Finding Images
• Stock photo collections
• Digital cameras
• Scanner
• Public-domain web sites
• Clip art
• Create your own
• Remember to respect copyright laws!
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Choosing the Right Format
• GIF—Once the most common format for all types of simple colored
graphics and line art, GIFs have been overtaken by the PNG format
described below.
• JPG—Use JPG for all 24-bit full-color photographic images. This format is
designed expressly for photos and results in the smallest file size.
• PNG—This nonproprietary format is now used more commonly than GIF.
PNG provides greater compression and color depth, and it offers a variety
of transparency options. Because PNG does not compress your 24-bit
images as well as JPG does, do not use it for photos.
• SVG—This format offers many advantages, but its lack of acceptance in
the web development community means SVG is not a common image
format.