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Welcome This is the place where you can download tutorials, fonts and graphics at no cost (well, apart from your surfing costs). I make a lot of graphics using the .png format, and learn about it as I go along. This is something I have wanted to do for a long time.

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The content of this site I have been talking a lot about .png so you probably think you will only find .png:s here. Not so. The downloadble graphics are mostly in the .gif format. However, I will try and get some .jpg and .png up for you to download as well. Here is a short description of the content here: • Tutorials - Make your own graphics with Photoshop 5 • Fonts - A few home made fonts • Graphics - Daringly designed buttons and such • Backgrounds - Some assorted backgrounds About .png So why .png? Well, it is a fairly new format (compared to .jpg and .gif) which I have yet to learn to handle properly. It is better than .jpg because it's lossless. This means you can compress it and resave it without any loss of quality, just like with a .gif. The .gif however only support 256 colours while the .png support as many as a .jpg. You can also make a true colour .png transparent. This will result in a larger file size but in my opinion the quality makes up for that. The only snag is that transparent true colour .png:s only work properly in Internet Explorer.

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