• A-1 Icon Archive - A comprehensive archive that serves up over 300,000 free graphic images. Includes animations, backgrounds, balls, bars, lines, clip art and, of course, icons. There's also helpful pointers to other graphics resources on the Web. Note: this site has recently undergone a major expansion and renovation. The site is easier to navigate and is now hosted on a dedicated server, (which means it's much quicker to access).
  
• Animation Factory - There's over 11,000 free 3D animated GIF files, all nicely organized by category, at this awesome site. All of the images here are original graphics created by a group of artists in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. These graphics are available for free for use on non-commercial Web pages. Categories include bullets, buttons, alphabets, characters, office, flags, foreign languages, holidays, music, sports, transportation, Web elements and more. The best collection of its kind on the Web.
  
• 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 over 100 eye-popping, original 3D rendered images here, including surreal images, lovely outer space scenes and abstract stuff.
  
• FreeGraphics.com - With a domain like "FreeGraphics.com," this site has a lot to live up to. And Claire Schaeffer's site delivers quite nicely: it's a well-organized, searchable database of free graphics links. Graphics include buttons, bullets, control panels, bars, sets, backgrounds, animations, and more. All sites are rated and reviewed.
  
• GIFCruncher - Want faster-loading Web pages? Then check out this excellent, free online utility that can reduce the size and download times of GIF images from anywhere on your hard drive or the Web by up to 90%. You can crunch single GIFs for free (although you'll need to subscribe to crunch whole sites).
  
• A+B+C Web Graphics - 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).
  
• Cool Archive - A nicely-designed free graphics resource, Cool Archive offers thousands of categorized icons, animations, buttons, bullets, backgrounds, bars, arrows, and fonts. Coming soon: Photoshop resources. Now offers a free and very cool online button maker and a logo generator.
  
• Free wallpaper for your computer - WorldPrints.com is offering a classy collection of free, colorful images that you can easily install as your computer's desktop wallpaper. Just complete the survey and they'll send you a new image weekly. Images here include photos and artworks by Ansel Adams, Picasso, Monet and more.
  
• The Clipart Place - A varied, categorized collection of various free graphic images to spruce up your Web site. Here you'll find animated and static clipart, icons, bullets & balls, backgrounds, dividers and more. The "Clipart" section offers 27 categories, including graphical words and seasonal stuff. There's also a "Three Stooges" section.
  
• iqAuto 3D Graphics Generator - Here's a new free online graphics generator that lets you easily create cool, custom graphics. Just type in the text you want and specify the options, which range from font texture to depth of text and within minutes, you'll be able to view your graphic. (Currently in "beta test stage," although it worked fine for us).
  
• Leo's Icon Archive - Here's a cool collection of useful and funny free Web graphics. Leo serves up thousands of icons, caps, lines, flags, markers and bullets (and most of them are original artworks created by Leo himself). Categories here include such topics as Mozilla icons, butterflies, welcome signs and construction signs. Newly added categories here include buttons, illustrator icons and comic icons.
  
• freeimages.com - This is an impressive collection of 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.
  
• NetStudio.com - NetStudio, makers of a commercial graphics program, also offer an innovative version of their software as a free online service. NetStudio.com lets you easy create custom graphics online. To create a graphic, simply select a template, type in your text and, optionally, add your own picture.
  
• Arcadia Animations - Nice, well-organized collection of free animated GIF images. Just select the category you want, and then you may view fast-loading thumbnail images of each graphic. Categories here include aliens, animals, babes & babies, cartoons, festive, flags, logos, spheres, sports, Star Trek and symbols.
  
• Cameo's Animal Hut - Looking for free animal-related images? This is the place to go. Here, you'll find loads of original animated and non-animated images of various animals, including aquatic creatures, birds, cats, dogs, "fantasy" creatures, insects and more. There's also a wildlife photo gallery, as well as backgrounds, bars and icons.
  
• Awesome Icons - Large collection of free icons, sorted by category. You may preview images from each category and, if you like them, download them all in one ZIP compressed file. Topics here include aircraft, animals, arrows, books, calculators, cards, charts, disks, eyes, files, flags, games, globes, hands, keyboards, mail, mouse, numbers, people, phones and symbols.
  
• Andy's Free Buttons - This is the first free graphics site we've seen devoted solely to the topic of the small graphic images called buttons. And there's a fine selection here, too. You'll find buttons suited for white backgrounds, buttons for black backgrounds and animated buttons here. There's even a bit of button trivia, to boot.
  
• FreeFoto.Com - A wonderful British resource, containing 3,000 free photo images from around the world. Photos here are categorized by nation and/or topic. There are many photos of a variety of scenes from Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, Singapore, Switzerland and others, as well as a very large collection of images from Britain. Each photo is annotated and is in JPG format. (For noncommercial use only). Linkback required.
  
• DAG Collective - Nicely organized free graphics site that offers lots of animations, as well as Web site templates and graphics tutorials. Animated graphics here include faces, E-mail, bullets, "new" buttons, arrows, animals, eyes, sports, flags, planets, ships, computers, transport, people, seasonal and more. This site, formerly known as Destiny's Animated Gifs, has recently undergone a major overhaul and is now greatly expanded.
  
• Fractal Desktop - This is the place to go if you enjoy the fascinating world of fractals, a computer generated artform. Here, you'll find over 500 colorful free fractals. They're 640-by-480 pixels in size and are in JPG format. Ideal for use as desktop wallpaper. Artist Roberto Novegno created these images using nothing more than various freeware graphics programs, proving that you don't need to spend a lot of money on graphics software to create great art.
  
• 21FX - This regularly-updated site offers over 1,000 free cliparts for your Web site. Topics include animals, business, cartoons, clocks, faces, flowers, food, holidays, music, sci-fi, sports, tools and more. There's a helpful search engine to help you find what you're looking for quickly. Note: you must enter your E-mail to access the site.
  
• 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."
  
• Animation Library - Lots of free 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.
  
• ZyGraphics free graphics services - ZyGraphics lets you create you own personalised graphics for your site. No graphics or artistic design experience is required. ZyGraphics allows you to quickly create a wide range of high quality text and 3D graphic headings.
  
• Dimension X Productions - Graphics wizard T.J. Kim offers an eye-catching free graphics resource, with a high-tech design that serves up many original images. Graphics here include buttons, lines, letters, numbers, backgrounds, bars, and animations. Be sure to check out the "Interface Vault" for a cool collection of interfaces (graphic images that can be used as menus or to help your visitors navigate your site).
  
• 3D Wallpaper - Tired of looking at the same old desktop? Then click on over to this breathtaking free collection of free wallpaper images. Categories include "Metal," "Glassy," "Lights," "Sci-Fi," "Water," and our favorite, "Nature." A most impressive collection of digital art from Germany.
  
• ImageMagick - Here's a free graphics service that lets you manipulate your images online. You may work with either graphics that are online or those that are on your hard drive. You can resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image and save your completed work in the same or differing image format. You can even paint on your image. Works with WebTV. Service's only drawback is that it can be slow due to its popularity.
  
• Artist for Hire - Graphics guru Bruce Stawicki's site is a fast-growing roundup of original images, suitable for using on personal Web sites. Images on tap here include textures, lines, animation, buttons, page sets, balls & bullets, interfaces and more. If you would like a custom graphic made, send in your request to Bruce: he'll make one for you in exchange for a linkback on your personal Web site.
  
• Tony's Free Tiled Backgrounds - Background graphics maestro Tony Blalock offers over 250 free backgrounds for use on Web pages at this site. There's a wide variety to choose from and all the images are designed to tile seamlessly. Tony posts 25 new backgrounds here each week.
  
• Themez - A comprehensive resource for desktop "themes" (which you can use to give your Windows desktop a customized look). This site has over 3,700 free themes. Categories include animals, anime, art, cartoons, computers, games, holidays, horror, movies, music, nature, people, places, sci-fi, sports, TV, vehicles and more. Win 95 users who don't have Microsoft Plus! can use the free utility called FreeTheme, a 1.6 megabyte program, to install themes. (Win 98 has a theme loader built in).
  
• Station4-ButtonFactory - Are you looking for free buttons? This is the place to go. There's a nice selection of buttons here, with text and without and artist Ola Lofven will make you a free custom button, as well. All buttons here are the standard-sized 88-by-31 pixels.
  
• Gifart - Click on the "Image Dome" button for a quality selection of several hundred free graphics at this flashy new site. GIF files here include buttons, icons, interfaces, side & tiled backgrounds, 3D animations, counter digits, bullets, bars and textures. The "custom icons" section features several unusual categories, including metal mesh, fire balls, pie shapes and photos.
  
• Themes 'n Schemes - Great site for free Win 98/95 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, which you can get here.
• AAA Web Resources Vault - Here's an up-and-coming free graphics resource which includes a collection of over 2000 free backgrounds and textures; perfect for Web authoring. From the helpful Webmaster's resource, AAA Web Design List.
  
• webGFX: free custom logos - You can create classy, professional-looking, custom logos with this new free service. Just click on "Log-O-Mat;" select the font and logo style that you want; and type in a text string (your custom message) and this service will create your image for you in JPG format. To use service, you must sign up for an account (which is free).
  
• Vision Scan's Free Wallpaper - Here's a quality collection of eye-catching images, suitable for desktop wallpaper. We particular enjoyed "Space Images," which depicts planets and various scenes from space. There's also a very lovely collection of outdoor landscapes, showing nature scenes and monuments.
  
• KitGraphics - Well-done resource that offers loads of free graphics, as well as tutorials on making your own. Free images here include animations, buttons, bars, bullets and seamless backgrounds. There's also a nice selection of "page sets," (which are collections of images that are coordinated to work together well). The tutorials are helpful: here you'll learn how to do such neat tricks as create lighting effects.
  
• 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. Note: this service is quite popular and as a result can be difficult to access at times.
  
• Mars Wallpaper Collection - Get a free collection of breathtaking photo images that were taken by the Pathfinder mission to the Red Planet. Perfect to liven up your computer's desktop. This package includes eight NASA images. Better than Star Trek: this is the real thing!
  
• UFOs Graphics Mania - This site offers plenty of free graphics, including buttons, bars, matched graphics sets, and a free header and logo creation service. They don't do banner exchange graphics, but they do offer nice page headers, awards, etc. matched to the requester's Web pages. Turnaround time is "roughly 10 minutes to 24 hours." They have a nice free font selection, too.
  
• The Graphics Zone - Good selection of graphics and clipart that you may use on your non-commercial site, provided you give them a linkback. Free graphics goodies here include backgrounds, icons and some classy looking page sets (a page set is a coordinated series of graphics for a page).
  
• ZettWeb: Copyright-free pictures - There's over 2,000 royalty-free JPG photo images at this nicely organized site. Ideal for desktop wallpaper, as well as backgrounds. Categories include "patterns & art," "nature," "seasons," "cultural," "locations," "things around us," and "places."
  
• Graphix Designer's Studio - Click on the "Free Images" button to access a fine collection of graphics, including background, bullets, buttons and lines. This site also serves up a number of other graphics goodies, including tutorials; help on Web design; and tips & tricks.
  
• Maryam's Mystic Garden - Here's a classy new free graphics site that offers original exotic Asian and African-themed buttons, lines and other images (something that we've not seen anywhere else). Images are available for all types of backgrounds. Tell Maryam we sent you.
  
• ProDraw Free Graphics - Nice new archive of free professionally-designed graphics, for use on personal Web pages or on your Windows desktop, etc. Images here include four broad categories: Iceberg, Sunset, Darkened and Ocean. Lots of lovely images to browse. ProDraw recently added a new 3D animations section.
  
• Mr. Fire - Looking for some hot stuff for your Web page? Then check out Mr. Fire's collection of free graphics. There's lots of eye-catching fire animations here, including fire backgrounds, fire alphabets and fire bars.
  
• Opulent Farthing - Here's an interesting collection of original free matching graphics sets. Sets include "Twisted Blue Metal," "Green Goblins," "Bubblegum," "Shimmering Waves," and many others. If you use these graphics, they request a linkback.
  
• 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.
  
• Planet Egomania Graphics - Nice new free graphics resource for original borders and tiled backgrounds from the talented Natalie. Not the biggest collection around, but a nice start. The site is password protected to discourage direct linking.
  
• Alphabet Connection - Like the title says, this unique free graphics site offers a big roundup of letters (as well as numbers and punctuation signs). Currently, they have 10 animated alphabets and 30 static ones. Everything is neatly organized, so you can find what you need, quickly.
  
• Pixel Warehouse - There is a wide range of free graphics available for Webmasters at this site. Goodies include: animation, spheres, separators, icons, bars, bullets and more. Graphics topics include: Fantasy, Fruit, Flowers, Logos, Military, Mozilla, E-mail, Cartoons, Flags, Sports, Texas, Holidays and Chrome. Tell Matrix we sent you.
  
• Pofolks4 Graphics - A free graphics resource that offers plenty of free graphics for your Web site. Categories include shadow effects, background sets, welcome signs, home page signs, guestbook buttons, static & animated buttons, bars, lines, bullets, balls, backgrounds and more. Free custom graphics also available.
  
• The Banner Generator- If you subscribe to a banner service, you'll need to make up a banner graphic, which this site provides for free. Check out these examples. Note: WebTV users may use The Banner Generator. Go here for details.
  
• Cyber Teddy: free graphics - Jennifer offers a classy collection of custom graphics, including over 100 backgrounds. She also offers nice coordinated graphics sets and a free custom banner service. To get your free 460X60 pixel banner, just follow the instructions.
  
• Novaspace - Check out Jennifer Hogan's collection of free 3D graphics. Here, you'll find original wallpapers, animation and images created using Micrografx's Simply 3D and Picture Publisher.
  
• Wallpaper Heaven - This site lives up to its name. There's over 350 background graphics here, so you're bound to find something that's appropriate for your Web site. There's a nice preview function and you can view thumbnail images of each background.
  
• Planet Graphics - Here's the deal: William will designed a free custom graphic for you if you display his banner on your page. He offers free 3D and 2D graphics, as well as animations.
  
• T & P SC Free Web Graphics - T & P SC, the screen saver people, now have an up-and-coming original free graphics site. Here, you'll find background sets, separators, animated E-mail images and more.
  
• Sample 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.
  
• KorCar Graphics - Free bars, bullets, buttons and backgrounds. Also offers free animated and static banners (a must if you've signed up for a banner service to promote your site). The free banner service has been suspended for now.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Animation City - Free image, word and wire frame animations here. Cool stuff.
  
• 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).
  
• Wallpaper Madness - This site is offering free Windows wallpaper. Categories include sports and cinema.
  
• 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.

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