ImageEditing

BeFunky With BeFunky anyone can transform their pictures into extraordinary works of art in just a few clicks. Photo Effects BeFunky has more effects than any other photo editor and features you won't find anywhere else. Changing your pictures into oil paintings, vintage polaroids, or pop art has never been easier. Photo Editing Use BeFunky's sleek and simple tools to make corrections: fix red eye, bad lighting, or dull colors in seconds. Frames, Goodies and Text Editor Give your creations even more character by adding speech bubbles, graphics, frames, and more.

PhotoPlus6.0 Downloadable software (free) PhotoPlus has all the features you will need for importing or creating pictures and animations as well as for manipulating colors and effects and final exporting. Built-in support for TWAIN scanners and cameras makes it easy to bring in your own photos, while comprehensive import filters let you open just about any standard bitmap image. Once you have your image in PhotoPlus, you can enhance and alter its onscreen appearance with a diverse toolkit of functions and effects. A full range of export options (with special attention to Web graphics), plus powerful optimization capabilities, round out this high-performing package.

VicMan's Photo Editing is a versatile image editor with an intuitive interface and a wide variety of features. This powerful application is user friendly, offering simple image editing, high productivity and easy customization. Now you don't have to fork out hundreds of dollars for a quality image editor. This award-winning application is freely downloadable and comes with a wide range of essential features for both novice users and professional designers. With **VCW VicMan's Photo Editor** you can refine your digital photos, draw artwork naturally and effortlessly, producing superb graphics for the web.



FxFoto Another program similar to Apple's iPhoto that helps PC users organize images as well do simple editing tasks. FunPhotor FunPhotor (PC only) is a photo "blending" program, allowing you to place your students at the steps of the Taj Mahal or orbiting earth in a shuttle.

Jalbum This cross-platform program that allows users to create photo albums for their Web pages is available in 28 languages.

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Picnik Picnik will give your photos new life. It’s so simple to use that that editing photos could easily become your fun new hobby, or help you expand your creativity. With the countless frames, embellishments and collages available, Picnik is a great service to use on all your photos. Upgrading to Picnik Premium will give you even more options, offering you advanced online photo editing tools that will take you pictures to the next level. With the extras such as levels, curves and dodging tools, along with effects like vibrance, texture and airbrush, there are no limitations with an upgrade to Picnik Premium.
 * Picnik**, our **TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award** winner, is a fast and easy __ [|online photo editing] __ service. With a variety of tools, you can restore and improve you photos or images. The numerous effects, textures, and embellishments will transform your pictures into personalized works of art. Picnik brings online photo editing to the comfort of your home, providing service to everyday people. Picnik helps you create quality edited pictures, and we're confident you won't be disappointed with the results.

In 2010, Picnik was bought by google. Now, Picnik exists in Google+ as a Creative Kit

Photoshop Express Adobe Photoshop is not an unfamiliar name in photo editing [|software] , and their impressive services can also be found online. **Photoshop Express**, Adobe's __ [|online photo editing] __ service, is the winner of our **TopTenREVIEWS Silver Award** because having Photoshop available directly to your internet-connected computer will make editing your photos fast and worry free, and still allow you to use some of the amazing tools and effects from Photoshop.The tools and basic features will make your photos stand out and impress. The auto correct tool will give you an easy, one-step fix for your photos, and the advanced features will allow you to adjust your photo to your personal and unique style. If you're having trouble figuring out the style you like, the Style Match feature is a great place to look for inspiration and easy solutions. Plus, the organizer included with the application will help you store and share your creations.


 * Pixlr**
 * Pixlr** is an __ [|online photo editing] __ service that offers numerous editing tools and effects Not only can you quickly edit and add effects to your photos, you will also be able to create your own images using the many paint tools – and it's all available directly on the tool bar.



Navigation through Splashup is a little confusing, especially if you are unfamiliar with the professional photo editing [|software]
 * FotoFlexer**
 * FotoFlexer** takes the stress out of __ [|online photo editing] __ with its simple, step-by-step process and its easy-to-apply effects. There are many great ways to use FotoFlexer, from quick editing to fast transformation, for creating that one-of-a-kind photo. With all the decorations available, there is no limit to what you can do with your photos.
 * Splashup**
 * Splashup** is an __ [|online photo editing] __ service that allows you to edit your photos the in same way a lot of the software-based editing products do. Splashup gives you the tools, features, and effects you will need to get your photos looking professional. Many of the most basic tools – the ones that get used most often – are found on the tool bar that is located directly on Splashup’s workspace. Having the tool bar makes fixing the most common issues with you photo fast as easy.
 * this interface is based on. And the terms and vocabulary can feel especially unfamiliar if you do not already have knowledge of what they are referring too. This will make it difficult for some to find the effect or tool you need.**

Splashup offers many basic effects, like grayscale and sharpen, that you will want to use to enhance the look of your photos. Splashup’s one-click effects make it simple for you to apply edits to your photo, adjusting your photo automatically. This will allow you to quickly make the changes you want, and you won't need a lot of experience with the different tools to quickly get the hang of creating just the effect you want. The editing tools available are fairly basic. Splashup only offers crop, rotate and resize tools, as well as some advanced tools. However, the advanced tools are pretty obscure options that users may not use very often, if at all. Such options include lasso, free transform and smudge. There are a good number of tools, like saturation, contrast, and brightness that help to adjust the color and exposure of your photos giving you the control of your photo’s overall look. There are plenty of options available for you to import and export your photos with Splashup. Import photos from your computer, [|Facebook]
 * Photobucket, Flicker, and Picasa. Splashup allows you to export your photos back to your computer and directly to the same photo sharing and social media sites. Splashup offers a forum and blog for information and help with their online photo editing service. If you have a question or problem and cannot find an answer in either of those resources, Splashup does list their contact information so you can contact them directly for help.**

LunaPic The interface for LunaPic is fairly straightforward. The layout is what makes it a little difficult to work with. There is a lot going with ads and examples, especially on the home page. All the movement, along with colorful backgrounds and fonts, make the layout less aesthetically pleasing and more challenging to work with than other online photo editing services. LunaPic offers a number of ways to import your photos. You can import your photos from your computer, [|Facebook] __MySpace, Flickr and more. Once you've finished editing them, you can export them right back to your computer or your photo sharing and social media sites. LunaPic makes it easy for you to upload and share your photos, but it can be difficult to see exactly where you need to go to make that happen because of its distracting layout.__ LunaPic offers a tool bar for the basic editing tools, like resize, text and undo. The features on the tool bar are the basic ones you will most often use, which makes it easy to find and use the tools you need. Tabs organize the effects and animations, including exposure, tint, fire, glitterize and rain. It is not just the animations that are unique to LunaPic; there are also effects available that you will not find with other online photo editing services, such as comic book, coloring book and Lego. Most of these features are applied with just one-click, making them quick and easy to use. LunaPic will adjust your photos automatically. With LunaPic you are also able to customize your own collage or make a slide show of your edited photos. And there are plenty of layouts to create a personalized holiday card. These options allow you to go beyond editing your photos to create one-of-a-kind images. LunaPic has a forum page and tutorials, as well as a FAQs page, to help with any questions you might have. If you have a question or problem and can't find the answers on any of these resources, LunaPic also offers a contact portal so you can email specific questions or comments.
 * LunaPic** has a unique take on __ [|online photo editing] __. While they offer most of the tools and effects you will need to edit your photos such as crop, rotate, black and white, sepia and color adjustments, LunaPic also gives you a wide variety of animations like snowfall, reflecting and transitions that you can apply to your photo. These animations add a whole new level to your photos and they are not available in any of the other online photo editing services we reviewed.

You have to search through a number of tabs in order to find the effect you need. These tabs are labeled with terms that you might be unfamiliar to many people, and applying an effect to your photo is not as simple as a click of the mouse. When you apply features like the hue and saturation adjustments, you will need to use a slider tool to adjust the effect to be applied to your photo. For anyone not familiar with photo editing, this process can be a little frustrating. Once you become more familiar with what Sumo Paint has to offer, there are a number of ways to take advantage of the effects and tools. Sumo Paint only offers the option to import to and export from your computer. This gives Sumo Paint a disadvantage when compared to other online photo services that integrate with [|social]  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #006400; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #006400; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">[|media] and photo sharing sites. Although, Sumo Paint does allow you to email your photos, giving you an easy way to share your photos with loved ones. Sumo Paint offers helpful answers to questions through their FAQs page. There are also tutorials and a forum page available if you are looking for further assistance. Unfortunately there's no way to contact Sumo Paint directly with specific questions or concerns. However, because the information on their website is rather comprehensive, you likely won't need to contact the company directly.
 * Sumo Paint**
 * S****umo Paint** has an impressive looking interface that is pretty simple to use, once you are familiar with where things are. The tool bar makes it easy to find and use the most basic tools such as crop and resize, as well as some more advanced tools like the lasso and wand. Navigation can get a little confusing, though, when you need to find an effect beyond the basics on the tool bar. Sumo Paint does offer a good number of tools and effects for you to use, including tint and black and white, making Sumo Paint one of our top ten choices in__ [|online photo editing] __ services.

PiZap is designed to primarily a for social media sites; it provides an easy online photo editor that integrates directly with <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #006400; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #006400; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">[|Facebook] , Photobucket, MySpace, Flicker, Picasa, and other social media and photo sharing sites. PiZap is also able to import and export directly to and from your computer.
 * PiZap**
 * PiZap** is a fun __ [|online photo editing] __ service. The features allow you to convert your photo into a one-of-kind creation. With the number of stickers available, it is easy to create wacky images of you and your friends.

The interface for PiZap is fairly easy to use. The effects and stickers are organized in to five tabs, making it easy to find and apply whichever features you want to your photo. The basic editing tools, such as rotate, flip and zoom, are available right on the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #006400; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #006400; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">[|workspace] . Although these features are not labeled, the symbols make it easy for you to figure what the tools are if you are a little familiar with photo editing. If you are unfamiliar with the symbols used for the tools on the workspace, hover your curser over the symbol and a pop-up bubble appears explaining what the tool does.

The editing features available from PiZap are minimal. The service offers only a few of the basic tools you will need, including rotate, flip and zoom. And it's missing even a few of the basic tools, such as cropping or resizing tools, which are offered in most other photo editing services. PiZap does have features that allow you to adjust the hue, saturation, and brightness of your photos. While these features are useful for enhancing your photos, they are difficult to find and hard to use efficiently. They are hidden away in the effects and filter tab when it would be more straightforward if they were available directly on the workspace with the other editing tools. PiZap's focus seems to be on the design service side of things, offering countless stickers you can add to your photos. You'll find everything from talking bubbles to shapes, and there are even face-editing stickers available such as hats, glasses and even hair to truly take your photo and make it something fun and crazy and unique. You can also take your photo to the next level with effects like black and white, sepia and tint, as well as distortions like fisheye, blur and pixelate. PiZap gives you the ability to create unique images. The effects and stickers are easy to use; however, it will take a little practice to get the face-editing stickers to perfectly align with your photo. Even if your image is not perfect you will have a lot of fun working with you photos in PiZap. PiZap has a contact portal available to you if you have a question about the service. PiZap is simple enough that you should not run into any serious issues, meaning you might not need any extra help.

Pixenate offers editing tools, such as crop, rotate, red eye and teeth whitening. There are a few adjustments available, including contrast and brightness. All of these tools can be used to give your photos a professional look. The tools are found on Pixenate’s tool bar. Pixenate also offers what they call “fun effects,” where you can add text, frames, and stickers that will enhance the look of your photos. Pixenate offers all the editing tools you will need, but it is lacking a little in effects. There are effects such as black and white, sepia and textures available, but common effects like tint, invert and sketch are not available with Pixenate. These omissions are disappointing because these effects are available in most of the other photo editing services we reviewed. The only way to import photos to the service is from your <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #006400; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #006400; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">[|computer] . This can be a downside to the service when you compare it other photo editing services that offer options for importing your photos from photo sharing and social media sites. When it comes to exporting your edited photo, Pixinate allows you to export to your computer or to Flicker. Pixenate also has some options for printing your photos and making your images into unique gifts such as bags, shirts, mugs and mouse pads. These gifts give you a fun way to take your edited photos and create something personable for you or someone special.
 * Pixenate**
 * Pixenate** is an __ [|online photo editing] __ service that offers just the basics. It has a very simple interface, making it easy to find all the effects and tools available. The color adjustments and effects are easy to find, but some of them are a little difficult to use. For example, features like hue and saturation require you to adjust the percentage of the effect. Having to gauge the effect you want to a precise number can make it difficult to use these tools efficiently. Also, compared to other online photo editing services, Pixenate takes a longer time to apply any edits or adjustments to your photos. Overall, this is a less efficient service because you will be spending more time not only adjusting effects but also waiting for Pixenate to apply the effect to your photo.

An email address is listed on their site, so you can contact Pixenate if you have a question about the service. Compared to other services, the support here available is a little lacking, but Pixenate is a straightforward online photo editing service. You might not need any help in figuring it out.

Irfanview Ask any techie and you'll probably hear IrfanView mentioned as one of the top two or three pieces of freeware around. For PCs only, IrfanView helps you crop, add effects (sharpen, blur, color depth), create a slide show, and convert images from one format to another (.jpg to .pict). And, you can do many of these things in batches (multiple photos at once), saving time! Lastly, this is a small program, saving valuable space on your hard drive.



iPhoto Diet Has your iPhoto library grown to 3000 photos and videos? Because photos and videos take up so much space, this photographic binging has slowed down the computer. It's time to go on a photo diet. iPhoto Diet to the rescue! A free download for Mac users, iPhoto Diet looks for duplicate photos and eliminates them, removes iPhoto's backups of modified or rotated photos, deletes thumbnail icons, finds photos that are floating outside of albums, deletes needless folders and files from iPhoto, and more. (Note: A warning on iPhoto Diet's Web site says you should back up your photos -- on a zip drive or external hard drive probably -- before using the program.) iPhoto Diet is available in eight languages.

Gimp Want the power and features of PhotoShop without the expense? Try Gimp, an open source alternative. GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. This freeware program is truly cross-platform (PC, OS X, Unix, and, gulp, Source itself!), and it offers many of the high-powered image-viewing and image-editing features as PhotoShop. Edit in layers, paint, transform, use effects filters, and perform channel and color operations like the pros. Best used by high school students in design courses or by teachers with intermediate (or higher) tech skills.

Picasa Love your PC, but wish you had iPhoto like some of your fellow teachers? Check out Google's free downloadable photo viewer and editor called Picasa (PC only)! As soon as you open Picasa, it searches for all the photos on your computer, finding even those great photos you long forgot you had. Picasa then organizes photos into date-specific albums, like iPhoto. The program is invaluable for the elementary classroom teacher with lots of candid shots from every field trip, performance, and other special event in the last five years. The program also offers simple editing tools -- get rid of red eye, change color settings, get artsy with sepia tones, write captions, zoom in, and, for you photo hounds, manipulate photos shot in manual mode. Great for any teacher at any skill level -- and easy for students in grades 4 and up to use as well. Apps:

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