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Online Graphics Tools

These are practical tools. There is also a page for learning about graphics.
  • Rollover Maker at Builder.com A form to generate the javascript code to make rollovers that pop up an additional image.
  • Scripting Tools at builder.com has a link to making roll overs with an image map.
  • JPG Optimizer will reduce the size of jpg format images.
  • The Mouseover Maker generates javascript code for the regular roll over. There's a good discussion here of how these rollovers work.
  • Mediabuilder helps you create animated gifs, background textures, borders, icons and lines.
  • Gifworks is a terrific resource. They offer a number of tools, online, for working with images. Their resources include 3D Text maker, Button Maker, FontMapper. Their GIF optimizer helps you to reduce the size of an image. They also offer a collection of free images.
  • Use of alt tags is a great resource on this attribute.
  • Filez allows you to search for specific images. You can search for other types of files too.
  • A Brief Guide to XV3. An imaging tool available on the UNCA Unix Workstations in 004.
  • Sullivan's Scanning Tips gives a nice overview of scanning images and includes a good glossary of scanning terms.
  • GIF Lube is a good resource for resizing images. It seems to do a clearer, sharper job than Lview.
  • My Imager for editing images ONLINE! You can resize images, crop, reduce the file size of both jog and gif files, set transparancy and quite a few other effects. It's not quite as complete as the famous Imaging Machine, but it is viable!

  • Image Forge is not an online tool, it's a free graphics editor program to download and use on your PC.
  • PhotoPlus is another free graphics editor program to run on your PC. It has an HTML editor companion, WebPlus.


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Sources of Icons, Bullets and backgrounds for Web Pages

  • McCanna's Icons is a nice collection including swishes, computer objects, florals and more.
  • Image sets from Big Nose Bird are complete with background, icons, bars and buttons. Every set includes blank buttons that you can add your own text to using the web-based graphics editor at Gifworks.
  • Revision Wallpaper has some great paper-like backgrounds. Some are like spiral-bound notebooks, ruled pages, torn edges and left border effects.
  • Large collections of lines . Horizontal lines and rules.
  • re-vision is a good source of images and fonts. The page of geometric icons is a collection of especially beautiful icons. He also has a great collection of backgrounds including very effective paper and spiral bindings. These are all in his Art and Other Essentials section.
  • Wendy's Backgrounds are some of the best I've found. Good pale colors that text looks great on. Many bordered backgrounds.
  • The Caboodles clip art archive also includes a link to the alt.binaries.clip-art archive.
  • Cool Graphics on the Web includes a tremendous list of archive links and access to an image locater (gif search engine).
  • A massive list of links to all kinds of graphics.
  • A delightful collection of icons is available at the IconBazaar
  • You are welcome to the the contents of my icon directory, where you'll find a variety of buttons, bars and backgrounds. You may take anything you like from the icon directory without permission as I got all of these images from public distribution archives. Do not remove any other images from my web site without permission from me.
  • Barry's Clip Art Service contains a terrific selection of backgrounds, bullets, etc. He also offers a search engine on his images.
  • Ripco's Icon Gallery contains a selection of small icons. Nice tree here. The link here for "anim" leads to an archive of animated gifs.
  • Pattern Land
  • Index of images
  • CLIP-ART
  • Julianne's Background Textures
  • Sandbox contains sections for bars, icons, etc.
  • Images Library A slow site, but contains interesting work.
  • WDVL Graphics This is an extraordinary site for web page design in general, offering much more than simple backgrounds.
  • Ozone Image Index offers a great collection of backgrounds in pleasing patterns and paper-like textures. Good use of frames to present backgrounds.
  • andyart is pretty confusing visually, but has some terrific images.
  • Texture Land is extreme.



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