Web Graphics

Give Your Graphics A Professional Look
Graduate from cheesy clip art to professional-looking graphics.

Creating Seamless Background Tiles
A how-to for creating a background graphic that tiles.

How to Create Graphics that React to Mouse Events With JavaScript
Making mouse-over rock.

Optimizing Photoshop for the Web
A short but sweet page about how to use Photoshop to make Web graphics.

Compression Basics: GIFs versus JPEGs
A great explanation of the differences between the Web's two most common image file formats.

Creating Graphics for the Web
A well organized site that covers all the major topics about Web graphics development.

What the Heck's Anti-Aliasing?
How to avoid the fuzzies on the edge of your graphics.

Creating Transparent Background Images

The Transparent/Interlaced GIF page

Utilities
Lview Pro:
A basic image editor for Windows machines.

Renderer Factory:
A freeware tool that can turn GIFs into buttons for your homepage pleasure.

Image-O-Rama:
One of the larger and better organized graphic sites.

GIFWizard
This online utility will help you reduce the file size of your images so that they load faster and take up less space in your homepage directory.

ThumbsPlus Thumbnail View Finder:
A shareware program that helps you quickly and easily view, catalog, and organize your images.

HVS Color:
A commercial image editing program that features anti-dithering devices, safe color palettes, and a stand-alone animation editor.