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Animations Paradise - This German site offers more than 1,500 free GIF animations, conveniently
broken down by category. The graphics are optimized for faster loading. The site has a helpful search
engine to help you locate what you need.
Digital Blasphemy - If you're getting tired of looking at Windows' lame default wallpaper, then click
over to artist Ryan Bliss' site for an awesome selection of free wallpaper art. There's all kinds of
eye-popping, original images here, including surreal images, lovely outer space scenes and abstract
stuff.
DHD Photo Gallery - This is a nice collection of "real-world-derived" images. Categories include food
& drink, math, medicine & health, natural science, flowers, textures & surfaces, office motes, pasta,
people, places, cactus, toilets, greenery and much more. Thumbnail images are provided for all
images for rapid searching. Free for personal and commercial use, but check the conditions.
Web2C - Here's a nice new free graphics site. Web2C offers graphics in many categories: banners,
round images, picture frames for layering photos and animal-related clipart. There's also a good
selection of thumbnails linked to JPG images, which are suitable for use as wallpaper.
Sample free images from Task Force Clipart - Here you can download graphics, multimedia
samples, patches and more. There's icons, bullets, bars, animated GIFs for PC users and lots of
full-color EPS images for Mac users.
KorCar Graphics - Free bars, bullets, buttons and backgrounds. Also offers free animated and static
banners (a must if you've signed up for a banner service to promote your site).
Free Graphics Tools - This site offers various free studio IPAS (Ixps, Axps, Pxps and Sxps),
including tools such as "3D Studio," filters for animated special effects and "Grad, ripple, bub and pat."
Andy's Art Attack - Andy Evans' 300-plus page site offers resources for free and original GIF
animations, buttons and backgrounds, as well as HTML tips. A mind-blowing site, with some of the
most creative art that we've seen anywhere. Andy also serves up tips for using Adobe Illustrator and
Photoshop. Also be sure to check out the "Daily Download" which serves up a different button,
animation or counter digit each day.
ASCII Art Gallery - Here's a graphics site with a twist: it features ASCII art only. Now, I hear you
saying, "But ASCII art is boring!" Well, obviously you haven't viewed the masterpieces that Joan Stark
has turned out. There's some pretty amazing stuff here, available for "personal use." Categories
include: cartoon characters, animals, seasonal items, animations (!) and more.
Eirin's Gradient Backgrounds - If you're looking for gradient backgrounds (those that fade from one
color into another), this is the place to go. This site contains contains red, dark blue, purple. light
green, yellow, and orange backgrounds. Each gradient color background is sampled in a .GIF format.
Caboodles Clip Art - Helpful clip art resource, with a handy search engine to help you find what you
need. There's also a cool animated GIF section. While you're there, get yourself a free animated
mailbox with your name on it!
The Doodle-Kids Page - This site offers free original Web graphics for children's (or grownup's)
pages. There's a nice selection of animated words (signs and banners), animated people and
cyberpets, angels, animals and custom graphics. They also offer matched background sets, sample
Web site graphics idea pages and an image search engine.
Bonedanz Graphics - This site features hundreds of free unique and unusual Web page
backgrounds. Many of these images also look fine when displayed as desktop wallpaper, when tiled.
Bonedanz also offers animated buttons, 3D buttons and more.
NVR BorderMania free filters - This site offers free plug-in filters for graphics editing programs
including the popular shareware program, Paint Shop Pro. All of these filters are designed to create a
variety of basic borders around images and are particularly well suited to creating buttons for Web
pages.
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