“Browsers have supported the PNG bitmap format for quite some time. But still, even though PNG files can either be made smaller than GIFs or, alternatively, can contain more colors, lots of Web designers keep using JPEGs and GIFs. In fact, even designers who (for other reasons) don’t care about old browsers still often haven’t made the switch to PNG. Is it just about being stuck with the old ways or is there a good reason not to switch? Sadly, it turns out there is a reason not to switch: gamma ‘correction’ gone wrong.”

“This texture collection includes more than 3,000 royalty free seamless and full sized textures created by Auto FX Software. They are yours for free just for being a member of our site. After you have joined our site and have logged in, click on any of the textures you want to download them.”

“AlterCast is imaging server software designed to integrate with existing content management systems and help maintain the ocean of graphics used in e-commerce sites like Amazon.com and Outpost.com. It automates the creation and repurposing of pictures and eliminates the repetitive nature of tweaking and reformatting them for various needs.”

“On the Web today, GIF and JPEG are still the two most commonly and widely-supported image file formats. But which should you use? Well, this question is impossible to answer without a few extra considerations. In this article, we’ll look at some of the important differences between GIF and JPEG images, and how to get the best quality from all your Web graphics.”

“This specification defines the features and syntax for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), a language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML.”

“The comparison is based on both fileformat specifications Macromedia Flash and SVG… Please note that this a comparison for people dealing with integrated dynamic content generation systems. We are aware, that both .SWF and .SVG have their particular advantages/disadvantages — in some parts they are concurrencing each other, in some not.”

“This article will take you through the basics of photo enhancement, with the following qualifier. I cannot deliver the formula to create a great image every time… Having said that, I can at least point you in the right direction. There are some adjustments I have applied to almost every scanned photo I have ever worked with over 10 years. I am quite comfortable telling you that a scanned photo will most likely need contrast, levels and sharpening adjustment.”

“Static images may have once been worth a thousand words, but it seems as though their value has plummeted as of late. Sure, you can animate them so they dance around, and yeah, some big, fat images have millions of colors, but even the best of them just sit on a page and look pretty. Images generated on the fly, on the other hand, have all kinds of potential. Imagine how impressed your users would be if a new, unexpected image loaded every time they hit your page. The images could be simple, eye-candy baubles with no purpose other than sprucing up a dull page with interesting color changes.”

A basic overview: “Adobe Photoshop is an incredible program. It’s the tool of choice for many different kinds of image creation. Preparing pictures for the web is just one of its many functions, and for that purpose, most of its hundreds of controls won’t help, but will in fact make your picture look worse. To make your picture look better, you need only a few of Photoshop’s capabilities.”

“Batik is a Java based toolkit for applications that want to use images in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format for various purposes, such as viewing, generation or manipulation. The project’s ambition is to give developers a set of core modules which can be used together or individually to support specific SVG solutions… With Batik, you can manipulate SVG documents anywhere Java is available.”

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“One of the givens of Web design, the holiest of holy truths, is the sanctity of the 216 websafe color palette. It’s a rite of initiation for every Web designer or developer: Use only these colors, we are told, and don’t question why.”

“The Scalable Vector Graphics format is a language for describing interactive animated vector graphics and more in XML and CSS (Flash describes them with binary code), developed by members of the World Wide Web Consortium. It’s human-readable (Flash files are not), very extensible and very effective. Currently one needs to get a plug-in for the browser; but hopefully, SVG will be supported by the major browsers soon. Then, one can seize all the advantages of SVG; it is an XML-namespace, thus it can be combined with any other XML-namespace.”

“Web designers have requirements for graphics formats which display well on a range of different devices, screen sizes, and printer resolutions. They need rich graphical capabilities, good internationalization, responsive animation and interactive behavior in a way that takes advantage of the growing XML infrastructure used in e-commerce, publishing, and business to business communication. ‘Designers are reaching larger audiences with an increasing variety of Web-enabled devices. They need graphics which can be restyled for different purposes,’ explained Chris Lilley, W3C Graphics Activity Lead. ‘But most of all, they need to be able to handle their graphics the same way as their text and business data, which nowadays are in XML. SVG is specifically designed to let them do that.’”

“For those of us who came to Web design from a print background, a great shock awaited. We worked so hard in our print work to perfect typography — the standard by which print design is measured. As we started into Web design, we discovered that we had almost no control over text, not even the text size or length of the lines. Years of dedicated learning down the tube… or is it?”