Jackson Pollock art tool

22/Jan/2008

fun diversion. after about 10 minutes you get pretty zen about it. click the pic to start splashing paint around. Read More...

Improve your photography with classical art

19/Jun/2007

When Photoshop entered the CS series it included a new tool called 'Match Color.' This tools was made so that you could match a series of photos to one another.

But there is another thing you can do with 'Match Color' that is much cooler: You can match the colors in your photos to those in famous paintings. Click the pic to learn how. Read More...

TopMod - a manifold mesh modeling system

01/Feb/2007

A free "manifold mesh modeling system" that is a kind of computer aided sculpting tool for PCs. it was written by Ergun Akleman who works as an Associate Professor at Texas A&M. Read More...

PixelArt - A Flash art tool

20/Dec/2006

Halfshag’s pixelArt tool. Isometric pixel graphics might be oh-so-2002, but this tool gets big kudos for its cool architectural styling, more futuristic Modernist than retro Atari.

PixelArt is developed in Flash, by halfshag aka Richard Simpkins, a London-based Actionscript developer & designer. The tool itself is easy to use. Blocks are selected from a pre-existing library, and can then be dragged around the grid and placed on top of each other. No particular isometric skills are required, the tool does it all for you.

There are also community functions that allow you to save your and reload your creations once you’ve registered as a user. Saved pieces will be displayed in the pixelGallery, as well as in a downloadable screensaver. The screensaver retrieves creations from the web site, and shows them locally in high resolution. It’s almost better than TV.

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The Rasterbator - a most excellent laser printer art tool

20/Dec/2006

do you have a printer and some patience? pick any JPEG, (high contrast images tend to work better) and upload it to the site. The Rasterbator allows you to pick how you want your image enlarged onto sheets of paper and dumps a multi-page PDF back to you.

The result prints in sequence... so after you do a little edge trimming, start at the upper left hand corner and lay out your prints. Shown here is a printed untrimmed 3x3 grid.

click the pic to view the site and be sure to check out the gallery.

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Image Mosaic Generator

10/Nov/2006

you know those photos that are made up of tons of small photos? go here (click the pic) upload your own picture and the tool will make you a picture with images lifted from google's image search. Read More...

a collection of web sign generators

09/Nov/2006

diversion of the month. Read More...

Grappa Rainbow, a screen toy for when you are bored

01/Nov/2006

Doodlebug: online etch-a-sketch for the bored

01/Oct/2006

When I was a kid, we had to use two white knobs to scratch out fuzzy drawings in magnetic dust. This is kind of like that... except better... and you can see how other people did it via animations of them drawing.

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fun art toys

01/Oct/2006

several flash and java based art generation toys for the creatively impaired Read More...

Making Custom Photoshop Brushes

22/Sep/2006

Great Tutorial on creating custom brushes in Photoshop... seen here is a scanned text "brush" which works as a kind of digital rubber stamp. Artsy! Read More...