Five Best Online Image Editors
Editing your images on a desktop image editor might be ideal, but
sometimes you're away from your home workstation and need to do some
impromptu editing.
Sumo Paint
If
you're expecting online image editors to be anemic, you'll be surprised
by the extensive features of many of the nominees like Sumo Paint.
Sporting a toolbar, image navigator, swatches, and layers, Sumo Paint
does more than just crop and rotate images. In addition to having
layers, as some other editors do, Sumo Paint has support for blending
modes and other advanced layering magic like drop shadow and outer glow.
The brushes and ink tools offer a wide variety of shapes and textures.
If you like some of the paint-centric features of Sumo Paint, you'll
definitely want to check out the Gravity tool, which creates some pretty
interesting abstract paint effects. Sumo Paint also supports drag and
drop image opening for pictures you have stored in your Sumo Paint
account. Sumo Paint doesn't require a login for use, but if you sign up
for a free account you can store images online and participate in the
Sumo Paint community by submitting your work and ranking the work of
others.
Adobe Photoshop Express
Photoshop
Express is Adobe's offering in the online editing arena. One of the
first things you'll notice, and if you're an avid Photoshop user it's
sure to elicit at least a chuckle, is that out of all the online image
editors in the world, the one that looks the least like
Photoshop is the actual legitimate Photoshop offering from Adobe.
Nonetheless, the interface is easy to use and covers the basics nicely.
One of the best features of Photoshop Express is the film strip view
provided along the bottom of the editor when using a variety of the
adjustment tools. Instead of just giving you a slider to adjust the
saturation, white balance, and other subjective photo tweaks, Photoshop
Express displays the changes incrementally, letting you pick your
favorite from the gradient of choices. It's much faster for quick tweaks
than fiddling with sliders. If you want to use a slider, however they
haven't removed the feature; the more granular slider is underneath the
pictures, allowing you to fine tune to your heart's content. Under the
advanced feature set, you'll find tools like tinting, sketching, and
distortion. Adobe Photoshop Express is free but, unlike all the other
nominees in the Hive Five, it requires an account for you to use your
own photos. If you just want to play around with it, the demo account
contains sets of pictures for you to play with.
Pixlr
Pixlr
takes a two-prong approach to image editing. When you visit Pixlr, you
can opt to use Pixlr Express or Pixlr Editor—seen here—depending on your
needs. Pixlr Express is a simple image editor with a right hand toolbar
which covers basic tasks like cropping, rotating, applying basic
correction filters, and so on. Pixlr Editor looks like a more
traditional photo-editing application, complete with a toolbar, menu
bar, and even navigator, layers, and history panels. If you're familiar
with desktop applications like Photoshop and GIMP, it won't take you
very long to find the location of tools like the clone stamp, selection
wand, and gradient map. The Pixlr Firefox extension allows you to grab images and screenshots from your browser and send them to Pixlr.
Picnik
Picnik
doesn't seek to emulate desktop editors with its simple toolbar design,
instead opting to make the most popular tools as high profile and
easily accessible as possible. Picnik has no Photoshop-esque sidebars,
palettes, or other advanced features in the main editing window. The
features it provides, however, are extremely intuitive and easy to use
with tool tips that pop up to help you use the various tools. If you
want to tweak your photo beyond basic cropping and color correction, you
can find over 30 image filters and a variety of tools (like a blemish
touch-up wand) under the Create tab. A premium version of Picnik is
available for $25 a year and gives you access to more advanced tools,
special effects, and other perks like bulk uploading.
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AVIARY
Aviary is another product by Adobe.com and they offer a free online photo editor that you can use to edit and upload your photos right on their site. It is built as a mobile app so you can download the app and use it with your photos that you take on mobile devices, as well.
It boasts plenty of filters and embellishments that you can add to your toolbox to create the best photos possible for your blogs or websites.
Adobe offers Aviary to seamless integrate with their other photo editing programs such as PhotoShop and others so you can sign in with your Adobe ID to do more with your photos.
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