Ideasoft Photo Clip Art 10,000

Manufacturer:	Nova Development
Release date:	10 February, 2004

Ideasoft Photo Clip Art 10,000

Average rating: Stars

Great artwork, proprietary format

I have mixed feelings about this product. On one hand it contains a lot of pictures. The content quality is very good. Variety is excellent. There are people in different life situations: work, travel, or going to school. There are various objects. From clocks and glasses with orange juice to spray guns and road signs.

There are also multiple variations of many pictures included, such as cakes with different toppings, or various heaps of oranges, or a cup of tea from different angles. This is a definitely useful collection; I can see it being especially well suited for web designers.

On the other hand, the artwork is stored in HPI format, which is not widely recognized by popular applications. The CD contains a special utility (GraphicsDesk by Hemera), and you would normally use that utility to browse the artwork, and export the images to other applications. This is not too bad, there is an export wizard included that lets you choose various parameters including background color. Most artwork on the CD comes already masked. Also with many graphic applications you could simply drag and drop the pictures (I tried it with Corel Photo-Paint 9, it works but unfortunately the mask gets lost in the process).

There you have it folks. If you can live without direct access to images - this is an excellent collection.

Ideasoft Photo Clip Art 10,000 - Nova Development