Clip art are those drawings used to embellish and make documents and presentations more pleasant and readable. These are drawn pictures and never photographs, which provide illustrations to be placed on any computer-written document . Clip art is widely used on programs such as Word or Powerpoint which have a rich section of illustrations to be used freely to write documents.
They are also used on flyers and websites, perhaps to create a personal logo or to graphically illustrate what you write.
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In 2016, the Office clip art was renewed thanks to the addon to be installed on the PC provided by the Pickit website which, in collaboration with Microsoft, provides numerous new designs and graphic material to be used to create quality or color documents or presentations.
In addition to these, there are many other clip art, downloadable from the internet, with which to decorate Word sheets or Powerpoint presentations also, for example, to create greeting cards for Christmas or postcards for gifts.
As with many other things, however, by looking for clip art on the internet, you end up on sites with poor designs, ugly and paid images. It is therefore worth pointing out the best sites where to find and download free and freely usable clip art .
1) Clker.com is the best site to find free clip art.
Not only is there a wide choice of designs, but each image can also be retouched and edited with an online editor with which you can change the colors and other basic settings. Clip art can be downloaded in PNG format (low, medium, hi), SVG, or even in ODG format. Another great feature of Clker is the ability to transform any image into a vector design, i.e. with an ideal graphic style for a logo or an internet icon, with bright colors and well-defined outlines. Just upload an image from your computer to convert it and make it vector.
2) Dreams Time is the site to download free and paid clipart images.
3) Classroom Clipart contains over 100, 000 royalty free clipart images, photos, illustrations and images.
4) 1001freedownloads is made of 52 categories of free clipart images.
5) Open Clipart provides high quality royalty free clipart images divided into categories: New, world news, Famous people, most loved, popular and others. For each of the listed clipart, there is the name, download number, and comments. The site is not exactly the best but you can search for clip art by looking at the most downloaded or by browsing the categories that are in the middle on the right.
6) FreePik.com is a clip art search engine not only with vector images, but also with photos. FreePik images are very beautiful graphically, colorful, sometimes inspired by cartoons but, however, they are very nice.
7) HassleFreeClipArt.com presents a collection of standard designs suitable for all uses. Thanks to the search engine you can put different filters and find the type of clip art you need. Clip art is also divided into categories that can be browsed from the left navigation menu. Many images of HassleFreeClipArt.com are illustrations of clothing, with many designs of women's clothes.
8) WPClipart is a standard clip art directory, which hosts tens of thousands of free images. There are several directories or you can do text search to find the type of designs you need. All clip art can be downloaded as PNG images.
9) Clipart ETC is a site of very beautiful black and white illustrations such as those found in postcards with vintage images. Most of these illustrations are scans from (old) books.
In general there is for all tastes and for all uses. The images and clip art are really very useful for decorating documents and presentations, for creating brochures and postcards and also for taking ideas in the creation of logos.
