About

The term "clipart" originated through the practice of physically cutting images from pre-existing printed works for use in other publishing projects. Before the advent of computers in desktop publishing, clip art was used through a process called paste up.

History

Clip art, in the graphic arts, is pre-made images used to illustrate any medium. Today, clip art is used extensively in both personal and commercial projects, ranging from home-printed greeting cards to commercial candles. Clip art comes in many forms, both electronic and printed. Clip art is mainly used in design and polygraph just as a facilitator. You can find the whole libraries, where different images are collected.

File Formats

Electronic clip art is available in several different file formats: bitmap or vector graphics. Web-based file formats such as GIF, JPEG, and PNG are bitmap file formats. The most common vector file format is Adobe's EPS, WMF or XML-based vector file format called SVG.