Tropical Rainforest

By MediaClips. Published by Aris Multimedia Entertainment, Inc. 310 Washington Blvd, Suite 100, Marina del Rey, CA 90292. This program is offered to provide you with photographic images, videos, and native audio clips that may be reproduced royalty-free in print and digital publications.


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Content

Exotic creatures and plants that are found nowhere else on earth come alive as you explore uncharted regions of the forest. This is not a tutorial or reference tool although there is some text to support the images and to instruct, but a fun tool for finding images that may be used in student reports, teaching tools, and presentations. Electronic, camera-ready art clips can be brought into a word processor or page layout application "as is," or edited in a graphics design package like Adobe Illustrator, Aldus FreeHand, or CorelDraw.

There are 100 photographic images that have excellent resolution. Native audios accompany the 25 action videos of birds, crocodiles, monkeys, and insects. The videos are rather choppy and very short, 10 to 30 seconds.[Top of Page]


Ease of Use

This program is very easy to use, no installation is needed and it is simple to navigate with no hazard of getting lost. There is a toolbox at the bottom of the screen that doesn't interfere with the images and is accessed with a single click. These icons allow the user to search the text with the magnifying glass, show text with the balloon icon, copy files with the floppy button and access the slide show. You can click anywhere to stop and online help is available with the ? button. [Top of Page]

System Requirements

Macintosh requires System Software 6.0.5 or greater, 8 or 24-bit color display (also supports 12" Mac color display), 32-bit -color QuickDraw, CD-ROM drive.

PC requires 386 or better, DOS 3.1 or later, CD-ROM drive, MS-CDEX 2.0 or later, 640K RAM. Images require SVGA with 512K video RAM. Sound requires Sound Blaster compatible sound board.


Reviewed by Joy Parsons, M.Ed. LIS Student, UT Austin. July, 1995.
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