WELCOME TO THE EVALUATION DISKS FOR THE INTERPRETIVE CLIP ART LIBRARY
..... available exclusively from Creative ReSources, Inc.
P.O. Box 488, Flagstaff, AZ 86002
Call 602-774-2147 or FAX 774-4647
BACKGROUND and MISSION: (July 1, 1992 Press Release)
Creative ReSources, Incorporated was established in 1968 as a graphic arts company serving national parks, zoos, aquariums, nature centers, summer camps, environmental organizations, schools, and related businesses with imprinted products. These products included signs, posters, publications, ceramics, sportswear and more. We operated our own production facility for over eighteen years serving such clientele as Los Angeles Zoo, San Diego Zoo, Busch Gardens, Wildlife Safari, Gladys Porter Zoo, St Louis Zoo, Topeka Zoo, University of Southern California - Sea Grant Office, Catalina Island Institute for Marine Studies, LA County Museum of Natural Histroy, Sea World, Los Angeles City Schools, Bill Burrud’s Animal World - NBC, Lion Country Safari, Africa USA, Yosemite, GreenPeace, Audubon Society, Sea World, Marineland, and many many more. In 1984, we closed this operation, purchased the first Macintosh 512K sold in Northern Arizona, and began the present operation of providing graphic support to printers and publishers needing tutorials, clip art and custom designs for their own projects. Our computer equipment has obviously increased considerably since then.
In 1985 we created and co-authored the famous “WET PAINT” Classic Clip Art Collection. It was published by Dubl-Click Software and was announced at the 1986 January MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. It became the most successful collection of bit-mapped Mac art ever published, garnering a five-mouse rating from the MacUser magazine. It is still available today after eight years of life in a fast changing market. Call us if you can’t find it.
THE IDEA
After six years of providing quality clip art internationally to the Macintosh computer community, we are revamping our entire format and method of distribution!
We are now offering our large, and ever-growing, collection of work as a “library” of diskettes from which the buyer may make his or her selection. This change will offer the buyer greater choice, lower costs, and better control over image selection. This is an important improvement.
Over the years, the complaint about commercial clip art we hear the most, is, “I wish I didn’t have to buy so many miscellaneous images when I only need just a select few!” We agree. Hence, our new library of diskettes. Effective immediately, we are ceasing to create multi-disk, multi-category, multi-format, higher priced collections that seem to exist for the sake of the packaging rather than for the buyer’s purpose. All of our designs are now available on single 800K diskettes at reasonable prices. Images on these disks are grouped by subject, artist, and file type. If you only use PostScript images, now you can find them. If you only use high resolution bitmapped files, you can now select them! If you only want pictures of marine mammals and don’t need birds, fish and others, you can select just this grouping by single disk and order what you need. If you're looking for a good original bitmap image to colorize in PhotoShop, Painter or PixelPaint, they're here! And so on, from the work of several artists constantly adding to our library.
ABOUT OUR INTERPRETIVE CLIP ART LIBRARY:
Interpreters, Publishers, Screen Printers, Educators and any one else using the Macintosh can now purchase organized groups of dedicated Clip Art from Creative ReSources, Inc.
The Interpretive Clip Art Library presently utilizes the following file types: MacPaint (72 dpi bit map), PICT (300 dpi bit map), and EPS (PostScript). In the very near future we will add gray-scale images. We also have a select group of Fonts. The entire first year’s work is available on a 44mb Syquest cartridge for those who want it all! See the last card in the HyperCard Stack for pricing info.
ALL of these files are graphic files and do NOT require any application to use. As a rule, you simply import or place them into your page layout programs and print. Fonts are installed in the usual way.
If you wish to edit the images, and they are all editable, you must have any appropriate application that edits each type. For any of the bitmap images (MacPaint or PICT) you need programs like SuperPaint, PixelPaint, Canvas, DeskPaint, or others. For the EPS files, you must use either Adobe Illustrator or Aldus FreeHand. In all cases, OPEN your application first, then open the file we supply. Make your changes and SAVE.
WILD IMAGES:
“Wild Images” is a collection on its own aside from the general library. See flyer. It was assembled prior to the “library” concept and remains in that state. It is a five-disk set comprised of a HyperCard visual Directory, on the first disk, for the entire set of images on the other four disks. These PAINT files were all SAVED as DeskPaint files (72 dpi Paint). Each file features a single image. This digitized collection represents over twenty years of professional wildlife illustration by Jim Thomas, president of Creative ReSources.
Disk five, of the Wild Image set, also contains some bonus images, including one in color. A tutorial page helping you “scale” these images for higher resolution accompanies the set.
THESE DISKS
On these evaluation disks herein, please see the three files identified as 2016 Cheetah Face, in three different dpi versions. These PICT files demonstrate how any bitmapped image from our library can be adjusted for resolution. We use the program DeskPaint for this, and we recommend it. This program easily modifies the image dpi (dots per inch) as these three images demonstrate. If you do not have DeskPaint, OPEN any other application that edits PICT files, such as SuperPaint, PixelPaint, Canvas, or others, and print. You can also IMPORT these images into a layout program like PageMaker, and print to see the difference in resolution.
As a follow up, in response to many requests, nearly all the drawings issued in “Wild Images” at 72 dpi are also going to be available very soon in our general library, but at 300 dpi, and grouped by subject. Watch the regularly issued Directory for these announcements! The image herein entitled “2006 Koala” is an example of how these will be done.
The Scorpion EPS file is an example of our PostScript images for you to test.
LIBRARY PREVIEW STACK:
IMPORTANT! FOR THE HYPERCARD STACK TO WORK, YOU MUST PLACE ALL THE LIBRARY REVIEW STACK FILES (Support Files) IN THE SAME FOLDER ON YOUR HARD DISK.
This stack is self explanatory once opened. Besides the introductory material it displays several gray-scale and color PICT windows. These windows will give you a thorough overview of the diversity of images available in our library.
PHILOSOPHY:
The Interpretive Clip Art Library will never be complete. (it's like Disneyland) Where it will evolve to and what subjects we will add depends on you, the user. Its intention is to become a cooperative resource where all in the field can contribute designs and purchase designs for a nominal fee.
Most of the revenue involved is shared with the authors and artists involved, on a royalty basis. Expensive packaging and manuals do not exist and are not planned, as these items simply deprive each artist of potential income for their good work. Several tutorials, particularly on how to add color to our images, are being prepared now and will be added to the library as individual disks in combination with a newsletter, in the collection.
Actual “HELP” is provided in text files like this one, which consume little memory on the disks, and provide the answers. Phone and FAX support is always available.
This completes this introduction. Take your time to review the images installed on these diskettes. In all they are representative of our entire library. If you are successful with these, all of the library will work for you! We look forward to hearing from you.
