Top 10 Websites to Express Your Creativity
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October 19, 2009
Filed under art and design, art and design, fun, online services, useful
If you are ever in need of inspiration, looking for fun, creative things to do, here are the top 10 websites to get your creative juices flowing.
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Aviary
Aviary’ motto is “Creation on the Fly”. It is a big place with lots to do. First of all, it is a suite of powerful creative applications that you can use right in your browser. It is also an online community of digital artists of all genres, from graphic design to audio editing, that makes it easy to share and collaborate with others. To get a better idea of all Aviary has to offer, watch this video.
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Masher
This free online editing studio lets you create a video by mixing together video clips, music tracks and photos. You can use your own materials or browse through their extensive library from BBC, Rip Curl and more. Easy to share on social networks.
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Andrea Mosaic
This is an amazing free software, compatible with PC and Mac, that lets you create beautiful photo mosaics using your own photographs. The end result is very artistic, like this mosaic here.
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LoopLabs
Looplabs is the web’s premiere online music mixing application and platform. Since 2000 it has connected millions of web users from around the world to the art of music mixing through their extremely intuitive and easy-to use software interfaces.
LoopLabs’ online interactive music platform offers a wide range of possible feature implementations such as multi-channel mixing (up to 32 channels), advanced multi-channel presets, MP3 sampling / triggering / remixing, complete load/save/vote functionality, audio recording capabilities (client-side), sequencing / song composing, output audio to WAV/MP3 files, video mixing capabilities and integration, multiuser, collaborative music environments, crossplatform (MAC|PC), etc.
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Pixton
Pixton is an award-winning comic strip creator with a wide variety of features that lets you create comics without needing to draw them. You can customize everything on the page with a simple click-and-drag option. It works on any browser, Mac or PC, it’s easy to share by email or embed in blogs or social networks. For more information, watch this video.
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XNA Game Studio
If you ever wanted to create an online game, here’s your chance. This is a powerful, easy to use game development tool that lets you create indie games and share them in the XNA Creators Club. Features excellent graphics, audio, input, networking and storage capabilities. By creating a profile in the online community you get your creator card and can track your games, reviews, downloads, etc.
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Scrap Blog
If you like making scrapbooks, ScrapBlog is the place to start. It’s an online community where you can express yourself creatively. With their free online tool, it’s easy to make your own multimedia scrapbooks and share them with friends.
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Web Biographies
Web Biographies is a social biography network. You can use it to create your own personal biography and then share that with the rest of the world. It’s a place where you can post notes on all the people you’ve met, the places you’ve been, the events you’ve gone to and the stories you could tell about them all. Registration is free, and every account includes infinite family tree, journals and chapters, unlimited scrapbooks, photos, videos, etc.
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Mashup Arts
Mashup Arts website was built for social networkers who want to share video and photo ecards by remixing their personal content with free internet content. This premise itself has great creative potential. The Mashap Arts platform was designed for people who use social networks like Facebook and MySpace, and it incorporates many features to help them collaborate with friends, as well as integrate their favourite media, from their PC or from the net. There are many options to help you create your Mashup Cards by customizing photos, videos, text and music to create a one of a kind card in a world where everything else looks the same. You can even find ideas from the user community for occasions like Birthdays, Weddings, Christmas, Valentines, etc.
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Odosketch
Odosketch is a great flash drawing application that lets you create easily beautiful sketches online, using different paper textures, a variety of brushes and drawing effects. It’s possible to save your sketch in flash format so you can watch it as it was being drawn. Not only that, but you can share it with friends. Very nice.
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Wow! Great post. Can’t wait to start exploring some of those websites. Thanks.
I’ve spent last three days exploring the links on your post, and I’ve only gotten as far as number 4. Great post. Keep up the good work. I’ll be back often.
What a great collection of links. I like mashup especially.
They are all great, thanks for the tip.
Andrea Mosaic is cool!
Great list! I love stumbling upon sites like this one.
I am affected because of the the best ideas close to this good topic. You made it as the freelance writer and you deserved the best grant for that, I think!
I love coming across these artsy fartsy website. That mosaic one looks awesome, the scrap booking one as well. Be sure to keep it tactile too with papers, art easels, and using your hands not just the keyboard!
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Crissylee