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(from website). Express yourself with the art.com Artpad.

(from website). A set of web applications to help you create interactive art. Collage Machine, Mobile, PixelFace, 3-D Twirler, Cubits, Diamonds, Dutch House, PaintBox, Wallovers, RiverRun, SwatchBox, Flow, Jungle, BRUSHster, Still Life

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(from website). BeFunky helps people turn their offline personalities into powerful online visual expressions.

Founded by engineers and cartoonists with a unique desire to integrate art and technology, BeFunky develops digital media tools that let people become instant artists and express themselves creatively without the need for any technical knowledge. Chief among these tools are:

• Cartoonizer - an online application that allows users to turn images and videos into digital paintings, cartoons and comics.
• Uvatar – a digital visual identity tool that takes the avatar concept to an extraordinary new level by letting users create a more accurate digital representation of themselves.

In developing these applications, BeFunky continues to help people all over the globe enhance the look and feel of their blogs, personal websites and profiles on social networking sites

(from website). Build Yourself ... as an animal. Provided by New York Zoos and Aquarium.

Web application to create a comic spanning 3 panels. About 10 characters, various objects and backgrounds.

(from website). Glogster is a revolutionary way of expressing your mood, feelings and ideas, and it goes miles beyond text or video! Creating a Glog lets you express all those things you haven’t been able to describe by words. It opens the door to a whole new world of communication – just choose a background, throw in some shapes and characters from our galleries, add text, your own videos or photos and perhaps a pinch of music and there it is! In just a few minutes, you can make a digital poster, a colorful medley of ideas, reflecting your own special style.

(From website). Think. Create. Animate. Whether you have trouble creating animations or you want to learn about the more advanced features of the application, this page is the place to be!

Flash application that allow you to make your own graffiti-styled logotypes and texts. Simply type in a word and hit Enter and out comes a designed font ready for you to convert into beautiful art. Use an array of various tools to enhance your logotype to make it really special and unique.

This lets you create artistic slideshows out of a set of image. Different styles, transitions, and special effects are available.

(from flyer). Kerpoof provides FREE multimedia software for educators, with no advertising and no hidden costs. You can use Kerpoof from any browser, on any computer with Internet access.

Make a picture, make a movie, make a drawing, make a card, make a story.

LiteBrite.

(from website). Creating photo strips from your photos

(from website). Pizap is a fun free photo editor that lets people easily create wacky images with their digital pictures. PiZap was created as a tool primarily for social networking users who want to post their images to their favorite social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Orkut, Friendster, Bebo, miGente, Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, Tagged, and many more. PiZap provides a very easy to use photo editor that lets you add photo effects, custom text or speech bubbles, hundreds of original colorful stickers, a full painting program, and much more. PiZap also has built in tools for sending e-cards, downloading your image, embedding your image in any website, or sharing the link directly to your image.

(from website). Combine your photos, videos, audio and text to create stunning multimedia scrapbooks.

(from website). ToonDoo is a wacky way to get creative with comics. You can now create your own comic strips, share them or insert them in your blogs with just a few clicks and drag-n-drops!

(from website). Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

At the time we visited the website, there was a problem with the gallery. Hopefully to be fixed soon.