2D World Creator Scratchpad gives you a convenient collection of 2,693 built-in public-domain images that you can browse directly inside the application. Stop leaving your canvas to find images! Instead of interrupting your creative work to search the Internet for an image, download it, save it somewhere, import it, and resize it, simply find an image in the app and click it to add it to your canvas.

Think about the difference between these two workflows: search > evaluate > download > save > import > resize > continue, versus browse > click > create. 2D World Creator Scratchpad is designed around the second approach. When you have an idea, you can start putting it together visually almost immediately, without the series of small but time-consuming steps normally required to obtain an image from the Internet.

The built-in image collection covers a wide range of categories, including animals, characters, buildings, clothing, food, plants, trees, vehicles, weather, tools, toys, landscapes, signs, objects, and many more. This makes the application useful for much more than creating traditional 2D worlds—you can use it to develop illustrations, scenes, stories, concepts, plans, maps, diagrams, mockups, presentations, game ideas, characters, and virtually anything else you can express visually.

The real advantage isn't simply having thousands of images available—it is having them where you are already creating. Searching for images on the Internet can easily turn a creative session into a browsing session. With 2D World Creator Scratchpad, the images become part of your creative workspace, helping you maintain your attention, momentum, and creative flow while experimenting with different visual ideas.

And you're not limited to the built-in collection. You can import your own images and combine them with the included images. Once images are on the canvas, you can resize, rotate, duplicate, move, filter, add text and sounds, and create more complex scenes from multiple visual elements. You can also save your preferred images for quick reuse later.

The application goes beyond creating static compositions. Images can be animated and their movement, resizing, and rotation can be recorded and played automatically, allowing you to create scenes containing multiple moving elements. Your completed work can be saved in several image formats, including PNG, JPG, BMP, TIFF, WMF and EMF, while your current project can also be saved and loaded later.

Who can benefit from it? Graphic designers can use it for visual concepts and layouts; teachers and students can create educational projects and presentations; marketers and content creators can quickly assemble visual material; writers can visualize stories and scenes; game designers can experiment with characters and environments; presenters can create visual concepts; and anyone working with ideas, diagrams, illustrations, mind maps, mockups, or visual planning can use the built-in images as a starting point.

For just $14.95 during this BitsDuJour promotion, you get a licensed copy of 2D World Creator Scratchpad at 50% off the regular $29.90 price, with free lifetime upgrades and free technical support via email. Before you purchase, consider what your time is worth: finding, downloading, importing, and resizing even a fraction of the included images could take considerably more time than the cost of the application. If you would rather spend that time creating than searching, 2D World Creator Scratchpad puts the images—and the creative tools—right where you need them.