(Added 2015)
Although this image generator post is way out of date and I could have updated it. I left it so you can see how far we’ve come, since 2008. with the type and variety of image tools available online today. It’s not just the post that’s aged – it’s disconcerting to see how much younger I looked 7 years ago.
As I was preparing my recent posts on images I came across image generator tools you may find a place for in some of your less serious posts.
Its amazing how much I look like my mother once I add a 1960’s look.
A range of generators including:
- Easy Street – street sign generator
- Say What – add speech bubbles to an uploaded photo
- roflbot Add text to an image -create lolcat or lolband type images
Another site with multiple generators. e.g.
- Rubics Cube Generator – upload an image and turn it into a rubics cube
Doppel Me – create your own avatar.
There are many different kinds of generators at Image Chef – example:
Comic Strip Generator – choose backgrounds, characters and add your own text.
Why would you want to do this for fun you may be asking – well, you may want to submit them to graphjam:
Big Huge Labs Flickr Toys
LoonaPix – add frames and borders and trim your images
Why would you want to create silly images?:
- As a break from tedious work.
- You need more practice perfecting procrastination
- To add special effect images to your blog and possibly get them Stumbleupon Photoblogged – hint hint.
- You wantto be a star contributor on:
- icanhascheezerburger sites (lolcats, loldogs, pundit kitchen….), althouth they do provide their own generator (if you need to learn lolcat speak try the Definitive Lolcats Glossary
- Just to be silly – the only reason needed?
Thanks to the Generator Blog for putting me onto some of the image generator tools – it would have saved me a lot of time if I had found this site to begin with.
Colin Campbell says
Excellent work Sue. Now I have to find some time to play with these. I have used a few before. I like it that they are all so easy to use.
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That’s the beauty of writing such posts – I DO get to play with these tools.
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Very cool info! I too want to spend a little time playing with these as well. Thanks Sue!
DianeCA says
Heheh fun tools, I can ‘digg’ that LOL!! I don’t know if I want to look that much like my mother though!! Scary 😉
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Sueblimely says
I don’t mind so much looking like her in the 60’s – looking like her in the 80’s is much more scary.
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EL Locco says
Oouw, I’ll try soon
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Great image editing tools, thanks for the recommendation Sue.
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RennyBA says
Always something fun and also very useful to pick up from you – thanks for sharing!
I had a great laugh trying out the first one 🙂
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Sueblimely says
I am glad you enjoyed – I would love to see images of you created by Yearbook Yourself – did you ever have long hair or an afro look I wonder?
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Gerasimos says
Excellent tools! The comic strip generator is perfect! I’d never thought of something like it!
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The only problem with the comic strip generator is making up the funny/clever text.
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olly says
This is totally cool – exactly what I need for one of my sites that I am working on.
Well done for a fantastic post
Sueblimely says
I am glad I could be of help.
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sam says
Looks like some of these kind people who produced these little generators have done so out of the kindness of their hearts. It looks like some, certainly the sticky notes can be used on any site you choose for free
Tom says
Wow you are too funny!! I love your little pics
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Sueblimely says
I am pleased you appreciate my sense of humor, Tom – I am not sure everyone does 😛
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Sueblimely says
It is great that there is so much free stuff to use on websites. I think all the applications above are free for use, at least on personal sites.
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Chelle says
Wow, that is so cool that you put that all together 🙂 I am so bookmarking this – I know I could spend hours playing with all these.
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Sueblimely says
Apologies if you spend hours playing with these and it sidetracks you from what you are meant to be doing. I should apologize to myself too. 😉
Susi says
yea, haha, thats great
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How cool is the Rubix Cube – will have to put a pic of my technical guru on one and send it to him! LOL
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Sueblimely says
Try one of him in Yearbook Yourself too – some of the images it produces are really funny.
Lee says
Goos post thanks, I’ve googled these things like mad but never came upon imagechef before, great site.
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Cool tools! Thank you for the links.
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This image tools are really nice, I can easily make my own avatar and banners for new blog. Thank you, you’re such an angel!
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Peter McCartney says
Hi Sue! I keep on coming back and just as well. I was looking for a cool way to add a “Home Page” element to my site and found LoonaPix just the thing. Added a image border courtesy of your site as well. Thanks Heaps! Peter
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Those are a bunch of funny little image generators… I liked the yearbook one … nice post btw
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kouji says
thanks for pointing out doppelme. i’ve been looking for a way to generate an avatar of sorts, which i can use for my profile pages so they show more than just a grey box. but at the same time, i don’t want to use a yahoo avatar, which is the only other avatar site i’d come across until today. i like that with doppelme, i can try to come up with something resembling me, but with an aesthetic i find pleasing. 🙂
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Chris says
Wow awesome tools! I’m sure that I can kill quite a bit of time at work with these haha 🙂
Otooo says
That rubik’s cube generator one looks awesome 🙂
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Louise says
Great tips- I just clicked through to the easystreet site and made a graphic that will be a perfect header for one my blogs.
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Mike says
These are great.
The piechart one is the best. I remember all my images looking like that before I found Photoshop. So glad I did though!
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great tools. i like the rubiks generator.. thanks for sharing.
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That’s funny, thanks!
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Those are some neat tools. I’m always in favor of things that help regular people do things like create nifty images!
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Here is another great tool to make buttons: http://cooltext.com/
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Mo says
easystreet is so cool. I made tons of funny signs for my myspace page. I love em all
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Good one. Now, we might not have the problem with image copyright issue.
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I loved the fun image generator from imagechef. That´s a great post sue! You really put some effort looking for those sites!!! Thanks!
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Lipo says
Your avatar rocks! I did an avatar to me at doppelme.com too. Thanks for the tip sue! 😛
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Good one. Now, we might not have the problem with image copyright issue
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It looks like some, certainly the sticky notes can be used on any site you choose for free
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LOL
There is no way I wanna look like my Mother… Maybe my Father, but defo not my Mother 😆
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I loved the convivial abstraction generator from image chef. That’s a meritorious activity sue! You totally found some toil looking now those sites!!! Thanks!
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How do I make an icon with animated text and such? I was inspired to make an icon for a friend when I clicked on her myspace pictures to see the new ones, and just as I clicked to comment a picture of hers with a piano in it, some lyrics of a song by Go Fish I love played.I am planning on using the keys of the piano as the background because there is just something about the lighting and coloration of the pic that I love. The text will be pink because she loves that color.I want to do more than just stick text on an image. I want to make certain words stand out with animation and different fonts, but I’m not sure how. Is there any free online generator or whatever?
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Now this is one page I am adding to my favorites! I am a good website developer but just can’t do graphics. This handy little collection will help me no ends.
Thanks very very much!
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dme5430 says
another excellent set of tools (especially for the photoshop challenged folks like me). thanks again for finding, reviewing and publishing these resources. i’ve added this to all my social bookmarking sites…
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Oyun says
Good thanks . I love it …
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I loved the fun image generator from imagechef. Thanks! for share!
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Interesting post, it helps me in my research, thanks!
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Definitely some very useful tools for those of us who want to save time with our graphics design, Photoshop is always the most useful tool for graphics design but these are some great quick substitutes that can cut the time required, we all know Photoshop projects can take a little longer then we’d like.
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Wow…lovely, thanks for your info. Now I got some more things to play with.
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Some of these are really neat. I’d seen some pictures of people like the Yearbook Yourself pics and wondered where they’d got them done; now I know! Unfortunately it seems the site is not open again until the Summer, so I’ll just have to play with the avatar maker instead!
Great finds!
Used Tires says
That Easy Street sign website is awesome, OMG, I can’t believe how fast it shows your images, its almost instantaneous, I can’t believe it!
Creative Web Design says
I want to create a change the icon image for a program on my desktop.
I know how to do that … but my question is how to create an .ico from a .jpg using an online generator. The ones I’ve found are horrible and I don’t want to download a new program.
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Great tools. Thanks. I like most superstickies. I will use them today to preapre an auction. The generators are really useful and pretty.
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lissa says
nice generator, really cool..
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Lindsay McIntyre says
These tools are great!! You could use a lot of these images and make personalised birthday cards!! I love tools like this.. computers still amaze me!
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I do agree with you Lindsay. Me too, computer still amaze me………
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These are cool looking images. That generator tool must have been pretty sweet. I like the yearbook picture, and I have seen many people playing around with those types of images, especially on facebook
-Randy
Used Tires says
Yeah I have seen it on facebook as well Randy.
Till then,
Jean
Creative Web Design says
Does anyone know an online generator that would let me blend these two images together? Please let me know, as I don’t have any sort of programmes that would allow me to do this.
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amazing how technology has come so far in the past 10 years!
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Cool tools! And must say this is really great technology for generating image online.
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How do I download an online image with a PHP script? If I use file_get_contents it is giving me the unicode file, but then how do I change it back to an image and of specific size also?
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Amazing image generator tools. Thanks for share good information.
robin says
This is very great and interesting information. But I do not really know whether it works like that.
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Cool tools! And must say this is really great technology for generating image online.
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These are cool looking images. That generator tool must have been pretty sweet. I like the yearbook picture, and I have seen many people playing around with those types of images, especially on facebook
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Ruri says
I try Doppel Me. It is cool to create our own avatar. Maybe I can add one more tool. This one is logo creator tools called yeslogo.com. but unfortunately this tools is not for free.
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I have tried the online code generators,they ask for a url which i obtained by uploading my image to imageshack and then pasting the given url over.
i then pasted the code i received from the generator in my myspace and everytime i just get a blank box where my name was and image should be.
Make Lots says
Some great resources here. Sue do you have a good site to turn a picture of a real person into a cartoon? I have tried using different Photoshop tutorials and they all look “not cartoon like” when they are finished. Thanks.
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It is a great work mate. thanks for the nice tools.
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I really need this image generator. It is very helpful and very simple to use.
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It is a great work mate. thanks for the nice tools.
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Thanks for this sue, my wife loves these resources.
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Penny says
Hey there Sue
Thanks for a great tool I really can’t wait to get playing around with it I just love that 60’s photo look, this is a great way to do photos.
Clayton Shumway says
Cool tools! Always like creating things myself.
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Cool tools! Always like creating things myself.
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These online image generators are a great way to make images for a blog post. For example, if you are writing about subject X, you can create a cartoon or funny image about subject X and display it next to your blog post.
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Nice (and funny) image generators you got there. Thanks a lot!
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From initial appearance those barcodes are valid, but I don’t see much “validation routine” in the function.
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That’s a fantastic range of links particularly like the year book images generator
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HA, HA, HA, I love the yearbook function. Oh! The fun one could have with that!
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Those are some nice tools and I have used a few before.
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I’ve been using this for months on my facebook account – people LOVE IT!
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What a buummppp….
Very good…
I love edit my photo..
it’s looked fun…
I bookmarked it first…
Lucidica says
Thank you loads for graph jam it’s just what I was looking for 🙂
lynnscott says
Great..Great…I love photoes My place is full of them..this artical is just up my street…and your borders make your photoes softer..there are good photoes and not so good ones..the borders will make it look a lot better..you have made my day….a big Thanks….my girlfreind does scraping I will pass this on..
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Brian says
Thanks Sue,
I tried the “Say What” tool for adding bubbles onto your image. This is rather easy to implement and quick. I used my own photo and then added the text bubble.
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This is really kewl! Thanks for promoting the site! You should get credit with it. That yearbook thing is really amazing!
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