Image Editing Tools
My father gave me my first version of Adobe PhotoShop in 1993 and I was hooked with image editing.
The online web-based image editing sites and tools have been exploding in the last few months. It seems that every few days, I can add another cool tool to my growing number of options when I want to spruce up my images online, on any computer platform and with the freedom of working on and switching between my desktop, laptop, work, and friends computer with the only problem being how to remember my login information.
Here is my list (no particular order) of favorite Image Editing Tools online (of course they are all free)
- Flickr (Picasa)
Greatest value is its integration with Flickr. One click on the edit button and you are able to use basic editing functions like rotate, crop, resize, sharpen, etc.
- Cellsea
- Pixenate
- Phixr
Give your images and instant photo look, add speech bubbles, mix photos with other photos, add borders, etc.
- Graphita
- Picnik
Integrated with Flickr. Tons of Effects, Fonts, Shapes, Frames, Touch-up Tools
- Dumpr
Love the “Your photos in Art Museum” feature
- FotoFlexr
integration with Flickr. Cool effects
- LunaPic
I wrote a review of LunaPic a while ago. Really love the choice of effects
. - BeFunky
Read my review of befunky.com. Very cute cartoonizer feature.
- Image Chef
Animated images, photo frames… TONS of other image generators
- Flauntr
Integrates with Flickr. Overlays, Magazine Covers, Frames, Distortions, Light Effects, Texture, Canvases, Grunge, Compositions, invitations
- Aviary
Aviary is NOT an image generator, but a true image editor comparable to Photoshop. If you are into layers, gradients, clone stamps, hex colors, blending modes, etc this seems a cool and free alternative to PS.
I just received a beta invitation and am still playing with it. A more detailed review still to come.
Keep up with my Image Editor Del.icio.us bookmarks
Oooo! Oh! Thank you! I have a workshop coming up very soon on this, and some of these sites are new to me. Gotta go play with them. Thanks!
Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous. Thanks so much for all this and I use images all the time and encourage their widespread use with my students. I thought I knew a lot about many online tools but oh dear!!!…… not at all. Thank you for sharing all this work you put into the post.
While not strictly an image editor, you might also want to try toonlet as well, for an example of a fun, simple way to make your own webcomic blog in just a matter of minutes.
Toonlet places an emphasis on character creation, and features a powerful avatar system that let’s you make a broad range of characters that look authentically hand drawn.
From there, it’s easy to build out a library of moods for your characters to use in their comic strips.
Swing on by and check out the site, or take the toonlet tour:
http://www.toonlet.com/tour
Let us know what you think!
Thanks!
-Craig (from toonlet)
More fun photo tricks at http://www.FotoTrix.com (2,500 templates)
Wow! What FUN! I’ll be here for HOURS and hours… and hours… Thank you so much for putting these up for us.