The term "clipart", which is quite common in the professional environment of designers, layout designers and webmasters, comes from the English word ClipArt. As a rule, collections of graphic images or photographs in good quality are called cliparts.
But clipart can be presented as a separate object, which is often used in graphic collages, in the design of sites and any advertising products, be it a poster or a brochure. In various graphic editors, both vector and raster clipart are used. Professionals most often prefer vector clipart, which are based on formulas, not pixels, and the files themselves have the extension eps, ai, cdr and others. Non-design users prefer bitmap clipart. Raster clipart have extensions psd, jpg, tiff and others. The word clipart owes its history of origin to people associated with the media in the pre-computer era. This was the name of the method of making illustrations for wall newspapers, when pictures were cut from various publicistic materials. The first clipart appeared in 1983. In 1985-1986, when the Aldus PageMaker and Adobe Illustrator programs appeared, with which designers and layout designers work, making printed products, there was a demand for clip art libraries. The very first clip art library appeared in 1985 and consisted of 500 pictures. And in 1987, the first library of good quality photographs hit the market for professional designers. The creators of such a popular program as Microsoft Word decided not to lag behind and included about a hundred pictures in the WMF format into the program. Today, Word includes more than one hundred thousand clipart-pictures. At the end of the XX century, cliparts placed on CDs were bought by designers in the store, but today cliparts are mainly downloaded on the global network. There are a huge number of sites that present many clipart in excellent quality and on various topics. There are even so-called psd templates so that you can create a picture that suits your tastes against a background that suits you. Such images are usually created in the program Adobe Photoshop - in the editor of almost limitless graphic possibilities.
