Graphics

Image Design & Graphics Programming Services

If you are the type that gets bored reading, you may want to either look at some pictures, or try some online tools now, and skip reading the rest of this page.

There are so many color, style, font and image options when designing a website. Today's websites can contain anything from simple formatted ASCII text, to stereo audio recordings, full motion video, and high resolution, computer generated, real-time graphics and animation.

When the graphic web browser was developed it didn't even display colors -- it was developed on a NeXT computer which only produced grey-scale images.

Eventually browser software for PC's were developed to display the 16 color VGA Pallette.

Netscape's Navigator and Microsoft's Internet Explorer graphic browsers for systems with a minimun 640 x 480 VGA graphics display capability opened up the world of graphical web browsing to millions of users and reshaped the online world which was dominated by commercial information services and BBS's.

RGB, CYMK, PMS, and other color palettes used in printing are also used computer graphics

One standard method of defining colors in web pages is using the RGB / Hexidecimal Color Values in HTML tags. Modern browsers support many more colors, as shown in this chart of HTML Color Names & RGB Hex Values.

Online Graphics Related CGI Scripts

PicShow - database driven perl script displays images and mats and frames them too! Using very small graphic images of frame corners and horizontal and vertical sections, the program adds the selected frame with choice of mat color and mat size. Program could easily be modified for real time online print house matting and framing operation.

RGBcolor - Perl scripted RGB Color widget. Allows user to create, name, save, and retrieve RGB color values in hexidecimal format... or to just play around and look at the neat colors.


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