What is a clipart?
The term clipart, as is used today, concerns electronic image or graphics. Images and illustrations of cliparts have a wide range of uses, including leaflets, advertising, scrapbooking, desktop publishing and printed publications. Computer graphics come in an almost unlimited number of categories and types. Cartoons, boundaries, backgrounds, sketches and photos are widely referred to as clipart and are available from many sources. Electronic images can be associated with software, available for free and paid downloads from the Internet, or can be purchased at CD or DVD. Once computers have become more common and affordable, manual printing methods and publishing have evolved into an electronic process. It was no longer necessary to manually crop the images and use them to distribute materials to be reproduced or published. The name of the clipart remained and continues to be used, even though the old cropped images were replaced by computer graphics. Small illustrations often come with software used for KResolution, text processing, scrapbooking and other persecution related to writing, design or publishing. They can also be downloaded from a huge number of websites on the Internet. Many pictures are available for free while others require a fee. A person who wishes to buy a collection of computer graphics will also find them on a CD or DVD.
Clip Art is available in two different forms: Bitmap and Vector. BitMap (BMP) images are widely used and include common file formats such as graphical exchange format (GIF) and a common photo expert GROUP (JPEG). These are pictures in the shape of a rectangle in fixed resolution. Bitmaps are composed of black white or colored pixels and can become grained or blurred when enlarged.
The second type of clip file is known as a vector. Vector files use a mathematical formula to display the shape, colors and lines of the image without usedpixels. They can be adjusted to any size without distorting or grained, and compared to bitmap file formats generally create higher quality graphics. The only drawback is that one needs software to edit or publish images on a professional level to use the vector clip files.
electronic images can also be designed to move, flash, sparkle and perform a number of other similar features. An animated clipart is a novelty that often occurs on the website and e-mail. Like regular, fixed computer graphics, animated images are available for download and can be offered free of charge or at the purchase price.