Free Places to Be Creative Online
If you have a little time to kill online but are tired of watching Youtube videos and looking at ridiculous pictures of people doing stupid things, check out all the sites below for some great ways you can entertain yourself by being creative online for free.
Doodlebug.desktopcreatures.com – A really cool sites where you can relieve some stress and be creative by drawing little doodles. You can save your doodles, play them back, and see other people’s creations.
Faceinhole.com – If you’re extremely bored and love putting people’s faces on other bodies, then this site is for you. It’s exactly what the name says it is – you find and image of a person and place their face in a hole of where a person’s face was on another image. You can save these images and they even have an iPhone app.
Favicon.cc – This is a cool site that allows you to create a favicon – that itty bitty icon at the top of your browser, next to the web address. It shows you a real-time preview of the icon while you’re designing it, then you can save it when you’re done.
Picmarkr.com – Wanna put your images online, but hesitant about people stealing and ripping them off, yet don’t want to go through the trouble of watermarking them all in Photoshop? This site makes it easy – and it’s free!
Simpsonizeme.com – Ever wanted to be a Simpson character? Well, all you need is an image of you or a friend and this site does all the rest. You can choose hair color, eyes, clothes, and even accessories.
Sketchcast.com – If you have a blog, this is a great to illustrate something to your visitors. Simply sketch what you want to communicate, and it compiles all your strokes and actions into a flash video, which you can then upload or link to your site.
Sketchswap.com – This is an awesome time killer that provides hours of fun. You sketch something then press ‘Swap’ and it swaps your image for one that someone somewhere else in the world created. And it lays it as a flash video, so you can see every step they took to create it.
Sumopaint.com – A very cool and powerful paint program and image editor. It’s very similar to Photoshop in a lot of ways, except it’s web-based and free. And when when you’re done creating, you can save your images in a variety of formats.
Bgmaker.ventdaval.com – A simple editor that allows you to create a tile background. It shows you what your design looks like tiled in real-time as you’re designing and when you’re done, you can save it.
Textorizer.whatfettle.com – Allows you to vectorize a picture using text strings. Choose any image online, decide what words you want to use, the height and width as well as other parameters, then when you’re done, you can save your creation.
Text-image.com – Convert any image into html, ascii, or matrix-like code designs. You can choose to have it in color, decide on background color, image width, and other variables.
