I always like to play around editing photos. I even like it more when it is free. The following sites are my favorite online (web-based) photo editing programs.
(Updated December 11, 2012)
Online Photo Editing Websites
- http://www.webinpaint.com/ - Remove unwanted portions of a photo - for example; an electrical wire (or ex-spouse..)
- http://www.befunky.com/create/#/home - Here you can edit your photo, add photo effects, add artsy effects, add graphics and shapes, add text and speech bubbles and add frames and borders. When saving, you can reduce file size of finished photo.
- http://pixlr.com/ - Here you have the choice between a standard photo editor and a vintage effects program.
- http://www.splashup.com/ - Full featured online photo editor.
- http://www.xat.com/web_gear/slide_show.php - Not really a photo editor, but you can make an excellent slideshow of your photos.
- http://editor.pho.to/ - Photo correction, crop, resize, apply artistic effects, add text, watermark or my favorite; the caricature effect. It says "register free", but you can edit online without registering. NOTE: notice the "Pho.to services" top bar - the tabs have more fun editing effects!
- http://webresizer.com/resizer/ - Fast photo file resizer. Make your photos ready for emailing and putting on web pages. Also add borders or crop.
- http://www.blibs.com/editor/ - Amazing photo editor with dozens of effects, tools and adjustments.
- http://www.sumopaint.com - Click on "Open Sumo Paint" button to launch the online version of Sumo Paint.
- http://pixer.us/ - Excellent easy to use interface with quick loading editing. Check out the "Special FX".
- http://www.picture2life.com/ - Make collages, animations, edit and share your photos.
- http://fotoflexer.com/start.php - Looks like any old photo editor at first, but use the tabs across the top to effect, decorate, animate, beautify, distort and more!
- http://www.picnik.com/ - Web 2.0 photo editing fun!
- http://pixenate.com/ - Similar to other editors, but worth a look.
- http://aviary.com/tools/phoenix - I just found this September 16, 2009. Looks Great!
- https://www.photoshop.com/ - Photoshop has a free online editing suite.
- http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/imageoptimizer/ - Online Image Optimizer for GIF, JPG, and PNG images. Reduces file size for quicker page load.
- http://www.drpic.com/ - Excellent online photo editor to crop, rotate, resize, add text and simple effects.
- http://www.freeonlinephotoeditor.com/ - Resize, sharpen or rotate your photo. Several filters and effects are also available.
- http://www.phixr.com/photo/userindex - Great online photo editor with some unique attributes. I like the head-in-a-hole, round corners and instant photo effect.
- http://www.free-site.org/photo - Somewhat steep learning curve but worth taking the time to play around with it!
- http://www.myimager.com/ - I use this site to specifically reduce the file size of my GIF images. Do this by choosing "optimize" and reduce the number of colors in the image. Sometimes you can save up to 90% file size with no visual difference!
- http://www.321webmaster.com/optijpg.php - Reducing and optimizing your .jpg images speeds page load time. Enter URL of existing image and click "reduce your image".
Fun with photos - these sites are not actually online photo editing sites, but you can create cool stuff with your images.
- http://pikipimp.com/ - My favorite fun online site to add stuff to your photos - play around with the "elements" section of this program and you will be entertained for hours.
- http://www.pizap.com/ - A free online photo editor featuring fun free photo effects, photo stickers and one click effects for your digital photos.
- http://bighugelabs.com/ - They live up to their name - a library of around 40 cool things you can do with a photo. I like the badgemaker.
- http://www.faceinhole.com/us/ - Upload a picture of a face and put it a bunch of different scenes. Pretty cool as you can edit the hue, saturation to match. Hint: click the categories above the photos to get more choices from that genre.
- http://www.writeonit.org/ - Here you can easily create your photomontage, free cards, magazine cover and face in the hole effects.
- http://funphotobox.com/ - Pay attention to the top toolbar here to make face effects, photo effects, animations, cards and tools.
- http://www.magmypic.com/ - Make a fake magazine cover with your images.
- http://www.photo505.com/ - Photo505 enable you to select from numerous digital photo effects to add into picture for fun. Their digital photo effects is almost updated daily so be sure to check them out.
- http://www.dumpr.net/ - 21 cool things you can do with your photos. I like the LOMO effect, puts a glare / sheen on your image.
- http://www.photovisi.com/ - Photovisi lets you create collage style wallpapers using your own photos. There are many templates to choose from and very easy to use.
- http://wigflip.com/ - Several different free cool things you can make. Not all allow you to upload photos, but go anyway, you won't be sorry.
- http://lunapic.com/ - Over 100 different cool photo effects.
- http://repperpatterns.com/tool/ - Upload a photo then drag the box around to create cool patterns. These can be used for your desktop backgrounds or web page backgrounds. You are using the free online version of software that is for sale - the image you save is a low quality image, but still good for web page (and desktop) backgrounds.
- http://www.photofunia.com/ - Uses facial recognition software to place a face from your uploaded photo onto some interesting objects.
- http://picfont.com/ - Easily add text to your photos.
- http://instyle.com - Seems kind of girly at first, but you can really come up with some interesting photos with this "makeover" program.
- http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/imge/ - Kind of stupid, but with the right photo, you may be able to come up with something interesting.
- http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/imageoptimizer/index.php - Optimize your photos for use in email and webpages. Shrinks the file size so the photo will load quicker. If you don't know what I am talking about, you probably don't need it.
- http://www.morphthing.com/ - Combine two or more celebrity faces to come up with the ultimate celebrity.
- http://www.polaroin.com/ - Turn any photo into an old school (style) polaroid.
- http://www.werofl.com/ - Create a rippling water effect on your photos.
- http://www.familylobby.com/fun-photo-creator.asp - Easy to use - ad a few trinkets to your photo to liven it up. Exports finished photo as flash.
- http://www.effmypic.com/ - Upload your photo and place it in different scenes. Some are pretty cool.
- http://www.freeflashtoys.com/ - Some of the flash toys here involve doing things with your photos, so I thought I would include this link.
- http://imagechef.com - A boatload of frames and cool effects for you to insert your photo into. Best waste of time ever.
- http://www.needlepaint.com/ - Convert your image to a needlepoint pattern. They will even send you the thread and pattern (not free). You can save your converted photo for free - right-click on the image and choose "save picture as".
- http://patternsforyou.com/en/pattern_maker.html - Similar to above, but convert your image to a cross-stitch pattern and download the pattern for free.
Free Downloads of Useful Photo Editing Software
- Umark lite - Add watermarks to your photos or images to prevent people from using them without your consent. Also used to advertise your site.
- Microsoft Ice - (Image Composite Editor) An advanced panoramic image stitcher. Given a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location, the application creates a high-resolution panorama that seamlessly combines the original images.
- PhoXo - Use the effect tools to get creative and insert shadow text, speech bubbles, fade effects, gradients, image frames, clipart objects and more.
- Riot - A free download I thought I would include. A great tool for bloggers that compresses photos so they will have a smaller file size and load faster.
- IrfanView - Ask anyone who knows photo editing and they will know about IrfanView. Be sure to download the plug-ins.
- Gadwin PrintScreen - Not for photo editing exactly, but the darn best free screen capture program out there.
- BorderMaker - BorderMaker enables you to add borders, text overlays, and watermarks to your images.
- Poladroid - A free downloadable program to make polaroid-like photos.
There is also a great list of photo editing sites at http://dottech.org/tag/windows-photo-editor/
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