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Creative and Design holds the tools and references people use to make things. Image editing and design covers editors, background removers, and graphic tools for web and print. Design assets and inspiration collects colour palettes, icon sets, mockups, and galleries worth browsing. Stock images and visual assets lists photo libraries and free image sources, and 3D and CAD covers modelling, rendering, and technical drawing software. Audio editing and production sits here too, with recording, mixing, and mastering tools, while video tools and production handles cutting, encoding, and motion work. Entries range from large commercial suites to single-purpose web apps and small open source projects. Licences differ a lot, so read the terms before you use an asset in client work or a project you plan to sell.
F3D is a fast, minimalist 3D viewer desktop application that is free to use, open source and cross-platform. It visualizes 3D data, with features including realistic rendering, animations, CAD designs, Gaussian splatting, volume rendering and scientific visualization. F3D was originally created by Kitware SAS and relies on open-source projects including VTK, OCCT and Assimp.
FanArt helps edit, convert, generate, search, or organize images and visual assets.
Watch-party and screen-sharing app for streaming videos together with friends or groups.
PixelPeeper is a web app that shows camera gear and exposure settings from a photo's embedded metadata. For files edited in Adobe Lightroom, it displays saved adjustments and offers XMP preset downloads. When edit metadata is missing, a Look Match model suggests Lightroom adjustments as a starting point. PixelPeeper Premium costs $39 for 12 months without automatic renewal. Made by Piotr Chmolowski.
PlantUML is an open-source tool that uses simple textual descriptions to draw UML diagrams. It supports diagram types including sequence, use case, class, object, activity, component, deployment, state and timing diagrams, plus non-UML diagrams. Images can be exported in PNG, LaTeX, EPS and SVG.
Postimages is a free image hosting service providing image uploading and hosting integration for forums, along with picture hosting and photo sharing for websites and blogs. According to its about page, it was founded in 2004. The free account allows uploads up to 32Mb and hotlinked images up to 1280px with ad-supported hosting, while a Premium account offers higher upload limits and other benefits.
SpriteSheep is a browser-based pixel art and sprite animation editor. It provides layers, frames, palettes and dithering tools, plus a tileset workflow, for building sprites and frame-by-frame animations without installation. The site labels it an alpha build in active development and free to use.
TikFinity is a streaming tool for TikTok LIVE that provides interactive widgets, sound alerts and text-to-speech. Features can be used in TikTok LIVE Studio, OBS Studio, Streamlabs OBS and other streaming software. The tools are described as free to use. Game integrations for Minecraft and GTA 5 let viewers trigger actions by sending gifts.
Online video editing toolkit for trimming, compressing, merging, cropping, and converting videos.
Background Generator is a free online image creator that generates unique background images using random algorithms and seven styles. Users can customize image size up to 4K, save as JPG or PNG with transparent or opaque backgrounds, and add text to generated images. It targets wallpapers, article illustrations, posters and commercial backgrounds.
DrumBit is a web-based drum machine built with HTML5 and compatible with modern browsers. It lets users choose drum kits, create, save and edit drum patterns, apply filters and room effects, and record patterns as audio files. It aims to be easy to use.
Eva Design System is a design resource for UI work, graphics, templates, inspiration, or visual archives.
faceMaker is a free web app for creating custom cartoon avatars and profile pictures. Users design a virtual figure face based on the European Average Face. The site recommends Firefox and supports Chrome and Opera, but not Internet Explorer or Safari.
FanCaps.net hosts image galleries of screenshots, screencaps, wallpapers and pictures from movies, TV shows and anime. The site organizes galleries by title, with sections for movie images and TV images and featured new additions.
fffuel is a collection of free color tools and SVG generators for creating gradients, patterns, textures, shapes, blobs and backgrounds. Generated graphics can be customized and used on the web or in design applications, and an SVG to PNG conversion tool is included. The site also hosts a chart of browser support for CSS and web platform features.
LogoFreeway helps edit, convert, generate, search, or organize images and visual assets.
LonelyScreen is an AirPlay receiver for PC and Mac that turns the computer into an Apple TV, allowing an iPhone or iPad screen to be cast to it. The site lists uses such as presentations, app demos, gameplay and family pictures, and states that it can capture and save iPhone gameplay or app demos with one-click upload to YouTube or Vimeo. It says iOS 11 compatible.
QuickChart is a web service that generates chart images on the fly from Chart.js configurations, suitable for embedding in email, SMS, chatbots and other formats. Charts are sent through a URL or POST request and rendered by the Chart.js library. It is dual licensed under the GNU AGPLv3 and a commercial license.
RawTherapee is a free, cross-platform raw image processing program released as Free Software under GPLv3. It is designed for developing raw files from a broad range of digital cameras and offers a non-destructive, 32-bit floating point processing engine with modern demosaicing algorithms. It is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows and in over 15 languages.
rimgo is an alternative frontend for Imgur. Its documentation also lists Tor instances, which provide improved privacy but require the use of Tor Browser, and i2p instances, which require a browser configured to use i2p.
Synfig Studio is a free and open-source 2D animation program for Windows, Linux and macOS, licensed under GNU GPL v3. It is designed for creating film-quality animation using vector and bitmap artwork, and it eliminates the need to create animation frame by frame. It provides vector tweening, 50+ layers and filters, and a bone system for cutout animation.
VDO.Ninja is a tool for bringing live video from a smartphone, computer, or other people into OBS Studio or other studio software. It offers rooms for group chat and tools to manage multiple guests and is described as 100% free.
Browser video editor for mixing clips, trimming footage, and creating quick edits.
BGJar is a free SVG background image generator for websites, blogs and apps, offering numerous customizable templates such as Simple Shiny, Wave and Polygon. A license page lists a Free plan requiring attribution under CC BY 4.0, plus Basic and Pro lifetime plans. Direct resale of downloaded items and building similar services are prohibited.
