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The case for clip art and stock photography

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That's when I turn to clip art and stock photography. And there's a lot of poor clip art and stock photography out there which is horribly cheesy and, worse still, over-used. But in my experience that leaves an awful lot of gaps. There's a lot of snobbery about this.

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Tips for do-it-yourself artists

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In Move over stock photos, Poser's here , Cathy Moore looks at alternatives to stock photos, in which, she complains, the girls are always too thin, too pretty and too happy. You can get these figures to adopt whatever pose or expression you like - something that's not possible with clip art or stock photography.

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Design elements - a graphics style manual

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Create images - don't scavenge : Nothing is more banal or meaningless than a commonly-used instance of stock photography that shows up everywhere. Measure with your eyes - design is visual : The eyes are funny things; they're often fooled by visual stimuli.

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Snap happy

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I really can't see any snags at this price, which from what I can remember is a tint fraction of what you used to have to pay for stock photography. For $1 a time, I've been able to download masses of fantastic images for blogging, print documents and presentations.