Free Picture Editing Online

Many art teachers are  frustrated with expensive photoshop subscriptions and crappy alternative programs. Gimp can be used for free,  but the panel design is confusing for the kids and the program is freezing and crashing too often.

Also, students have devices with different operating systems (Windows, Android, Apple), so how to find a free picture editing program, which works for all?

The solution are free online browser-based editing programs like Photopea and PixlR

https://www.photopea.com

https://pixlr.com

Free stock footage

Here a selection of free stock footage archives.

 

Recommendations by No Film School:

http://nofilmschool.com/2015/10/need-public-domain-footage-your-documentary-here-are-5-great-sources

 

Public archives (by goverment institutions and others)

http://www.pond5.com/free

https://archive.org/details/culturalandacademicfilms

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/

 

More free archives

https://videos.pexels.com/

http://www.stockfootageforfree.com/

http://mitchmartinez.com/free-4k-red-epic-stock-footage/

http://www.coverr.co/

http://www.videezy.com/

http://www.xstockvideo.com/

http://www.stockfootageforfree.com/category/time-lapse/

http://www.vidsplay.com/stock_footage6.html

http://www.clipcanvas.com/free-footage

http://www.wedistill.io/

http://mazwai.com/#/

 

 

 

free sound and music archives

+++ New: BBC released 16000 free sound clips here +++

+++ more on free audio, film and photo sources here +++

Free music platforms can be messy – hard to find the good stuff – but worth searching.  Some platforms offer free mp3 quality and charge for HQ versions – these sites are better organized, see first example.

(Watch out: terms of use might change on this pages once a while)

Freesound.org offers a huge archive of free sounds (registration for free)

opsound.org is dedicated to open source culture offering free sound & music

Netlables by archive.org. You can search by tags and keywords, most audio seems to limited to 30 seconds free sample.

archive.org millions of books, films, music and more on this huge open source page

freemusicarchive.org

digccmixter.org great archive, searchable by tags, but navigation very simple & basic

Bargus.org  small archive

CChound.com – under repair

Stampede.it  cool page, but just a few free audio files besides commercial offers

More CC music links here on CreativeCommons.org.

 

Free Mp3

Icons8 mp3 for free, but 44.100 Hz version for 2o$ monthly subscription

For school projects and small independant projects mp3 quality for free might be sufficient (and you still can upgrade for HQ quality, if needed). Genre and themes are well organized like in better sites,  but the quality of the compositions of most tracks is rather poor.

 

Royalty free music: what to learn by commercial sites

There are constantly new music sites for filmmakers popping up, offering royalty free music for a flatrate price (monthly subscription price to access huge and well organized libraries for unlimited use), the most famous are Soundstripe and Artlist. Having a look on this commercial sites help to  learn more about how navigation of a well organized  film music library looks like and what to expect from  better pages for free music (in the future).

 epidemic sound  recommended by my friends, I didn’t try it yet. It has a free one month trial, monthly plans starting from 15 $ per month for social media use, but expensive for companies (149 $ per month)

Musicbed, starts with 9 $ a month for social media use, used by travel filmmakers like Bryn North in Mongolia

Jamendo mp3 for “free” for test editing, watermarked, HQ for payment

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More links to free music on the website below (german wesbite, but listing many international sites in English)

Freie Musik

There are HUGE archivs of free music on Youtube:

 

Introduction to sound design

sound design on TED:

More ond sound design

public domain historic images

The New York Public Library published thousands of open source images.

 

 

Public Domain Collections: Free to Share & Reuse

Did you know that more than 180,000 of the items in our Digital Collections are in the public domain? That means everyone has the freedom to enjoy and reuse these materials in almost limitless ways.

Source: www.nypl.org/research/collections/digital-collections/public-domain