Thanks to Canada AM and Kris Abel this morning for listing off the following sites:
No software to download, free to use, these photo-editing websites are just as powerful and sophisticated as the boxed programs you’ve paid for in the past or came included with your camera.
Photoshop Express
https://www.photoshop.com/express/
Express is by far the easiest version of Photoshop created and its free.
It’s an online organizer and web gallery that has the ability to grab your photos directly from Facebook and other photo-sharing communities. From the gallery itself you can make simple adjustments such as rotating or adding a caption. In the editing mode you can crop, rotate, tweak, add fill lights, effects, distortions, and use the infamouse “touch-up” tool to erase blemishes and other objects in your photos. While professionals will want to stick with the store-bought version (which offers layers and masking), this is the first Photoshop that is family-friendly. The main advantage of using Photoshop is that it lends itself well to creating artistic works from scratch. If you’re willing to put in the time to master the toolsets, you can achieve some impressive results.
FotoFlexer
http://fotoflexer.com
More than just fixing photos, FotoFlexer offers a wide, wide range of tweaks and effects. This is the ideal service for the person who want to skip the lessons and head straight to a set of big friendly icons that do all the cool effects for you.You can easily cut a person out of a photo and then resize them to make them fit into another. You can change a person’s hair colour, add animations, props, and twist images to any shape. The beautify section includes a blemish remover and “wrinkle cream” to smooth out facial lines. All this and powerful fixing tools too.
PicNik
http://www.picnik.com/
PicNik is designed around quick, once-click edits. It is simple, simple, simple. Very few icons to play with, very simple edits. It uses slider bars to make adjustments to exposure and contrast, offers automatic fixes for red eye and offers a huge gallery of effects and tweaks. You can add shapes, frames, text, and effects (snow, doodles, neon, fractal zooms, etc.). Touch-ups include teeth whitening and blemish removal.
Rsizr
http://rsizr.com/
If there’s one task the above programs tend to do poorly it’s resize or change the format of a picture. Rsizr is designed just to do that one function and it does it extraordinarily well.
When you rescale or resize a photo, there’s always some loss of quality, but Rsizr uses a mathematical algorithm to analyze your photo and use a technique called “seam carving” to make sure the most detailed sections of your photos, the ones you want, remain uneffected. Once you use the “retarget” tool to analyze your photo, you’ll notice a series of red lightning bolts flickering across the photo. These are seams of pixels that have been identified as disposable, little slices that can be removed or duplicated to thin or wider a photo with minimal distortion. It’s not the easiest web program to use at first, you’ll need to spend time in the help section, but once you master it the magic can be very entertaining and engrossing.
