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National Geographic Photography. Excellent photographs, free for downloading.
Greg Apodaca's Digital Portfolio demonstrates the power of image-editing programs like Photoshop. Choose an image and then move your mouse over it to see the "before" shot.
How to Detect a Photoshopped Image. It's not easy, but here are some tips that will help you decide whether a photograph has been retouched.
Piknik. A free online image-editing tool.
Top 11 Free Photo Editors for Windows. We'll use an online tool, but here are some free programs for Windows that won't eat up your Internet bandwidth. They do a bit more than the online tools too, but it'll take you a while to learn how to use them. Paint.NET is installed in the labs, so you can give that one a spin right away.
The Wikipedia entries for the GIF, JPEG, PNG, and SVG image formats.
An SVG map of New York state. Vector formats are ideal for maps because you often want to zoom in on a particular location.
An impressive scripted SVG vector drawing (click on it to open up sections of the building). Compare it with the PNG bitmap image that you first see on the page. Zoom in using your browser and you'll quickly see the difference.
SVG animation. Sigh. If only IE would join the party...

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