Article #9. Image Collection Reviews
by The Kleper Report on Digital Publishing
Issue 6.2, March/April 2001
QuickArt Deluxe 1 is a CD-ROM-based image collection of 3200 300-dpi black-and-white illustrations for Mac (TIFF and PICT) or PC (TIF and PCX). The images are of a general nature, providing a good, broad assortment covering a wide variety of 59 topics, including: Animals (8 categories), Borders, Education, Food (9 categories), Holidays (3 categories), Maps (2 categories), People (5 categories), Plants (4 categories), Transportation, Travel, and Weather. The collection is provided with an image viewer (Mariah) for searching, displaying, and exporting images. The line-art images are provided in black-and-white format, but can be colorized manually using any bitmap paint program, or the color tools in many desktop publishing applications.
QuickArt Deluxe 2 is the second volume collection of line-art images. This volume is a hybrid Macintosh (TIFF, PICT) and PC (PCX) disc containing 3200 images, again in 59 subject classifications, similar to in subject matter, but totally different in images, from volume 1. The collection includes an image viewer with search features, and a printed catalog of all of the images.
QuickArt Sewing+ is a cross-platform CD-ROM consisting of 1,000 bitmap images related to sewing (needles, thread, pins, sewing machines, scissors, rippers, etc.) and associated crafts (yarn, holiday themes, glue, brushes, baskets, etc.). The images can be used to illustrate the sewing and craft process, or with sewing/embroidery machines (applications and programs). All images are provided in black-and-white and classified in one of the following categories: Borders, Calligraphy, Clothing, Crafts, Fabrics, Holidays, Knitting, Nature, Nimble, Notions, Quilting, Ribbons, Sewing, Symbols, and Trims. Pictures of all images are provided in a user manual.
The 300-dpi black-and-white images can be used in most page layout, word processing, and Web page programs. The liberal usage policy provides rights to use image in any personal creative work. If an image is used in a commercial product, which is permissible, there must be a printed credit to Wheeler Arts. "If QuickArt comprises 50% or more of a commercial product, additional royalties may be required."
