From the previous material you could already discover the basic definition of clipart and maybe can name now some of its most common applications. If you are an Internet user then you surely see clipart every day, don’t you know what we are talking about? Then do not worry and read this article, because today we will talk about feasible usage of clipart in Web page decorating purposes.
Now let us discover: where we can see it there?!
Practically every page obtains a background, it can be various in color and texture, animated and not, but it doesn’t matter how it will look because in all cases it will be called “web clipart”. There are two main kinds of Background Clipart: full-sized and bordered. Web page background of a full size covers all web page content. Bordered background covers only some spaces of Internet page; usually you can see it in the left side or in the top of a page.
We are sure you have seen such web page elements which purpose is in separating site content. They are called lines and dividers and they can also be decorated with the help of clipart or be the clipart element in whole.
Another clipart element we want to mention has an aim to attract attention of Internet users. They are called “Bullets” and usually they look like small balls and serve to separate a list of elements. You can see bullets of miscellaneous shape and color, but their size is ordinarily small.
You can count borders and corners as a clipart element if they are decorated with the help of some graphics. Also do not forget about frames that are used for photographs or images and can be counted as clipart too.
Now we will touch such a group of Page Clipart which deals with photos users can place on their pages.
So first let us discover such a type of clipart that somebody calls “realistic clipart”, but the official name of it is “photo object”. Photo object is a specific image which was cropped from a photo and is counted to be a type of clipart.
The next kind of clipart is called Photo clip and it looks like a portion of photos which were resized for site’ purposes. Sometimes web page designers can add some effects to these photos such as adding some shadows.
“Photo art” term we use to describe photos which were changed with the usage of some graphic program, such as Photoshop or using simple variant of it Paint.net, and then were placed at this site. Photo art is also a type of a Photograph Clipart.
The last kind of clipart we use for web page decorating is called “Photo Clip Art” - when we make a new, unique photo with the help of clipart objects.
Now you can surely distinguish clipart objects from other content the site can provide. Do not get lost in the Internet terms! But remember about other applications of clipart that can be not connected with Internet at all, such as decorating publications, making slide shows and others.