Group items tagged

Download free photography tips on selling photography, SEO & social media, and building the best websites for photographers. Free guides help grow a photography business. If you want to be a professional photographer, get this free guides. They have helped me expand my business.

A free animation app for making videos. This site has more features in free mode than Xtranormal does. It is useful for students for use in alternative learning exercises or for anyone who wants to make a simple animated video. This site/app was recommended to me by my animation major daughter.

I always wanted to make an animated story. I'm going to use goanimate for this weeks technology assignment.

Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation that provides free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof. A lot music found on the Free Music Archive is released under Creative Commons licenses.

I love playing around with browser based music creators. I recently found this one, and it's pretty great. It's all royalty free loops and effects, and it's easy and fun. I wouldn't use it for writing music or anything I would try to promote, but it's an easy tool to get some ideas going.

OK now! Your giving me too many cool distractions, I'll never get my work done at this pace.

Several cool links to free and paid apps that are useful tools for costume designers or anyone working with textiles and designs. As a costume designer for my school's theater and musical productions, I have used several of the applications listed here.

A selection of free and paid apps for use in stage and theatre designs. Especially useful for lighting designers and technicians is the portable gel book. Very cool!

Audacity is a multi-track audio editor and recorder in the same vein as pro-tools, but free to use for Windows, Mac, Linux. Music tracks can be edited individually, mixed and exported in multiple file types.

Plotting a novel or short story (or paper) and struggling to keep your notes in order? yWriter is a word processing program that does just that. Though Spartan in appearance, y Writer is functional and free to download.

Listen online to relaxing sound atmospheres, ambient music or chilling sound effects. You can even create and mix your own moods, all for free.

Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library. You can download books, movies, music in the file type/format of your choosing for free. They have lots of out of print or otherwise unavailable materials.

Filmora is free, well-reviewed editing software that is easy to use. Here is the tutorial on how and you can find the download with a quick Google search. Have fun!

FREE sketching and painting program for artists using technology!

Create your own whiteboard video (like those by RSA and AsapSCIENCE) without having to be a great artist. VideoScribe does all the work for you. There is a free trial you can use to test out the software before you purchase a subscription.

Need to make a timeline? Want to create a cool visual flipbook using that timeline info? Dipity.com is a great tool for this. It is also extremely easy to use and allows you to use it more than once for FREE!

The Fractured Atlas Blog has a running tag called #TechToolTuesday. They highlight a new app every Tuesday that can help with everything from time management, website making, marketing, and finances that are all either free or reasonably affordable.

I have used GIMP for years. It is a really powerful image program. But it does have a learning curve, that is well worth climbing. From their website: " It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X."

Interesting, I actually have this on my computer and never paid any attention to it...I will now!

BiblioBoard Library - a free online resource for public library users, designed particularly well for mobile devices and tablets. https://library.biblioboard.com/about Lots of amazing curated collections!

"Clip Converter is a free online media conversion application, which allows you to convert and download YouTube URLs to formats like MP3,MP4,AAC,3GP." This is a great resource for saving videos for offline viewing as well as converting media to viewable formats.

I recently stumbled upon the University of New Mexico's interdisciplinary program in Art + Technology. They describe it as such. " The program fosters an atmosphere of radical creativity and thoughtful engagement with emergent and established technologies. Students are expected to make work that comments on, engages with, and expands our notions of what technology based art can be through courses that explore high tech immersive environments alongside consumer electronic hacking and simple analog circuit building. Labs are equipped with industry standard software as well as free open source analogous software options. Studio production is coupled with critical inquiry into the relationship between art, technology, politics, society and culture."