Art Explosion 800,000

3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars | 160 ratings

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Last update: 01-11-2025


About this item

800,000 premium royalty-free graphics on 4 DVD-ROMs
Complete professional art library; no downloading required
Scale most images to any size; popular file formats
32-bit image browser software with full-color previews
Includes DrawPlus 5, a powerful graphics editor

From the manufacturer

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Make A Powerful Impression With The World's Finest Clip Art

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PHOTO CLIP ART

Stand out from the crowd with 1,000 unique photo images you can use like clip art! These photos come with solid backgrounds that are easy to change in most image-editing applications.

1,800 FONTS

Add pizzazz to any document with 1,800 premium-quality fonts - serif, sans serif, script, decorative and novelty typefaces and more.

VECTOR IMAGES

Includes nearly 200,000 of the finest scalable clip art images available in an unprecedented number of styles.

An Enormous Variety of Premium-Quality Images

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FINE ART

A wide variety of artists expressing their unique styles in oil and water media, drawings in graphite and pastels, works of fabric and paper.

TECHNICAL SYMBOLS

5,000 CAD graphics and symbols ideal for technical drawings, floorplans or remodeling your home or office.

RASTER IMAGES

35,000 spectacular graphics incorporating countless unique styles.

Add Impact to Any Document

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PHOTOGRAPHS

A complete library of 120,000 color photographs from Auto Racing to Zebras, including 15,000 higher-resolution photos.

TRADITIONAL

More than 72,000 detailed illustrations, rich in tradition and the splendor of yesteryear.

BACKGROUNDS

More than 12,000 marbles, textures, fabrics, beads, woods and other backgrounds perfect for all sorts of unique projects.


Top reviews from the United States

C. M. Norwood
5.0 out of 5 stars Great value for money
Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2006
With individual images from a photo library costing about as much as this whole collection, it's great value. I'm a beginner in the design business, and was encouraged by Robin Williams' design books to acquire resources. Art Explosion is certainly a great way to go. The large collection of fonts was an unexpected bonus.

Only last night my son was looking for photos of fruit for a project he's working on, and Art Explosion came up with hundreds. I'm working images into various items that I write and the huge variety means I can find something to match the other elements.

I did have a problem initially with a mislabelled disk. However an email to customer support and a replacement is on the way. A better search would be nice but I'm aware of the enormous task of tagging a collection this big, with no doubt a huge increase in cost. As it is I browse it with an ordinary file browser (which I actually find easier than the inbuilt catalogues) or search with a desktop search engine. Overall it's a great product.
Time Crunched Designer
1.0 out of 5 stars Need an image in a hurry? DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT!
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2010
GAG! What a mistake this was!

No searchability, at all. Does not ship with 1800-page artwork catalog, which is sold and shipped separately. Does not ship with Image Guide or Index card that was shipped with older versions. That means you are forced to spend tons of time searching, like using Google Images but sloooowwwwer....for the image you want. Need a construction graphic like I did? Hunt and find it, while wasting tons of time for images to load from the DVD. Designers take note...creating your own graphic in Illustrator is probably faster than finding what you want with this.

Bottom line: I regret spending the money on this albatross of a program. I paid for expedited shipping to meet a deadline. However, after hunting and searching for the graphic I need, I have missed the deadline. I will keep this software because I will need it in the future, and I will make back what I lost with my client - but this is NOTHING LIKE THE OLD ART EXPLOSING/800,000 Images.
sugarplum
5.0 out of 5 stars Where everything is at
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2023
I can't find some things and can't seam to find how to move things in program but I know that I will figure it out .it just not like the old program I use to have that I could move pictures and make shirt .now can't .but in time I will figure it out.I know it is a good program and just advanced more now.
Honest reviews
2.0 out of 5 stars Just OK
Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2009
First off the search function is junk, best to search the folders with Windows search (lot faster). Two, you need to send $7 more! (not $5 like the paphlet inside says) for the book (which doesn't even show the fonts [one big reason I got it]). The vectors are good, the main reason I got the program. The photos and backgrounds are horrible, when do you need a 640x480 background these days? I thought they may be AT LEAST 1000x800 or so, can't use ANY of them. Carefully read the rebate too, it stated $30 back, but I only got $20 back because I didn't have any other NOVA software.
Bottom line: you need vectors and are willing to do a little "searching", this is for you, plenty of pictures. Web graphics, PLENTY cheesy low-quality ones to chose from. Looking for what I would call high-quality pictures? (AT LEAST 2megapixels or more) this is NOT FOR YOU. Fonts, ya there are a ton of them, but good luck looking for the one you want, it takes days.
AND everything is pretty out dated (couple decades or so) Chevy Geo, and Mercury Capri?! Tube Televisions, and radios from the 60s?! PLEASE!

-The whole deal is a little shady on their marketing end if you ask me.

-800,000??? maybe. I see about 100,000 total usable goods. Sorry.
B. Anderson
4.0 out of 5 stars Not so bad...
Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2008
Before I purchased this program, I read A LOT of customer reviews. Most of those reviews were not great, and I almost did not buy this program. I'm glad I did. There were a lot of complaints about the clip art not been catagorized very well and it being hard to find what you're looking for. But, if you really stop to think about it, how in the world do you organize 800,000 images?!?! I feel this is a great collection of clip art. It comes with a huge 1700 page book which catalogues the images for you. Be aware the images are not in color in the book, they are just small black/white images to give you an idea. Take a rainy day and familarize yourself with the catagories in the catalogue and you shouldn't have any trouble finding the image that you want. For instance, if you want a picture of something pertaining to Christmas, Halloween, or Easter, you would look in the catalogue under "Holidays". Once you get familiar with the catagories, it should be easier and easier to find what you're looking for. Also, be aware that this product is just a collection of clip art, and you will need a separate program in which you import the images. I use my Windows browser to open the images on the CDs, then I use drop & drag to import the image into my Print Shop program.
G. Wright
3.0 out of 5 stars Good Value for the money
Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2007
This is a vast collection of clip art and fairly easy to find once you get use to using reference card. I was quite disappointed to find that the graphics did not always correspond to those shown in the manual. Some were missing or different. Disc 3 didn't have the correct images, I email customer support and they mail me a replacement disc very quickly. When using the catalog book to look up an image you will need the Cd directory card to locate the right CD. The Portfolio image catalog is necessary if you are using Windows VISTA because Explorer won't display some images.
just john
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Stuff!!
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2007
This is easy to use - in spite of what some reviewers say. The art is fine - not juvenile as one reviewer states. But the greatest feature is that it works. I ordered different programs from

Broderbund and their associates and they all are hard to load and that is no guarantee of successful use. Broderbunds tech support is the worst I have ever seen for any product. Buy this one - save yourself some grief.

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