Online image editors are in a rage these days. Everyday, you hear about the release of a new online photo editor that claims to be the next big thing.
From among the great number of online editors, we have hand picked some of the best ones that we found to be are noteworthy. With each site description, we have tried to tell you how or what feature of the editor forced us to include it in the list.
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1. Picnik
Picnik seems to be the most popular online image editor in this list. The interface of the site is beautiful, responsive and can put many desktop applications to shame. You don’t need to know anything about photo editing to use Picnik. Most noteworthy feature is its integration with other Web2.0 services. You can pull photos directly from most photo sharing sites such as Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, Facebook, Photobucket and pretty much provide any image URL to start editing it.
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2. Splashup
Splashup, earlier known as Fauxto, is a web based photo editor that looks just like a desktop application. Users coming from Photoshop should feel right at home with this editor.
You can open files from your computer or from all popular photo sharing sites. You can open multiple images in a tabbed environment. It supports the concept of layers, like Gimp and Photoshop. Splashup also has the ability to import images from your webcam.
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3. Pixlr
Relatively new into the arena, but have made quite a big fan fare in a short time. Pixlr described as Photoshop in a browser, continues to amaze many.
It lacks features like importing from other sites like flickr, but you can still open an image by specifying its URL.
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4. Snipshot
Unlike the three editors mentioned above, Snipshot is not a flash based editor. It’s a highly responsive, Ajax powered image editor. So, this should be your choice if stranded in a computer having no flash plugins. You can import photos stored in your computer or from the web by mentioning its address. You can also import photos from flickr using a bookmarklet. Snipshot allows you to export and save your photos in a number of different formats - JPG, PNG, TIF, BMP and even PDF and Photoshop PSD.
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5. Pixenate
Pixenate, formerly called PXN8 is a simple but intuitive application. With a straight forward interface, it lets you play with all its features relatively easy compared to others. You can edit photos stored in your computer or import from a web site and save also save the edited photo back to your flickr account.
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6. Picture2Life
Picture2life is just another online image editor. But what makes it stand apart is the radical UI design for an image editor. Unlike all classical picture editors with toolboxes and a number of buttons, Picture2life has a descriptive side panel stacked into four vertical tabs – Quick Fixes, One Clicks, All and Featured. Selecting any tab replaces the sidebar with a new sidebar that contains a number of options like Brightness, Color, Contrast etc. But, instead of showing them as buttons, it takes your picture and shows you how the picture will look if the effect is applied and uses this as thumbnails for the buttons. Pretty useful for beginners who don’t know the difference between stuff like hue and saturation (and that includes us).
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7. LunaPic
LunaPic isn’t as jazzy as the other image editors in this list. However, this one provides ability to convert your images to animated GIF files, which differentiates it from others. There are a couple of ready made fancy animation effects, that you can apply to your photo. This is an apt tool for creating your social network profile image – for Facebook, MySpace etc.
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8. FotoFlexer
Want to have a Picasa running in your browser? Try FotoFlexer. It describes itself as the most powerful online digital photo editor in existence. If you are searching for a feature in online picture editors, then FotoFlexer has it.
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9. Adobe Photoshop Express
If it’s from Adobe, it’s gonna be big. Photoshop express, apart from being an image editor, also acts as a photo organizer and online photo storage. It provides up to 2 GB of online space and ability to create and share albums which distinguishes it from other online image editors.
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10. Aviary
Aviary is a suite of 4 tools among which Phoenix – an online image editor is the one which we are interested right now. Phoenix is a very powerful image editor that can be said as a true competitor for Photoshop, just that this one runs from a browser. The Phoenix page contains many videos on using it to produce some stunning photo effects.
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Did we miss anyone important? What is your favorite online image editor? Tell us in the comments.
Nice List, Useful when Adobe Photoshop is not available. Stumbled!
Great list. Thanks
Excellent list, great descriptions. I'll have to try them and see which one suits me best. :) Dugg.
Agreed with Satbir - only very rarely do I find myself without PS nearby, but these are a great resource for a quick and dirty photo edit. Stumbled and BM'd. Thanks!
Wow, it's a really nice list of image editors. You know, I was very fortunate to find this. I was thinking of getting some good editors for posting images in my blog, CuteWriting.
One more thing I need to mention is that the images are best viewed in the PNG format. It takes the best space value for a level of quality. In fact, it is a lossless format, that gives exactly the same quality as its corresponding bmp format, which is the original image format.
Loved your article
Lenin
Don't forget SUMO Paint!!!
http://www.sumopaint.com/
Nice post :)
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This is awesome enough, nice consolidated list - thanks for posting
Vivek
[http://www.developersnippets.com]
Wow, thsoe are some pretty amazing tools for being web based. Amazing!
Jess
www.anolite.echoz.com
Fun coverage, and glad to see Picnik mentioned — not only do they have a great UI, they have great customer support too. Picnickers are very nice!
I recently made a video tutorial showing how to spice up website screenshots with Picnik: http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/2571773193/
I look forward to new effects being added with Flash 10 (I was beta-testing them recently).
Will also check out some of the others on this list I wasn't familiar with before... thankyou!
Video tutorial: how to spice up website screenshots with Picnik
For those without storage, or even those with storage but no selective sharing, check out Kadoo; 10GB free w/ lots of permission options for storing and sharing the photos.
Very nice list, great job! I prefer Picnik or Photoshop express.
You forgot about www.pizap.com . I think pizap is the easiest and most fun:
www.pizap.com
Photos are always fun to share, and
its great to be able to edit them a little.
Having easy access to photo tools is
exciting!
thanks from tony
Great resource, Thanks! I love Picnik. I will use your list in my class teaching seniors how to make slideshows using free website applications. And I'll be sure to mention your list on my site, fauxflix.com.
I had no idea there were this many editors. This is definitely bookmark worthy, thanks.
Super cool info and links!
Thanks and cheers!
Perla
Great list. I'll echo it in my publications.
Peter iNova
www.digitalsecrets.net
You forgot Flauntr.
http://www.flauntr.com/flauntr/
Thank you all.
Flauntr is great. Especially for making mobile desktop pictures.
Any suggestions about which of these would be best to replace Windows' Image Composer?
Dude, what's with all the babies?!
I miss CanvasPaint on that list.
http://canvaspaint.org/
This article was a great find...I'm going to check out Picnik now!
If only I had found this sooner! I searched and searched for the perfect online photo editor (since photoshop is too expensive) and I searched and searched and searched, and I found 2 of those on your list... Why couldnt I have just found this page... It would have made life a whole lot simple.
Picnik is cool and i tried a few others...check out Flauntr..they are growing fast and they have an excellent service
You forgot to write about SumoPaint.
You can try as well http://funphotobox.com it has a lot of amazing effects whihc you can apply to you photos
Thanks, gimp is also fun and FREE
Great. Thank you for sharing this.
was looking for photo shop alternative (couldn't afford it) THANKS :)
stumbled... awesome site! I've been looking for a new online photo-editor, since i can't use picasa anymore :(
i can't wait for an AIR version of Aviary (and the other ones i've been discovering here) due to a loosy internet bandwith in my place
ohh blinggee and bling esay u 4got every one go 2 desingn my room.com its sooo kool u get 2 design your own basement kitchen living room and its realisctic! sumo paint is fun 2!pizza is a antherr photo site! photo flexer!flaunter!primps!glass giant!juke pix!
You forgot to mention Sumo Paint http://www.sumopaint.com/web/
A very good online finish editor
As a PS alternative, GIMP is spectacular! And Free! And Complete, with Free comprehensive (big) manual! I use PS at work, because I must - it is all that they will allow. I use GIMP at home where I have a choice!
Great! It is much better than Microsoft Office Picture editor...
Richard
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http://keychainplus.club.officelive.com
cool...i really needed it!
Very useful files search engine. rapidshare-provider.com is a search engine designed to search files in various file sharing and uploading sites.
There's also another very useful program called GIMP designed to be a PhotoShop replica. Completely free. Good stuff.
wow oh its so panget lhat
Paintnet is a very good program too, and it's all free! They even have updates on a regular base.
Awesome
aviary seems like a good one and the second one on the list too.
i'm gonna check some of them out.
Irfanview, Gimp, Photoscape and Picasa.
BUT Picnik is the shiz. Hands down.
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