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Web Graphic Design Resources

These are resources available on the Web to assist you in placing, promoting, optimizing, and validating your web page or site, as well as to information on domain registration, and Web law and copyright issues.

Graphics Resources and Tutorials
Creating Interlaced and Transparent GIFs
Image Sizing, Autoscaling, and the Low/High Resolution Flip Trick
Color Depth Optimization and Other Tricks to Conserve Bandwidth
Background Colors and Images
Web Art
Fonts

Graphics Resources and Tutorials

Paint Shop Pro Tutorials

Paint Shop Pro Users Group. Includes a message forum, chat room, study sessions, tutorials, tips & tricks, and more.
Paint Shop Pro XI Tutorials from Corel.
Lori's Web Graphics: How-To - Covers PSP 8 through XI. How-to's on photo editing, balls & bubbles, masks, seamless tiles, picture tubes, text effects, and more.
Khiba's PSP Tutorials. Covers PSP 7 through X.

Paint Shop Pro Legacy Versions Tutorials

Paint Shop Pro Resources Tutorials. Tutorials for PSP Versions 4, 5, 6, and 7.
Paint Shop Pro Tutorials. Scroll down to find the tutorials, mostly on Paint Shop Pro 5.
Paint Shop Pro Tutorials. How-to's and tutorials, mostly on Paint Shop Pro 4.
Web Graphics on a Budget: Paint Shop Pro Tips & Tricks. Separate tutorial sections for PSP 5, PSP 6, and PSP 7.
Creating Web Graphics with Paint Shop Pro 6 by PSPTips.com. Tips and tricks for creating molded buttons, curved text, and photo manipulation.
Paint Shop Pro Tips by Ronald Vick. Click the link at the bottom to get to the tips. Covers using masks, cutting and pasting images, transparency, vectors, text on a curve, etc.
Tips & Tricks - PSP Version X.

Photoshop Tutorials

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials.
Adobe Photoshop Tutorials. Advanced and beginner tutorials.
Photoshop Tips & Tricks.

Other Graphics Resources

Creating High-Impact Documents by Netscape.
DiP: A Guide to Digital Pictures & More. Links, tips, and tricks for Painter, PhotoShop, Kai's Power Tools.
Creating graphics for the Web by .designer. Includes info on using JavaScript mouse events, an anti-aliasing guide, and tips for optimizing Photoshop for the Web.
Cooltext.com: Online Graphics Generator. A free online service that will generate your web art for you. Super cool. Here's an example (my second try):
Media Builder 3D Text Maker. Another free online utility that will create a fancy animated 3D text banner for you. Pretty neato. Here's an example:
A few scanning tips by Wayne Fulton (at scantips.com). If you're scanning images or artwork for use on the Web, this site provides a load of tips on how to get better results.

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Creating Interlaced and Transparent GIFs

Photoshop--Transparent GIFs.
Create a Transparent Gif in Photoshop.
Transparent Gif's Using the Gif Optimizer in PSP8.
PSP and Transparent Gifs.
The JPiG Project by Thomas Lindstrom and Ed Scott. A interesting proposal for a, as of yet, non-existent graphics format.

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Color Depth Optimization and Other Tricks to Conserve Bandwidth

The Bandwidth Conservation Society. Reduce color depth, increase loading speeds.
Optimising Images by Ross Shannon.
Site Optimization Tutorial by Jason Cook.
GIF Wizard. An online utility that can shrink GIF file sizes up to 90%.
GIF Cruncher and JPEG Cruncher. Free online utilities that will optimize your GIF or JPEG images for you.
GIFBot by NetMechanic.
GIFWorks: free online image e-tools by MediaBuilder.

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Backgrounds

Controlling Document Backgrounds by Netscape.
So You Want a Background, huh? by Joe Burns.
Making Seamless Background Tiles from About.com.

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Web Art & Stock Photographs

Web Art & Clip Art

Graphics & Graphic Tools by Julie A. Duncan.
Barry's Clip Art Server. Omnibus clip art site.
Funet Collection. Huge collection, mostly b/w line art.
Rose's Backgrounds.
Swedish University Network (SUNET) FTP Archive. Big FTP clip art archive.
The Clip Art Connection by Eric Force.
Dr. Zeus' Textures. Somewhat surreal backgrounds.
Laurie McCanna's Free Art Website. Tips, tricks, and web art.
Ender Design: Realm Graphics. Backgrounds, bullets, buttons, icons, and lines.
Netscape Background Sampler. Also available from Baylor University's web site in table format as well as in a tar.gz file.
MetaBuilder. Large image library, graphics software downloads, along with an animated banner maker.

Royalty-Free Stock Photographs

Fotosearch Stock Photography. Search for photos, medical clipart pictures, and royalty-free illustrations, video clips, vector maps, and backgrounds.
Matton: Digital Royalty Free Stock Photography. Library with over 600,000 images. Also markets video footage, fonts, music, maps, and clip art.
License Photo: High Quality Photos Collection. Hundreds of royalty-free photographs. This is a French site.
Stock Photography: Royalty-Free and Rights Managed from Alamy Images. Stock photography, Royalty-free images, and licenced images from the best picture agencies and photographers in the world.

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