Over the past few years, I’ve been accumulating links to — and experimenting with — various online photo editors and sites for photo effects. There are certainly a zillion of them out there.
I finally decided it was time to narrow all the links down into some kind of “The Best…” list, and have divided this post into two sections. The first part lists sites where you can upload your own images and, with no registration required (or, perhaps, in one or two instances, an extremely minimal registration process) easily edit the photo or add effects. The second section lists sites that I’ve specifically used with my English Language Learner students. These sites let you easily grab an image off the web, lets you add add a speech bubble to it, and then gives you a more or less permanent url address for your creation that you can post on a student or teacher website/blog.
I’m sure I will have missed some applications out there, so feel free to share your suggestions in the comments section. I suspect there are also additional “categories” photo apps out there besides the two I’m using.
Using my categories and criteria, here are my choices for The Best Sites For Online Photo-Editing & Photo Effects (they tend to be fairly similar — with a few exceptions that are primarily “resizers” — so I’m just going to list the links and not describe each one):
PHOTO-EDITING & EFFECTS FOR UPLOADED IMAGES:
Tuxpi
Change Images
Aviary
Fun Photo Box
Thumba
Big Huge Labs
Dr. Pic
Pic Resize
Rsizr
Pixenate
FotoFlexer
Be Funky
Picnik (I had meant to include this one I originally, but reader Brenda Hallowes pointed out that I had not. Thanks, Brenda!)
PhotFunia is suggested by reader Ann Carnevale.
Pixlr
Citrify
PiZap
Pic Ghost is a new online photo editor that lets you upload up to twenty photos at a time. It’s editing functions are rather limited now — you can resize the images and add a watermark to them — but they expect to be adding more features in the future. Their ability to upload multiple images is nice.
The Pic Lab
Aviary has announced an HTML 5 photo editor.
Live Photo Editor
Pic Juice
Any Making
Picozu
enThread is a super-simple online tool for photo-editing — drag, drop, edit.
SITES FOR ADDING “SPEECH BUBBLES” TO WEB IMAGES:
Bubblr
Caption Bubble
Picbite
ImgOps is a new multi-use photo application that is worth a look.
iPiccy is an impressive all-purpose online photo editor. It pretty much lets you do whatever you want with your photo, including adding text and effects. You can upload an image or grab its url address off the Web.
PicFull
Clip Your Photos
Feedback is always welcome.
I finally decided it was time to narrow all the links down into some kind of “The Best…” list, and have divided this post into two sections. The first part lists sites where you can upload your own images and, with no registration required (or, perhaps, in one or two instances, an extremely minimal registration process) easily edit the photo or add effects. The second section lists sites that I’ve specifically used with my English Language Learner students. These sites let you easily grab an image off the web, lets you add add a speech bubble to it, and then gives you a more or less permanent url address for your creation that you can post on a student or teacher website/blog.
I’m sure I will have missed some applications out there, so feel free to share your suggestions in the comments section. I suspect there are also additional “categories” photo apps out there besides the two I’m using.
Using my categories and criteria, here are my choices for The Best Sites For Online Photo-Editing & Photo Effects (they tend to be fairly similar — with a few exceptions that are primarily “resizers” — so I’m just going to list the links and not describe each one):
PHOTO-EDITING & EFFECTS FOR UPLOADED IMAGES:
Tuxpi
Change Images
Aviary
Fun Photo Box
Thumba
Big Huge Labs
Dr. Pic
Pic Resize
Rsizr
Pixenate
FotoFlexer
Be Funky
Picnik (I had meant to include this one I originally, but reader Brenda Hallowes pointed out that I had not. Thanks, Brenda!)
PhotFunia is suggested by reader Ann Carnevale.
Pixlr
Citrify
PiZap
Pic Ghost is a new online photo editor that lets you upload up to twenty photos at a time. It’s editing functions are rather limited now — you can resize the images and add a watermark to them — but they expect to be adding more features in the future. Their ability to upload multiple images is nice.
The Pic Lab
Aviary has announced an HTML 5 photo editor.
Live Photo Editor
Pic Juice
Any Making
Picozu
enThread is a super-simple online tool for photo-editing — drag, drop, edit.
SITES FOR ADDING “SPEECH BUBBLES” TO WEB IMAGES:
Bubblr
Caption Bubble
Picbite
ImgOps is a new multi-use photo application that is worth a look.
iPiccy is an impressive all-purpose online photo editor. It pretty much lets you do whatever you want with your photo, including adding text and effects. You can upload an image or grab its url address off the Web.
PicFull
Clip Your Photos
Feedback is always welcome.
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