Image Tools
Image Editors, Generators, Compress
Image Editing
Editing Software
- ↪️ Editing Software or Keyflame - Editing Software
- ↪️ Android Editors
- GIMP / Windows, macOS, Linux / Photoshop UI / Texture Synthesizer / Discord / Subreddit / GitLab
- ImageMagick / Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS / Scripts / GitHub
Online Editors
- Pixlr - Simple Editor / Hide Premium / Unlimited Saves
- Lunapic - Multi-Tool
- Photopea - Full-Featured
Content Removers
- Rembg - Background Remover / Windows, macOS, Linux, Docker
- BG Bye - Background Remover / Web / GitHub
Upscale / Restore
- OpenModelDB - AI Upscaling Model Database / Discord / GitHub
- Upscayl - Image Upscaling / Windows, macOS, Linux / GitHub
- Waifu2x - Anime Image Upscaling / Windows, macOS, Linux / WebUI, 2
- WaifuXL - Anime Image Upscaling / Web / GitHub
- image-upscaling - Image Upscaling / Web
Image Effects
- Grainrad, PhotoFunia, effect.app, Polaroma, Tooooools or Image Mage - Image Effects / Filters
- Mosh, Image Glitcher or glitch2 - Glitch Images
Linux Image Editing
Image Creation
- 🌐 PuccaNoodles' Sheet - Image Creation Resources
- ↪️ AI Image Generators
- ↪️ Art Education
Painting / Drawing
- Krita - Painting App / Windows, macOS, Linux, Android / AI Generation / Docs / GitHub
- Inkscape - Drawing / Sketching / Windows, macOS, Linux / GitLab
- miniPaint - Browser Painting / Web / GitHub
- Pinta - Painting App / Windows, macOS, Linux / GitHub
Pixel Art / Sprite Sheets
- 🌐 Awesome Pixel Art - Pixel Art Resource Index
- ↪️ Pixel Art Animation
- ↪️ ASCII Art
- Aseprite - Pixel Art Editor / Windows, macOS, Linux / Guide
- LibreSprite - Pixel Art Editor / Windows, macOS, Linux / GitHub
- Piskel - Pixel Art Editor / Web
GIF Tools
- Gifski - GIF Encoder / Windows, macOS, Linux / GitHub
- EZGif, Klipy or GIFnText - GIF Generators / Web
Meme Tools
- Know Your Meme or FindThatMeme - Meme Databases
Animation
Design Resources / Ideas
- ↪️ Design Resources
- archives.design - Graphic Design Archive
- Muzli, Fuse.kiwi or Cosmos - Design Inspiration Sites
Design Apps
- Figma - Design Collab App / Web
Icons / Avatars
- ↪️ SVG Icons / SVG Tools
- Alphacoders Avatars - PFPs / Avatars
- Picrew - Avatar Creator
Free Assets
- 🌐 Free Design Assets or Freesets / GitHub - Design Asset Site Indexes
Download Images
- 🌐 designer - Image Download Site Indexes
- gallery-dl / Discord, Rip Anything From Anywhere, RipMe, WFDownloader, ImgDownloader, SCrawler / Discord or Image Extractor - Image Download Tools
Image Search Engines
- Search by Image - Browser Extension
- Yandex Images or Mavink - Image Search
- SauceNao - Reverse Image Search / Some NSFW / Extension
- SmartImage - Reverse Image Search App
- Google Lens - Reverse Image Search
- TinEye - Reverse Image Search / Extension
Stock Images
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Royalty-free implies images free for personal or commercial use with some usage restrictions (see site's TOS). CC0 stands for Creative Commons Zero and means images are public domain. Sites not tagged have licensing that varies.
- 🌐 Awesome Stock Resources - Stock Photo Index
- Downloader.la or DownPic - Paid Stock Photo Downloaders
- EveryPixel, O-DAN or LibreStock - Stock Photo Search Engines
- Unsplash - Stock Photos / Royalty-Free
Art / Illustrations
- ↪️ Digital Art Collections
- ArtStation - User-Made Art / Fanart
- Pixiv - Japanese Fanart
- Pixiv Tools - Downloader, 2 / Rankings / Official Frontend / Frontend List / Preview, 2 / Android
- Danbooru, Gsbooru, Sankaku Complex, Safebooru, TBIB or yande.re - Anime-Style Image Booru's / Downloader
- hydrus - Booru-Style Media Tagger / GitHub
Media Covers / Posters
- ↪️ Album Artwork
- Ben Dodson, 2 - Movies / TV / Music / Comic / Book / Anime / Manga
Wallpapers
3D Models
- Thingiverse - Share / Download 3D Models
- Printables - Find Practical 3D Models Ready for Printing
3D Modeling Apps
- Blender - FOSS 3D Modeling App / Forums / Source Code
- Blender Tools - Resources, GitHub / Extensions / Communities / Addons / Plugins / Textures / Renderer / 3D Nodes / AI Render
- MCprep - All-in-one Minecraft Blender Addon / Discord / GitHub
3D Printing
- 🌐 Awesome 3D Printing - 3D Printing Resources
CAD Engineering
- Solid Edge - CAD App
- Onshape - CAD Modeling with Real-time Collaboration
Image Tools
- 🌐 Creator Resources - Art / Animation Resources
- 🌐 Awesome Colab Notebooks - Image Colab Resources
- ↪️ Color Scheme Tools
- ImgOps - Image Operations Meta-Tool
- Czkawka, AntiDupl or cbird - Duplicate Image Removers
- Slowpoke Pics, ICAT or Image Comparison Tool - Image Comparisons
Image Compressors
- Caesium - Compression Software / Web App / CLI / GitHub
- Squoosh - Compressor / Converter
- Seopix - Batch Compressor / Editor
Image Optimization
- ImageMagick - Image Optimization & Editing / Windows, macOS, Linux / Scripts / GitHub
- Caesium - Compression Software / Windows, macOS, Linux / Web App / CLI / GitHub
- Squoosh - Compressor & Converter / Web
- Seopix - Compressor / Web
Image Converters
- ↪️ File Converter - Multi-Format Converters
- Birme - Image Converter & Resizor / Web
Image Resizing
- Dopmatico - Social Media Image Resizer / Web
Image to Text / OCR
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Keep in mind most AI Chatbots have built-in image to text, and in many cases are even more accurate than OCR tools. Note that these can also hallucinate content that may not actually be there.
- tesseract - CLI OCR / Windows, macOS, Linux
- NormCap / Windows, macOS, Linux / GitHub
- Text Grab - Minimal OCR Tool / Windows
- i2ocr / Web
Image Viewers
Offline Galleries
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Note that the options listed in this section require self-hosting.
- 🌐 FOSS Photo Libraries
- ↪️ Android Galleries
- Immich / Docker / Resources / Storage Server / Bulk Uploader / Power Tools / Discord / GitHub
Online Galleries
- Postimages - 32MB / Forever
Image Hosts
- ImgBB - 32MB / Forever
- Catbox - 200MB / Forever / Proxy / ShareX Config / Tools / Extensions
Screenshot Tools
- ShareX - Screenshot & Screen Recorder Tool / Windows /
Image Hosts / File Manager / Discord / GitHub - Flameshot / Windows, macOS, Linux / GitHub
- Zipline - Self-Hosted ShareX Server / GitHub
Palette Generators
- Color Designer, Color Palette Pro / Guide, TheGoodColors, Super Color Palette, Nof / GitHub or Coolors - Color Palette Generators
Color Pickers
- 🌐 BrandColors - Brand Color Palettes Index
Photography / Cameras
- ↪️ Android Camera - Android Camera Resources / Tools
Photo Forensics / Metadata
- 🌐 Photo OSINT - Image OSINT Resources
- ↪️ File Info / Metadata
- Fawkes - Facial Cloaking / GitHub
- FotoForensics, Sherloq or Forensically - Photo Forensics Tools