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Don't forget SWF

[Expand] You should never forget the usage of SWF as a graphics format in WWW pages. I use it quite often, especially in creating external graphic files which Flash can read. It is also especially good for merging a graphic into whatever colour of background you have. For example here's an example of a SWF graphic with a green background.

and then we can easily change the background colour for the Flash graphic to give:

and again:

It would be extremely difficult to do this, even with a transparent GIF file. We can try this with a few other graphics, such as:

and:

and:


And finally we can even animate our graphic: