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FREE Graphics Resources

A-1 Icon Archive - A nice archive for free graphics on the Web. Includes animations, backgrounds, balls, bars, lines, clip art and, of course, icons. There's also helpful pointers to other graphics resources on the Web.
Free Grafix - Here's a nice free graphics site with plenty of goodies to spice up your Web pages and presentations. Examples include Metallic Textures, Gold Edge Shapes, Fuzzy Shapes, Third Shift Animations, Floral Borders and more. Categories include textures for backgrounds, buttons, rules, balls, shapes and animations. There's also an "Animation of the Week."
GraphX Kingdom - This major graphics site serves up over 3,000 free graphics, including a nice assortment of icons. A local search engine makes it easier to find what you need. Graphics are also offered in ZIP format, for faster downloads. There's also a section on "How to Download" for newbies.
CoolText: Online Logo Generator - This free service will let you easily create cool customized logos online. Just choose your text preference, your font and the colors and this service will generate your graphic quickly. Great for many uses: custom wallpaper, Web sites, etc.
freeimages.com - This is an impressive new resource for free graphics on the Web. freeimages.com features all-original clipart, including backgrounds, buttons, icons, bars, and digital art. There's also a cool "Digital Images" collection that features eye-catching art in unique categories, including "Aliens & Spaceships," "Creepy Crawlies," "Frost & Fire," "Spirals," "Dark Fantasy," and more.
Animation Factory - Over 8,500 original 3D animated GIF files here. These graphics are available for free for use on noncommercial Web pages. An excellent collection. Categories include bullets, buttons, alphabets, characters, office, flags, holiday, music, sports, transportation and more.
ZyGraphics free graphics services - ZyGraphics lets you create you own personalised graphics for your site. No graphic or artistic design experience is required. ZyGrahpics allows a near infinite range of high quality text and 3D graphic headings to be produced in seconds.
RCS Web Design - This site offers many free graphics, suitable for Web pages. Categories include 3D balls, 3D bullets, arrows, backgrounds, banners, bar lines, buttons (small & large). They'll also customize the graphics for you (limit one per visitor).
Themez - An excellent resource for free desktop "themes" (which you can use to give your Windows desktop a customized look). This site has over 2,600 themes. Categories include animals, anime, art, cartoons, computers, games, holidays, horror, movies, music, nature, people, places, sci-fi, sports, TV, vehicles and more.
Mike's World - This is a helpful site for Web page designers and serves up plenty of free graphics. Images are arranged by category and include: animals, backgrounds, business, city, food, holiday themes, household, insects, interfaces, landmarks, music, recreation and technology.
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.
The View Through the Sky Light - This site offers free original graphics for children, including home page sets, border backgrounds, GeoCities buttons and "ABCs" sets.
The Holocron - Are you a fan of Star Wars? Then check out this free graphics site, which offers "the largest collection" of Star Wars animated GIF files on the Web. There's over 332 graphics here, broken down by category: A-Wings, B-Wings, X-Wings, Millennium Falcon, Imperial Ships, etc.
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.
30+ free desktop wallpaper "posters" - Motivational, humorous, thought-provoking & some even disturbing. Beautiful scenery, cats, dogs, BIG cats and more! And new ones added weekly.
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!
Free Custom Cartoons from KG Company - This is primarily a commercial site, but they offer free custom cartoons of whatever you want. So, if you want a cartoon of a penguin playing chess in France on an elephant's back while the Eiffel Tower sprouts feet and walks away, you've got 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.
Frank's Free Banners - If you've signed up for a banner exchange, then stop by and see Frank about getting a free banner design. He's made over 1,000 banners for Link Exchange members over the past six months.
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.
Web Graphics on a Budget - A helpful site that offers tuturials on using Paint Shop Pro. Learn how to make backgrounds, fancy text, buttons, frames for graphics and more, just like the pros.
POV-Ray Free Graphics Tool - POV-Ray (the Persistence of Vision Raytracer) is a high-quality, free program for creating amazing 3-D graphics. Has a steep learning curve, but is worth the time you invest in it, if you're serious about learning about ray-traced graphics. Available for Windows, DOS, Macs, Linux, SunOS and Amiga.
Octagamm's Ball Boutique - A good resource for spheres, orbs, round things, alphabets, backgrounds and free graphics of all sorts. Intended for use in noncommercial pages.
Cats 'n' Kittens' Designs - Do you like cats? Here's a nice collection of free feline-related graphics. Many of the images have been "adapted" from stickers, old postcards and children's books or clipart.
Xoom Web Clip Empire - Over 50,000 free animated GIFs, buttons, bullets, backgrounds, textures, 3D-icons, photos, sound effects, photos, music clips, and vector clips (EPS and WM).
netCREATORS Icon Page - Featuring over 120 animated GIFs, and a total of 570 images. Categories include 3D objects, cartoons, "Under Construction" icons, page dividers, E-mail icons, text animations, human-related icons, backgrounds, balls, bars and much more.
Free Web Graphics by Pam Bytes - This site has a big collection of free and ORIGINAL Web graphics and is constantly updated. Here you will find backgrounds, buttons, texture fills, banners, page themes and border patterns. Currently there are over 1000 images. There's also tuturials on topics such as "How to add text to buttons with Paint Shop Pro."
Wallpaper Madness - This site is offering free Windows wallpaper. Categories include sports and cinema.
Free Backgrounds - Lots of great backgrounds here from the talented Renee. They're 256 x 256 pixels in size and are in JPG format.
Free Graphics by Global Design - Lots of graphic goodies here: images, clipart, buttons, animations, for use on business and personal sites. Linkback required. If you belong to a banner service, they'll design a free banner for you, as well (24 to 48 hours turnaround).
The Clip Art Gallery - Click over here to get your free custom-made banner. There's plenty of clip art here, as well: animated GIFs, backgrounds and 3D graphics.
Sweet Dreams - This site offers unique original bordered backgrounds, full sets, and "eye candy." Linkback required. Custom requests for borders, backgrounds and logos accepted.
Boogie Jack's Graphics - This site offers free original Web page backgrounds and textures, as well as a contest to win free custom graphics and photo warps.
Designer Originals Graphics - Artist Linda serves up many nice coordinated graphics sets in different color variations as well as sets for kids. There's also have a border and tiled background section.
Aviation Animation - If you're interested in animated graphics with aviation themes, this is the place to go.
Asynjur's Web Page Backgrounds - Lots of cool backgrounds are offered here for use on personal, noncommercial Web sites.
The Rainbow Page - If you like rainbows, then you need to check out this site. There's icons, bars & lines, buttons, animations, backgrounds and more----all with a cheerful rainbow theme.
CyberGraphics - This Canadian site contains free original graphics, backgrounds, banners and a search page. There's also graphics help & tips, color codes and more. Everything is free to use by anyone, as long as they mention the site or add a link to the site.
GraphxWorld - This site is offering free custom banners, with one-day turnaround. Free logos and buttons also available. (Linkback required). Tell Timboktoo we sent you.
GIF-Pile - Many graphics goodies, including animation, backgrounds, banners, buttons, lines, color guides, clip art, counters, design & style, fonts, icons and "Just for Kids."
Art-Official - Get 3D scenes, animation or images from this popular service. A useful service for the Web community.
The Digital Alchemist - Lots of resources here, including a Bryce gallery, free original animated gifs, photo restorations, links and more.
Jason's Animation Outpost - Comprehensive free graphics animations site, with lots of content organized by categories, which include animals, people, buttons, bars, arrows, balls, cartoons, construction, email, space, signs, vehicles, new, welcome, other, 3D, neon and holiday-related stuff.
Yak's Graphics Page - Yak serves up a nice collection of buttons, bars, lines, balls, banners, backgrounds, animation, graphic-related tips & tricks and more.
Animation Library - Lots of graphics goodies here, including arrows, bars & lines, bullets, cats & kittens, dogs, computers, counters, E-mail icons, smiling faces, "under construction" signs, the word "new," welcome signs, etc.
For Free - If you've enrolled in a banner service, you're gonna need art for your banner. (Duh!) This is a good place to go to get FREE banner art. Just fill out a form here and you're good to go. (Current turnaround: 7 days).
Kathie's Web Graphics - Kathie has made a nice custom collection of bordered and tiled backgrounds for your Web site. Free for personal and nonprofit pages. Commercial sites need to E-mail her for permission.
Free video for your Web page - Free software for non-commercial use to create video and audio on demand on your Web pages. Doesn't require a plugin or helper application to view. Doesn't need any server software to be loaded.
The Museum of Counter Art - Tired of the same lame-looking counter on your page? Check out this site which has 500 sets of free counter artwork for anyone to use. The counter sets can be used with most any counter CGI, across all platforms.
The Alien Cursor Page - Animated Alien-themed cursors for Windows 95. Liven up your hourglass with this cool freeware.
Internet Gallery - A graphics depot from Microsoft that includes rules, icons, buttons, bullets, animals, and machines(?), as well as Java and Active X.
The Banner Generator- If you subscribe to a banner service, you'll need to make up a banner, which this site provides for free. Check out these examples.
Animation City - Free image, word and wire frame animations here. Cool stuff.
Mike's Index to Free Animated Gifs - Almost 1,000 images here. For personal use only.
Green Ink - This regularly-updated site offers free graphics in several categories: abstract art and custom buttons. There's also holiday-themed art here, including Valentine's Day graphics. Tell Sashok we sent you.
Pattern Land - - Over 500 background patterns for your Web pages. Fully tiled pages available for each image. Wide selection.
Get a Byte Graphics - Lots of backgrounds here for your Web site from Jennifer Johnson. Also Web designers' resources.
Clip Art Warehouse - Thousands of clipart images for your site. Most are totally free. If you use `em on your page, this site requires a linkback. Great site from Great Britain.
Holiday Clipart - Great collection of holiday-related graphics goodies. There's icons, larger images, bars & lines and plenty more to give your Web site or graphics presentation that festive look.
The (Clip) Art of Romance - Here's a nice selection of romance-related graphics and clip art. Categories include: animations, backgrounds, bars, couples, cupids, gifts, hearts, icons, "love," roses, words and more. For non-commercial uses.
Spooky Graphics - Are you into spooky, scary stuff? Are witches, Dracula, gravestones and things that go bump in the night your idea of a good time? Then click over to this hauntingly cool site. There's all type of graphics here: big and small, icons, and neat animations.

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