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
- 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
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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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