OK… I used to use the Microsoft Clip art collections They were really great until about five years ago. No I find it unusable. Google is good but it takes to long to find the right images and they don’t belong to me.
I bought a ton of CD Rom with clip art but the app that organizes them doesn’t work with todays windows.
So… it’s time to copy them to my Hard Drive and find away to get a thumbnail and catagorize them. They are already in folders by subject but i still would like to tag and organize them with thumbnails in batches.
My clip art is in a variety of formats BIT, JPG, WMF, ACT etc. But I think I could just keep the WMF and they seem to the easiest to work with …
I need to assemble worksheets to teach…
The book is on the table, The cat is under the table etc. It seems the WMF file is made up of lines and angles and seem the easiest format to be resized and integrated together with other images in MS Word to create new scenes.
I need to be able to create new content fast so, please suggest your favorite image editor or other tools for making custom worksheets. Thanks.
I have tons of Clip art
I’ll be honest this was not what I was expecting to read on the Flob this morning
There was a time when we would run to computer shows and actually buy clip art, sonny. I’ve got twenty five to thirty disks of them. The free services are not holding up to what they were. Time to use what I bought.
The original service that came when you bought Microsoft office was fantastic and very well indexed to image type subject and format. I could create a worksheet in ten minutes, Now, I can’t seem to find that. It sends you to Google or Bing. Not Microsoft’s inhouse collection.
You can try uploading all to Google Photos and use its search function to find the clip arts when you need them.
Besides, Google Photos also organize your images into albums based on the folders in your computer.
i use Canva a lot at work, they have a free version, maybe try and see if uploading your clip art to that is a viable way to manage it.
Yeah, organizing them into albums on my computer, is what I’m shooting for. But to tell you the truth. I forgot how to do much of that stuff being spoiled with the best Microsoft clipart feature.
I didn’t have to create new material for a while so I’m a bit Rusty and I’m now looking for tutorials.
Doesn’t anyone remember how great the in-house clipart used to be with Microsoft? Maybe it’s still offered but I just cannot find it.
They had cliparts especially geared to teachers and you can scale the graphics to full color, grayscale or line drawings and they all came out perfectly. I remember I used to do that with my wmf files so that’s why I want to go back and start doing again
it was great, and now they have this annoying “search online” feature and the quality of illustrations isnt so good.
There are several utilities that might work. Checkout portableapps.com… you can download the zip and use it without installing it. But if you really miss Word clipart, just fire up an old system or install in virtual pc, it should work.
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FastStone Image Viewer Portable (Freeware) - view, organize and convert images -
IrfanView Portable (Freeware) - lightweight graphic viewer -
XnView Portable (Freeware) - view, organize and convert photos
Use a reasonably priced site like www.iclipart.com
or
Use the newish insert icon feature in word.
There are tons of very usable icons / clipart in there.
Thanks for those app. I will look at them.
No, I own Microsoft office.
What I miss is Microsoft office had its own clipart collection, totally indexed, with versatile formats.
The art was WMF format which allowed me to scale it or change color.
If I wanted full color, gray scale or even line artjust one click art looked perfect.
you can still do that