Ready-made pieces of printed or computerized graphic art, such as illustrations, borders, and backgrounds, which can be electronically copied and used to decorate a document. A set of canned images used to illustrate word processing and desktop publishing documents. Computer graphics files that can be inserted into a document or other file (the name derives from books of art from which designers literally clipped art to paste into their layouts). Clip art is included in many programs (especially Desktop Publishing and drawing applications such as Microsoft Publisher and CorelDraw!) and is also sold in separate packages.
The term "clip art" originated through the practice of physically cutting images from pre-existing printed works for use in other publishing projects. Before the advent of computers in publishing, clip art was used through a process called paste up. Many clip art images in this era qualified as line art. In this process, the clip art images are cut out by hand, and then attached via adhesives to a board representing a scale size of the finished, printed work. After the addition of text and art created through phototypesetting, the finished, camera-ready pages are called mechanicals. Since the 1990s, nearly all publishers have replaced the paste up process with desktop publishing.
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