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creative AI Tools
AI, Design, Software, UI UX

15 Creative AI Tools for Designers & Artists

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There’re a lot of AI Tools we can find today, but looking for a perfect tool for specific task especially in creative industry is not that easy. But once we get the right AI Tools, the job will be easy, time saving and boost our productivity.

Selection of 15 creative AI Tools in brief that we shared here are purposely for designers and artist. We will add on later with more AI creative tools that might be useful for designers. Do you have any recommendation..? Please put it in the comment section..!

1. Adobe Firefly

creative AI Tools Adobe Firefly

Adobe Firefly is technically a generative AI tool with it’s 4 main tools – Generative Fill, Text to Image generator, Generative Extend & Generate Video tool. Besides as part of the larger Adobe Creative Cloud toolkit for designers, Adobe Firefly can also be access as a separate web app or as part of Photoshop, Illustrator or other Adobe desktop software.

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2. Designs.Ai

Designs.Ai is a collection of generative AI tools in one place. It has AI Chat, Image Maker, Video Maker, AI Writer, Design Maker, Logo Maker, Speech Maker, Face Swapper, etc.

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3. Vance AI

VanceAI is an AI powered photo editing toolkit, excels in image enhancement and photo restoration. It offers photo enhancer, up-scaler, photo sharpener, restorer, cartoonizer, background removal and many more.

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You may also like to read: 5 Benefits of Using Image-to-Text Conversion in Business Documents

4. Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Copilot is an AI powered tool to help people with a range of tasks and activities on their devices. Copilot can helps in drafting of contents, suggest different ways to word things you’ve written, suggest and insert images or banners, create PowerPoint presentations from Word documents and many other helpful things. One of the popular tool is Bing Image Creator.

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5. PNG Maker

PNG Maker is not a background remover tool, but an Image Generator using text prompt to creates no background or transparent background image, a true PNG image generator.

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6. DaVinci

DaVinci is an AI tool for creating AI arts using only your words in just a few seconds. DaVinci intuitive AI art generator is designer and artist dreams to convert imaginations and ideas into real life artworks just by entering a prompt and explaining the style.

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7. Video Leap

Video Leap is an AI powered video editor that makes complex video editing simple and accessible for anyone, from beginners to pros. A must video creation tool for creative editors, learn more on what this intuitive creative video tool can do on their blog.

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8. Galileo AI

creative AI Tools Galileo AI

Galileo AI is a generative AI for user interface design. Use Galileo AI to creates and designs website & app user interfaces. There are 2 types of UI creation you can choose to generate – using text based and also using concept image based.

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9. Trint

creative AI Tools

Trint is an automated transcription software to convert video, audio and speech to text in more than 40 languages with up to 99% accuracy. Tell stories faster by transcribing, translating, editing and collaborating in a single workflow. So this is a reverse of AI conversion from Text prompt to Image or Video.

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10. Descript

creative AI Tools

Descript is something like Trint (above), converting videos to text. It helps to edit your videos & podcasts just by typing. Descript’s powerful AI editing tools let you generate descriptions, tutorial videos, podcasts & short clips fast.

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11. ChartAI

creative AI Tools ChartAI

ChartAI is an AI tool for generating charts, diagrams and maps just in seconds.

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12. Character.ai

creative AI Tools

Character.ai feels like real conversation, fun to talk and life like AI characters.

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13. ImageFX by Google

ImageFX is a new tool in Google’ Labs that lets people create images with simple text prompts. ImageFX includes a prompt interface featuring ‘expressive chips’ that let you quickly experiment with adjacent dimensions of your creation and ideas.

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14. MusicFX by Google

creative AI Tools

MusicFX is an another Google Lab’s AI generated effects for music. Users can now create tunes up to 70 seconds in length and music loops, explore prompts with expressive chips and download or share their creations with friends.

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15. TextFX by Google

TextFX is an AI experiment that uses Gemini, Google’s most capable generative AI. There are 9 tools designed to expand the writing process by generating creative possibilities with text and language. TextFX has inspired many users empowering their writings, lyrics generating, contents creation, etc.

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Site To Sell Vector Arts Online
Design, Vector, Web

15 Sites Where To Sell Your Vector Arts

Site To Sell Vector Arts Online

 

As a designer, specifically involved in visual or illustration design, sometimes it comes in your mind, after a lot of vector arts or vector illustrations you have made, where to sell your vector arts online. Either you start thinking to slow down on servicing  fussy clients, or just to fulfill your passion in creating more vector arts, you can start thinking to sell your vector arts and survey some top digital stock agencies that provide best offer for you to sell your masterpieces. Usually they called it micro stock agency, and we listed down some of the most popular sites among designers and buyers as well.

Vector graphic market still considered less available compared to stocks image or stocks photo market that flooded anywhere in the digital media stocks we can find. So this is our opportunity to fulfill the buyers demand out there, in fact creating vector graphics can only be done by artist or designer like you, not everybody can do it.



FAQ to Selling Your Vector Arts Online

Vector (vector graphic file format), usually called vector graphic or vector arts or vector file, is a graphic media format that created using Adobe Illustrator, or Corel Draw, or InkScape, or any other vector graphic editor. Contrary with ‘Raster image’ or pixel based image (i.e jpeg, png, gif, bmp, tiff, psd, etc.), vector graphic can be scaled to any size without losing its quality, because it contains the physical attributes with it, such as width, height, line-stroke, fill-colors value that can easily be edited back with vector graphic editor.

Look around, everything requires graphic. From product packaging, brochure, flyers, magazines, internet, mobile apps, many more, all contains vector graphics. Who create them? Every single vector graphic in this world is created by someone, and you might be one of the original source creator. We create graphics and buyers, either they are designers as well or non designers, buy from us. Designers buy from us because it is much cheaper and time-saving than to create new for a project.

We don’t sell it ourselves. We upload them to micro stock agencies and buyers will buy from there. This is just like how hypermarket works. Buyers search for the thing they want, they pay for it, and we got money.

There are so many out there. But we will recommend top 15 sites as listed below due to popularity among designers and buyers looking for it.

Different micro stock agencies have different royalties percentage. Some take more, some take less. You earned between 15% to 60% from the total revenue.

No. They will have to review your vector graphics first in term of quality and technical requirements before they put it up for sale.

No. They will be continue to sell forever. That is how designers make money while sleeping :)

It depends. Some agencies allow you to sell the same artworks on other sites. Some are not allow you to do that, so always read the terms & conditions before you proceed.

From $20/month to $20,000 a month. Some statistic survey saying average vector artists made about $300 a month.

Anything, such as wallpaper, icons, abstract arts, background graphics, floral elements, animals, tools, furniture, characters, etc.

Anything that is good looking will sell. Some good tips said prepare for the coming big festivals like new year celebration related arts can be hot selling stuffs.

Sure, almost everyone in this industry do it as part time. And there are also many millionaire artists or designers doing it ‘full time’ at home.

You can opt your agency to pay you through PayPal, MoneyBookers, cheque. Some agencies may offer extra options.

When you have a business model whereby everyone has to pay to gain, it is then obvious that it is not a scam.

Micro stock industries spent millions of dollar in advertisement and they already have hundreds of thousands buyers there.
You should only concentrate on producing more works and not marketing.

credit: http://sellingvector.blogspot.my/p/faq-selling-vector-to-make-money.html

Where to Sell your Vector Arts ?

1. Shutterstock ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Shutterstock is well known for its photo stocks, graphic stocks, video clips and they also provide vector stock as well. They claim to cover near to 200 million royalty-free images, stock video clips, and music tracks. Besides that, they also have huge amount of vectors for high demand vector graphic users.. and what make Shutterstock one of the best option for designers or artists to submit is they provide contributors with comprehensive support, forum, guideline, etc.

2. iStockPhoto ⭐️⭐️⭐️

iStockPhoto is one of big name in this industry owned by Getty Images. As the name given, you will see more photo stock sources, but at the same time they do have vector sources under Illustration category. You don’t want to missed this name in your list. Now with iStockPhoto you can Generate Ai image from Text with peace of mind..

3.  Adobe Stock

sell your vector arts at Adobe Stock

Adobe Stock among the youngest ‘stock photo providers’, since 2015, we can find out there. Indeed Adobe needs one to complete their Creative Cloud features with digital stocks, and they was acquire Fotolia, one of the most popular stock photo. Adobe Stock provides creative assets from photography, videos, vectors and many more for creative users looking for digital assets on their jobs. Before you proceed, understand their rules on How to submit & sell on Adobe Stock.

4.  Graphic River

sell your vector arts at GraphicRiver

Graphic River is one of the most popular and rich contents of creative stock or digital assets category owned by Envato, an Australia based company. It is also among the most searched by creative users simply because they provide variety of sub-categories, from fonts, logos, icons, vectors, templates, presets, web elements, 3D, mock-ups, and many more.

5.  Creative Market

Creative Market

Creative Market is another big name in creative digital assets market place. 5 star rating handcrafted digital assets made by creative designers all over the globe, offers so many categories for buyer to choose from. Buyers can just insert a keyword to find the digital asset that come in their mind and the result lists are so many, make it easier for them to get the perfect one. Creative Market is a must have list for designers wanted to sell vector arts and also a must visit website for buyers looking for digital assets.

 

7.  Pond5

sell your vector arts at Pond5

Pond5 providing not just photos, but they also offer rich royalty-free multimedia categories including video footage, music tracks, sound effects, After Effect templates, Vectors, Photoshop (PSD) and 3D models as well. Check it out, and see under your prefered category.

8.  123RF

sell your vector arts at 123RF

123RF have an impressive 97 million stock images, vectors, video & audio clips and they claimed to offer low prices for users to get their stocks. ‘RF’ simply means Royalty-Free. With huge amount of graphic stocks, they also attract millions of buyers. This will be an another good agency to sell your vector stocks.

9.  Freepik Contributor

Freepik Contributor

A well known free graphic resources from vectors to any graphic items that can be downloaded free (with credit) and premiums stocks. Find out how to join them selling premium vectors graphics as freepik contributor.

10.  Vector Stock

sell your vector arts at VectorStock

Vector Stock as their name, the site specifically dedicated to vector graphics, designed for vector artists, designers and anyone looking for royalty-free vectors. So vector artist, illustrator, this is the place you need to try sell your vector arts..

11.  Dreamstime

sell your vector arts at Dreamstime

Dreamstime claimed to have 74 million images, from photography and vector graphics. With quite impressive numbers of graphic stocks, they are among popular royalty-free graphic stocks being searched. Try sell your vector arts with them..

13.  Alamy

Alamy

Alamy has separated sellers or contributors from photo seller and vector seller.. so check it out..

14.  Go Media

Go Media

Go Media is well known for their collections of vector packs, such as silhouettes, vector textures, patterns, symbol elements, etc. Find out how to join them selling your vector packs.

15.  Cutcaster

Cutcaster is another photo & vector stocks provider and they do offer for designer selling stock as well.

16.  PayLoadz

PayLoadz

PayLoadz probably might not be a familiar name for some, but they simply offer almost anything that can be downloaded for selling, including digital arts – vectors..

There are many more options too choose, creative e-commerce sites that offers printed vector designs & artworks with their selling products that you can sell your artwork design is another good choice to start. They mostly offer selling creative T-Shirts with your designs printed on it, canvas framed arts, creative bags or other souvenir items, and you can promote it yourself, selling your designs and getting commissions at the same time. Happy surveying 😊

 

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10 Canva Magic Ideas
Design, UI UX, Video, Web

10 New Canva Magic Ideas

Recently Canva has introduced 10 intuitive tools powered by AI machines that they called it Canva Magic Ideas. If you still don’t know about it or have never tried using it, then this is the time for you to experience the magic it produces for yourself.

Here are 10 Canva magics ideas that will definitely make your creative works much easier and most importantly save you a lot of time in creating creative contents.

1. Canva Magic Media

Canva Magic Media turns your ideas into stunning visuals, where words come alive in captivating images and videos. Imagine it, design it – Magic.

2. Canva Magic Switch

Effortlessly switch between formats, languages, and dimensions with Magic Switch. Canva Magic Switch instantly convert decks to various document types, seamlessly adapt designs for multiple platforms and auto-translate without leaving the page.

3. Canva Magic Design

Instantly produce custom, on-brand, and attention-grabbing content with Canva Magic Design. It’s simply describe your vision and let AI craft professional presentations, videos, or social posts in seconds.

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4. Canva Magic Expand

Canva Magic Expand AI, effortlessly expand an image in any direction for the ideal shot. Rectify awkward framing, rescue zoomed-in images, or swiftly transform a vertical shot into a horizontal one within seconds.

5. Canva Magic Eraser

Erase elements from your images effortlessly with this Magic Eraser. This tool instantly eliminate unwanted distractions with a touch of magic.

6. Canva Magic Grab

Redesign images effortlessly with Canva Magic Grab, akin to using a Canva template. Choose and isolate your photo’s subject, enabling you to edit, reposition, or resize with ease.

7. Canva Magic Edit

Canva Magic Edit transforms your image by adding, replacing or editing with a brief written prompt. Just choose the area for the change, express your desire, and witness your image undergo a magical makeover.

8. Canva Magic Morph

Easily metamorphose words and shapes using a straightforward written prompt. Employ this Canva Magic Morph to apply effects to text and shapes, swiftly generating intricate patterns and textures.

9. Canva Magic Video

Turn your video visions into reality with Canva Magic Video. Describe your vision and witness Magic Media generate short videos tailored to your design using the Runway engine.

10. Magic Animation

Canva Magic Animation helps you to draw the path for your animation effortlessly. Adjust the speed along the way, relax and witness the magic unfold.

So which of these Magic tools is your favorite..? And tell us, do you find your life being easier with AI..?

Free Video Editor Online
Software, Video

FlexClip, Free Video Editor that Easily Create Stylish Video Online

FlexClip, Free Video Tool You Can Easily Create Stylish Videos in Your Browser

In order to compress huge video files, a high-spec PC is indispensable for encoding work. So you also need to buy software for movie editing and learn how to use it from scratch. Once you’ve learned how to edit, using paid or free video editor, you’ll need to have the flair to make a fancy video.

You will need multiple social media account operators if you want to reach out to videos. Developing ideas, shooting, scouting locations, etc. Of course, most of them are done by individuals, so we would like to reduce the time and effort of video editing as much as possible.

Why Should You Choose an Online Service

Making videos is time-consuming. Those who have the financial resources outsource the work to specialized studios, and those who have connections hire backstage editors. Even if you have the knowledge, you shouldn’t extend your hands to video editing alone. That time should be spent elsewhere, such as planning.

Currently, social media videos, such as Instagram, TikTok & YouTube are popular and there are many online video editing sites. FlexClip is an online service that anyone can easily make stylish movies.

  • Editable from your browser
  • Abundant materials and video templates are available
  • No special knowledge required
  • High-spec PC not required

It is a video creation site suitable for the current era. While explaining how to use the site, we would like to review it with an emphasis on whether even beginners can easily create stylish videos.

How to Use FlexClip

The user interface

Canva is the leading online graphic design site. Although there are various image and video editing sites, there is no doubt that it is one step ahead of name recognition because it is an old one.

On the other hand, ‘FlexClip’, which we introduced this time, competes with a single video, so it is possible to edit one step further. Plenty of video templates and audio materials can be used, and above all, you can avoid making videos similar to Canva users. Since the GUI is similar to that of general image editing sites, people who are used to this type of service can use it intuitively.

Decide on a template and start editing the video

You can search for what materials are available from the library. You don’t need to register an account if you just want to try it, so feel free to check out the designs. You can click the displayed genre, or you can search for a template by entering an appropriate English word in the search window.

Then press “Customize” to move to the video editing screen. A selection screen appeared with the timeline mode on the left and the storyboard mode on the right. It seems that the timeline is positioned as authentic and the storyboard as simple. However, the editing time is about the same for both.

After editing the video, save it locally

When you are satisfied with all the arrangements, press “Export” at the top right of the screen, let’s start working on outputting the created video. FlexClip can do a lot with free account, but as expected, high quality video output will have a watermark. As free plan, choose between 480p with low video quality, or if you don’t mind to have watermark, you may choose higher quality with 720p / 1080p.

Wait for a while until the video encoding is completed. Keeping the web browser open seems to make the video output faster. It would be nice to kill time while looking at other sites. If you want to upload it to YouTube as it is, please add your ID to the whitelist.

You may also like: Best Free Video Editing Software Without Watermark For PC

Video Editing Functions

Plenty of video and image templates

For example, there is a background for displaying bar charts, and you can insert a boardroom-style scene. It’s a composition that shows, online editing services such as ranking videos or baseball YouTubers have been used. Some Vlog YouTubers use stylish templates for the opening. In other words, you can analyze that even favorite channels are using online video editing services.

What makes this tool so accessible? It will be the royal-free media resources and well-designed video templates. The video editor lets you choose from ready video clips with instant videos and photos, text compositions, transitions, effects, and many more. Furthermore it offers different categories, including business videos, social media videos, personal videos and lifestyle videos.

Change the video aspect ratio

Twitter is said to be beautiful with a 1:1 video size ratio. For TIKTOK, it’s better to think about vertical 9:16. Instagram, aims for 4:5 and there is an optimal aspect ratio for each social media.

In FlexClip, you can also choose it according to your project from:

  • 16:9
  • 1:1
  • 9:16
  • 4:5
  • 21:9

Video trimming function

Trimming means cutting out part of an image (movie). You can cut the video without losing quality, so you can use it to edit the scene, adding voices, sound effects and background music. You can use the prepared copyright-free music or you can use your own background music as well.

Add music to funny videos to make them even more hilarious or upload your own recorded narration. You can also edit the video while recording audio by clicking the microphone icon at the bottom right of the screen. It’s a perfect feature for those who want to record narration while watching the video.

Add text and add a watermark (copyright notice)

It is also possible to add text to the video’s highlight or add captions (subtitles) with the help of FlexClip AI auto subtitle generator. You can split or merge subtitles, change font, alignment, styles and make personal adjustments at will.

Recently, it is often reprinted on YouTube without permission when it goes viral, so you can emphasize that you are the author by adding your channel logo to every video.

Video scene division

You can insert another video (scene) in the middle if you use it well.

  • greeting
  • main story
  • thoughts
  • ending

If you have a video with a composition like this, you can work more smoothly if you divide the editing. With FlexClip, you can combine videos and edit each scene.

Video enlargement / reduction function

There is also a function that can enlarge a part of the video. we can imagine a storyboard that uses this technology to zoom in on a video while adding a narration saying, “Isn’t there a spaceship behind you?”.

FlexClip Pricing

It offers 4 plans:

  • Free plan – $0 / month
  • Basic plan – $9.9 / month
  • Plus plan – $19.9 / month
  • Business plan – $29.9 / month

If you pay annually, you will save up to 50%. Since there is a free version, you can check the editing screen in advance.

Free version restrictions:

  • Video resolution is 480p
  • The maximum video length is 1 minute
  • Only one video can be inserted
  • Cloud storage of up to 12 projects (created videos)

Advantages of Choosing FlexClip

  • It is possible to try in advance what condition it is.
  • Some people may have bought a high-spec PC and expensive editing software, but they didn’t feel motivated.
  • It’s also essential to try before paying.
  • Although it is easy to edit, it takes some getting used to.
  • Videos edited in the free version can be carried over to the paid version, so you can create work with enthusiasm.
  • It’s a subscription, so if you don’t use it, you can stop it

If you sign up for one year, the monthly fee will be as low as $5.99 (Basic). Of course, you can sign a yearly contract first, but if you are not confident that you can continue editing videos, a monthly contract is fine.

Key Points of FlexClip

Good

✔️ You can edit videos online without a high-spec PC or dedicated software
✔️ Easy to use because it is based on the UI of image processing site, like Canva
✔️ The web browser works smoothly even when handling heavy videos
✔️ Free version available & reasonable price for Paid versions
✔️ Abundant functions as an online video editing service
✔️ Video encoding is fast
✔️ Abundant video / image / music materials

Bad

❌ It takes time to export
❌ There are many live-action materials and few illustration-based templates

Does FlexClip have a watermark? Not really, It is watermark free for both free and paid versions. However, it will have a FlexClip intro in the free version, which you can’t remove unless you upgrade to the paid version. Additionally, the subscription has a customizable watermark feature where you can place your logo or tagline.

You may think, “FlexClip made me wait 5 to 10 minutes to save the video!”.. but if you encode it on your own PC, it will take about 3 to 5 times longer. This is probably the best video editing service for those who do not plan to install an expensive desktop PC.

Conclusion

In a word, FlexClip is a powerful video editing tool if you’re on the hunt for basic editing programs. After trying it, I can say that FlexClip is a flexible and smart video creator. It’s an interesting site, and I feel that it is a service that challenges how far video can be edited online. Many people prefer Canva for image editing, so I think the number of people who prefer FlexClip for video editing will continue to increase. It is a recommended service as a video editing tool that is complete on the web.

Free Online Video Editor 2021
Software, Video, Web

3 Amazing Free Online Video Editor Review for 2021

Free Online Video Editor 2021

In the era of everyone owns digital device today, shooting videos become a common thing everyone can do. In fact the ability to creates video has been compulsory for many businesses since few years back, especially for marketing purposes. There are many programs through which video can be modified and edited, including free and paid ones.

Still, some of them need an advanced computer, but what if you do not have a high end system or you’re on the go which you only have a basic notebook or gadget with you.. can you create a good video at the time needed? Yes, it is possible. Many sites enable you to do that easily. Fortunately, producing great and engaging videos is no longer expensive or complicated. In this post, we will learn about free online video editor, which enables you to produce and edit videos, free.

Please bear in mind that what we discuss here are free version of online video editor. So the pros & cons are based on the free version.

FlexClip is an online video editor that simplifies the process of creating and editing videos. It is trying to be a comprehensive solution that caters to various professional and personal uses. So if you are looking for a tool to produce social media videos, slideshows, family videos, or anything in between, then this might be the right choice for you. It was designed to be easy to use for creating professional videos. You can quickly trim a video and make it much more dynamic by combining text animation and audio recordings.

FlexClip’s powerful editing tools also give you complete control over the look of your video, background music, and more. Besides, FlexClip comes with a lot of templates so that everyone can quickly make short videos. What’s more, there are many fashionable materials that can be used for promotional videos such as stocked videos and photos.

FlexClip Platforms

As a web-based software, FlexClip works on any devices that can browse internet and all you need is a stable network. The best way to run FlexClip is to open it in your favorite web browser. Although the service should be fully compatible with other browsers (Firefox, Safari), it is recommended to use Google Chrome.

Tools available on FlexClip

FlexClip interface
FlexClip interface

FlexClip contains huge number of templates to start with where you can customize them, if you’re a beginner and don’t know how to start. The Video Editor has the ability to trim and customize a video or search for related professional clips for various edits.

You can also import medias from your local storage to create your personal video or for your projects. FlexClip Video Maker is one of your must-have web apps especially for contents creator where you can create great video stories anywhere, anytime online.

Pricing

Free Online Video Editor - FlexClip pricing
FlexClip pricing

How much to pay to use this useful video editing tool? The free plan will enable you to use FlexClip with limited features. If you choose to try the free plan you will only get 480p resolution downloads, 1 stock video per project, 12 projects maximum and up to 1 min video length.

But if you want a better experience, you could upgrade your account to the paid plan, and there are three paid plans for you to pick. The price starts at 4.99 per month, which is among the lowest compared to others.

Year end offer: Get extra 40% off when billed FlexClip annually before Monday, January 4, 2021

Pros

  • There are so many templates that you can start with, by variety of categories.
  • Video Editor with Trim, Split, Add Element, Text & Music.
  • Slideshow Maker, Video Converter, Trimmer & Compressor.
  • Screen recorder, Webcam recorder & Voice recording are available.
  • Adding own watermark is available.
  • Option to Upload directly to Dropbox & Share and Upload to YouTube.

Cons

  • Free version only support up to 480p SD downloads.
  • 1 stock video per project & 12 projects maximum.
  • 1 min video length limit.
  • The Transitional effect available for videos but not audios (faded in & out).
  • App version: Not available.

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Lumen5

Lumen5 is one of a popular free online video editor used by many big companies. Built for social medias and marketing video, it has every single social media’s setting ready to choose from. In fact it also offers extra layout preset for marketing purpose

“Lumen5 is especially helpful for business people who don’t have the technical experience to make their own videos”

Claimed to be a smart AI-powered online video editing tool, it helps to storyboarding your ideas, fit your content to a layout, find music and visuals that enhance your message.

Lumen5 helps you to trim, crop, add audio and text overlay to your videos. The free version has template for Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Pinterest, etc. that automatically sets the resolution accordingly.

Not only can you edit the videos but also create fresh videos by just entering the text or URL of your blog. The advanced algorithms of the program interpret the text and convert it to a video using the most related images from its library. Further, you can add a logo, music, or other audio to it.

Lumen5
Lumen5

Test driving Lumen5 as free version at a glance, we found out that the templates are not as much as what FlexClip had offered. However it can create many subscenes in between of scenes. At your dashboard panel, you can find Analytic tool which you can see your current project’s videos, time, credit remaining (useful for paid version) and your member’s contribution videos.

Pricing

Besides free plan, Lumen5 offers few plans for you to choose from as low as $19 per month. So if you like to use it with extra features, you may look at their plans and offers.

Lumen5 Pricing
Lumen5 Pricing

Lumen5 can also automatically resize your finished video to your new size, if you need to change it, or if you work on multi layout for different social media sharing. On the disadvantage side, this free online video editor doesn’t have audio editing features at all, same as FlexClip above, but at least FlexClip has the ability to positioned the audio track. Most of the customization options are available in the paid version.

Pros

  • Ability to Trim, Crop, Add Media & Text, Overlay and Voice record.
  • Export in 720p resolution.
  • Auto resize feature for different layout after publish.
  • Brand preset make it easy to apply for future videos and projects.
  • App version: Available

Cons

  • Free plan unable to change Fonts & edit Transitions from template used.
  • Only 3 videos per month
  • Audio cannot be edited or reposition.
  • Adding own watermark is not available in free version.
  • Lumen5 credit info at the end of the video

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InVideo

InVideo is video platform for content creators to transform digital content into incredible videos. InVideo is recomended for beginners, it helps media companies, small businesses, and brands to expand audience engagement through the power of video content.

Beginners will appreciate it as an easy to handle free online video editor, produce fast content, without the knowledge of complex things to create pro-likes produced video. Even though it’s web based editor, it’s still packed with useful features.

With over 3,000 designed templates to streamline your video creation, ability to export videos in HD, leverage the text-to-speech and URL-to-video. It also has feature for converting blog posts, other text-based content into quick and engaging videos, automated text-to-speech support and access to most popular royalty-free stock images.

Pricing

InVideo Pricing
InVideo Pricing

The paid version start from $10 per month (as current offer), or you may proceed with the ‘unlimited’ plan instead at $30 per month.

Pros

  • User friendly for beginners.
  • 15 minutes video length.
  • HD video output
  • Free plan with up to 60 videos per month.
  • Comprehensive Help Center available.

Cons

  • Limited features for free plan.
  • Free plan with watermark.

Go to InVideo

There are many more free online video editors out there you that can find, besides download & install versions as we was covered previously. Probably we will review it in the future and will try to find the best free online video editor offered that we can get.. Happy new year 2021..!!

Crowdsourcing Platforms
Business, Design, Web

20+ Crowdsourcing Platforms Where Freelance Designer Get Their Jobs (Part 1)

Previously we’ve discussed about places or websites where designer & artist can sell their vector arts. It called marketplace, or creative market where designers & artists earn money by selling artworks and buyers come to find and buy creative arts they upload. The digital artworks can be resell many times and designers or artists can make money with it as a passive income. In contrast to it, crowdsourcing platforms provide the native way or the active income method on making money, which is still the #1 choice of freelancers.

Here we will find out which crowdsourcing platforms offers the best to both for the clients & freelance designers especially. Basically crowdsourcing platforms offer registered freelancers to grab jobs or projects posted by clients and will be paid by the registered clients through the crowdsourcing platform itself.

The advantage and how it different with selling artworks on marketplace is the price offered by crowdsourcing platforms are usually high and attractive, even though it’s just a one time job. While selling artworks or images on marketplace depends on the quantity of sale you made. The price per artwork is usually very low and it will need hundred or thousand of sale per artworks to be achieve satisfactory income. And the competition is much higher.

At the other hand, freelancers who choose to find online job offers with crowdsourcing platforms should be willing to give full commitment once they got the job. Fulfill all the client’s requirements and must complete the job on the time given. Failed to do so, most probably it will be a disappointing effort and more worse, no payment.

But once you got the job done in crowdsourcing platform with client’s satisfaction, the reward is lucrative enough, not comparable to selling artworks method on marketplace.

What is Crowdsourcing Platforms & Which are the best for freelance designer?

Crowdsourcing Platform is a hub just like Marketplace website, where there are supply – freelancers offering services and demand – clients looking for talents (freelancers) to be hired to complete their projects.

For that reason, we find out and listed here among the most popular design crowdsourcing platforms that offers skilled freelancers, specifically designers and businesses as well. We only highlight the top sites that you might looking for lucrative offers.

We also provide user’s review rating from Trustpilot, a top global review site where people freely give review & rating based on their experience with the company that they worked on. Alternatively we use Indeed.com as the review, if Trustpilot not avalable for that specific company. Therefore, you may have the basic info on how the expectation of every marketplace platform listed below. So check them out..!

Table of contents

  1. Freelancer
  2. Dribble
  3. Designhill
  4. Upwork
  5. Fiverr
  6. Toptal
  7. People Per Hour
  8. CoWorks
  9. 99designs
  10. Guru
  11. Robert Half
  12. FlexJobs
  13. Crowd Content

Design Crowdsourcing Platforms List

1. Freelancer

Crowdsourcing Platform Freelancer

As the name given, they’re the one of the most popular freelance hub for designers and businesses looking for skilled services as well. Based in Sydney Australia, Freelancer.com has 43 million freelance expertise in variety of categories to serve businesses. While registered businesses is about half of it.

Freelance.com is an award-winning world’s largest freelancing and crowdsourcing platform so far. Basically freelancers or designers will bid for a specific job posted by a client. The best bid will be chosen by the client. And freelancers will compete in a design contest by clients and the best will win the job.

As designer, you’re free to sign up to be the Freelancer. Create your profile, select skills of projects you are interested in, upload portfolio, receive project notifications, discuss project details with the employer, bid on projects (free members receive initially 8 bids per month) and enter contests. Besides design category, you may also find other categories such as writing services like domywriting to serve your requirement.

  • User Rating: 4.4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | from 5,532 Trustpilot.com reviews
  • Affiliate: Not available

2. Dribbble

Crowdsourcing Platform Dribbble

Being one of the most popular designer’s – hub or community where they showcased their portfolios, socialize, get hired and for creative agencies searching for right creative talents. Designers can get short term job or permanent career as well.

Recently Dribbble has reportedly acquires CreativeMarket a well known marketplace site. But they both remain to operate as independent company as they claimed. The acquire is believed to benefits both parties as they may make use the full potential of a popular marketplace – CreativeMarket and famous crowdsourcing platform – Dribbble itself.

With both companies combined, they have over 12 million monthly active users in more than 120 countries. You designers should look no further, go join them..!

  • User Rating: 3.3 ⭐⭐⭐ | from 11 Trustpilot.com reviews
  • Affiliate: Not available

3. Designhill

  • Crowdsourcing Platform Designhill

Founded on 2014, Designhill is a New Delhi, India based company. It is one of the world’s top website platform known for design inspiration, design jobs and competition. Designhill is a graphic design platform for designers to earn, participate, work and share their works. Designhill is also a one point stop for business owners to source high quality designs.

Designers are welcome to join their creative marketplace to offer creative skills to the public worldwide. Basically designers can earn from Design Contest, Designer’s Gig and from PrintShop, where you can sell your ready made arts.

For business owner: Designhill – Book A Free Design Consultation Today!

  • User Rating: 4.8 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | from 1,797 Trustpilot.com reviews
  • Affiliate: Yes

4. Upwork

Crowdsourcing Platform Upwork

Upwork is like searching a job in a marketplace, similar to others freelancing sites. As a skilled designer looking to earn money online, you search for the best job on Upwork.com that suits your skill and you bid on that project. You know that you can do the job according to the budget and time span given by the buyer.

With Upwork, it may took much time to get the jobs. The commission deduction on Upwork applied at both party, 10% from customer side and 10% from seller side. If you have lot of time and you want to earn big, Upwork should be in your list.

  • User Rating: 4.4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | from 3,719 Trustpilot.com reviews
  • Affiliate: Not available

5. Fiverr

Crowdsourcing Platform Fiverr

Registering with Fiverr is like opening a shop in online marketplace. You as a designer (freelancer) called Seller, create your potential services, wait for a prospect, called Buyer to come and buy your service, called Gig.

Fiverr get 20% commission from your earning, even still you get $5 order or get $5,000 order, Fiverr still cut 20% from total. So, you’re probably earn little considering your time effort to complete the job in Fiverr, compared to others.

There are couple of ways freelancers may generate income withe Fiverr; Join Fiverr as freelancer and start offering your services. Or freelancers may also learn more skills in Fiverr to upgrade your level and being Pro Seller.

If you intended to focus more on your skilled works to serve your clients as you become Pro Seller, you may start to use their ‘smart suite’ to build, manage and grow your business without headache with all the documentations & paperworks. AND.CO may help you prepare and manage your works, so be your own boss.

If you just want to get services from Fiverr you can join as a new buyer with $100 free credit for you.

  • User Rating: 4.0 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | from 3,183 Trustpilot.com reviews
  • Affiliate: Yes

6. Toptal

Crowdsourcing Platform Toptal

Toptal is a specialized freelancer platform, as they claimed. Toptal which stand for Top Talent, initially specialized in software developers, but have now branched out into finance & accounting, project management and design categories as well.

With their motto, ‘Hire the top 3% of the freelancer talent’, they are serious in screening talent application process to identifies experts in their categories who have the passion and drive. And generally the numbers are 3% and below, according to them.

This means, their client portfolios are mostly from high standard and the projects that you as freelancers may expect are ‘mission critical’ projects.

So be prepare to apply with Toptal, to make sure you’re among the top 3% talent expert. After hardly passed the screening process, you may expect good earnings based on hourly rate or weekly rate depends on part-time or full-time you are and projects you handle.

  • User Rating: 4.7 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | from 1,140 Trustpilot.com reviews
  • Affiliate: Not available

Related article: 5 Creative Ideas Using Stock Images for Your Marketing

7. People Per Hour

Crowdsourcing Platform PeoplePerHour

PeoplePerHour, a London based crowdsource company, offers a big platform for businesses to find any kind of freelance expertise. They have quite big amount of freelancers, almost 3 million (at today’s date), surely have the ability to offer 1 million registered businesses. The ration 3:1 is perfect for freelancers looking to find good job offers.

Besides London, they also have branches in Greece and India, (I think their startup company is from Greece, because most of the team’s name sounds Greek :). Anyway, compared to top 3 or 5 company listed above, freelance designer should try this company,

  • User Rating: 4.1 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | from 3,131 Trustpilot.com reviews
  • Affiliate: Not available

8. CoWorks

Crowdsourcing Platform CoWorks

Coworks is the easiest way to find and hire top freelancers and is the number 1 freelance work platform for brands and agencies. Here they called clients or business owners as Employers and freelancers as CoWorks. Their basic concepts are the same as the above companies we have discussed. Employers finding services and CoWorks offering services.

  • User Rating: Not available
  • Affiliate: Not available

9. 99designs

99designs is an another freelance designers hub looking for client’s job. And clients or businesses to find creative talents as well. Based in Melbourne Australia, it allows businesses to post jobs and get a range of designers pitch for the work.

Since 2008, 99designs has grown from a small, online forum into a global community of talented designers that is now the go-to solution for businesses, agencies and individuals. Freelance designers..! This site should also be on your bookmark.

  • User Rating: 3.9 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | from 674 Trustpilot.com reviews
  • Affiliate: Yes

10. Guru

Crowdsourcing Platform Guru

Guru is one of the oldest online startup company specialized in higher-end consulting and freelancing platform. Founded in 1998 the same year Google was incorporated. It lists over 3 million professional freelancers and almost 1 million employers all around the world.

The site interface is simple and straightforward, ‘Find Jobs’ – for freelancers, ‘Find Freelancers’ – for employers. For both options, you will see a comprehensive Search tool with ability to choose Jobs Category, Locations, Employer’s Amount Spend or Freelancer’s Earnings, etc.

Basically they don’t charge employers for joining and posting jobs, employers’ jobs will be quoted by freelancers later with ‘handling fee’. Freelancers have option to participate as their freelancers, either as free member (with limited job offers) or with membership plans (extra benefits).

  • User Rating: 4.0 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | from 7 Indeed.com reviews
  • Affiliate: Not available

11. Robert Half

Crowdsourcing Platform Robert Half

Robert Half, is a company that helps to find part-time or full-time professionals for another company and to helps solve their business challenges. As for professional workers looking for a job, they will assist you in locating a career for you or for a short term job that may fit your skills.

Their Creative Group offers sophisticated matching technology and a personalized approach for freelancers or if you looking for better full-time job. Not to forget, as for businesses looking for perfect candidates for your incoming project, this site is worth to be check it out.

  • User Rating: 3.9 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | from 12,151 Indeed.com reviews
  • Affiliate: Not available

12. FlexJobs

Crowdsourcing Platform FlexJobs

FlexJobs is a platform that connects people wanting access to flexible jobs, to prospective employers. It is not just an ordinary online job-seeker site, rather FlexJobs specialize in job search for remote working, part-time, freelance and many flexible working conditions. That’s how they come up with the name.

There are variety of categories offered for job seeker or freelancer available including creative industries. Hence, we see many good reviews about them and they’re one of the good crowdsourcing platforms for famous employers as well.

  • User Rating: 3.8 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | from 21 Trustpilot.com reviews
  • Affiliate: Not available

13. CrowdContent

Crowdsourcing Platform CrowdContent

This site specializes in providing qualified content writers, within a curated and managed delivery platform. They don’t offer specific design category, so if you (designers) want to try your talent in writings, perhaps design related article, just like we do :) this CrowdContent should be in your list.

  • User Rating: 2.6 ⭐⭐ | from 7 Indeed.com reviews
  • Affiliate: Not available

Number 14 and the rest to be continue in Part 2 later. Please feel free to comment and add us lists that we might be missed.

Free Video Stock Footage
Video, Web

15 Lists of Free Video Footage For Personal & Commercial Use in HD

The demand for free stock videos or free video footage are always increase throughout the years though every one around the globe has the ability to shoot high quality videos with their smartphone. Unlike free stock photos that we can easily find in the ocean of internet, free videos are still far behind in term of numbers and quality.

Fortunately the increase of visual communications life style, be it for commersial or personal interest, such as social medias, contribute to its growth. Also thanks to the advancement in multi-cameras technology in mobile phone industry.

The questions are, can we really find free stock videos (short clip videos or video footage), that will meet our requirement? What is the level of quality they offer? Are they really free to use for personal & commercial? We found out some of it and list it down below.

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Royalty Free Videos VS Free For Personal & Commercial

Free for Personal & Commercial Use Meaning

Really free to be use on personal project, such as own website, blog, presentation, etc. Also for commercial projects, advertising, etc. But bear in mind that some videos owner restrict the use to only one commercial project, some video owners impose the terms & conditions to use the free videos with Attribution to the owner. So make sure you read and understand their terms before you use for commercial project.

Only restriction for all types of Free for personal & commercial is, you CANNOT rent, license, sublicense, sell or redistribute those videos “as-is”. Unless you re-edit the medias to be a new work-of-arts, that’s different story. Still, you need to refer to the terms of use.

Royalty Free Videos Meaning

Stock video clips or footage that are under a Royalty Free license type, normally means you need to pay a one-time fee in exchange for the right to use the medias that was protected by copyright, patent, or trademark. this way you have the right to use for personal & commercial.

It may sound similar to Free for Personal & Commercial, but the advantages are, usually you get better package; higher quality (resolution), extra add on, full support for the medias and no Attribution needed. But still, you CANNOT treat the medias as you own property; to rent, license, sublicense, sell or redistribute those videos “as-is”. Unless you re-edit the media to make it a new work-of-arts or parts of your whole project. Always read and understand their terms, even though you paid for it.

Our priority in this review should consists of; Free to Download and to Use & High Definition (HD) quality at least..

Table of Contents

  1. Pexels
  2. Pixabay
  3. Videezy
  4. Videvo
  5. Coverr
  6. CuteStockFootage
  7. OpenFootage
  8. X Stock Video
  9. Footage Crate
  10. We Distill
  11. Mazwai
  12. Life of Vids
  13. Motion Places
  14. Vidsplay
  15. Mitch Martinez

1. Pexels Free Video

Free Videos by Pexels

Pexels is one of the famous name in free stock photos. The videos footage they provide simply straight forward. You just need to choose from the thumbnail preview or use search box instead. The thumbnail preview will open a modal box with recommended Similar Videos of the category.

✅ License: Free for personal & commercial used.
✅ Attribution: Not required
✅ Signup / Login: Not required
✅ Quality: HD, 4K
✅ A lot of ‘Similar Videos’ shown in modal box preview to choose from.
❌ No category link to choose from

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2. Pixabay Free Video

Free Videos by Pixabay

Just like Pexels in the list no, 1 above, Pixabay is also a well known for their free stock images. Surely, you can try to find the right video footage you required with Pixabay, when you cannot find one with the list no. 1.

The interface seems similar, but every thumbnail preview has the level of quality (FD, HD, 4K), footage length & owner of the video mentioned. So you may find it helps to choose the right videos before you click to proceed.

✅ License: Free for personal & commercial used.
✅ Attribution: Not required
✅ Signup / Login: Not required
✅ Quality: HD, 4K
✅ A lot of Categories to choose from, Video types (Animation, Slow motion, Time lapse) & Resolutions to filter out.
❌ ‘Similar Videos’ are shown but limited to 4 thumbnails only.

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3. Videezy Free Video

Free Videos by Videezy

Videezy is consider a younger brother (or maybe sister) of Vecteezy, one of the most popular free vector graphic resources known by many graphic designers. They labeled themselves as ‘Eezy’ and they have 4 networks of freebie resources. Besides Videezy (this video footage) & Vecteezy (vector graphics resources), Brusheezy (Photoshop brushes) and Themezy (Web themes).

Videezy offers free and paid videos in variety of categories, but you cannot see the category list, until you click the ‘Browse By Category’. The main page didn’t show enough info of every video’s thumbnail like Pixabay did, but you can see it in the preview page. The video thumbnails also didn’t play the short preview when your cursor on hover it.

✅ License: Free for personal & commercial used.
✅ Signup / Login: Not required.
✅ Quality: HD, 4K
✅ A lot of Categories to choose from.
✅ Adobe After Effect (AE) Templates available 👍
❌ Attribution: Required, as mentioned in their ‘License Info’.
❌ No video preview played in thumbnails on mouse over.

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4. Videvo Free Video

Free Videos by Videvo

Videvo consider among young digital contents provider we can say. Though they have been around about 5 years since 2015, they made impressive numbers of digital medias and they promise only the best quality in their collections. Videvo offers more than 7,600 of stock videos, as they claimed. Even more interesting, they also offer free music tracks and sound effects as well. A complete package in one place, yes we agree.

Looking at their main page (home page), you may thought that all medias are free, until you proceed to the preview & download page, then you realize that the media you want to download labeled ‘Premium’, not free.. unlucky you 😅. Unless you browse to the top menu link categories to choose from ‘All Videos’, ‘Footage’, ‘Music’, etc.. then you can see all the medias labeled either ‘Free’ or ‘Premium’.

✅ License: 3 types, but most of it allow Free use for personal & commercial (unless mentioned otherwise).
✅ Attribution: 3 types of Licenses made Attribution is required in some contents.
✅ Signup / Login: Not required
✅ Quality: HD, 4K
✅ A lot of ‘Similar Clips’ shown in the preview page, just like the Pexels ‘Similar Videos’.
✅ Videos, Sound tracks & Sound effects.
❌ The main page may tricked you because it didn’t show you which medias are free & which are paid.
❌ Even though you can see the ‘Free’ & ‘Premium’ labels in the category pages, you may still feel it hard to see the ‘Free’ contents among ‘Premium’, because they didn’t differentiate the Free label & Premium label by colors.

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Related article : Best Free Video Editing Software Without Watermark for PC

5. Coverr Free Video

Free Videos by Coverr

Coverr is a side project created by a filmmaker’s that continues from his successful first project, Veed.me which was acquired by Fiverr (a freelance market place). Built with passion as filmmaker to provide free and beautiful looking videos for personal & commercial as well.

While most of the video footage created by themselves, they also offer video contributions as other sites did. Coverr main page looks simply straight forward, full page video covers the main background with search box ready to load your keyword. Simple and clean layout that suits its name.

Below it are the video categories link buttons. Choose any category you prefer and it will show its category results. Unfortunately, selecting these button’s category didn’t perform the correct results. Don’t know why it keep showing the same results even for other categories.

✅ License: Free for personal & commercial used.
✅ Signup / Login: Not required.
✅ Videos created for background used, you can also test the selected video to be appear at the main page of it, before you proceed to download.
✅ ‘How To Use’ guide, HTML, CSS & Script codings are provided to help you embed the videos in your website.
❌ Quality videos only optimize for ‘background video’, so consider no HD.
❌ No video information on the thumbnail grid page and at the preview page.

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6. CuteStockFootage Free Video

Free Videos by CuteStockFootage

CuteStockFootage offers quite variety of video footage shown in their main page. You can keep on scrolling and scrolling to get the video that you’re looking for. But you may not see the list of video category in their site. Or did I missed it..?

The owner claimed that all the digital medias are created by him alone. So, the positive side is, you don’t have to worry in using it, as long as you follow the terms.

✅ License: Free for personal & commercial used.
✅ Signup / Login: Not required.
✅ Quality: Up to 4K
✅ They also provide Sound Effect stock medias and Texture stock photos as well.
❌ You must give attribute; credit to the site, link to the license & indicate changes of the media if you edit it. (Creative Common 4.0).
❌ No video information on the main page thumbnail grid.
❌ We think the ads are too many.

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7. Open Footage

Free Videos by OpenFootage

OpenFootage are group of creative people in filmmakers and 3D artist. Their passion in make videos not just for themselves, but also to share with the rest of the world, made OpenFootage one of the free stock videos available in the internet.

Emphasizing with visual effect videos (VFX), they offer free footage at lower resolution with CC license (to attribute but no commercial) and higher quality with specific

✅ License: Free for personal
✅ Signup / Login: Not required.
✅ A lot of creative Visual Effect type of videos
❌ Commercial use needs license, you can choose price options from HD to 4K. While the Free low resolution option, needs to give Credit as the Creative Commons 4.0 terms.
❌ You cannot see which videos are offering free download at full HD quality in the main page, unless your cursor over it.. but no preview play on cursor over the thumbnail.

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8. X Stock Video

Free Videos by X Stock Video

X Stock Footage is an another free video footage that you can check out their collections. They offers Free and 2 types of License – Regular & Extended, for commercial purpose. Their Free to use refers to ‘Free to view video project’ (such as promotional, event, educational, client, youtube without ads), as they mentioned.

The website of X Stock Footage show simple & clean interface, but when you look at it, you may notice that the fonts are hard to read. For instance, the category ‘Filter’ in the header, the text not just too small (for me as a normal user), but also dark grey color make it hard to read with black background. Besides that, video playing preview are not available, you need to download the sample.. hmm..

✅ License: Free for personal project.
✅ Attribution: Not required
✅ Signup / Login: Not required
✅ Quality: HD
❌ Commercial use need to buy license, either Regular or Extended.
❌ Video preview is not available in the website, you need to download the sample of every video you want to see.
❌ No 4K or UHD quality videos available (so far).

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9. Footage Crate

Free Video by FootageCrate

Footage Crate is VFX or visual effects oriented video maker with thousands of free professional grade media resources. It was stated in the search box, more than 10 thousand of exclusive HD assets avaiable. Besides videos, they offer SFX (sound effects), Music stocks, Graphics and 3D stocks as well. No wonder they have a lot of all digital medias in one place.. free for sure.

Nevertheless, free users still have limit of the digital medias download. Free users can only download up to HD video quality, while pro (paid) users up to 4K video quality. Free users get only 5 downloads per day, while pro users can get up to 200 downloads per day. Fair enough for a free user as beginner, right?

What make us like and recommend you to Footage Crate are, they have Forum community, so you can find help there. Another plus point is, Tutorials for you on how to do, step by step, tips & tricks using mostly video production apps such as Adobe Premier, Final Cut, Cinema 4D, Adobe After Effect, 3D, etc.

✅ License: Free for personal & commercial used.
✅ Attribution: Not required
✅ Quality: HD (for free)
✅ Visual Effects heaven with Hollywood quality in variety of category.
✅ Videos & After Effect Tutorials provided and Forum community available for support 👍
❌ Signup / Login : Required to download.
❌ On average, most of the search results reveal that paid medias are more than free medias.

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10. Distill

Free Videos by Distill

Distill which still in beta as stated in their site logo, prefer to receive video contributions from public. They will then carefully choose the videos submitted to be appears in their website. All videos are in HD quality and Free for personal & commercial use.

✅ License: Free for personal & commercial used.
✅ Attribution: Not required (not even mentioned so far)
✅ Quality: HD
✅ Signup / Login: Not required
❌ Still in beta, or testing mode.. so most probably not much collections available.

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11. Mazwai

Mazwai, we don’t really know the meaning of the website name, maybe it’s the owner’s name. Anyway, Mazwai is another resource for free video footage and moving images with their mission mission is to give creators around the world free access to beautiful stock footage, with simple licensing. So you should bookmark this site.

They show the videos category easily seen in the header, so you choose from it. The grid of video thumbnails will show the video’s info; length, quality and will play the video preview. Click on it will go to the download page of the selected video with more detail info related to the video, creator and license info.

✅ License: Free for personal & commercial
✅ Signup / Login: Not required
✅ Quality: HD
✅ Most of the videos come with sound or music background, (unlike others with mute videos).
✅ They provide more info; (besides resolution & video length), Frames per second & the Video Aspect Ratio as well
❌ Attribution: Required for free use.
❌ Seeing their social medias, they last active on Facebook in 2016 and last active on Twitter in 2018. If you need support, just email them.
❌ We think that they still lack in number of videos.. hopefully more contribution will be added. Video contribution need to be deal via email.. hmm..

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12. Life of Vids

Life of Vids promise of all free videos for any project you may use. They presents their website interesting way with big video thumbnails preview on the main page in one column grid, then 2 column grids. This free video footage site owned by a creative agency based in Canada. No wonder you’ll see elements of creative touch.

On hover cursor to the thumbnail did’t play the preview, but will show you the animated ‘Play’ text in the middle, Download button at bottom right and Infos link on top right corner. The ‘Infos’ link will open the preview page, where I thought it will show more info about the video. Unfortunately not much info shown in the preview page. Except the video’s tag and the download link which will open a modal window (pop up) with option of the video quality you can choose to proceed.

One of the good thing you may found, you can get the source video file with up to 4K quality in the Download options. Despite the fact that you can use it freely, they did mentioned that you’re limited to put up to 10 videos in your website.

✅ License: Free for personal & commercial used.
✅ Attribution: Not required
✅ Signup / Login: Not required
✅ Quality: HD, 4K
✅ Most of the videos by themselves, a creative (web) agency.
✅ They also provide Free stock image – Life of Pix.
❌ At first the main page seems unorganized with big images stacking in the center slightly off to the left and right.. and you feel hard to navigate.

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13. Motion Places

Motion Places is a stock videos provider with focus only place realted videos. You may search or navigate through countries or towns category mostly, geographical & landscape category as well. In short, if you’re looking for video related to ‘places’, Motion Places should be in your list.

Their interface just like others, with grid thumbnail images of the video, but the thumbnail didn’t play the preview when your cursor on hover it. Click on it to go to the preview page with more infos available with the video.

Basically it’s clearly mention, all videos are free to download & use for any project in HD quality. But you need to credit them in your project’s use. Or you may buy the royalty free license, so no attribution will be required and you get 4K video quality.

✅ License: Free for personal & commercial used.
✅ Quality: 4K
✅ For those who looking for ‘places videos’.
✅ A lot of geographical places categories available to choose from.
❌ Signup & Login are not required, BUT you need to give your email to download the free videos.
❌ Once you give the email and click the Download button, you’ll notice a reminder telling you that ‘3 downloads remaining before (24 hours of your current time)‘.
❌ Attribution is required for free videos.

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14. Vidsplay

Vidsplay is similar to most of free stock footage we listed above, with grid of 30 thumbnails preview in a page. The thumbnails however didn’t play the video preview when cursor on hover it, just showing the video name. Click it and you get to the preview page.

In the preview page, it shows more info; video length, video quality, format, frame rate & download link. Video quality is in HD and up to 4K available for some. Others than that, they mentioned, they only require attribution. Video Categories are available as drop down on the top right of page.

✅ License: Free for personal project.
✅ Signup / Login: Not required
✅ Quality: HD, 4K
❌ Attribution is required.
❌ We think that they still lack on quantity (so far)

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15. Mitch Martinez

Mitch Martinez is a photographer & filmmaker who showcase his works on his website and also provide us free stock videos to download and use. All of his free videos are in 4K quality and I personally cannot see any lower resolution or HD options available when you want to download it.

His works for free videos showing all the categories you can choose for in the free stock footage page. Hovering your cursor on the thumbnails image preview didn’t play the video preview, but video infos will appear with preview link and download link.

When you play to view any of his video, you’ll see the video presents his logo mark at the end of the footage. You can check in the terms of use as free download, whether you can crop the video to delete his logo mark part. And one more thing that I think a bit annoying, to use any video in his (even free) collections, you must get the License Agreement by fill in the form, the link provided in the download page. Wait for the reply to receive the License Agreement via email, it’s free of charge anyway.

✅ License: Free for personal & commercial used.
✅ Signup / Login: Not required
✅ Quality: 4K
✅ Variety of Categories to choose from.
❌ You need to request for License Agreement by fill in the form provided, to use those videos.
❌ Attribution is required where possible.

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There are some more lists worth to list them down here, but we think is better to separate it to part 2, in our next post.. hopefully we manage to do it, soon or later :)

Meanwhile, please share with us your list of collections that you already got. We would love to list it down as well, as long as they meet the criteria of HD quality video and Free to download & use, definitely.

Creative Idea Stock Image
Design, Photography, Web

5+ Creative Ideas Using Stock Images for Your Marketing

Creative Idea Stock Image

As we dot our i’s and cross our t’s for the end of 2019, it’s a good time to start thinking about the new year 2020. What we can prepare for better marketing efforts in the new coming decade. Surely your business isn’t this far into December without some kind of 2020 marketing strategy started, but let’s dive into it a little more in stock images.

Stock Images as Visual Communications

The importance of visual communications, especially photo & video used in marketing strategy are undeniably will help to boost the campaigns. Whatever type of marketing strategy campaigns you will use in 2020, email newsletters, social medias, web contents, or anything else, Stock Images are among the biggest player. Companies like iStock by Getty Images is one of the must listed site to shop for stock images.

This world’s leading royalty free stock content marketplace, iStock by Getty Images offer oceans of carefully selected premium contents.

You just name it, they got it.. images, vector illustrations & videos.

Yes, they offer all contents category in one place:

In fact, they also provide useful tools and smart plugins to smooths your work tasks, such as Adobe CC plugins, just to name one.

With that said, here are 5 tips to using iStock and their collection of stock images in the upcoming year 2020 and the new decade.

January Idea

Since this month has probably already been taken care of before the holidays, use iStock’s Boards to help manage the upcoming months. Simply create a board to save any content that you might have found and are not ready to use yet. Way better than bookmarking or write down the images you’ve come across during other projects. So, when the time is right, you already have the options to start with.

Hey remember, January 25th is a big celebration for our Chinese friends. Spruce up your website or create a gift guide for the Chinese New Year images holiday.

Related article: 15 Best Free Online Photo Editor

March Ideas

Be prepare for the International Women’s Day 2020 graphic contents in 8 March. Be unique for this month to get attention for ladies with visually appealing marketing. Also there will be Earth Hour 2020 on 28 March, so you may have some ideas to be different from your common strategy. Save time and use a pre-made sale template that fits the theme and designed to make them click through.

April Idea

Taxes. Make this time a little more fun for people and throw a Refund Sale to get rid of the stress.

May Idea

Fills your May marketing strategy with heart touching content is another good way to try out. Honor mothers around the world or your target markets with special stories, promotions, or gift guides for Mother’s Day and make them extra special with heartwarming images.

June Ideas

Summer vacation planning is usually in full swing by now since school is out and people are wanting to enjoy the warmer weather. Offer up some destination ideas with amazing places photos from actual places to visit.

Within half a year, you’ll get use with iStock and more familiar with the way iStock has to offer. Therefore, check out their plug-ins and see how to streamline and simplify your projects even more with your working apps.

Now you have all the tools and confidence you need for a successful 2020, head over to iStock and browse their flexible pricing plans & low cost credit packages. You’ll be surprised how much you need can be found in one place!

VideoPad Free Video Editing Software No Watermark
Software, Video

Best Free Video Editing Software Without Watermark For PC

It’s quite impressive that some Free Video Editing Software available out there are so good and have been starred as Hollywood standard video editor by many reviews. In fact many people perhaps don’t even know that these free tools have been used to produce many famous Hollywood movies that you may think of it. For that reason, we managed to look around among the Best Free Video Editing Software Without Watermark For PC and we listed here 9 of them.

The best according to us most importantly, consist of premium quality and feature rich tools of a video editor. It must be no watermarked, no video time limit and most important thing, free to be use & to publish as well. Extra advantages, such as Ultra HD or UHD or 4K video quality supports, etc, consider bonus.

Table of Contents

  1. Lightworks
  2. VSDC
  3. DaVinci Resolve
  4. Movavi
  5. Blender
  6. Shotcut
  7. OpenShot
  8. HitFilm Express
  9. VideoPad
  10. ActivePresenter 7
  11. FlexClip
  12. Windows Movie Maker
  13. iMovie

 

1.  Lightworks – Free Video Editing Software

Lightworks Free Video Editing Software No Watermark

Lightworks is a professional level free video editing software we can say. With many interesting premium features available in the free version. Did you know that this tool has been used for editing popular Hollywood movies like The Wolf of Wall Street, Pulp Fiction, Mission Impossible and many more. EditShare, the developer of this intuitive software claimed that Lightworks offers this Free license version with all the tools available, but the only restriction is on output formats.

“By far the most powerful free video editor around, Lightworks democratizes filmmaking by putting premium tools within reach of everyone” – TechRadar

  • ✔️ Pro:
    • Length: No limit
    • No Watermark, No Ads
    • Almost all the pro tools in this free app
    • Online support: Forum community
  • ❌ Con:
    • Output: Youtube & Vimeo at 720p only
    • The interface might not be user friendly
    • Recommended PC requirement could be too high
  • For:      

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2.  VSDC Free Video Editor

VSDC Free Video Editing Software No Watermark

VSDC has been listed among first rank in the list of best free video editor for PC in many review sites. The easy to use VSDC interface is capable to assist beginners. Such as marketing professionals in creating product demos and how to use videos to improve the knowledge base of their audience. No watermark on edited videos and the quality of edited videos are quite impressive. This software supports a wide range of file formats. So that users can create free tutorials and post them on different websites online. Above all, it’s recommended for beginner.

  • ✔️ Pro:
    • Length: No limit
    • No Watermark, No Ads
    • 4K UHD support
    • Built-in Screen Recorder, Chroma key for Green screen, Color twist, Time lapse
    • Simple & easy to use interface
    • Online support: Website
  • ❌ Con:
    • No advance setting
    • No hardware acceleration
    • Windows’ users only
  • For:  

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3.  DaVinci Resolve – Free Video Editing Software

DaVinci Resolve at first sounds like it got nothing to do with video editing. However this bizarre yet catchy name is a professional level free video editing software. With award-winning image processing technology, DaVinci Resolve provides editing module, color correction, audio effects & visual effects all in one app. The developer claimed that DaVinci Resolve (latest to date is version 16), as an innovative tools as a free video editor. It have the revolutionary new cut page, visual effects, motion graphics, fusion 3D, color correction and audio post production, all in a single application.

  • ✔️ Pro:
    • Length: No limit
    • No Watermark, No Ads
    • 4K UHD support
    • All the tools for professional video editing in one.. except most of the FX
    • Online support: Comprehensive Training on website – videos, ebooks & real books
  • ❌ Con:
    • Not for amateur or beginner
    • Many intuitive effects are for paid version
  • For:      

Download

You may also like to read 13 Free Screen Recording Softwares

 

4. Movavi Video Editor

Movavi Video Editor

Movavi Video Editor stands out as a reliable video editing tool for YouTube creators, compatible with both MacOS and Windows operating systems. With Movavi, you can seamlessly remove audio from your videos in mere seconds, allowing you to repurpose the content for other purposes. Best of all, this feature is available at no cost in Movavi’s free version. Additionally, Movavi offers the flexibility to add voiceovers, sound effects, or music to your videos, enhancing your content creation process and empowering YouTubers to craft polished videos without imperfections.

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5.  Blender – Video Editor

Blender Free Video Editing Software No Watermark

Blender was known as an open source and definitely free 3D creation software. Built for 3D modelling, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking and even for game creation. Besides all of those state-of-the-art creation tools, Blender also comes with a built-in video editor. This video sequence editor, as they call it, will allows you to perform basic video editing, as well as more complex tasks like video masking or color grading.

  • ✔️ Pro:
    • Length: No limit
    • No Watermark, No Ads
    • 4K UHD support
    • Live preview, Luma Waveform, Chroma Vectorscope, Audio Mixing & Waveform Visualization, Speed control, Adjustment layers, Transitions, Keyframes, Filters
    • 32 Slots available for adding Video clips, Audio clips, Images, Effects (you can produce some incredibly complex video)
    • Full install or Portable supported (easy mobile)
    • Online support: Documentation, Tutorials, Community Forum, Professional support for Developer & Certified Trainer
  • ❌ Con:
    • It’s more on 3D modeling & animation creation suite
    • The interface are too technical for beginners
    • Require Graphics Card with 1 GB RAM & OpenGL as minimum spec, in other words, not for low or medium spec PC
  • For:      

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6.  Shotcut

Shotcut Free Video Editing Software

Shotcut is an open source free video editor, so for open source apps lover, here is one of your choice for free video editing. Shotcut offers impressively wide range of file formats. It offers awesome video & audio effects and variable frame rates. Even though this is an open source video editor, many reviews admits that it has less negative side. In other words, a must try for beginner.

“It is very close to professional video editing programs like VEGAS Pro or the easiest video editor in the world, Filmora Video Editor” – Elearning Supporter

  • ✔️ Pro:
    • Length: No limit
    • No Watermark, No Ads
    • 4K UHD support
    • Chroma key for Green screen, 3D Text, Color correction, Invert color, Transition effects, Blur effect, Overlay
    • Wide range of format supported
    • Online support: Video tutorials & forum
  • ❌ Con:
    • little crashes
  • For:      

Download

 

7.  OpenShot Video Editor

As the name given, OpenShot is an another great open source free video editor software for beginners level we can say. When it’s from open source development, means you can expect freedom of use, no limitation and good support from the community. But it doesn’t mean it is the best option though. OpenShot offers an easy to use and quick to learn video editor, perfect for beginners and amateur video producer.

  • ✔️ Pro:
    • Length: No limit
    • No Watermark, No Ads
    • 4K UHD support
    • Key Frame Animation, Desktop integration Drag & Drop, Unlimited Tracks / Layers, 3D Animated Titles, Audio mixing
    • User friendly Interface
    • Online support: Website & Reddit OpenShot forum
  • ❌ Con:
    • Open source software needs patience to get support or update of bugs issue
    • Many users complaint about lags when applying effects and even worse for some users when it tend to crash
  • For:      

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8.  HitFilm Express

HitFilm Express is the free version of HitFilm Pro. As the name given, the developer, FXhome claimed that HitFilm Express is the most powerful free video editing & VFX software in the world. If you’re really serious into video making, this free video editor is a must try for you to make your first step towards becoming a pro film maker. For instance, if you’re a film making student, this app is perfect for you before you fully jump in the film industry. Then when you become a professional film maker, the advance – paid version is still at affordable price.

  • ✔️ Pro:
    • Length: No limit
    • No Watermark, No Ads
    • 4K UHD support (need 2GB video memory)
    • 2D Tracking, 3D & 360° Support (but add-ons required to buy), 400+ Effects & Presets
    • Online support: Website support, tutorial & forum
  • ❌ Con:
    • You’ll need high-end machine
    • Even though your system may support to run this software but slow loading for importing & exporting process may occur
    • Most of the extra features are lock as paid add-ons
  • For:    

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9.  VideoPad

VideoPad Free Video Editing Software No Watermark

VideoPad received many good reviews and we agree that it is one of the great free video editor available. VideoPad consist of feature packed editing tools with variety of video formats supported. It’s not just lets you import directly from your camcorder, in fact it has the ability to burn to DVD, besides having all the standard editing features. You will find many good reviews about this intuitive free video editing tools. So, if you’re beginner, this free tool is recommended for you.

  • ✔️ Pro:
    • Length: No limit
    • No Watermark, No Ads
    • 4K UHD support
    • Drag & drop, 3D & 360° Editing, Caption Overlay, Video Stabilization, Easy narration, Built-in Sound effects, Color control
    • Simple & Easy to understand Interface
    • Online support: Website Tutorials
  • ❌ Con:
    • Free version only for personal use and non commercial!
    • In other words, you must go for paid version for business purpose
  • For:    

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10.  ActivePresenter 7

The developer, Atomi System, claimed that ActivePresenter offers all in one video tool. For instance, it have the tools needed from built-in screen recorder, annotate, edit screen cast videos and create interactive eLearning contents in HTML5. So you get the idea how this free editor may suits your editing requirement. It has the ability to edit almost any video input files and have all basic & advance editing video packages.

  • ✔️ Pro:
    • Length: No limit
    • No Watermark, No Ads
    • 4K UHD support
    • Chroma key for Green Screen, Blur effect, Picture in picture, Text-to-speech
    • Online support: User community (forum) & tutorials
  • ❌ Con:
    • Watermark when export to other formats
    • Video editing is too basic, made for learning video or tutorial making
  • For:    

Download

 

11.  FlexClip

Free Online Video Editor

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A free web based video editing tool, FlexClip is another easily drag & drop video editor. After trying its basic features, we can say that FlexClip is a flexible and smart video creating tool. User friendly interface and it is a service that challenges how far video can be edited online. Most users prefer online image editing just like Canva, Pixlr, so the demand for online video editing tool will continue to increase as well. FlexClip is a recommended video editing tool that you can access anytime, anywhere, on any device and it will completes your content creations requirement.. find it out yourself !

  • ✔️ Pro:

    • Online (web based) – No high-spec PC or download software needed

    • Easy to use, drag & drop interface

    • The web browser works smoothly even when handling heavy videos

    • Free version available (also reasonable price for Paid versions)

    • Up to date functions & variety of features available

    • Fast video encoding

    • Abundant video / image / music materials

  • ❌ Con:
    • Export videos takes time
    • Few illustration based templates
    • You need to be connected online to use it
  • For:    

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Video Editor For Windows  

 

12.  Windows Movie Maker

Windows Movie Maker, a very familiar video editing software among Windows users since it was introduced with Windows XP integration. This free video editor was pre-installed in the Windows operating system until 2017, which is, Windows 8 as the last known OS version. Then it was discontinued by Microsoft. The OS company decided to replace it with the new app called Windows Photo & Movie Editor in Windows 10. However, for some of you who prefer the Windows Movie Maker instead of the new one, you can still download it from third party provider below.

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Video Editor For Apple OS  

 

13.  iMovie

A well known free video editor for iOS platform – iMovie let you use it on your Mac PC, iPad, iPhone or you can sync among all your iOS gadgets. iMovie is one of the featured app in Pixpa’s top video editing apps. So lets start your creativity with this one of the best free app and an editor’s choice app by Apple.

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We would also like to add the famous, an easy to use Wondershare Filmora free video editor in the list above. But it does not meet our ‘no watermarked’ requirement, as we mentioned earlier. Unless you don’t mind to have your video output to have watermarked by Filmora. Besides that, it’s an intuitive free video editing software with user & beginner friendly and a lot of ready made effects.

In conclusion, there are actually many more free video editors you can find out there. But as we said earlier, we list down some of the best in the class of free to use, no limitation, no watermarked, acceptable editing features and as well as good export quality. Moreover, the most important thing, every user can get the jobs done, satisfactory.

Anyway, we feel the need to share an another category, the free online video editor. These are apps that you don’t even need to install on your system but, use it online instead. Maybe we will cover one by one in our next post, hopefully :)

Free Online Video Editor

• MovieMaker – moviemakeronline.com
• Video Toolbox – videotoolbox.com
• Clipchamp – clipchamp.com/en/video-editor
• WeVideo – wevideo.com
• Online Video Cutter – online-video-cutter.com

Do we missed something better? Please share with us in the comment box below.