Free Graphics and graphics
services
- 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.
- 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.
- Themes
'n Schemes -
Great site for free Win 95 themes. Customize your
desktop to your own taste, from a
"Retro" look to something out of the
Starship Enterprise. Theme categories here range
from animals to TV to seasonal stuff to horror.
And no, you don't need Microsoft Plus! to use
these themes as there's a freeware program called
Free Themes that'll install themes on your
system.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, 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. 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 children's Web page
graphics. There's a selection of animated words
(signs and banners), animated people and animals
and more.
- 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, 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.
- Amsites
Banner Creations - If you've signed up for a banner
services, then stop by this site and these folks
will make a free banner for you!
- 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.
- Bloomin'
Banners - Make
a request to these guys and they'll design a free
custom banner for your company. If you're signed
up with a banner exchange, then check in with
this site.
- 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.
- Banner
World - Over
1000 blank banners, just add text.
- 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.
- Free
Graphics - Lots
of free graphics here, with a good fantasy
clipart collection.
- Kathie's
Web Graphics - 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.
- 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.
- 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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