Monday, April 19, 2010

Some popular free Online photo gallery

DevianArt-free with unlimited storage.
Facebook - free with unlimited storage.
Flickr - free account can upload 2 videos and 100MB worth of photos each calendar month up to 200 images only.
Imageshack-free with unlimited amount of space.
Photobucket-Up to 500 MB of storage space for images and video clips and up to 10 GB of monthly traffic for free account.
Picasa-maximum 1GB free storage for free account.
Shutterfly-free with unlimited storage
Windows Live skydrive-free with 25GB storage.
Woophy -free with unlimited number of uploading per day.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Some powerful free photo editing softwares.

Gimp
Photoshop alternative with lot of features.


Photofiltre
Editor: resize, rotate, flip, crop, text, transparency mask.
Editing tool: magic wand tool, color picker, paint, clone, smudge, blur, spray, line.
Color: brightness/contrast, hue/saturation, color balance, auto correct, add shadow, highlights, replace color, swap RGB channel,  gradient.
Filter: soften, sharpen, noise, relief, color, artistic, visual effect, deform (lake reflection), stylize, aged effect, frame (3D),  flatten, edges (color edge), textures, photomasque.


Photoscape
Editor: resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, backlight correction, frames, balloons, mosaic mode, adding text, objects, drawing pictures, cropping, red eye removal, blooming, filters(e.g. Film effect, vignetting, cellophane, make a box, reflection, emboss, region out of focus, graduated tint, jitter, noise, blur, distort, crystallize.)
-Page allow you to merge multiple photos on the page frame to create one final photo
-combine multiple photos.
-easily create animated GIF
-Slice a photo into several pieces using splitter.
-batch edit, screen capture, color picker, raw converter.


Photopos pro
Edit - flip, rotate, resize, red eye, sharpen, blur, edges, filters, morphing filters, custom filter, add object.
Tool box-select, magic wand, crop, color picker, paint, custom paint, clone, super magic, lines,shape, fill, text, text over path, refiner. eraser, custom eraser.
Frame-classic, mask, overlay -
Effects:-
-deformation (perspective, shear, spin, pinch, wave, zigzaag, line slice, offset, random, circle, fish eye, stretch out)
-color (solarize, colorize, xolarize, posterize, fade to gray, metalize, RGB, duotone, grayscale, sepia), color curve. replace.
-light (shadow, inner shadow, glow, inner glow, high light, neon light)
Optics (mosiac, sphere, len 1 & 2, mirrors)
-magical (sparkles, on fire, stars, star dust, fireworks, bubbles, spheres)
-noise (gaussian , negative exp, rayleigh, uniform )
-more (button, bevel, 3D, outline, inline, emboss, paint, circular coordinates.)
-Layer.


Pixia

-Japanese painting and retouching freeware.
Paint - Fill, Tone Filter-artistic filter, Fip, Rotate, Text.
Image - Color adjustment, color balance, contrast,
Selection -mask,layer , blur effect.

Other popular and easy to use freeware you may like:

Paint.net
Picasa

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Some nice online photo editors

Adobe Photoshop Express
Features: Decorate (bubbles, costumes), Pop color, distort, sketch, crop, rotate, tint, exposure,frame, black/white, storage up to 2GB.
**Registration required and US only.


Editor.pho.to
Photo enhancement - rotate, crop, resize, deblur, enhance color, adjust saturation, denoise, fix red eye, pencil drawing, chalk & charcoal, oil painting, mosaic, black and white, sepia, color tint, neon, suny color, flames, auto make up, glamour effects, caricature, add text , watermarks.

Fun generator - fancy frames, switch head, animated frames, animated face expression, emotion avatars, fun slideshows, collages, bizarre filters, animated mask effects.


Flauntr
StylR - wide selection of beautiful seasonal frames and can reposition image to fit in.
EditR -Edit - resize, rotate, crop
EditR -Effect - basic, mosaic, curves, pixelate/posterize/grain, color, sketch.
TextR -many stickers and icons, colorful speech bubbles, text.
PicasR-transform image color using some background.
**longer loading time.
**Registration required.


Fotoflexer
-advance photo editor.
Basic-fix red eye, crop, copy region, resize, rotate, flip, adjust, contrast, collage.
Effects-a lot of color effects to choose from.
Decorate-stickers, glitter text, fun cards, borders, poster.
Animations- add animated objects.
Beautify-smooth, sharpen, fix blemishes, smooth wrinkles.
Distort-twirl, bulge, pinch, stretch, squish.
Layer-add image, select, duplicate, opacity, push back, push forward, group, ungroup, merge
Geek-smart resize, smart recolor, smart cutout, smart scissors, curves, morph, webcam.


Picnik
Edit: Auto-fix color, rotate, crop, resize, exposure, colors, sharpen, red eye.
Create : featured, effects, text, stickers, touch-up, frames, seasonal.
advance for premium users)
Library: create collages (normal and fancy)

Picture2life
Quick fixes - Border, black & white, brightness, contrast, color, hue, invert, saturation, sepia, crop, flip, resize, rotate, shadow.

Fun stuff - Blur, shap border, text, checkerboard, colorscale, edge-(clip, fade, round, rugged shark tooth, stamp), emboss, fish eye, jitter, kuwahara, oil paint, overlay (color, gradient, pattern), pixelate, puzzle, reflection, sketch, sphere, swirl, texture (clouds, marble, wood), time warp, watermark, twist, water, weave.
-create collage, animate your photos.

Pixlr
-has all advance features.
-resize, crop, rotate, flip , layer, select, invert selection, free transform.
Tool box : select tools, clone , eraser, pencil, red eye, text. bloat , pinch, blur, sharpen, burn.
Adjustment: brightness & contrast, hue & saturation, levels, curves, auto levels, desaturate, invert, threshold, posterize.
Filter: Blur, sharpen, denoise, noise, diffuse, scanlines, halftone, pixelate, pointinize, water swirl, kaleidoscope, tilt shift, vignette, pastels, old photo, cross process, art poster, heat map, tri tone, color lookup, emboss, engrave.
Fast loading time and easy to use.


Pixenate
Editing tool- Crop, resize, flip, rotate, select, enhance, red eye removal, teeth whitening, color tools, fill light, spirit level, freehand drawing.

Fun effects - add text, add snowflakes, speech bubbles, filter tool, round corner, hearth shape cut out, oil painting, TV scan line, add lens filtre, pop art poster, add clip art.


Splash up
With full features editing tools.
Tool box - select, lasso, rotate, free transform, crop, paint, eyedropper, gradient, text, eraser, smudge, eyedropper, layers.

Filters - sharpen, blur, add noise, pixelate, find edges, emboss, posterize, clouds, invert, desaturate, grayscale, colorize, enrich, hue/saturation, contrast/brightness.



FUN PHOTO MANIPULATION

Photofunia
-a lot of fancy photo templates using face detection.
-cannot reposition image.
-fast and easy to use.


Fototrix
-over 2,500 templates
classic frame, sepecial effects overlays, add neat borders, scrapbooking, fun templates, make comics, add figures, fake magazine covers, add props, body switcher, mirrorizer, write text, photo cards, special effects.

Fun photo box
-wide selection of nice funny photo templates include animated templates.
-can reposition image.
-create your own e-card with wide selection of card templates.


Jpgfun
-wide selection of funny photo templates and beautiful fancy frames.
-can reposition image.


Loonapix
Funny photo effect templates, switch head, nice fancy photo frames, calendar wallpaper, trim photo in different shapes.


Photo505
-wide selection of funny photo templates.
-but cannot reposition image.
-fast and easy to use.

Blingee
-can add glitter to selected area of your photo using pen or fill.
-can rotate or resize stamp to position it properly.
-add glitter to text.


Glitterphoto
- glitter text, glitter background, glitter stamps, glitter fill.
-resize, crop, rotate, text, beautiful frames, photo effects, photo trim with various shapes, bubble captions.