Image - Digital Creativity

Prompt Up Your Life

Nice prompting tool, but for drawing.

Autodraw

Strange drawing suggestion tool

Image Texter

Make text into an image

Pixlr Express

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

WebcamToy

Turns your webcam into an effects booth.

Gig in Gif

Create zooming gifs.

Krita

Wonderful image editor

Gravit Designer

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Vector

Vector and drawing editor

Magic Sketchpad

Start drawing, AI finishes it

Pizap

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Really interesting image editor

Nimp.app

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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.

YouiDraw Painter

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Painting tool with some interesting brushes

Coggle MindMaps

Create Mind Maps

NoiseDeck

Glitch
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Totally easy way to make crazy graphic effects.

Doodle Place

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Toy

A 3D world in which your doodles are automatically animated

Pixlr X

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

Phrase It

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Toy

Create speech bubbles

Deep Art

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Use AI to enhance and alter images

YouiDraw Drawing

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Vector

Fab drawing tool

Vecteezy

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Vector

Fabulous, easy to use vector drawing tool

Liveweave SVG

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Really nice and simple SVG vector-based drawing editor.

Flag Maker

This wonderful flag making tool lets you start from all the world's flags, or add Wikimedia commons graphics.

See also, this catalogue of imaginary flags.

Cables

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

Morph Thing

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

ImageResizer

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Resizes image into multiple formats for social media.

Photomosh

Make gifs and images with a heap of bizarre effects

Bomomo

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Kids

Really unusual paint tool.

Chinese Landscape Generator

This tool generates lovely Chinese ink scrolls of landscapes.

Juxtapose

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Story

Create stories that compare maps.

Chimera Painter

Paint your own chimera with some help from A.I

Intelloware

Unusual paint tool.

Mosiac

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

Vectornator

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Mac and iOS only I'm afraid, but a very cool vector editing tool.

Vectorizer

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Photo to SVG

MyOats

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Toy

Draw kaleidoscopes

HeavyPaint

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Kids

As it says on the site, "A SIMPLE YET SECRETLY POWERFUL PAINTING APP".

CoolBackgrounds

Generates a variety of nice background textures

imagevenue

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

Figma

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Fabulous vector drawing and prototyping tool

FireAlpaca

Wonderful image editor

Remove Background

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Quickly remove an image's background

Deep Dream

Make your images psychedelic

Sketchpad

Really interesting painting tool, with calligraphy

3D Painter

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

GSN Composer

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Visual node-based graphics editor

NeonDrawing

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Neon drawing. A bit slow.

Noisify

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Toy

Add an image, it "noises" it up.

Photopea

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Exactly like Photoshop of old, but in the browser.

Face Morph 2

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

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.

Blockposters

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Create PDF posters for printing from your image.

Mara

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

Online OCR

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

Rasterbator

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Turn images into large printable posters

GAUGAN

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AI drawing demo

Janvas

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Vector

Diagram editor

Ribbet

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Great image editor

Pixlr

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Fantastic image editor

FreeOnlineOCR

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

Canva

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Fabulous design tool.

Ascii Art Creator

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SilkDrawing

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Paint strange images

Jpeg Glitch

Glitch
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Glitch your images into oblivion

Muro

Lots of interesting brushes

PicSVG

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Photo to SVG

FlipAnim

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

Glitchatron

Glitch
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Landscape

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Image resizing for social media

Trianglify

Make lovely abstract background images

Polychrome

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"Paint" with text, creating pyschedelic textures.

Artbreeder

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

Depthy

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Add depth effects to any image

Vecta

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Diagram and SVG editor

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.

Toonator

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

Polytomizator

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Kids

A great tool to make "polygonal" art.

Glitch2

Glitch
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Create GIFs and strange effects

PngToSVG

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Vector

PNG to SVG

Awww Board

Start drawing with other people on the same whiteboard

Background Burner

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Remove backgrounds from images online

Kleki

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Nice drawing and painting tool

A graphic history of the rise of the Nazis

HRC Academic Poster Winners

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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.

Call To Idea

Design
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Examples of different web page designs, organised

Posteritati

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Story

Amazing collection of film posters

The Art of Punk and the Punk Aesthetic

Banksy

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Charlie Hebdo

Example of a scrolling storytelling site

DALLE

Amazing project that turns words into images.

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

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The Design Kids

Design and Arts news and interviews

Zine Idea

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

9Gans

AI
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An Art Gallery Created By Artificial Intelligence

Typographic Posters

Wonderful collection of images made from text

Introduction To Krita

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Krita is a free alternative to Photoshop

Loom

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Fantastic zooming interface to an archive collection of photographs.

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.

The GPIB Russian Electronic Library

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Story

A collection of Russian Futurist books.

Collection of MacPaint images

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Retro

Nice collection of black and white images made with MacPaint and Hypercard. (See also, Hypercard at archive.org).

Introspective – Gee Vaucher from Crass to Trump

Collection of punk artist's work.

The Ransom Center's movie poster collection

Huge archive of movie posters

PixelMob

Site that searches other resources

Rijksmuseum Image Collection

Fbulous collection of downloadable images

Creative Commons

Animated Images

Lots of animated gifs

FreeImages

The Doodle Library

Large collection of doodles to use

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.