Accessible Color Palette Generator | WCAG Compliant
A free tool for generating color palettes that meet WCAG AA contrast standards for normal text with either white or black text (and it notes which color text to use).
Free Closed Caption Converter
Convert files between closed captions and transcript formats: SRT, VTT, TXT, DOCX. While most LLMs can also do this reformatting, this tool is a secure option for those who can't use LLMs in their work.
AI Art Generator: Free AI Image Generator & Editor | OpenArt
Generate consistent character images in multiple scenes starting from a single image. You can also use image to video tools.This integrates with other tools and gives you the option to train your own AI model with your style for illustrations. The free plan is limited, but there are paid plans at different levels.
Free Tools: Who Is Using What – And Why : Publications Library
Jane Bozarth's latest ebook includes a collection of free tools used by people in L&D plus quotes about how they're used. This is a great resource for anyone with limited budgets (and let's face it, most of us have limited budgets at least some of the time).
How to Create an Interactive PDF: The Ultimate Guide
Tips for creating interactive PDFs from Visme.
Interactive PDF Creator. Make Your PDFs Clickable - Flipsnack
This tool lets you add interactive elements to PDF documents
Create Consistent Characters within ComfyUI
ComfyUI is an AI tool for creating images, videos, and animations. This page talks about the workflow for creating consistent characters for stories.
Episode 70: Community Hour + InGrasp Demo
Recording of Bryan Jones demonstrating the new InGrasp tool for creating custom character images for scenarios for the ONILP group.
LABS.GOOGLE
Google Labs has an "Experiments" page with a collection of AI tools for a variety of purposes. These are very explicitly experimental and probably not ready for production environments. I also expect many of them will disappear later (this is Google, after all--look at their track record). Still, this looks like a fun site to spend some time exploring what tools can do right now.
GoHighLevel - It's time to take your Agency to the Next Level
A marketing and CRM platform with email, membership, course hosting, online community, etc. You can sell both courses and products. Recommended by Dani Watson.
AnimateAI
Create animated videos with AI. Start by generating characters, which the site says will be consistent throughout your story. You can turn scripts into storyboards and customize them. Then, create videos in 30-second clips. The voice syncing doesn't look great in their demo videos, but this still might be worth experimenting with. The free plan should be enough to test it out.
ARC Toolkit - Page-Level Testing - TPGi
Free accessibility testing tool for websites. It would be interesting to test this with published elearning as well.
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Cassidy | The AI Workspace for your team
Want to use LLMs like ChatGPT but need a more secure option? Cassidy is designed for working securely within organizations
Consistent Character AI
A tool for creating character images with the ability to edit expressions, poses, head position, and more. Currently in beta. No free plan, but this has a lot more options than most similar tools.
I tried every email marketing tool — these are the best (2024)
Reviews of email marketing tools, narrowed down to MailerLite and Brevo. Well-organized explanation of the process of narrowing down the list and what features were important.
Free AI photo editor - Edit images online with AI | Freepik
Freepik's online image editor includes some non AI-features like cropping and color adjustments plus some AI features like generating variations and AI backgrounds. Limited generations and downloads on the free plan.
AI Consistent Character Creator: Poses, Faces & Headshots
Another character image generator
MagicQuill
MagicQuill is an online image editing tool focused on AI inpainting of existing images. Upload and image and draw the shape of what you want to add or change in the image. The tool guesses what you want and generates a text prompt for you. If it guesses right, you can run it and generate the edited image. If it guesses wrong, you can tweak the prompt. Open source tool with a CC license; you can get the source code and run it on your own server if you want.
Rate My Site: Rate your site in seconds – get instant feedback.
AI-generated feedback on website design. Enter a URL and get a score and feedback on the visual design, layout and clarity, and content. The site provides recommendations for improvements as well. As with all things AI, the recommendations should be viewed with some skepticism, but I found it overall reasonably accurate for the few sites I tested.
A Quick Guide to Using Tweego
One problem with Twine is that it can start to lag when your story gets too big (often around 300 passages). For larger games, it may be better to break it up into multiple smaller files. This guide explains how to use Tweego to combine multiple HTML files created in Twine into a single file.
BreezeDoc | Document signing is a breeze.
This is an alternative to DocuSign that looks like a good option for freelancers and small businesses. The free plan is limited to 2 documents per month, but the lifetime licenses are pretty cheap to increase that number.
Free Image Vectorization
Convert PNG files to SVG. Useful for converting AI-generated PNG illustrations to SVGs for editing. Works best with flat illustrations without much detail.
StoryArtAI - AI Kid Stories Art Generator
StoryArtAI is an AI image generator designed specifically for creating illustrations for children's books. This probably isn't the most useful tool for workplace training or adult learners, but it might be useful for K12 educators. The tool includes support for creating consistent characters and detailed prompting tips.
DeepBrain AI
Generate avatar videos from text. This tool lets you adjust the gestures for the presentation, as well as generating scripts from links or PowerPoint presentations. These videos definitely hit the uncanny valley and are clearly AI. Plus, how useful are talking head videos even when it's a real person, let alone an AI talking head? However, the free test might be worthwhile if you're interested in experimenting with these sorts of AI video avatars.
Image Upscaler - Upscale Your Photo for Free with AI
AI-powered image editing tools from a small Ukrainian company. Upscale, unblur, cartoonize, remove backgrounds. Use limited free credits per month or use promo code BESTEDITOR to buy credits.
One thing often happens at keynotes and conferences. It surprised me….
Don Clark shares several ways that people with dyslexia are benefiting now from using AI tools. Text-to-Speech, transcription, grammar and spelling assistants, note-taking and summarizing, and other tools can all help people with dyslexia.
3D AI Studio - Create Custom 3D Models with AI
Instead of text to image, this tool lets you generate text to 3D model. You can also generate an image in another tool like Midjourney or Flux and then generate a 3D model from a reference image.
One of the challenges for developing training in VR has always been the development time and cost, including time to develop custom 3D assets. This feels like a step towards making 3D development much more affordable and faster.
Img2Go.com - Online photo editor and image converter
Multiple image generation and editing tools powered by AI. Upscaling, background removing, face blurring (automatically detecting all the faces in a crowd and blurring them all for privacy), inpainting, image comparison. This site has some basic image editing tools like cropping, rotating, and compressing as well. The basic plan is free, with paid plans for credits for more advanced tools.
PartyRock
PartyRock is an Amazon tool to build apps with AI. You provide a prompt describing what you want the app to do, and it builds an app for you. Melissa Milloway has been sharing some experiments with this tool, including an app for building a video planner with shot planning based on a script.
Captions | Your AI-powered creative studio
AI tool for editing videos, including adding captions, removing filler words, adjusting eye contact, and more. I wish they had more transparency on their pricing though--you can't see the cost of subscriptions unless you create an account.