image more distinct. 128 Part II: Looking Like a Million (Even on a Budget) Here are some clip art suppliers: _ Getty Images, Inc. (www.gettyimages.com): Getty Images is the largest supplier of royalty-free digital imagery on the Web, specializing in photographs and illustrations of a wide variety of subjects, including film footage. Pay for images and footage as you go. _ Stockbyte (www.stockbyte.com): Stockbyte is a great source for international royalty-free photos. You can purchase photographs in a variety of qualities, as you need them. _ Photos.com (www.photos.com): Photos.com is a subscription-based service for royalty-free stock photography and photo objects. A 1- to 12-month subscription gives you unlimited access and use of its collection. _ iStockphoto.com (www.istockphoto.com): An innovative variation of the fee-for-use model, iStockphoto lets you trade your own photographs for stock images. _ Web Promotion (www.webpromotion.com): A great source for animated GIFs and other Web graphics. Artwork on this site is free provided you create a link back to Web Promotion on your Web site, or you can buy the artwork for a small fee. _ Fonts.com (www.fonts.com): If youre looking to enhance your font collection, which is a good idea if you want to create distinctive Web graphics with text, you can preview and purchase a huge number of fonts at Fonts.com. You can search this site by font name or using descriptive keywords. Keywords help if you need a specific font but dont know its name. Creating your own images The best way to get original images is to create your own. If youre not graphically talented or inclined, consider hiring someone who can create images for you. If you want to create your own images for use in Dreamweaver, Fireworks is a good program to start with because its tightly integrated with Dreamweaver and has a similar interface. The last few years have seen a tremendous advancement in the features and capabilities of specialized Web graphics programs as well as increased competition between application vendors. In the future, expect even more changes because two of the biggest competitors - Adobe and Macromedia - are working on merging into one company and both Fireworks and Photoshop may change as a result). Most professional designers strongly prefer Adobe Chapter 5: Adding Graphics 129 Photoshop, although I have to say Ive been quite impressed with Photoshop Elements, which is a "light" version, but offers many of the same features for a fraction of the cost. (If youre designing images for print, you need Photoshop; but for the Web, Elements is a surprisingly complete, low-cost alternative.) For vector-based graphics (a good choice for illustrations), Adobe Illustrator is the favorite. The following is a list of the most popular image-editing programs on the market today. Unless otherwise indicated, all the following image programs are available for both Mac and Windows: _ Macromedia Fireworks (www.macromedia.com/software/fireworks): Fireworks was one of the very first image-editing programs designed specifically to create and edit Web graphics. Fireworks gives you everything you need to create, edit, and output the best-looking Web graphics, all in one well-designed product. Besides sharing a common interface with Dreamweaver, Fireworks also integrates extremely well with Dreamweaver