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Creative Software

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By Raymond L Maple 2 min read

A curated hub of video, image, and audio software tools, resources, and essential information to enhance your creative projects and technical skills. Explore these links to edit, produce, and bring your ideas to life!

Video Editors

  • CapCut – Free, beginner-friendly video editor (desktop, mobile, and web) made by ByteDance, the company behind TikTok. It offers easy drag-and-drop editing, templates, effects, transitions, captions, and music, making it especially popular for social media content creation.

  • Shotcut – Open source, decent feature set, supports many formats, good intermediate choice.

  • OpenShot – Simple UI, easy to learn, decent for basic editing tasks.

  • DaVinci Resolve – Very powerful: professional editing, color correction, effects, audio mixing. The free version supports many features, though some “studio” upgrades are paid.

  • Adobe Express – A web + mobile tool from Adobe for designing visuals and editing videos in a user-friendly, template-driven way.

Image

Images

  • Pixabay – Millions of royalty-free images, illustrations, and videos, often usable without attribution.

  • Pexels – Free stock photos and videos, high-quality and often usable for commercial purposes without attribution.

  • Google Images – Search for images across the web; use the “Tools → Usage Rights” filter to find images labeled for reuse.

Image Editors

  • GIMP – Fully featured open-source image editor (Windows, macOS, Linux) with support for layers, filters, plugins, and more.

  • Photopea – Browser-based editor that emulates Photoshop; supports PSD files, layers, and many formats.

  • Piskel – Free online editor for creating pixel art and animated sprites, simple and beginner-friendly.

Audio

Sound Effects

  • Pixabay (Sound Effects section) – Over 100,000 free sound effects, royalty-free and often usable without attribution.

  • SFX Library – Free sound effects in MP3, WAV, OGG formats, no registration required.

  • QuickSounds – A wide variety of categorized free sound effects for media, games, podcasts, etc.

  • Bfxr (retro) Online tool for generating retro-style sound effects commonly used in games.

  • Freesound Community database of free sound effects and audio samples under Creative Commons licenses.

  • Sound Image Free sound effects and music organized by categories for game development.

  • BBC Sound Effects Free sound effects from BBC archives available for educational and creative use.

Music

  • Moby (instrumental music) Free instrumental music from Moby available for non-commercial and commercial projects.

  • Bensound Free royalty-free music tracks for videos and games with attribution required.

  • Free Music Archive Curated collection of free music from independent artists and labels.

Audio Tools

  • Wavacity (online editor) Wavacity is a port of the Audacity® audio editor to the web browser. It is free, open-source software.

  • Audacity Popular free and open-source software for recording, editing, and processing audio on desktop.

  • BeepBox (online music tool) Online tool for creating chiptune-style music and retro game soundtracks.

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