Web Clip Art
Clip art can be known as any image, graphic, picture, photograph, or illustration used in publication, print, desktop publishing, scrap booking, advertising, or in any other project that uses images. Web clip art describes any image, graphic, background, icon, divider, photo object, photo clip art, photo art, photo clip, or other image that has been created especially for use on Web pages. In many cases the Web clip art is created in .gif format and the photographs have been cropped or resized in .jpg format. Many of these images are also used in other publications, including newsletters, craft projects and desktop publishing projects. Animated clip art is clip art that moves and may be an image, a line bar, a bullet, button, or even a Web page background and is specifically created for use on Web pages or for any program that can see and show movement, such as certain email programs.
Clip art is used in many ways and for many purposes on Web pages.
• Web page backgrounds can be a solid color or can be a patterned, textured, designed, or even animated. A tile or full background covers the entire Web page.
• A Bordered background has a pattern or design down the left hand side or along the top of the Web page. Triple borders, or frames, have two or three different designs that frame the entire Web page, leaving the middle of the page for your content.
• A line bar can be thin or think, long or short, and may be a line decorated with clip art, or may be a row of clip art images.
• Bullets are normally small in size and can be any color or shape, including round balls, diamonds, check marks, squares, and other images.
• A title can be a plain text font, text decorated with clip art.
• When specific images or subjects are cropped from a photograph, the background changed a solid white color, or transparented.
• When a photograph or a portion of a photo has clip art added to the photo to create a uniquely different photo.
When clip art is used to decorate your Web site and to illustrate your Web page content it creates an inviting and interesting source of information or entertainment.