Thursday, July 14, 2011

17 Best Online Photo Editing Tools Compared

Do you ever need a photo edited quickly and you do not have Photoshop or Gimp available, and all you have is Internet? Thanks to the online image editor services this isn’t a a problem anymore.

Webification.com reviewed all of them so you do not have to.

Photoshop.com

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Photoshop.com is the latest offering for web-based photo sharing and editing. As long standing major players in the imaging software industry for graphics and video professionals, Adobe (US) have now launched an easy to use and free online version of their popular photo editing package, Photoshop. While not attempting to provide all the features of the desktop version of Photoshop, it certainly has a good selection of quality image editing tools for the more common tasks. Including a generous 2 Gigabytes (2000 Megabytes) of space for storing your photos in the free version, you can perform a range of edits including cropping, resizing, adjusting colors and removing that annoying red-eye effect.

Our Rating: Excellent

FlauntR

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flauntR is a privately funded, online photo and effect editor. Their goal is simple, provide an easy to use interface to manage, modify and enhance images without any outside software. They do this with and Adobe Flash driven interface that allows a user to use editR, stylR, textR, mobilR, picasR, and profilR — all flauntR specific enhancements. While the interface of flauntR can be a bit confusing at first (with six different categories of modifications), after a quick 5 minute lesson, most users are good to go. Through a series of questions and answers, the application can transform the images that are put into it into works of art (or whatever the uploader’s heart desires).

Our Rating: Excellent

Snipshot

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The next time you want to edit an image but don’t have any software available to do so, you might want to go online and take a look at Snipshot – a website which is simple to use and lets you edit images online. Take note that the Snipshot is only about editing images and not adding special effects, but still is a great tool that lets you crop, rotate or resize pictures. On top of those 3 basic features there are still adjustments settings in which you can change the brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, and other settings.

Our Rating: Good

Pixer.us

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Pixer.us is a website that allows its users to change and improve their pictures. It is a completely free website, which does not involve any nasty software downloads. It allows its user to rectify their pictures in many different ways, from amateur pictures of friends to professional landscapes and portraits. Once you are happy with the changes that have been made to your picture, downloading is quick and easy and contains many saving options.

Our Rating: Good

Picnik

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Picnik allows you to edit things in a variety of ways. You can crop, rotate, resize, edit exposure, edit colors, sharpen, fix red eye, and auto fix. The auto-fix tool is cool, because it will take inconsistencies in the photo, and spruce them up a little big. But all of the other tools are pretty much self explanatory. Picnik has many tools found in full-fledged image editing programs such as adjusting exposure, contrast and shadows and highlights. Picnik offers all the basic tools to crop, resize, rotate, sharpen and fix red-eye. It also has plenty of special effects and filters and other advanced controls to fine-tune photos.Whatever tool or feature you use, instructions are provided in pop-up windows at the time you access them.

Our Rating: Excellent

ImproveYourImages

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ImproveYourImages is another good online image editing tool. With a minimal interface and the tools that are just good enough to do basic photo editing, this tool is suited for those who don’t want to include zillions of effects inside their photographs and just want to tune them a bit here or there.

Our Rating: Good

Splashup

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Splashup, formerly known as Fauxto, is a free online image editing program. Splashup allows users to perform basic editing tasks, such as adding text to an image, as well as powerful editing tools such as multi-image editing and filters. Splashup is great if you need to touch up and image really fast and you don’t have time to wait for Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro to load and open. What’s also great about Splashup is that it’s really user-friendly, so children and adults will have no problem navigating the online editor. If you’re looking for a basic image editing tool, without the software to download and the hefty price tag, you may want to check out Splashup.

Our Rating: Very Good

Cellsea

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CellSea enables users to edit their photographs by simply uploading them on their servers. Once you have uploaded an image to the website, the website offers various image editing tools. From there you can choose the one that matches your needs and can also add various cool effects on your photographs. When you are done, you can again save the images back to your local storage.

Our Rating: Good

FotoFlexer

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FotoFlexer offers a fairly comprehensive online image editing program within, arguably, the most simple, low bandwidth-consumptive interface available in higher-end online image editing programs. By combining traditional simple editing features and filters with advanced tools like recolor, RGB or individual color curve adjustment and others, FotoFlexer lets users craft, create, adjust, improve and, ultimately transform photos and images from virtually anywhere with an Internet connection. FotoFlexer also offers an array of embellishments, fonts and other scrapbook-like effects for increased personalization and page creation.

Our Rating: Very Good

Aviary

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Aviary’s mission statement is to “Make the world’s creation accessible.” Although their mission is a little vague, their free image editing application is surprisingly robust for tools you can access completely for free. Aviary is a free, online digital editing software application to manipulate photos and images, or create your own. This tool is best suited for people who already have some knowledge of digital image manipulation. If you are a novice or cannot afford to purchase high-end software – the tools are great and worth mastering but expect a fairly intense learning curve.

Our Rating: Excellent

SumoPaint

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Sumo Paint is an online image editing application that offers an interactive platform to image enthusiasts to play with images. It serves as an expressive outlet where individuals can utilize their creativity in producing stunning images. The application is rich in a number of handy features that help users in creating and editing images magnificently. With its whole bunch of useful tools, the website looks after almost every aspect in creating, editing and commenting images online. Whether it’s about creating impressive shapes, eye-catchy text, adding hues, mixing colors, or anything, the website proves to be praiseworthy in all such facets related with creating astonishing images.

Our Rating: Very Good

72Photos

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72Photos is often regarded as an extension of Flickr (which is a very popular image hosting service provided by Yahoo). 72Photos has a very nice user interface design which makes is seamless and easy to use and navigate and the various tools and options that are provided along really makes it one of the most comprehensive image editing tool around.

Our Rating: Excellent

Pixenate

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Pixenate is an online photo editing application. You can upload a photo and fully edit it. After you are finished, you can save it to your computer or to Flickr. Pixenate looks simple and is simple to use. All the functions you expect are there and everything can be undone. We found that the website responded a bit slowly.

Our Rating: Very Good

Dr.Pic

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Broadly speaking, this editor enables you to upload a picture from your computer or camera and then apply a host of effects to it. These include guassian blurs and oil paints along with grayscales and related effects. Of course, the picture itself can be resized and cropped at will, and text can be added as you see fit.
Once you have finished editing your picture you can save it either to your computer or the Internet. When saving the picture you can also specify the file format, and have your pick from standard options such as JPG, GIF and PNG

Our Rating: Good

Picture2Life

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Picture2Life provides all standard photo editing features and adjustment tools for quick editing. Its unique panel on the left displays all previews for your image for each effect, so you can see what your picture is going to look like when you apply the effect. Moreover, there are different samples or combination for every effect or tool, allowing you to quickly browse them and find what you like. The set of effects/filters does not only contain common features like Black&White, Sepia or Blur, it also contain many advanced effects, like Checkerboard, Fish Eye, or Kuwahara, which are not found on many other web image editors.

Our Rating: Very Good

LunaPic

lunapic 17 Best Online Photo Editing Tools Compared

Lunapic has little in the way of photo and image editing that most online image editing sites don’t have, but makes up for its also-ran edit features with its unique animation and image creation tools and features, letting users add engaging animation effects to existing photos or create from scratch. Like most software-based paint programs, Lunapic is mouse driven, meaning that users lacking in a steady hand or using the mouse pad on a laptop or netbook might not be able to benefit from the tools as much as a stationary PC or a mouse-enabled laptop user would be. Nevertheless, most other tools, both animation and traditional photo editing, are straightforward, requiring less manual cueing than the image creation and design features.

Our Rating: Very Good

Pixlr

pixlr 17 Best Online Photo Editing Tools Compared

Pixlr stands out for the depth and breadth of its image design and editing tools and features, combining many of the tried and true tools available in most Paint programs with high-quality features that have become ubiquitous in image editing programs, software-based or not. Pixlr also includes basic layer canvas tools and features, letting users free-hand crop, move, super-impose and interpolate images and rotate and remove entire canvases, all important tools for true image editing.

Our Rating: Excellent

At A Glance

Service NameVerdictSupport

Layers

Auto FixSupported Image FormatsIntegration With Flickr/Picasa
Photoshop.comExcellentNOYESJPG, PNGNO
FlauntRExcellentNOYESJPG, PNGYES
SnipshotExcellentYESYESGIF, JPG, PDF, or PNGNO
Pixer.usGoodNOYESJPGNO
PicnikExcellentYESYESJPG, PNGYES
ImproveYourImagesGoodNONOJPGNO
SplashupVery GoodYESYESJPG, PNGYES
CellseaGoodNOYESJPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF, FPX and PNMNO
FotoFlexerVery GoodYESYESJPG, PNGYES
AviaryExcellentYESYESJPG, PNGYES
SumoPaintVery GoodNOYESJPG, PNGYES
72PhotosExcellentNOYESJPG, PNGYES
PixenateVery GoodYESYESJPG, PNGYES
Dr.PicGoodNOYESJPGYES
Picture2LifeVery GoodNOYESJPGYES
LunaPicVery GoodNOYESJPGNO
PixlrExcellentYESYESJPGYES

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