resources. It forces us to be more intentional about the graphics we use in our courses. In that case dropping clip art is probably a good thing for course designers. They lack a coherent visual design and fall into the Frankencourse category. Because people tend to mix and match these images, some of the presentations and online courses are a bit discordant.
Unfortunately many of those images end up in presentations and elearning courses. While there’s a lot of clip art available, most of it is dated and hasn’t been updated to reflect more contemporary visual design and styles. Theoretically the images can be used in your courses and presentations. In its place, you’ll have access to a Bing image search, which will be filtered by Creative Commons licensing. Not sure if you saw the news, but Microsoft is going to dump clip art.
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