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Graphics

Tools for creating/manipulating images & sources for images
AjaxLoad AjaxLoad Create an AJAX "loading" animated .gif
Favicon Favicon Chami's online tool for creating favicons from other images
PhotoMatt On how to create a favicon
Dynamic Drive Dynamic Drive Favicon generator. They also have a button maker, a gradient image maker, and an image optimizer.
Corbis Corbis Royalty-free & commercial images (req. registration)
Image splitter Image splitter Slice and dice your images
Image Embellisher Image Embellisher Add special effects to your images (online tool)
Browsershots Browsershots Test your webdesign in different browsers. Free screenshots/thumbnails of URLs.
Thumbshots Free, (with attribution) hosted thumbnails of your website. Sites to get thumbnails for must be in Dmoz
GIMP The GIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program. Like Photoshop/Fireworks only better & free.
Imagemagick examples Examples, tutorials & basic how-to.
Imagemagick Imagemagick Command-line software suite to create, edit, compose and convert images to and from many formats.
iStockPhoto iStockPhoto Good selection of reasonably priced graphics & stock photos. Commercial. [Thanks Mike C.]
gif optimizer Trout's gif optimizer Pare down the size of all those gifs on your site. [freeware, Windows]
Pure jpeg Yafla's Pure jpeg A Command-line app to reduce jpg filesize by removing unnecessary information (EXIF, thumbnails, comments etc) [free, Win]