The GIF Wizard, by Raspberry Hill Publishing Inc., is an online utility will help reduce the file size of image files so that they load faster and take up less space.

Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editor with a lot of neat tricks and effects filters up its sleeves. Adobe Photoshop is great for digital image enhancement, retouching, and photo compositing. Features include Actions, which supports task automation and batch processing, and Adjustment Layers, special layers through which image adjustments can be applied without permanently modifying the original image. Graphics formats supported include GIF, PNG, JPEG, PDF, and transparent interlaced GIF. Photoshop is available for the Mac and Windows platforms.

Microsoft Image Composer allows the user to drag and drop images to arrange them together in compositions and then apply a variety of effects to customize the images. Image Composer comes with the FrontPage 97 software.

MultiGIF is a cross-platform utility for creating animated GIF images. Given an initial set of GIF images, you can use MultiGIF to combine them into a single multi-image GIF file. When viewed with a web browser these images will appear sequentially as frames of an animation.

Alchemy Mindworks sells Graphic Workshop for Windows, an image management and editing package, and GIF Construction Set for Windows, which can create transparent, interlaced and animated GIF files.

Video Craft, by Andover Advanced Technologies, is a windows based special effects package Other GIF animator requires you to create your GIF frames in another application, then combine them into a finished animated clip, but Video Craft constructs the animation using the source images and video clips you specify.

Animagic is a windows based GIF animator that features drag and drop files, easily control loops, frame rate, transparent color, reduce number of colors, copy/cut/paste frames, add/delete comment frames, add effects, building animations from individual frames or from existing animated GIF's, and more.

BoxTop Software, Inc. puts out a number of graphic manipulation tools for the Mac such as GIFmation animator, PhotoGIF photoshop plug-in, ProJPEG photoshop plug-in, and MPEG2GIF.

Cyberview 3D Document Generator, created by Paul Burchard using W3Kit, is a web server add on that supports 3D images and imagemaps. Cyberview-3D works with any HTML 2.0 compatible client, and most CGI 1.0 compatible UNIX-based HTTP servers.

Web Hotspots is a WYSIWYG imagemap editor for Windows supporting zoomin, advanced shape manipulation, and MDI.

Live Image is a free client side image mapping program for Win95 and WinNT. The Smooth Poly tool allows the creator to follow irregular shaped continuously in free-hand style. Once outlined release the mouse button and all the points are automatically added for you, up to 256. There is also a sensitivity selection in the GURU tab; the lower the number, the more sensitive (more points will be placed).

Mac-ImageMap is a tool which makes it easy to install clickable maps on a Macintosh web server which runs with the software WebSTAR or MacHTTP. Mac-ImageMap runs as a CGI-program, or as a user action handler with WebSTAR, and it handles clicks on an imagemap by returning a redirect-URL which has been specified in an ImageMap-definition file (map file). No scripting software is needed to use this utility. The map-definition files may be compatible with imagemap-definition files for the NCSA-httpd imagemap program, which runs under UNIX.

Mapedit, by Boutell.Com, Inc., is a graphical editor for web imagemaps. Mapedit supports client side imagemaps, which work without any special configuration in the latest web browsers. It supports only GIF, JPG, and PNG formats for the imagemaps.

Xpaint 2.1, by David Koblas (koblas@netcom.com), is a color bitmap/pixmap editing tool for the X Window system featuring most standard paint program options. It allows for the editing of multiple images simultaneously and supports various formats, including PPM, XBM, etc. This version dates from 1994, and reportedly there is a newer beta version around somewhere.

For more programs, take a look at Yahoo's Imagemap page.

HTML Goodies Images includes over 400 balls, icons, arrows, lines, and buttons.

Rutgers Icon and Logo Archive has a bunch of icons, buttons, and some Rutgers specific work. You can also download the whole tar file instead of viewing them all via the web.

The Clip Art Connection is a jump off point for a number of clip art sites.

FuNet's Art Archive is very extensive. You should have some idea of what you're looking for before you go there, or you can spend hours browsing.

Clipart.com is another jumping off point for a number of other clip art sites, arranged by alphabetical order.

Barry's Clip Art Server has several hundred animated gifs on a wide variety of topics.

Animations and Graphics has a ton of animated and regular images that one can use to build web pages.

And of course, take a look at Yahoo's Graphics page.

Sound Ideas lists resources of professional quality royalty free sound effects and production music for motion picture sound, game developers, multimedia, video, sound design, radio, television, and web developers.

Sound Effects contains tons of links to sound sites and places to find free sound effects.

Sound America has a collection of sound files available for non commercial use. Their archives include cartoons, comedy, movies, TV shows, spoofs, sound effects, and other random bytes.

Sunsite's Sound Archive has a collection of bird calls, cartoons, comedy, commercials, computer noises, intros, phonemes, presidential quotes, sayings, screams, sound effects, whale song, and other misc sound clips.

The Earchive is another large site devoted to movies, toons, and TV. It also has popular bites from celebrities and some composite bytes.

Also see Yahoo's Sound Archive page for more listings.

Windows 95 Sound Tools is a collection of CD, WAV, and MIDI players and other misc tools for the Win95/98 and WinNT platforms.

Xplay is a UNIX WAV player with precompiled binaries for Solaris and SunOS. Source code is also provided for porting purposes.

SOX, Sound eXchange, is a sound file format converter for Unix and DOS PCs written by Lance Norskog and others. It also does sample rate conversion and some sound effects. It's the swiss army knife of sound tools: the interface isn't great, but it does almost everything.

GoldWave is a digital audio editor for Windows that features realtime amplitude, spectrum, and spectrogram oscilloscopes, intelligent large file editing, numerous effects, and support for a wide variety of sound formats. GoldWave can convert to and from many sound formats including .wav, .voc, .afc, .au, and binary data. Special effects such as Doppler, distortion, echo, flange, and transpose can alter and enhance your audio files to create new and unique sounds.

The Cross-Platform Page lists resources for reading and converting image, video, audio, and data compression/encoding file formats on most common computer systems.