Graphics often need a bit of a tweak before you add them to your pages. Cropping, making the background transparent, resizing, or just finding that picture that you **know** you’ve got somewhere on your hard drive! Irfan View can carry out all these tasks, and includes a great browser which loads at the click of a key, and displays thumbnails for you to choose from. It will also do screen captures. Available from many freeware sites (see below), you can also download from http://softwarecenter.net/irfanview/
Graphics Optimization
Graphics images on the internet come in three major formats: GIF, JPEG and PNG (and PNG’s close relation MNG). Each of these formats has it’s associated advantages and disadvantages. It is important that you understand all three formats to make the correct decision as to which to use under what circumstances.
Vector vs Bitmap Graphics
There are 2 types of graphics and it is very important to understand the difference between them.
Bitmap Images
Using Fireworks To Create WAP Graphics
I mentioned quite a few different methods of creating WBMP image files back in March, and now I’d like to elaborate on that topic a little more, focusing on Macromedia Fireworks.
Introduction To Scalable Vector Graphics
SVG is built on top of XML in order to describe 2D vector capable graphics. XML stands for “Extensible Markup Language”. A full description of XML is best suited for a future article since it can be quite technical. To simplify XML, it is similar to HTML but provides greater customization of the tags. HTML is a set of pre-defined tags that are used to describe a web page. XML however, does not pre-define the tags.