11 Free Online Image Editing Tools

When it comes to image editing, there
are times when it can be a really entertaining activity for some. But
what happens when you need to modify a picture and you’re not at your
place with your fancy computer and much loved editing software?

Check out these online image editing applications and share your thoughts about them!


Picnik is one of the most recent -no signup required- editors and holder of a great looking Web 2.0 interface. It has a good balance of versatility and usability and easily integrates with Flickr and Picasa web albums. It has some fun creative tools, in addition to the photo correction basics.


Need a quick fix for a photo? Pixer.us allows you to edit your photos online within your browser, add special effects and save them in the most popular formats without registration. All modifications are done in a non-destructive way so your images will always keep its original quality.


Pleloadr is a clean-design editor intended to Flickr users (only works with a Flickr account) and is very easy to use. It includes basic tools like cropping, resizing, rotating and flipping, and some ‘advanced’ tools like image layers, histogram, scaling, moving, adding text and color channel graduation and several filters among others. Most of these are pop-up menus.


PXN8, pronounced "Pixenate", is one of the more feature-rich photo editing apps online. It may not look as pretty as Snipshot at first, but it's features are right there and there's no denying the fact. PXN8 lets you zoom in and out of the image, which is an extremely useful feature. Then, other than the usual crop, resize, rotate and color adjustment features, PXN8 also offers some ready filters to generally enhance a photo, to fill light in dark pictures, reduce/remove red eye, whiten parts (like teeth!), and to get the omnipresent sepia effect. There is a unique "Sprit Level" tool that lets you fix photos that were taken at an angle by mistake. If your pictures have a horizon that's not purely horizontal, this tool will rotate the image to level it up. It's essentially a rotate tool, but it does it automatically instead of you keying in manual rotation angles. There are also some "fun" effects such as the
one that gives your images rounded corners (so, so Web 2.0!), an interlaced video effect, a blur / out of focus effect and snow, so you can have Christmas in October!


Snipshot, formerly known as Pixoh, is a very true Web 2.0 site, complete with pure white backgrounds and
large fonts on the homepage. Jokes aside, it boasts of a good set of features like unlimited undo and redo, support for large files upto 10MB or upto 5000x5000 in resolution (that's 25 megapixels!), direct loading of images from anywhere on the web, including Flickr, support for PDF, JPG, GIF, PNG and TIF file formats (opening as well as saving) and also exporting directly to Flickr.


CellSea
- This picture editor covers all the basics common photo tasks. It also provides over 15 ways to correct color, exposure, and lighting problems. Transform your images using a collection of effects. Oil, Mosaic, Flare and more and professional-looking blur effects to your photos like Gaussian, Motion, Radial Blur and more.


Fauxto
is a full-featured, free range, ambitious image editor. It supports layers, filters, canvas size, free transform and other advanced features and options. This Photoshop-like is considered by many the most advanced online image editor available online. This application can certainly be a great solution to attain software results without installation, MBs and money concerns.


Online Image Editor
The name says it all. One of the most convenient browser-based online photo and image editor.
It provides an easy-to-use interface which allows to quickly create/edit images, photos or graphics in a drag-and-drop environment. The processing takes place on your computer before uploading it to the server saving time and bandwidth.


With Onlinephototool
you can edit and save your images, screenshots and photos online. If you register you could save with pictures online as well. It offers all the basic picture editing options like resize, filters, sepia, black/white, crop, rotate and flip, and more.

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Phixr is quite impressive. It offers a toolbox quite similar looking to the one found in Photoshop or Fireworks and it offers more features to work with the images than PXN8. Almost all the tools pop up a more comprehensive box (not window) that let you select the options for the tool and also let you preview the result before applying.
In addition to whatever is found in PXN8, Phixr offers you a paint bucket tool to fill an area with a particular color, a noise removal tool for grainy, low light camera pictures, a variety of effects such as pop art, charcoal drawing, oil painting, emboss, sphere, funnel, dot art, posterize, shade, spray, swirl, wave etc., a photo overlay option for super-imposing preset images (such as hearts) or an option to mix two of your own photos and it even lets you add text to your images!
Impressive!


XMG Image Editor
provides an interface for users to manage, edit, and share their images online. Not only you can perform all basic editing functions with this editor but you can also upload, tag, and label multiple images at a time, even from a zip file and post them directly to your chosen album or social network site or pre-generated codes for posting your images on any website.