The Arts

The Arts - Free and Open Source Educational Software

Definitions

"The arts is a broad subdivision of culture, composed of many expressive disciplines. In modern usage, it is a term broader than "art", which usually means the visual arts (comprising fine art, decorative art, and crafts). The arts encompasses visual arts, performing arts, language arts, and the culinary arts."
- Wikipedia Arts 22 October 2008

Art

ArtSoftWare - wiki for sharing information about free and open source art software http://www.artsoftware.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Wikipedia Portal:Visual arts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Visual_arts
Sharing your Art Online - Art Room University of Florida http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/index.html
Free Artwork Resources (clipart/clickart) http://www.unites.org/html/resource/knowledge/13clipart.htm
Public Domain Clip Art http://www.pdclipart.org/
Icons for Web Publishing and Design http://desktoppublishing.com/icons.html
Background and Texture Archive - Free http://www.grsites.com/textures/
Picture O Rama http://www.pictureorama.com/
The Clipart Directory http://www.clipart.com/
Tudogs:Clipart - Free http://www.tudogs.com/
Clip Art Warehouse - Thousands of Free clip art images http://www.clipart.co.uk/
Flamingtext - create your own images http://www.flamingtext.com/
Nuvola icons for KDE http://icon-king.com/ (LGPL)
Microsoft Clip Gallery Live http://www.microsoft.com/clipgallerylive/
Art and Art Appreciation at Free-Ed.Net http://www.waybuilder.net/free-ed/Humanities/art/

Painting and Drawing

Tuxpaint installer - excellent kids paint program [English, Spanish, Portuguese, more] (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.tuxpaint.org (GPL)
Tuxpaint stamps - adds more images to tuxpaint
Pencil - nice to use animation drawing software to create flash files (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.pencil-animation.org/ (GPL)
Paint.NET - free image and photo editing software - features intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, special effects and much more - requires .NET framework from Microsoft [English, Spanish, Portuguese, more] (Windows) http://www.getpaint.net/ (Paint.Net License based on the open source MIT License)
mtPaint - Mark Tyler's painting program - features for pixel art and image manipulation [English, Spanish, Portuguese, more] (Windows, Linux) http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/ (GPL)
CinePaint - collection of free open source software tools for paint, image processing and motion picture frame by frame retouching (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.cinepaint.org/ (GPL)
Cornice - image viewer with thumbnail view, image preview, bookmarks, zooming, rotation and slideshow (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://wxglade.sourceforge.net/extra/cornice.html (GPL)
KToon - 2D animation toolkit designed by animators for animators (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://ktoon.toonka.com/ (GPL)
Artweaver - creative panting using various brushes, editing tools, transparency and layer support, filters to sharpen, blur and emboss, support for BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, TGA, TIFF, PNG and PSD [English, Spanish, more] (Windows) http://www.artweaver.de/ (Free)

Stencil - Free interactive vector drawing appliction for illustrations and diagrams (MacOSX, Linux)

http://www.skencil.org/ (LGPL)

Xournal - Free software for notetaking, sketching and keeping a journal using a stylus (Linux)

http://xournal.sourceforge.net/ (GPL)

Learn How to Draw http://www.geocities.com/~jlhagan/K9-14/introduction.htm
How to Draw http://tearain.tripod.com/hp/draw/draw.html
Drawing Now - cartoons, people and nature http://www.drawingnow.com/
Online Learn how to create cartoons http://cagle.msnbc.com/teacher/
Wikipedia Painting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painting
Drawing - Self Made Scholar Learn Free http://www.selfmadescholar.com/classes.php?tag=drawing
Sharing your Art Online - Art Room University of Florida http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/index.html
Also see graphics for software such as Gimp, Inkscape and Blender3D

Photography

Online Free photo lesson plan - Kodak http://www.kodak.com/global/en/consumer/education/lessonPlans/indices/art.shtml
Online Free photos http://www.everystockphoto.com/
Online Free photos http://www.sxc.hu/
Online Free photos http://www.imageafter.com/
Online Free photos http://flickr.com/

Multimedia

VLC - media player cross-platform and streaming server supports formats such as MPEG, DivX, Ogg and play DVDs [English] (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ (GPL)
MPlayer - movie player that plays MPEG, AVI, Ogg and watch DVDs, and more [Emglish, Spanish, more] (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ (GPL)
QuickTime - multimedia player that supports MPEG, H.264, 3GPP and more from Apple (Windows, MacOSX) http://www.apple.com/ (Apple Computer Licence for QuickTime, Free for individual use)

Xine - free multimedia player that decodes AVI, WMV, MP3 and displays DVDs - choice of front ends xine-ui, kaffeine, gxine (Linux)

http://www.xine-project.org/ (GPL)

Arts - Self Made Scholar Learn Free http://www.selfmadescholar.com/classes.php?tag=arts

Video Editing

Avidemux - video editor for cutting, filtering and encodingi - supports AVI, MPEG, MP4 and ASF (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ (GPL)
CamStudio - Open Source Free Streaming Video Software to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create AVI video files and turn AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) (Windows) http://camstudio.org/ (GPL)
FFmpeg - cross platform to record, convert and stream audio (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ (GPL)
Jahshaka - Realtime video editing and effects software for 3D pictures with music (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.jahshaka.org/ (GPL)
VirtualDub - Video capture and processing of AVI files (Windows) http://www.virtualdub.org/ (GPL)
ZS4 Video Editor - Advanced video editor and compositor supports iyuv-avi, mjpg-avi, mpng-avi and wav (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.zs4.net/download (Free)

Cinelerra - Advanced non-linear video editor ad compositor (Linux)

http://cvs.cinelerra.org/about.php (GPL)

Kdenlive - Multi-track video editor (Linux)

http://www.kdenlive.org/ (GPL)

Kino - Video editor with transition effects (Linux)

http://www.kinodv.org/ (GPL)

Lives - Linux Video editing system now runs on other operating systems easy to use interface (MacOSX, Linux)

http://lives.sourceforge.net/ (GPL)

Openmovieeditor - Open Movie Editor designed for basic movie making capabilities (Linux)

http://www.openmovieeditor.org/ (GPL)

Music

Audacity - cross platform multi-track sound editor for recording and editing sounds (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/ (GPL)
Hydrogen installer - advanced drum machine (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.hydrogen-music.org/ (GPL)
DrumkitPack2 - more demo drum kits to Hydrogen drum machine
jalmus.jar - train to read music - requires Java Runtime Environment JRE (platform independent) http://www.jalmus.net (GPL)
Canorus - free cross-platform music score editor (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://sourceforge.net/projects/canorus (GPL)
iTunes - free player for music and video from Apple (Windows, MacOSX) http://www.apple.com/ (Free)
Solfege - free music education software to train your rhythm, interval, scale and chord skills (Windows, Linux) http://www.solfege.org/ (GPL)
Ultrastar Deluxe - music karaoke machine to sing along with on-screen music (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.ultrastardeluxe.org/ (GPL)
FretsonFire - guitar hero style software to play along with scrolling on-screen musical notes to complete a song (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/ (GPL)
Tuxguitar - Multitrack tablature editor and player (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ (GPL)

noteedit - music score editor (Linux)

http://noteedit.berlios.de/ (GPL)

rosegarden - professional audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment (Linux)

http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ (GPL)

Online Piano Lessons http://www.pianonanny.com/
Online List of free Educational music software http://www.freebyte.com/music

Dance

pydance - dancing simulator written in python - highly configurable, colourful arrow motion, limitless dance steps, dance pad support (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://icculus.org/pyddr/ (MIT License)
StepMania - free dance and rhythm game with 3D graphics, dance pad support and step editor (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.stepmania.com/ (MIT License)
Online Free Ballroom and Latin Dance Steps http://www.centralhome.com/ballroomcountry/dancesteps.htm
Online Dance Terms from Canberra Australia http://www.earthlydelights.com.au/terms5.htm
Australia Dancing Portal - hosted by National Libray of Australia http://www.australiadancing.org/
AusDance - Australia's professional dance advocacy organisation http://www.ausdance.org.au/

Drama

Drama Australia - national issues on drama education http://www.dramaaustralia.org.au/
AustLit - The Australian Literature Resources - Australian Drama http://www.austlit.edu.au/specialistDatasets/Drama
Drama Queensland - non-profit professional association http://www.dramaqueensland.org.au/
The Drama Teacher - blog for teachers http://www.thedramateacher.com/about/
The Online Books Page http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/browse?type=Icsubc&key=drama

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