Web Graphic and Images

• Inline Images FAQ (old, but contains useful basic information)
• GIF and JPEG (brief descriptions)
• Graphics File Format FAQ (Usenet)
• Poynton's Colour FAQ (more than you probably want to know...)
• Web Pages that Suck You may not agree with all the opinions on these pages, but especially check out the Graphics section

Look at these sites to find out more about selecting colors for your pages that look consistently good on everyone's browser and platform. Just because your color scheme and images look great on a Mac with a "millions of colors" display under Internet Explorer doesn't mean it won't look unforgivably tacky on a PC with a 256 color display under Netscape.

• The Browser Safe Color Palette from Lynda Weinman, includes a link to her CLUT files for Paint Shop Pro, Freehand, Photo-Paint, Photoshop, Painter and Windows
• ColorServe Pro hex number generator
• Hex codes for colors and some background images
• Thalia's Color Page (includes links to info about hex numbers and to background sites)
• Dither Prevention
  • The 256 Colors of Netscape (helpful information on selecting a color palette that won't dither)
  • Adobe's hints on producing web images including a web swatches palette for Photoshop
  • Victor Engel's No Dither Netscape Color Palette

• Yahoo's list of Icon sites (bullets, bars, backgrounds etc.)
• Icon Bazaar very nice bars, bullets, etc. (e.g. the one at the top of this page)
• Meara's Backgrounds

• GifWizard Optimizes your gif images so that they load more quickly (and take up less disk space)

• GIF Converter for Mac (shareware)
• GraphicConverter for Mac (shareware)
• PaintShop Pro for PC. The new version of PSP also comes with an application that creates animated gifs.
  • PSP Home Page
  • PSP Download Page (Win95/98; Win 3 version still available)

• Yahoo's Image-map Index
• Image-maps (from The Web Developer's Virtual Library)
• MapEdit for Windows (and Win95) (there's also a Mac version, but Mapmaker is easier to use)
• Mapmaker for Mac

• "Animating" graphics with Javascript a step-by-step tutorial shows you how to use Javascript to make your images react to mouse movements
• GIF animation tutorial includes links to software you need to make your own animated gifs

• Yahoo's Adobe Photoshop links
• The Ultimate Photoshop Site
• Official Adobe Photoshop Home Page
• Laurie McCannas' Photoshop Tips (geared towards making web images)
• More Tips
• Russell G. Taber's Ticks and Trips
• Photoshop Techniques from Swanson Tech Support (PDF format)
• Center for Innovative Computer Applications Photoshop 2.5 Tutorial (NOTE: PS 2.5)

• Multimedia Development Tools from Georgia Tech Research Institute thoughtful guidelines for designing, developing and evaluating instructional multimedia
• Multimedia Authoring Web from the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction
• Director Web (Macromedia Director site by the MCLI folks)
• Links from Damon Waitt and Tracy Giuliano about Authorware, Director, Shockwave, for the ACS Multimedia Workshop at Southwestern University

• DV and Firewire Central information about hardware, software, editing techniques
• About.com's Desktop Video Page