Jun 21, 2011

Free Online Photo Editors: Part I

Digital Cameras, Cell Phones, Web Cams; There are lots of ways to take a picture. After you've snapped all those photos, there are many sites that can help you dress them up or fix them up. We'll look first at a few ' sites where you can have some fun with your pics.

Dress them Up

Kizoa

is a Free service to create slide shows and edit photos with fun effects, animations, music and more. Share your creations on the Internet or burn them to DVD.


Loonapix

Make funny photos by embedding your face from the photo to the various templates.


PhotoFunia

One of the more popular sites with tons of creative backgrounds to play around with.


Fun Photo Box

If you don’t get what you want from PhotoFunia,  check out Fun Photo Box.


MyTradingCards.com

Create Baseball, Basketball, and other custom cards with your own photo.  Very Realistic looking cards.



Avatara

Create your own 3D avatar for use on the internet and animate it if you like.


There are other photo editing sites which have different options than the ones listed here. They will be covered in Part II.  But for now, let's move on to the fix your photo sites.

Want to remove the red 'vampire' eyes of someone in your photo? Want to remove someone completely from your photo? Maybe you have blurry pics, or ones that are too dark or too light.  These next sites are for more 'serious' photo editing. 



Fix Them Up

Photoshop

The Godfather of photo editing programs (used for all the graphics work in this blog) is Photoshop.  It's an expensive program to buy--around $200, but at Photoshop.com you can learn the program by doing real work on your own photos. If your photo's broken, Photoshop can fix it.  They also have tutorials where you can practice creating certain effects like the ones shown below. Registration required, but of course, it is free.




SplashUp is a easy to use photo editing software allowing everybody to create professional and experienced photo designs.



One of the finest online painting and photo editing programs. Create and share your art work with the world.


This is just a small sampling of the many sites on the net where you can be silly or serious with your photos.

Remember: If you find a site you like, bookmark it!!

Coming Next: Part II of photo editing and free places to create your own web site or blog

Hope you're enjoying your summer!

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