What Are Some Picture Editing Websites?

Remember the old days of editing pictures for the Internet (let's say about two years ago)? First you had to load the picture on your computer. Then fire up your photo editing software and try to remember the difference between your gradient fills and your drop shadows. When you were satisfied, then you had to export the picture and then upload it to your website. Whew.

Nowadays, that's all changed. With the introduction of Web2.0 and browser friendly technologies such as AJAX and Flash, you can edit your online photos all from the comfort of your browser. Got some redeye in a picture uploaded to Facebook? Turn on one of these friendly programs and make yourself picture perfect.

Picnik

Picknik features a simple and easy to use interface. There are two different service levels: free and premium. The free level gives you a choice of fonts, shapes, frames and touch-up effects. Plus, it allows you to keep a history of all the edits you've done to your picture, so you can undo them if you think you've gone too far. The premium service requires a monthly fee and gives you all the above features, plus access to advanced editing tools such as curves and levels.

FotoFlexer

FotoFlexer's key feature is that it allows you to connect to popular social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace to edit your photos within your browser. It also integrates with online photo sites such as Flickr. Of course, it has all the bells and whistles that the other sites have, including titling, image correction, etc, but where FotoFlexer really shines is fixing that Facebook photo that you probably shouldn't have posted.

DrPic.com

DrPic started off from a small college project and grew to a website that was handling over 10,000 edits a day in 2008. The site is free to use and comes with all the standard photo editing effects. About DrPic and PicResize. The site is built on a proprietary interface using HTML, Java and AJAX technology, which means it doesn't require Adobe Flash to work its magic.

Pixlr

Pixlr is a Flash-based editor that prides itself on speed. Of course, this is determined by your computer, so if you're still running Windows 95, this might not be the solution for you. Although they stress that the site is built for non-professionals, the user interface of Pixlr is a bit complicated. However, they do have two helpful tutorials online.

Photoshop

The granddaddy of all photo editing software, Adobe jumped into the online photo editing frenzy with the launch of the website Photoshop. Like Pixlr, Photoshop uses a Flash based interface (Adobe owns Flash) to deliver their online editing suite. Don't let the Photoshop name scare you, though. You don't need to be a photo professional to use this site. The tools are all laid out in a clean and simple fashion and, like many of the other sites here, Photoshop integrates with Facebook, Flikr and Picasa.

References

• Picnik website
• Fotoflexer website
• Drpic website

Resources

• Picnik
• Fotoflexer
• DrPic