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Web Graphic Design Resources

Here are web graphic and image editing resources I've gathered that might be helpful in adding more visual impact to your page and site.

Graphics Tutorials and Resources

Photoshop Tutorials

• Photoshop Tutorials. Over 5500 different Photoshop and other tutorials.
• Adobe Photoshop Tutorials.
• Adobe Photoshop Tutorials. Advanced and beginner tutorials.
• Photoshop Tips & Tricks.

Paint Shop Pro Tutorials

• Paint Shop Pro Users Group. Includes a message forum, chat room, study sessions, tutorials, tips & tricks, and more.
• PaintShop Tutorials from Corel.
• Lori's Web Graphics: How-To - Covers PSP 8 through X3. 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 X3.

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.
• 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.

Other Image Editing Tutorials

• Paint.net Tutorials.
• Illustrator / Best practices for creating web graphics by Adobe.
• Ulead PhotoImpact 7 Tutorials.
• PhotoImpact World.
• Gimp and GimpShop Tips, Tricks and Tutorials on the Web. Gimp is a free/open source graphics editor. GimpShop is a version of Gimp intended to emulate the feel and touch of Adobe Photoshop. It was originally developed for Mac OS X, but has also been ported to Windows, Linux, and Solaris.

Graphics Forums

• Adobe Photoshop Forum.
• Corel Paint Shop Pro Web Board.
• Paint Shop Pro Users Group Forums. Discussion of both current (Corel) and legacy (Jasc) versions.
• GIMP Forum.
• Gimptalk.
• Paint.net Forums.

Other Graphics Resources

• DiP: A Guide to Digital Pictures & More. Links, tips, and tricks for Painter, PhotoShop, Kai's Power Tools.
• 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.
• The Color Wheel and Color Relationships. Aimed at coordinating room colors, but also helpful for coordinating web site colors.

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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.
• GIFBot by NetMechanic.

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Backgrounds

• 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

• ClipArt.com.
• Funet Collection. Mostly b/w line art.
• Rose's Backgrounds.
• Swedish University Network (SUNET) FTP Archive. Big FTP clip art archive.
• Laurie McCanna's Free Art Website. Tips, tricks, and web art.
• Ender Design: Realm Graphics. Backgrounds, bullets, buttons, icons, and lines.
• Netscape Background Sampler.

Royalty-Free Stock Photographs

• Fotosearch Stock Photography. Search for photos, medical clipart pictures, and royalty-free illustrations, video clips, vector maps, and backgrounds.
• Royalty Free Stock Photography. Library with over 600,000 images. Also markets video footage, fonts, music, maps, and clip art.
• 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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Fonts

• Font Kingdom. A very nice collection of fonts.
• Free-Fonts.com. Large repository of free fonts.

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Education & Training

• Graphic Design Classes. An excellent omnibus site for helping find available graphic design education and training resources in your area or online.

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