Mapping the transition from page to screen
Audio/Visual

General Information

Interactive Audio on the Web is a trAce article written by hypermedia artist and writer Jim Andrews. A terrific resource for anyone who wants to explore the possibilities in interactive audio:
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/Review/index.cfm?article=80

A discussion of the differences between .gifs and .jpegs, the most commonly used files for images and graphics on webpages:
http://www.tips-tricks.com/gif_jpeg.asp

An article discussing image editing software for both PC and Mac. A useful read before deciding which software to purchase. Includes links to all major products like Adobe Photoshop, Jasc Paint Shop Pro, Corel Photo-Paint, Procreate Painter, as well links to free image editing software:
http://graphicssoft.about.com/library/products/aabyb_imageedit.htm

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Image Editing

GIMP is freely distributed software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring:
http://www.gimp.org/

ShortCourses is a resource for digital photography, video, film scanners,
http://www.shortcourses.com/

AOL's Software Toolbox page with links to many image-editing software products:
http://hometown.aol.com/royalef/toolbox.htm

Jasc Software provides tools for digital image editing and image management including many affordable products like Paint Shop Pro and Animation Shop. Most products can be downloaded free for a 30 day trial:
http://www.jasc.com/

Adobe Systems Incorporated offers top-of the-line software products including Photoshop and Ilustrator, as well a free download of the well-known Acrobat Reader for reading Portable Document Files (PDF):
http://www.adobe.com/

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Scanning

Wayne Fulton's site offers scanning tips and explains the basics of digital images and other documents to help you get the most from your scanner:
http://www.scantips.com/

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Animation

CoffeeCup offers an animator to create animated .gifs for your web pages, and also allows you to save your work as .swf Flash files. The site offers a limited free version as well a trial version of the full-featured software:
http://www.coffeecup.com/animator/

Several animation tutorials from Wired News:
http://www.wired.com/animation/articles.html

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Audio

Sonify.org is a community resource with information about adding interactive audio to the web, wireless and digital devices:
http://sonify.org/index.html/

Virtually Ignorant offers tutorials of the basics of adding audio to your webpage, using wav, midi, or streaming audio formats:
http://www.virtuallyignorant.com/audio.htm

FreeRip MP3 is a free application for recording digital audio tracks directly from compact discs, without going through your sound card and saves tracks as CD-quality WAV files or encodes them to MP3 compressed format:
http://www.mgshareware.com/frmmain.html

Sonic Foundry's software products Sound Forge and Acid are digital audio editors for editing, recording, encoding, and mastering nearly any form of digital audio including WAV, AIFF, MP3, and more:
http://www.sonicfoundry.com/products/default.asp

Syntrillium Corporation's Cool Edit is software for recording, editing, and mixing up to 128 high-quality stereo tracks with just about any sound card. The site includes user forums and tutorials:
http://www.syntrillium.com/cep/

FindSounds has a configurable search facility for locating sound files on the web, the files are downloadable:
http://www.findsounds.com/

An index of sounds - birds, computers, phonemes, screams, sound_effects - offered by the Tokyo University of Science's SunSITE:
http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/multimed/sounds

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Last edited: 20 November 2004