Web Developer’s Graphics Reference Guide

Web Developer’s Graphics Reference Guide

 

Always be sure your have the correct license to use artwork you download from the Internet or from any source other than your own creative work. There are some allowances for artwork used in education and news reporting when the actual artwork is the purpose of discussion.

GLYPHICONS is a library of precisely prepared monochromatic icons and symbols, created with an emphasis on simplicity and easy orientation. Free version are PNG format so resizing is limited and it requires CC BY (Creative Commons By) citation. Paid versions provide citation free use, many more icons. It includes vector and a number of other formats. In either case you can use in your website or artwork for all uses including commercial.

IconArchive is a professional tag based icon search engine with more than 490,000 icons for web developers, end users and graphic artists. Also it is an inspiration source for new design ideas and a place to enjoy beautiful icons. You can collect, organize & share your favorite icons here with ease. If you want to customize your desktop, you can download icons for all operating systems, Win, Mac & Linux. Website or Software developers with demand for custom icon design could search for professional icon artists here. This may result in freelance jobs and/or design help for projects of any size. On our icon artists page you can select artists offering custom icon design.

Clker is a library of graphic content uploaded by registered members. According to terms of use, the upload requires all artwork to be free from any copyrights and trademarks, and in case they are the copyright holder you hereby release it under the lastest version of the creative commons CC0 public domain dedication.

Freepic. Freepik is a search engine that helps graphic and web designers to locate high quality photos, vectors, icons, illustrations and PSD files for their creative projects. You will find a lot of free own and exclusive content, high quality, designed by the Freepik’s Team and updated every day.

Free Range Stock Free stock photography for commercial or non-commercial use at freerangestock.com. High-resolution stock images and textures for FREE. Not just royalty free, totally free. Photographers, contribute!.From their TOS: “License Summary: You can do nearly anything with the images, commercial or not. Just don’t redistribute them – this means don’t host the images or repackage them, just post a link to this site and let others sign up download them, just as you did. You cannot offer image for sale, or offer images as part of printed products. (No Zazzle, Cafepress, etc.) For more specific information, read on or contact us.”

All Free Download All-free-download.com is a meta search engine. We gather all other free resource into one. Make it easy to find and download. All of the resources are gathered by users and public sources on the internet. Not all of the resources are allowed for commercial use please contact the author for detail. The idea here is to find artwork and then it may be free but more likely it is free once you pay.

Aspect Ratio Calculator is a web page that lets your compute new width and heights of artwork and maintain the same aspect ratio. Great for groggy minds. For example if your aspect ration is 16 : 9 and your width is 1920 and height is 1080 which is 16:9. To resize the width to 1000 you need to change the height to 563. The calculator does that for you. Also works if you know the new height.

You can use the formula yourself: original height ÷ original width × new width ≡ new height.

ClippingMagic is a SAS (Software as a Service) that has one targeted goal. That is to “Instantly Remove The Background From Your Images”. Great for the digital graphics challenged and is a task done in digital graphic manipulation. See my blog post Three Steps to Instantly Remove The Background From Your Images for a quick overview.