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Art & Design: Presentation & Tech Tools

A research guide for finding Art & Design reference materials, books, periodicals and articles, images, career resources, and web sites.

Commercial Presentation Tools

Other Tech Tools

Some of these may be totally free but some just give you a free trial.

Ispiring free – Powerpoint to flash converter
Slideshare - post your slideshows and share

Animation Tools

Common Craft
Go Animate
Xtranormal

Comic Strip Creators:      

Comic Life

Timeline tools

ARIES - An interactive image manipulation system that enables the exploration and organization of fine digital art. Free web based access with free account. Also makes timelines.
Tikki-Toki
Timetoast

IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework)

"Access to image-based resources is fundamental to research, scholarship and the transmission of cultural knowledge."

See more about IIIF

Apps & Demos for viewing and working with IIIF compatible images

Open Source Presentation Tools

These are open source or free presentation or visual tools. Most require you to register and some are available for free for a trial period

  • Google Books Ngram Viewer When you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books (e.g., "British English", "English Fiction", "French") over the selected years. 
  • Google Drawings - make flow charts, diagrams, callouts - part of Google Drive
  • Simply Analytics - Web-based mapping application to create thematic maps and reports.