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11 Free Online Powerful and Practical Photo Editors
Tons of online photo editors have blossomed in recent years. They have some advantages compared with desktop photo editors such as convenient access when you are not at your own workstation, easy to use without knowing desktop program like Photoshop and quick edition with fixing your photo in just one click.
Here we select 11 free online editors that are most practical, powerful and worth a try.
With a tabbed interface that classifies features into areas such as Effect, Decorate, Animation, and Beautify on the upper side of the page, FotoFlexer makes users to find the tools easily. It well handles multiple layers with grace and has advanced features like curve tweaks and intelligent lassoing.
Using Pixlr for quick fix, you can choose Pixlr Express which is simple with basic tasks such as rotating, cropping and so on. For more advanced editing, you may choose Pixlr Editor which is much like the desktop photo editing tool Photoshop with rich and complete feature lists. It has Pixlr Grabber add-ons for Firefox, Windows and Chrome browsers for you to grab browser content (images or screenshot) and send them to Pixlr.
With its continuous update of features and outstanding performance, Sumo Paint has acquired a notable user-base. It has many Adobe Photoshop standbys including layers, blending modes, image adjustment tools, filters, a magic wand, etc. With free registration, you can store images on your account and take part in the photo sharing and social network activities as well as use the account as a backup of your files.
With tons of effects, fonts, shapes and frames, Picnik lets you edit your photos by easy to use yet powerful editing tools. It is outstanding for its slick interface. More tools, special effects and privileges are available with a premium version of $25 a year.
As the online version of well-known Adobe photo editor, it is same excellent with the offline version but with totally different interface. It offers plenty of handy and easy to use tools as well as 2GB of online storage, with support for large images up to 10MB size and maximum resolution of 6000*6000. It is free but requires an account to use your own photos.
FlauntR has tons of one-click effects to edit your photos instantly and is outstanding for various backgrounds, but its interface is not so user-friendly and needs to get improved. It also integrates with popular social network and photo storage services and has a special feature that you can purchase prints of your creations with exquisite print materials.
With no registration required, Pixenate looks simple and is simple to use with effective tools for zooming, enhancing, cropping, resizing, red eye, sepia, specifically for tooth whitening and so on. It doesn’t have any really advanced features and even lacks of support for layers but it is very easy to use.
Pixer.us is very straightforward and easy to use with basic effects such as colorfix, blur & sharpen, sepia tone and more. The preview feature it supplies allows you to view the changes that will be made to your picture and the “Undo” button can undo any made changes. After the work is finished, you can download it back to your computer with the options for the formats including JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP.
Splashup is a powerful editing tool, integrating with top photo-sharing sites and even has its own file format so you can save your work in progress. Its great feature is the paint palette complete with traditional tools like paint bucket, magic wand, dropper, freehand crop, move, extract, pencil, paintbrush, erase and others. Layers, layer effects, filters and brushes all are available in this online editor though it offers fewer special effects than its competitors do. However, it is a bit slow due to its flash-heavy programming.
Picture2Life lets you edit, create collages or animate your pictures with super to use interface. It has internal tools for storing, organizing and sharing photos. You can save a train of changes you’ve applied to a photo, i.e. rotating it, cropping it, contrasting it, and flipping it, and then send it to others by one click.
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