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ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
Adobe Creative Suite Podcast- video tutorials for Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator- trial download
Smashing Magazine's Adobe Illustrator Tutorials- your students will love these lessons
Tutorials for Technology Students- covers CS3 version' download pdf files
Videos from Adobe TV- search by version and topic; average time is 5 minutes per video
Videos from Adobe TV- time varies from 4 minutes-40 minutes per video

ADOBE PHOTOSHOPAdobe Creative Suite Podcast- video tutorials for Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop- trial download
Beautiful Movie Posters- 50 from Smashing Magazine
Videos from Adobe TV- sort by product version; time varies from 3 minutes up per video.

CREATE COMICS ONLINE

Aniboom-virtual animation studio
Animasher- create an animation
Animoto for Education- unlimited videos for you and your students
The New Animoto Creation Process (10/4/2011) from AnimotoPro on Vimeo.
Be Funky- change a photo into a cartoon; other cool effects
Bubblr- create a comic strip with Flickr photos 
Cartoonist- from Creaza's suite of tools
Chogger- comic can be 3-12+ frames; draw your own picture or take a live picture to use
Comicbrush- use your own drawing or photo, their library of characters, backgrounds and balloons, then add your own text. 
Comic Master- create an online graphic novel 
Funny Times Cartoon Playground- choose body parts to create the characters for your cartoon 
GoAnimate- create animated cartoon with their backgrounds, characters, voices and effects; free version is limited to 2 minutes. Here is the link for GoAnimate for Schools.
Hero Machine- create the hero of your dreams 
Kerpoof!- for younger kids
Make Beliefs Comix-dialogue can be written in English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese and Spanish; edit size of balloons, characters. 
My ComicStrip
Pixton- $$, works on Mac, Windows or Linux computers; just add characters to the layout of choice and add text. 
ReadWriteThink Comic Creator- for younger kids 
Sketch Star- create an animation 
Stage'd- digital toy for creating comics 
Strip Creator
Strip Generator-choose how many frames you want and create a black and white comic. 
Super Action Comic Maker- create a 6-frame comic
Super Hero Squad- create a 1-3 frame comic with a choice of background, characters and special effects.
ToonDoo- "just a few clicks, drag and drops..."
Witty Comics-use background templates, add characters and text.
Write Comics-registration is not needed; choose a background, characters and add your own text. 
Xtranormal for Education- special pricing for schools




Creative Commons TrademarkCREATIVE COMMONS AND PUBLIC DOMAIN IMAGES

4 Free Photos- from professional photographers
5,000 Free Stock Photos- includes 8,000 free cliparts
Animal Photos!- huge listing
Antique Clipart- Victorian and Edwardian clipart
The Best Copyright-Free Photographs- taken by U.S. Government employees for their work
Burning Well- public domain image source
Clipart Etc.- over 65,000 pieces of clipart free to educators
The Commons on Flickr- world public photo collection
Compfight-searches Flickr for CC images
Creativity103.com- more than 2,500 files; abstract backgrounds, textures and design ideas
EduPic Graphical Resource- free image resource for educators and students
FedFlix- "best movies of the United States Government, from training films to history, from our national parks to the U.S. Fire Academy and the Postal Inspectors, all of these fine flix are available for reuse without any restrictions whatsoever."
Flickr Creative Commons Search- inside Flickr; searches only CC images
Geograph-photos of the British Isles
Google Advanced Search- when you search something in the advanced mode, you can choose from four choices: 1. free to use or share 2. free to use or share, even commercially 3. free to use share or modify 4. free to use, share or modify, even commercially
IconBug- 10,000 icons available
Icons- from Crystal Clear, this is a huge (and really nice) collection of icons
Imagebase- with hundreds of pages of images; from photographer David Niblack
Karen's Whimsy- Easter bunnies, illuminated letters, Canterbury Tales, medieval art
LiveBinders- many, many more links to other image sites under CC
MorgueFile- search images by subject, size or rating
National Digital Library- from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Open Clip Art Library- about 11,000 total
Open Icon Library- over free 10,000 icons
The Noun Project- symbols, diagrams
PhotoEverywhere-free travel-themed stock images; 3,000+
Photos8- free stock pictures; close to two-dozen categories to choose from
Picdrome- public domain pictures
Pics4Learning
Pixabay- stunning photos and clipart
Public Domain Photos- high resolution
Public Domain Photos- from imcphoto.net
Wikimedia Commons- browse their database of over 1.6 millions images!
WorldImages Kiosk- California State University's database houses around 80,000 images
Wylio- free pictures for bloggers



FONTS
1001 Free Fonts
1001 Fonts- most popular ones are here
Abstract Fonts-13,447
Ace Free Fonts-20307 fonts for Windows and Mac
Acid Fonts-for Mac or PC
Better Fonts
DaFont- nice collection
Ecofont- save ink by downloading this free font; works on Windows Vista, Windows XP, Macintosh and Linux
Font Burner- specifically for blogs; code works with WordPress, SWF, CSS and Javascript
Free Fonts- 1001 to choose from!
Font Space- 16,328 free fonts
Free Mac Fonts- for Macintosh users only
Freeware Fonts- categories from 3D- Valentine
Mike's Sketchpad- free fonts for PC or Mac; this is a very large collection!
Urban Fonts- from 3D to Western
YourFonts- create a font from your own handwriting