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Selected Clip Art, Background, and Animated GIF Internet Sites

There are hundreds of sites on the World Wide Web that provide access to public domain images of clip art. This page lists only a few. To find more, use a search engine such as Alta Vista, HotBot, GO.com, etc. and type in the phrase, "clip art" or "animated gifs" or any other appropriate phrase that describes the type of graphic for which you might be looking. Or use Clip Art Searcher, a page that provides searches in HotBot, Lycos, and AltaVista that focus on finding images, sounds, clip art, backgrounds, icons, etc. Table of Contents

Clip Art
Backgrounds, Colors, and Textures
Animated GIF's
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Clip Art
- A+ Art -- Provides links to icons, bullets, animation, clip art, backgrounds, and bars.
- Baylor Icon Gallery -- A collection of icons.
- Back To School Clip Art -- Clip art to use in school newsletters or Web sites.
- Bird Clip Art -- Clip art using birds.
- Clip Art Connection -- There are approximately 700 background images archived at this site, more than half of them original. The remainder are a sampler and very subjective "Best Of" selection from about half of the 70 or so collections listed.
- DanceArt -- Clip art that relates specifically to the world of dance.
- Elated ButtonKits -- A collection of over 700 static and animated buttons organized by categories.
- Education Resources -- A relatively small site of images with an educational focus.
- Ender Designs: Realm Graphics -- Over 340 textures for fills and page backgrounds, organized by categories: backgrounds; bullets; buttons; icons; lines; 24 Hour Art.
- Federal Clip Art - A Congress of Artwork -- American history, politics and flags are among the topics featured in this collection.
- Free Art Zone -- A small collection of Arrows, Backgrounds, Bars, and Buttons.
- Free Animated Picture, Clip Art & Background Site -- Bars, Balls, Buttons & Icons. Gifs Galore.
- Graphics Introduction
  This 5-part lesson will walk you through how to get and create graphics for your Web pages. We've tried to keep this as simple as possible to help you include graphics with a minimum of fuss.
- Icon Bazaar -- Provides a wide variety of resources, organized by categories, including backgrounds, textures, and animated GIF's.
- Icon Browser -- Although you can browse this area for icons, use the search engine to focus on what you really need.
- Iconolog GIF Collection -- More than 6607 icons converted to gifs and sorted into subject categories.
- Image-O-Rama -- This site contains approximately 3,000 images to use in your web pages. They run the gambit from your basic bullet to animated gifs. There are no backgrounds included.
- Insect Drawings -- A series of original drawings used some 50 to 60 years ago as teaching aids for entomology at the University of Illinois.
- Jelane's Free Web Graphics -- One of the nice features of this site is that she has created "families" of graphics that can be used to create a nice, artistic unified approach to a page.
- Religious Icon and Image Archive -- Links to sites that focus on religious images and icons.
- Texas A&M Agricultural Communications - Clip Art -- Keyword-searchable archive of images in GIF, TIF, and PCX format.
- ZyGraphics -- A free facility to enable everyone to create and edit their own custom 2D and 3D graphic images. No software to download as it's all online, all you need is a browser. Simply type in your desired text, select your color scheme, create your image and save to disk.
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Backgrounds, Colors, and Textures
- Baylor Texture Gallery -- A collection of texture patterns.
- Colors
  - 6X6X6 Color Palette Clickable Map -- To find the hex code for a color, move the mouse pointer until it is over the color you want. Then, look at the hex code on the browser status line.
  - Color Picker -- This is a useful resource for determining a color scheme for a web page.
  - 216 Windows Colors -- Displays color palettes (blue, red, green, and purple centered) along with the Hex codes; also provides a Hex to Dec conversion.
  - ColorMaker -- ColorMaker makes it easy to create colorful web pages without having to bother with confusing hexadecimal numbers.
  - Hexidecimal Color Chart -- What's nice about this chart is that the colors are arranged by color hue, rather than hexidecimal numbers, so it's easy to find similar colors.
  - Optimizing Web Graphics: Which Color Palette -- Read about using the 216 color palette for compatibility with most browsers and operating systems.
  - Color/Colour -- This phrase is repeatedly displayed in each of the available colors, with the Hex code displayed next to it.
  - Tools for Determining Text and Background Colors -- Links to a number of resources that will help you choose text and background colors.
- WebGround -- 660 free original background textures for your www home page.
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Animated GIF's
- Animated GIF's -- This page is a gateway to over 1,250 animated Gif files and many other items (gifs, jpgs, letters, buttons, backgrounds, etc.) you may find useful in designing your own home page.
- Animation Factory -- A collection of over 10,000 animated GIF's.
- Barry's Clip Art Server -- Almost 2000 (400 megabytes) of GIF89a animations, with a searchable index.
- Clip Art Index to Information Around the World
- Making Animated GIF's -- A tutorial for making animated GIF's.
- Nick's Cool Animated GIF's -- A collection of animated gifs available free for your homepage.
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More?
Try these sites that do nothing other than provide links to clip art, background, texture, animated GIF, etc. sites.
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