Collab Resources
- InVision – Create rich interactive prototypes.
- Google Keep – Save your thoughts wherever you are.
- Trello – A project management tool that allows you to create project boards and collaborate on them.
- Appear.In – Group video chats (free version up to 4 people)
- Red Pen – Upload your design and get live annotated feedback.
- GoVisually – Helps marketing and design teams work better by tracking visual project revisions
- MindMeister – Online mind-mapping software
- Bubbl – Create mind maps online and save them as a photo
- Basecamp – Basecamp centralizes your communication, projects, and client work together
- Concept Inbox – Helps marketing and design teams work better by tracking visual project revisions
- IMO – Chat with friends in one place.
- TypeWith – Collaborate on documents in real time.
- Join.Me – Screen-sharing for conferences
- TinyChat – Free private online chat rooms.
- Google Hangouts – Connect and chat with groups
- Asana
- Podio
- Draw.io
- Draw.Chat – DrawChat is a multi user online drawing chat room.
- Scribble Maps – Draw and share maps.
- Timerine Timeline Maker – You can use Preceden to create a project timeline to visualize important dates, deadlines, and milestones
- TeuxDeux – To Do App
- Wordle – Create word clouds.
- Bubble – Mindmaps and brainstorming.
- AmCharts – Create charts online.
- Random Picker – true random numbers. Use Random.org to generate random numbers, lists, locations, and to hold drawings, lotteries, sweepstakes, and more.
Paid Websites
- Yammer – A freemium enterprise social networking service used for private communication within organization
- Slack – Chat with your team, allows app intergration $
- Mural – Digital workspaces for visual collaboration, inspiration, and innovation anytime, anywhere, on any device. $
- Scribblar – Features whiteboard, audio, chat, image sharing, document sharing and more. $
- Minutes.io – Take notes quickly and efficiently $
- Cage – Collaborate on project tasks $
- Concept – Visual online collaboration for creative and remote teams $
- Ideaflip – Collaborative sticky note board $
- Proof Hub
File Transfer
- We Transfer – Transfer large files online
- Gett
- Plus Transfer
- Jotti – File malware scanner
- PDF Escape – Online PDF Editor
- Scrim – Email link shortener
- Microsoft Office Templates
Fun Resources
- Mt. Everest in 3D – Explore Mount Everest
- Faces of Facebook – A collage of all facebook profile pictures, find yours.
- Lamebook – Lame facebook posts
- Can I Stream It? – Check which movies you are allowed to stream.
- Screen-licking Pug – Share this cute pug with your friends.
- #1 Song on Day You Were Born – What was the #1 song on the day you were born?
- Independence Day – Watch your street get destroyed.
- Quick Draw – A single-player drawing game
- Geek Typer – Fake hacker code typing
- Simitator – Fake Facebook Post
- Tall Tweets
Movies
- Netflix Roulette – Find something to watch on Netflix
- A Good Movie to Watch – Looking for a good movie?
- Zero Dollar Movies – Watch full length movies online for free.
Game Engines
For information on text and fonts see Web Design tab.
Art Resources
- Canva – Create free graphics online
- Piskel – Online Sprite Editor
- SumoPaint – Online layber-based Paint
- Kleki Painter – A modern painting and image editing tool for your browser.
- Adobe Colors – Create and browse color schemes.
- Brusheezy – Free Illustrator brushes
Colors
Helpful Graphic Design Blog Posts
- PS Tutorials That Will Teach You To Create Realistic Objects
- Create a Motorola Droid Style Phone in Photoshop
- 60 Free Photoshop Actions
- How to Create a Realistic Neon Light Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop
- How To Create Radial Patterns in Illustrator
- How To Create Complex Mandala Patterns in Illustrator
- Make Games – Pixel Art Tutorial
- 101 Color Combinations to Inspire Your Next Design
Learning
- Polish My Writing – Check for writing errors.
- Typing – Learn to type
- Mathway
- Get Answers – Get Answers gives you access to the world’s facts and data and calculates answers across a range of topics
- W3cSchools
- Purple Math
- Wolframalpha: Venn Diagram Solver for Sets
- Truth Table Generator
- EasyBib – Free Bibliography Generator
- Citation Machine – Create free citations
- Math Is Fun – OOO Order of Operations Calculator
- Thesaurus.com – Find synonyms for words
Online Courses
Photography Courses
Productivity Resources
- Adobe Trial Downloads – Try out Adobe’s products!
- Fake Name Generator – Create a randomly generated identity which includes phone numbers, emails, birthdays, blood types, and more.
- Account Killer – How to delete your account on different websites.
- Project Alexandria – Book reccomendations
- Time and Date – Check the time and date, weather, sun and moon, and create a stopwatch or timer, or use the date-to-date calculator.
- USPS Mailbox Locator – Find a USPS Blue mailbox location
- Get human – Get a better customer service experience, faster
- Google History – Rediscover things you’ve searched for, visited, and watched on Google services.
- Urban Dictionary – Slang dictionary
- Time Zone – Check the time from different zones around the world.
- Qlock: World Clock – Check the time from places around the world.
- Snopes – News fact checker
- Supercook – See what you can cook based on your ingredients
Shopping
- Bokoh – A simplified way to track packages from USPS, UPS, FedEx, or DHL/AirBorne packages
- CamelCamelCamel – Amazon price tracker. See how prices have changed over time.
- Isn’t This Weird – Find weird Amazon products
Technology
- Ninite – Update your computer programs from one place
- Follow Up Then – The simplest way to schedule an e-mail reminder
- Let Me Get That For You – For all those people who find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than search it for themselves.
- Where’s My Cell Phone – Call your cell phone from the web
- Fax Zero – Send free faxes.
- 10 Minute Mail – Get a temporary e-mail address for 10 minutes.
- PrivNotes – A note that self-destructs after a set amount of time
- Online Timer – Start a timer using your browser
Blog Posts
Free Sound Websites
- YouTube Free Audio Library
- Freeplay Music
- Adobe Audition Downloads
- FreeSound
- Rap Pad – Make beats online
- SCM Player – Create a music player
- Madeon’s Adventure Machine
- Splice
- Noisli – Mix different sounds and boost your productivity
- Sound Bible – Free sound effects
- Partners In Rhyme – Free sound effects and royalty free sound effects
Paid Sound Websites
YouTube Playlists
- Royalty Free Music – Trap Nation
- Newest Royalty-Free Music for YouTubers! – RoyalTrax
- No Copyright Music from SoundCloud – Audio Library – No Copyright Music
- Royalty Free – Alpha Records
- Royalty Free Background Music – Royalty Free Music
- Royalty Free Music – Majestic Casual
- Trolling Music // Troll Songs by Kevin MacLeod [Royalty Free Music] – m.
Other Sound Resources
- How Long To Beat
- Sheet Music Maker
- Midomi – Find song name.
- Radio Garden – Radio stations from around the world
- YTMP3 – Convert YouTube videos into mp3 or mp4 files
Travel Resources
- Hotel Wifi Test – Before you go on your next vacation check out which hotels have free wifi and which ones have great connection.
- Skiplagged – Find cheap flights
- Roadtrippers
- Flight Seat – Flight seat consultant
- FlightStats – Worldwide flight stats
Photo & Video Resources
- Storyboard That – Create storyboards online
- YouTube TV Mode – Watch YouTube in TV mode
- Zoom.It – Share and view your high-resolution images seamlessly
- Pixlr – Online photo editor
- TubeMogul – Adobe Video Uploading and Advertising
- Shutterstock Photo Editor
- Scratch – Create stories, games, and animations
Free Images
- Free Images
- Unsplash – Beautiful free images
- Boogie Jack
- Photorack – Free stock photos
- Wallpapers Wide – Wallpapers for your desktop
- Pixabay – Discover over 1.3 million images and videos shared by our generous community
- PixelsTalk
- PicGifs
- Bing Images
Paid Images
- 123rf
- FreePik – Free image licenses with attribution
- Dreamstime
- Adobe Stock – Comes with 10 free photos when you purchase the Creative Cloud.
- Shutterstock
Convertors
- iloveimg – NEF Convertor
- ZamZar – Free online video converter, audio converter, image converter, eBook converter
- Online Convert – Free online video, audio, image, eBook, document, Archive, and Hash converter
Helpful Blog Posts
Downloadable Resources
- Two Column Script – Use this file to create scripts.
- Shot Descriptions – Use these short-hand shot descriptions in your scripts.
- 22 Types of Camera Shots – A list of 22 different types of camera shots
- Field Log – Use this file when you are in the field and need to log specific photos or videos
- Breakdown Sheet – Use a breakdown sheet so you can ensure each scene is set up properly
- Budget Sheet – Use this file to add up costs
- Storyboard 6up – This file contains a full-page storyboard template
- Storyboard Full Page – This file contains a page with 6 storyboards
Web Hosting
Web Design Templates
- Free CSS Templates
- PureCSS
- Max Davis Themes – Free fully customizable Tumblr layouts
Sitemap Generators
- Slickplan
- Dynomapper
- Writemaps
- Mindnode
- Screaming Frog XML Sitemap Generator
- Screaming Frog XML Sitemap Generator
- PowerMapper
- XML Sitemaps
- XML Sitemap Generator
- Inspyder
- Sitemap Writer Pro
Text and Documents
- Google Fonts – Search hundreds of free fonts
- Lipsum – Lorem Ipsum Generator
- What The Font – Find fonts from images
- Google Translate – Translate text and documents
- No Tengo Enie – Find characters not normally on keyboard
- Character Copy/Paste
- Icon Finder
- Online OCR – Recognize Text from scanned PDFs
Websites
- Bug Me Not– Shared website logins.
- Similar Sites
- The Useless Web – Find random, useless websites
- Stumble Upon – Discover new websites based on interests
- Coral CDN – Try accessing offline websites here
- I Want My Name – Domain name search
- GT Metrix – Analyze site speed
- Built With – See what programs websites are built with
- Norton Website Checker
- Webpage highlighter
- Wayback Machine – See what websites used to look like
- Print What You Like – Print out webpages without the clutter
- Disposable Web Page – Create a 90-day web page
- Jonas Ohlsson | Critical Path CSS Generator – Minify CSS per page
- Sitelocity | Critical Path CSS Generator – Minify CSS per page
Other Helpful Web Design Tools
For information on colors see Graphic Design tab.
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