BeFunky

Turn your photos into incredible art work! Another way for pupils to create avatars for their web pages.

Amimated Art

No reason or explanation, just try it – and turn the sound up!
P.S. would one of you clever people please translate the text on the opening page for me?

Artopia

Artopia is a comprehensive Web-based arts experience covering the visual and performing arts. Students can closely examine important works of art and take part in activities that teach about styles, principles and processes of each art form. They can write about the artworks online, collect art cards in a virtual portfolio and view videos of professional artists at work. Teachers may exhibit their students’ artwork in a virtual gallery and both students and teachers can communicate with other artists in an online message board.

Doink

Doink is an excellent and free animation creator. Once, you’ve signed up you can begin animating, drawing, and sharing. And to speed things up, you can re-use the work of thousands of other users.

Sketch and Paint

Sketch and Paint is a very intuitive art program which allows you to create and save your own masterpieces. You can even open a .jpeg image already saved on your computer. Great for individual use or with an interactive whiteboard. No registration or downloading required.

This program is part of a collection of fascinating stuff by Tom Eriksson on his site One Motion.

Forward Thinking Museum

The Forward Thinking Museum is a virtual art museum containing over 100 exhibitions and videos with subjects ranging from wildlife to architecture to people at work.

Brain POP UK

Brain POP UK, the more you know, the more you know

The newly launched UK site presently offers hundreds of animated movies, on numerous subjects, that guarantee to intrigue and inspire the young student to learn, not only what is presented in the topic, but also to delve deeper and enquire after even more information.

Bomomo

Bomomo is an online paint package with a difference. It is really difficult to explain what it does so I suggest you just try it for yourself. Great fun though!

The Teaching Palette

The Teaching Palette is a blog authored by art educators for art educators. Our goal is to provide a collaborative and resourceful forum where art specialists of all levels can explore professional topics that impact our subject area – from classroom management to tools and techniques to integrating music. We’ll also be providing valuable product reviews, authored by fellow art teachers.

More image-editing software online

Professional and easy to use tools for creating and editing images online

Pixlr lets you upload and edit your photos, or enter a URL of an online photo you’d like to edit and save to your hard drive. You can create layers in your image, and manipulate the picture using a full compliment of filters, brushes, and so on.