Image - Digital Creativity

Noisify

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Toy

Add an image, it "noises" it up.

Canva

Design
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Fabulous design tool.

Rasturbator

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Rasturbator is fabulous tool. It chops up your image so that you can print it on twenty or thirty pages, glue them together to fill an entire wall.

Artbreeder

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Let A.I evolve you a picture. Great fun and you get some weird stuff.

Webpage Screenshot Free

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An handy extension for the Chrome browser that lets you screenshot the page and save it with cropping or full page.

CoolBackgrounds

Generates a variety of nice background textures

YouiDraw Painter

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Painting tool with some interesting brushes

Depthy

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Add depth effects to any image

GAUGAN

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AI drawing demo

Juxtapose

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Story

Create stories that compare maps.

Face Morph 2

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A brilliant tool to morph between two images. You plot the points, it generates a gif file.

Ascii Art Creator

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Text

Online OCR

Upload a picture of text, and get the text out.

FlipAnim

Lovely little flipbook animation maker (slight shame about the gridlines. See also Pencil, the desktop app)

Liveweave SVG

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Vector

Really nice and simple SVG vector-based drawing editor.

imagevenue

Free image hosting. Useful if you're using Twine or similar.

NeonDrawing

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Toy

Neon drawing. A bit slow.

Glitch2

Glitch
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Create GIFs and strange effects

Chinese Landscape Generator

This tool generates lovely Chinese ink scrolls of landscapes.

Pixlr

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Fantastic image editor

Mara

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Lots of standalone image tools. I like the kaleidoscope one.

Vecteezy

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Vector

Fabulous, easy to use vector drawing tool

Cables

Shaders are the code that runs complex computer graphics. Cables is a visual language to create shaders.

Glitchatron

Glitch
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Photopea

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Exactly like Photoshop of old, but in the browser.

Deep Art

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Use AI to enhance and alter images

Figma

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Vector

Fabulous vector drawing and prototyping tool

Krita

Wonderful image editor

Pixlr X

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The latest version of this fantastic image editor. Has fantastic tools for isolating a part of an image.

Nimp.app

Coding
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Nimp is like Apple Quartz Designer, or Touch Designer. A web-based flow diagram image editor. Interesting.

Lots of high end GLSL graphics tools use this model to create special effects, this tool might be a good introduction to the concepts.

FreeOnlineOCR

Upload a picture of text, and get the text out.

SilkDrawing

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Paint strange images

Landscape

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Image resizing for social media

Pixlr Express

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A more "Instagram-like" version of this fanstastic image editor with some funky effects

Image Texter

Make text into an image

Mosiac

Mosaic is a visual thinking toolkit made by artists, for artists. It is a visual patching creative-coding tool.

Janvas

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Vector

Diagram editor

Intelloware

Unusual paint tool.

Jpeg Glitch

Glitch
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Glitch your images into oblivion

Bomomo

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Unusual paint tool.

Muro

Lots of interesting brushes

Trianglify

Make lovely abstract background images

Kleki

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Nice drawing and painting tool

Autodraw

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Strange drawing suggestion tool

Awww Board

Start drawing with other people on the same whiteboard

Pizap

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Really interesting image editor

Polytomizator

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A great tool to make "polygonal" art.

Rasterbator

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Tool

Turn images into large printable posters

Remove Background

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Quickly remove an image's background

3D Painter

Unusual toy with which you can paint in 3D on a disappearing canvas. Interesting.

Doodle Place

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Toy

A 3D world in which your doodles are automatically animated

Blockposters

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Tool

Create PDF posters for printing from your image.

GSN Composer

Coding
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Visual node-based graphics editor

Coggle MindMaps

Create Mind Maps

WebcamToy

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Toy

Turns your webcam into an effects booth.

Phrase It

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Toy

Create speech bubbles

Photomosh

Glitch
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Make gifs and images with a heap of bizarre effects

ImageResizer

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Resizes image into multiple formats for social media.

Magic Sketchpad

AI
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Start drawing, AI finishes it

YouiDraw Drawing

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Vector

Fab drawing tool

Polychrome

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Story

"Paint" with text, creating pyschedelic textures.

Ribbet

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Great image editor

Vectorizer

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Vector

Photo to SVG

Toonator

Nice flipbook animation tool, but NO EXPORT option. Also requires Flash.

Chimera Painter

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Paint your own chimera with some help from A.I

Gravit Designer

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Vector

Vector and drawing editor

MyOats

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Toy

Draw kaleidoscopes

FireAlpaca

Wonderful image editor

PicSVG

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Vector

Photo to SVG

Sketchpad

Really interesting painting tool, with calligraphy

Vecta

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Vector

Diagram and SVG editor

Morph Thing

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Designed to blend, or morph, faces together, I added an elephant's eye and got this strange output.

Deep Dream

Make your images psychedelic

PngToSVG

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Vector

PNG to SVG

Background Burner

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Remove backgrounds from images online

Typographic Posters

Wonderful collection of images made from text

Zine Idea

Interesting idea for a zine. Also, nice use of black and white and ONE colour

Banksy

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The Ransom Center's movie poster collection

Huge archive of movie posters

Palimpsest

In textual studies, a palimpsest is a manuscript page, either from a scroll or a book, from which the text has been scraped or washed off so that the page can be reused for another document.

Introspective – Gee Vaucher from Crass to Trump

Collection of punk artist's work.

Charlie Hebdo

Example of a scrolling storytelling site

The GPIB Russian Electronic Library

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Story

A collection of Russian Futurist books.

The Art of Punk and the Punk Aesthetic

Introduction To Krita

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Krita is a free alternative to Photoshop

9Gans

AI
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An Art Gallery Created By Artificial Intelligence

What's the difference between a bitmap graphic and a vector?

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HRC Academic Poster Winners

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Story

The best from York's Humanities Research Centre

The Advertising Archives

What is CryptoArt?

Really interesting article explaining some of the ideas and concepts behind CryptoArt.

A graphic history of the rise of the Nazis

The Design Kids

Design and Arts news and interviews

Posteritati

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Story

Amazing collection of film posters

Call To Idea

Design
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Examples of different web page designs, organised

PixelMob

Site that searches other resources

Generated Photos

A collection of generated face pictures

New York Library Digital Collections

Creative Commons

Pixabay

Generated Photos

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A collection of people's faces automatically generated by artificial intelligence. None of the people actually exist.

BBC Empty Sets

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Collection of unpopulated sets from the BBC.

The Poster DB

Posters, and ALTERNATIVE versions and TEXTLESS versions.

pngimg

Large collection of isolated PNGs, great for making montages.

Rijksmuseum Image Collection

Fbulous collection of downloadable images

The Doodle Library

Large collection of doodles to use

Collection of Equirectangular Images

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VR

A Flickr collection of equirectangular images, many of which are Creative Commons licenced for use in your own VR creations.

Lots more <a href="http://photopin.com/free-photos/beach-equirectangular?license=noncommercial&sort=interestingness">here</a>

Animated Images

Lots of animated gifs

Unsplash

Freepik

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Great collection of Creative Commons images and vectors to download and use if you credit the creators.

Note: As ever, watch out for sponsored links at the top of the page for paid images. And use the Filters to find what you want.

FreeImages

Europeana Archives

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Europeana provides access to millions of books, music, artworks and more – with sophisticated search and filter tools to help you find what you’re looking for.