Photopea is a free of charge, browser-based photo editor with interface and functionalities very similar to Adobe’s Photoshop.
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Alchemy
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Alchemy is an open source drawing software exploring new ways to sketch, draw, and create on computers. It’s intentionally not for creating finished artwork, but rather a sketching environment that focuses on the very early stages of the creative process. Experimental in nature, Alchemy lets you brainstorm visually to explore an expanded range of ideas and possibilities in a serendipitous way.
(more…)Inkscape
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Inkscape is a free and open source vector graphics editor with a rich set of features that is widely used for both artistic and technical illustrations such as cartoons, clip art, logos, typography, diagramming and flowcharting. It uses vector graphics to allow for sharp printouts and renderings at unlimited resolution.
(more…)Krita
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Krita is an open source digital painting tool targeting painters, illustrators, comic artists and animators. As it originally started off as an image editor and Photoshop competitor, it also still retains many of those functionalities too.
(more…)Adobe Colour Wheel
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For a variety of reasons and uses it may be nice to create palettes of several colours that inherently work with each other. Adobe Colour Wheel is a free, intuitively usable colour picking tool with some limited additional functions that may come handy when transitioning a creative practice online.
FileSender
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FileSender initially is a server software file sharing developed to the requirements of the higher education and research community. After installation onto an institutional server, the instutution can host its own filesharing/sending system independent from data safety and security concerns that come with common commercial offers.
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D Emptyspace is different to other virtual gallery/exhibition softwares in that it exists exclusively on iPhones and iPads; no browser based or desktop application, no other OS. The app lets you create and explore immersive virtual galleries based on the images on your device. Choosing from a variety of gallery templates, the user may first upgrade the virtual interior to give it some personal feel and then arrange their work onto the gallery walls, thus inherently creating a visitor journey to discover the work.
(more…)Slack
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Slack is a proprietary instant messaging platform, with basic functions similar to other platforms: persistent chat rooms (channels) organized by topic, private groups, and direct messaging etc. It’s core ambition is to replace email as the primary method of communication and sharing within organisations, i.e. to consolidate all communication that might otherwise be scattered across emails, text messages, or in person meetings.
(more…)Discord
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In difference to other communication apps, Discord may not be on many instructors’ screen, but it quite certainly is on their students’. Originally mostly frequented in the gaming community as a separate Voice over IP (VOIP) channel used in parallel to any ongoing game to discuss team tactics in private, it’s since developed into a communication tool with much broader appeal in particular with younger audiences.
(more…)Jamboard
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Initially Jamboard was a piece of hardware, an interactive whiteboard, essentially a huge touchscreen on a stand that collaborators could log onto via a dedicated app. Since its inception in 2017, the Jamboard app now may also stand alone, i.e. collaborators may directly connect and work with each other without the hardware.
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