Clipart
Originally, clip art was understood to mean illustrations that were cut from works in the public domain or from clip art books intended for this purpose and pasted into your own creations, related to collages . Accordingly, the expression is derived from the English clip “cut out” and art “art”.
In English, the term Clipart almost exclusively as a generic term for digital decoration of desktop publishing and images (often comic - or cartoon style) to embed on websites , flyers used invitations and the like, being a substitute for reproductions of artwork with serve to create many distracting details.
Cliparts are often saved as raster graphics , not as vector graphics , so they can only be scaled with a loss of quality.
Modern graphics packages usually come with a clip art collection.
Screen beans
Widespread and well-known cliparts are screen beans . The use of predominantly black paint is characteristic of these figures, some of which depict everyday situations in a funny way. They became known, for example, through old Microsoft Word versions.
Screen beans are mainly available as WMF files and already as animated GIF images.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ What does clip art mean? - zu-hilfe.de - The FaQ portal. Retrieved January 8, 2020 (German).