I do my best to keep these links up-to-date, but change is a constant on the Web. If you find a broken link, please drop me a note and let me know so I can update the page. Thanks!
- Where to find more original graphics
By obtaining your Web graphics only from the original artists (and adhering to the artist’s guidelines for their use), you can be sure you will not be violating anyone’s copyright. Beware of graphics sites containing statements like “I found these graphics all over the web,” or “Nothing here is copyrighted — it’s all public domain as far as I know,” or “Enjoy these graphics I downloaded from alt.binaries.clipart.” I have found my graphics on such sites many times, and every one of my images is copyrighted. Every artist listed below has had similar experiences. Help keep free graphics available for personal use by always knowing the origin of the graphics you use. Never assume graphics you find on the Web are in the public domain — most are not.
- Ace of Space Web Design
- This used to be the home of a very large collection of original backgrounds for Web pages by the Ace of Space. Sadly, the free graphics have been removed because many of them were taken from the site and placed on a CD-ROM for sale without permission from the artist, who receives not a penny of the profits from that CD-ROM!
- Web Designer 97 or 98
- This is the CD-ROM referred to above, containing many original designs by the Ace of Space and others. If you have a copy of the CD or know anything about it, please visit this page and help the Ace of Space track down the person(s) who stole her graphics.
- Billy Bear's Clipart
- An excellent selection of storybook and holiday graphics by Loraine Wauer Ferus, creator of the delightful Billy Bear.
- Boy’s Holiday Gifts
Boy the bear is a delightful site to visit at any time of year (kids will love it), but be sure to visit the special gift page where you can download free GIFs to use on your personal Web page. Note that the graphics of Boy the bear and the graphics on Boy's other pages are not offered for use by others.
- Graphic Garden
- Charming graphics, including backgrounds, lines (check out the cats), country clip art, and houses for use as image maps.
- Maria’s Graphics
- Buttons, lines, animated word art, flowers and holidays.
- RoyceArt Marine & Wildlife Art Pages
- New Zealand artist Royce B. McClure has a gorgeous collection of marine and wildlife art, most of it for sale or available for licensing. Visit the “freebies” page for wallpaper, wildlife buttons, and other goodies.
- Sheriberry Graphics 1 and Sheriberry Graphics 2
- Animations, fonts, chat room, web page design help and more.
- The Art Cat Skates
- Some of the most original artwork I’ve seen on the Web. The artist works his love of skating into the designs — definitely worth a visit!
- towe my’s grafik - tm graf
- Pages in Swedish and English — delightfully whimsical artwork, including animals, backgrounds and more.
- Send a greeting to a friend!
- The Digital Postcard
- This free service features exquisite fine art and photographic images to enhance a greeting of love or friendship.
- Resources for Web designers
- Bare Bones Guide to HTML
- This is a great online reference for learning HTML.
- Barry’s Clip Art Server
- Barry’s is one of the most comprehensive of all Web art sources — a good place to begin any search for something specific.
- Classical MIDI Archives
- Thousands of classical music files, with most composers represented. A major award-winning cultural site on the Web which provides its own search engine. (E-mail links to the sequencers are provided so you can request permission to use their MIDI files on your Web site.)
- Gamma (Brightness) & Cross Platform WWW Images
- Ever wonder why Macintosh-made images can look too dark on a PC or a PC design can look washed out on a Mac? Gamma is what it’s all about.
- GIF Wizard from Raspberry Hill Publishing
- An invaluable online tool! Run your GIF through GIF Wizard and see how much smaller it can be and still look good. (Works on animated GIFs, too.)
- HTML 4.0 Specification
- Straight from the source — the World Wide Web Consortium.
- Imagine Gif Foundry
- Promising “everything you want to know about the gif format,” this site features lots of tips for those who use Photoshop or PaintShop Pro.
- Mining Co. Web Clip Art
- “Where a Guide makes the Web a bit easier for you” — check out the library section here for a good selection of holiday graphics, including Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, Easter and Independence Day.
- Lynda’s Homegurrlpage
- Home page of Lynda Weinman, author of Designing Web Graphics, Deconstructing Web Graphics, and Coloring Web Graphics. Get your copy of the non-dithering 216-color palette here.
- Table Tutor
- Joe Barta’s amusing but very helpful introduction to using tables on your Web page. Joe also has Forms and Frames Tutors accessible from this site.
- VisiBone Color Laboratory
- VisiBone has a really helpful online color picker: view sample text and backgrounds in any combination of colors. You can also download a copy of the VisiBone palette for your graphics applications and order a Webmaster’s Palette poster for your wall. I have the palette and the poster and love them both!
- Web Page Design
- Joe Gillespie’s superb treatise and tutorial on design issues and the Web.
- Web Page Design for Designers - Links
- Suzanne’s Mega List of Web Design Resources, a companion to Joe Gillespie’s site described above. A very well organized site with a wealth of information.
- Webpedia Animation Collection
- If you want animated GIFs for your Wep page, this is the place to go: very large collection, nicely categorized so you can find what you want without waiting for pages full of GIFs to load.
- Web design — how NOT to do it!
- Web Pages That Suck
- One site on the Web where you’d rather not see your home page featured! Plenty of real examples here, helping you learn what to avoid on your pages. Funny, too!
- General graphics & desktop publishing resources
- adobe.mag
- This online version of Adobe Magazine is no longer published twice a month, but visit anyway to download the archived PDF files of helpful how-to articles about using Adobe products.
- Design & Publishing Center
- Home of Fred Showker’s monthly DT&G newsletter, Photoshop tips, and Web Design Review. Subscribe online, and you’ll get extras including clip art and DTP templates. One of the best bargains on the Web.
- desktopPublishing.com: The Ultimate Desktop Publishing Resource
- If it has anything to do with desktop publishing, chances are you’ll find it here. That includes links to a large number of clip art sites, templates, as well as message boards for Microsoft Image Composer, dtpTalk, Adobe Illustrator, and Fractal Design Painter.
- DTP Internet Jumplist
- A great place to start a search for information related to desktop publishing.
- Publish RGB Magazine
- The online home of a fine magazine for designers working in either print-based publishing or on the Web.
- Sullivan’s Online Scanning Resources
- The title says it all. This site should answer most of your scanning questions.
- My favorite tools - hardware
- Apple Computer Home Page
- The mothership for those of us who wouldn’t think of using anything but an Apple Macintosh.
- 50 Macintosh Advantages
- And these are some of the reasons why Mac users are such fanatics!
- Iomega
- Iomega's Zip Drive — for all your stuff! (My whole Web site is backed up on a Zip disk, as are all the generations of designs that led to the graphics on this site.)
- Wacom Home Page
- Did you ever try to draw with a mouse? Then you know why a graphic tablet is a must, and Wacom makes a fine bunch of them in a variety of sizes — all with batteryless pens.
- My favorite tools - software
- Adobe Systems Inc.
- Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, fonts, Type Manager, Acrobat, Dimensions, PageMaker, and Streamline — I use them all!
- Bare Bones Software, Inc.
- “Software that doesn't suck” — home of BBEdit, premier text editor for the Mac. All HTML for this site is done in BBEdit.
- BoxTop Software, Inc.
- The source for the excellent PhotoGIF and ProJPEG plug-ins (Mac only right now, but Windows versions are coming soon) to use with Adobe Photoshop and the superbly flexible GIFmation for animated GIFs (Mac & Windows). Boxtop also maintains an exhaustive list of Photoshop plug-ins for both Macintosh and Windows users.
- Extensis
- Extensis is the home of excellent productivity-enhancing tools. I use their PhotoTools, VectorTools, Portfolio and PageTools.
- MetaCreations Corporation
- Fractal Design Painter — an amazing tool I’m just beginning to learn how to use.
- GifBuilder
- Yves Piguet’s freeware GIF animation program for Macintosh just keeps getting better with each new release.
- ZipIt
- Tom Brown’s shareware Macintosh compression program makes archives that are 100% compatible with PKZip on the PC side. This is a must for anyone who does a lot of cross-platform work.
- Premier Mac sites
- MacCentral
- Updated several times a day, this site should be on every Mac user’s bookmark list for news and software release notices.
- MacFixIt
- Ted Landau’s site is a great source of up-to-the-minute news about resolving conflicts.
- Macintosh Resource Page
- Daily breaking news about all things Macintosh.
- MacInTouch Home Page
- Namesake site for Ric Ford's MacWeek/Emedia Weekly column, this is one of the best sources you’ll find for up-to-the-minute Macintosh hardware and software news.
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Last updated on November 27, 2003
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