5 Best and Free Online Photo Editing Tools
Have you ever found yourself in public computer without any basic photo editing application around you or ever found yourself looking to resize your photo just for the sake of sending it to someone you know on a sluggish network or even be stuck for simple photo editing tasks such as crop, resize or flip?? Well in that case you have landed at the right spot. Here is the list of such cool online tools that let you perform basic photo editing tasks on the internet for free indeed.
Picnik
This is an online photo editing website that lets you edit your photos with few clicks and more importantly for free. It’s a Flash based online tool that runs on any flash player enabled web-browser. To test it yourself, visit www.picnik.com and start editing photos.
Basic Functionalities available under Edit section:
- Opens up photo saved in images format such as *.jpg,*.tiff, *.bmp,*.gif,*.png and more.
- Basic edit task includes rotate, crop, resize, remove red-eye, sharpen images and so on.
- Lets you save the photo in any of the formats specified above.
Talking more on its feature, it lets you add stickers, messages, create frames and play with other fun features.
Further, it has options of connecting photo albums in Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, MySpace, Photobucket and few other websites or lets you directly upload the photos from your computer. Apart from that, it lets you create collection of photos collected from various sources. Below is sample snap shot showing how this tool lets you save and share the photo for your Facebook account.
Phixr
www.phixr.com is yet another cool application hovering around for you to make adjustments to your photographs. This offers you a great bunch of features that are present in any standard standalone photo editors such as IrfanView. It offers an enriched menu on the left panel making its interface quite easy to use. Besides performing basic editing tasks, it offers a load of fun effects such as adding speech bubbles or text boxes into an image.
Apart from that, this tool can be used in demo mode which is mentioned as temporary account or user may create a new account with simple steps. The best part about this tool is that it does not require a flash player to run on.
Pixlr
If you are probably looking for a web application tool with comprehensive features of standalone photo editor, this is the one you should be looking at. Its interface and features are more relevant to ever so popular Adobe Photoshop application. Most of the features are available and suits best for the technical users. This tool looks like a standard application and requires Flash Player plug-in in your browser. Furthermore, it offers multiple language option which enables you to use the application in the preferred language of your choice.
To use it visit http://www.pixlr.com/editor/
Free Online Photo Editor
This free online tool offers you feature to edit and save your images, screenshots and photos on the web. It offers an array of features, as present in other online tools, like selecting photo for edit either from your computer or from the web. Moreover, this tool stands out from others as it lets user to visualize the changes, before applying them, in a small preview window. But this tool lacks the feature of connecting to other sources, like Facebook, Flickr etc., as present in Picknik and Phixr.
This is a free to use and quite simple enough for non technical users and you can use this service from http://www.freeonlinephotoeditor.com
FotoFlexer
Last but not the least; FotoFlexer is one of the best offerings that are available on the web for playing around with your photos. Like any other photo editing tools, FotoFlexer has a good collection of tools that help you tweak images. Like with a good photo editing tools, FotoFlexer has integrated with Flickr, MySpace, Facebook, Photobucket and Picasa to name few. In addition to this, it also allows to upload image from the local drive. It is a flash based application that has officially integrated with some popular sites like TinyPic and Piczo while it it’s the official launch partner of Google OpenSocial.
CNET, in its review says that, “The real claim to fame however, is Fotoflexer’s Smart Cutout and Recolor effects, which can help you cut out various pieces of a photo, or recolor them to match the tone of your choice. The cutout is the more useful of the two, and lets you cut people or objects out from a shot without having to trace their outline.”
