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Quick Image Search: USE GOOGLE's IMAGE SEARCH Historical Images - New York Public Library: "A searchable database presenting tens of thousands of digital images from The Library's collections including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, rare prints and photographs, and more." "NYPL provides free and open access to its Digital Gallery and images may be freely downloaded for personal, research and study purposes only."
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Freebies Roundup ~ Icons, Buttons, Templates: Some VERY AWESOME items here! I'm amazed they're free, they're so good. 06/18/07 100s of FREE clipart images from the Bravenet Webmaster Resource Center. 01/24/06 2000 FREE: Clipart, dingbats, fonts and buttons ABC Giant.com: Huge number of graphics, incl. animated gifs, fonts, backgrounds, buttons, bullets, arrows, banners, barlines, etc. 04/11/02 Animation Express: 3D, Interactive, Music Videos, Stop Motion -- graphics made in Flash, shockwave, QuickTime AnthroArcheArt.org: Royalty Free, high resolution digital images and photos from around the world Animation Factory: Free Clipart, Animated gifs, graphics, images, icons, buttons, and 3D animations Buttons:
Clipart from Microsoft: Design Gallery Dings! (as in the fonts we know as webdings or wingdings, etc.) This site has so many! Plus other fonts and goodies. 02/09/04 Elated.com: Web graphics, buttons, animations, etc IconArchive.com: " The Icon Archive is a collection of desktop icon sets of over 10,000 high quality icons in gif & ico format. View the icons or download the original packages of icon sets for PC (zip) or MAC (sit/hqx) provided by the authors with all original readme files. Pay attention to the readme files before using the icons!" 10/03/04 IconParade.com: Lockergnome calls this "The World's Coolest Icon Portal" Language Teaching Clipart Library: from UVic, "This library consists of about 3000 images which we hope will be useful in the teaching of basic vocabulary in a variety of languages. The characters and objects depicted are as culturally neutral as we could make them. This is not a huge resource of graphics; its purpose is to provide a set of those graphics most basic and useful for low-level language-teaching, and at the same time, to make them as easily searchable as possible." 11/20/02 Mike's Fun Cool Free Site: Games, Jokes, Trivia, Cursors, Icons PNGart.com - 50,000 royalty-free PNG files: "PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is arguably the most powerful graphics format for use on the Web. Most of the latest Web browsers support PNG and it's characteristics without using plug-ins. PNG displays up to 16.7 million colors, can be progressively displayed (interlaced), and can be transparent. PNG compression is fully loss-less (meaning the quality of the graphics is not compromised for file size), which places it superior to other Web formats current used." 09/26/03 Xanthic: an awesome graphics site! Wallpapers, skins, PSP5+ tutorials, icons, and a beautiful gallery. 07/28/02 Image Chef: Just go here and have some fun. Create unique images or icons for your website or course. 02/15/08 Image Resizer: At this website you can download a free utility that can batch resize your images in bmp, gif, and jpg picture formats. You can also convert from one format to another, rotate images, create thumbnails. The site has MANY other free downloadable utilities, too. 02/15/08 EclipsePalette: "A color palette and screen color capture program designed for not only web designers, but Visual Basic, C++, C#, and Java developers as well. It features a drag-and-drop interface, as well a color mixer, and manual color adjustment tools. 10/22/03 GIF and JPG Cruncher at Spinwave GIF and JPG Cruncher at Tanda 02/13/04 Icon Maker: FREE and easy. 09/20/03 JPEG Wizard: shrink/optimize your JPEG images Optimizing Web Graphics: tutorials & an online GIFCruncher and JPEG Wizard. Paint.NET: A Freeware enhanced Windows Paint Program developed at Washington State University with additional help from Microsoft. "Paint.NET has many of the powerful features that expensive commercial applications have, including the ability to use layers. Paint.NET will do a lot of the things that the commercial graphics programs do. If you're looking for a good graphics program but don't want to pay for it, check this out." 04/05/05 Pixel Toolbox: Make your own icons! "...the complete solution for designing desktop graphics for the Windows OS. Create, edit, and apply 1-bit patterns, wallpaper tiles, icons, and cursors - all from a single integrated environment. ... offers the standard set of painting tools along with a few filters and features not found in other software." 07/22/02 Scrollbars: COLOR your scrollbars using this handy online color-selector tool at IconIco! The output is CSS style that you can copy/paste to your HTML page. 02/10/05 STGThumb: Batch-convert images to JPG from several image formats (AVI ;JPG; TIF; PNG; BMP; PCX; WMF; EMF; ICO; CUR). Generate instant HTML albums and slideshows. 10/18/02 Terragen: Create photo-like images with this free software. Xara: I use their software for some of my web graphics. EASY! My favorite is Xara Webstyle; lots of templates for banners, navbars, bullets, divider lines, a new photo editor, and much more, all included for a very reasonable price. Check out the following links. 06/11/02 Miscellaneous Graphics Resources Royalty free stock photos: To get the FREE images you have to sign up for a free account at Fotolia. They also have images to purchase, starting at just $1 per image. They say, "Thousands of new images a day." If you're a photographer, you can sell your photos to them, setting your own price. They say, "Highest commision in the industry (up to 80%)." 01/24/06 Foto Search Image Library and Archives: The site offers over 700 thousand royalty free images in its extensive online archive, including photography, clipart, illustrations, footage, and maps. World-class photography and art free of charge. It is the digital, online equivalent of a conventional art museum. Browsing through the library is free, and there are no access charges, registration requirements, or usage limits. 05/31/05 Photoshop and Photographers resource site: Hundreds of items - Photoshop tips, Photoshop Elements tips, free photos, photography tech notes, and more. 09/20/03 Fontosaurus: It's a long time since I posted a FONT resource site. This one's worthy of note -- has a big list of some good looking fonts, all alphabetized by name and by style. 09/14/03 Java Applets: check out the large selection; use them to add interest and effects to your website. 01/21/03 Slow View: a FREE multimedia viewer for all Win platforms. Supports more than 50 image, video, and audio formats, including JPEG, GIF, MNG, PSD, TIFF, TGA, MP3, AVI, MOV, etc. Options include thumbnail mode, creation of custom image effects, batch processing, catalog creation, Drag-n-Drop, wheel mouse, support for various languages. 06/30/02 Desktop Themes: beebfun (BBC) Graphic Design Resource: actions, filters, fonts, freelance, images, jobs, templates, tips, tutorials, web design |
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Jasc Learning Center: Full of PSP tutorials and others. Many of the PSP tutorials were created by the instructor who taught the earlier PSP classes I took at LVSOnline. Linda Niewenstein is an excellent instructor, so I hope you enjoy her tutorials at this site. The cover not only current versions, but archived versions of PSP as well. 09/12/02 |
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Plugins PSP Picture Tubes Downloads (JASC site) Some great 'seasonal' collections here, along with picture tube converters to help you get your pre-PSP8 tubes into PSP8. 09/20/03 PSP 8 Picture Tubes Downloads (external site) 09/20/03 PSP8 Picture Frames Downloads 09/20/03
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PSP Tutorials JASC's FREE TUTORIALS centre: Extensive list for Digital Photography, Web Design, Art Tools & Resources. 09/20/03 Ron's Toons: some good PSP vector tutorials illustrated by making cartoon characters. 08/25/02 Pinoy VII: some new PSP tutorials 08/08/02 |
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PSP Miscellaneous Abstract Dimensions: PSP tips n tricks (good) JASC's FREE Resources and Components Downloads: (PSP7, PSP8, PhotoAlbum4 Extras) 09/20/03 PSP 6 Power!: FREE eBook Titan PSP site: "I have a lil bit of everything here, free graphics, tools, tutorials etc......." 06/19/01 |
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