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by maryweilage

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When you design sites, do you usually use photographs, as discussed in this week's Design and Usability Tactics e-newsletter? Why or why not? If you do, what are some of your favorite sites to find effective images? Do you agree with the newsletter author that clip art makes site design look amateurish?

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by hewsan

The thought os using clipart on a site makes me shudder. It looks horribly amateurish. There are enough very good sites on the web to look for photographs or artwork. At the most basic level there is the google picture search facility. But for draft presentations to clients I look at creatas or imagebank. Any other graphics I require I'll mock up myself.

by jim kukral

I obviously agree with you Hewsan. However, if I had more column space I would have talked about how I have seen some very nice sites utilizing clip art. Not many, but a few. It's tough to do, unless you have your own artist really.

As for Google images. What I don't like about them is that the images are all created by someone else, and you can never be sure who else is going to use them besides you, so I avoid them for my own projects. They are good if you're just messing around and need a graphic for something internal though.

Jim Kukral

by domo17

Photographs, clip art, fine art replications, digitally originated art -- whatever... there's always a need for all the different kinds of art. Clip art is fast transforming into something with more sophistication. Go to the PANTONE site and check it out. Every web site has its own decorum, and sometimes clip art fills the bill quite niecely. Perhaps even better than a color photo.

by jim kukral

I agree domo. Unfortunately I don't have enough column space to talk about successful uses of clip art.

I think you get my overall point though. There aren't many people using clip art nicely as compared to photographs.

I'll check out that site. Thanks!

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