Thursday, July 3, 2008

Feature Focus: How to Edit Photos on the Web

AOL Journals doesn't have a specific feature to Edit photos.  But on the web, you can find many basic photo editors.   Ones that offer features like cropping, re-sizing, to ones that make your photos more fun with clipart.

For example, you can take a photo like this:


And do some fun things to it very quickly.
Here's the same photo with July 4th celebration:



This took about 2 minutes to do, using picnik.com.

I reviewed 5 photo editors, and you can watch the video below to find out more.




The web actually has alot more than 5 photo editors.   But after reviewing many, I think these are some of the best.

Most allow you to upload a photo,  or use one from an existing site like Photobucket or Flickr.   You can then edit the photo, add text, and add fun borders or art. 

Let me know what you think.

http://picnik.com
http://fotoflexer.com
http://picture2life.com
http://splashup.com
http://pixenate.com

--Will @ Willspeaking.com

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the tips.  I like the first one so far.  I was using Photobucket.com

By any chance would you know what site to use to add a name on a animated graphic.  Right now, I have a group of ladies that do it for me.  I would like to try it myself.

View my site and you will see what I mean and what I want to learn how to do.

http://journals.aol.com/rjsisti/roses-are-read/

Thank You
Rose

Anonymous said...

Picture to life as guest can't do much-not able to understand what to do.Uploaded a photo 4 times and couldn't do a thing with it.
Picnik-slow to start-but did a frame with mat and text-easy.
Fotoflexer was easy but would not save or send without an account
Splashup-not much different than PSE6 or PSP7
The link on pixenate goes to splashup also.
After typing Pixenate.com in the search bar and got to the site it was easy and actually let me save to my computer without making an account.
connie
http://journals.aol.co.uk/specialadyfink/Anyway...../
http://journals.aol.com/specialadyfink/freeze-frame/

http://journals.aol.com/specialadyfink/woof-woof/

Anonymous said...

Wow, thanks.  I actually crop on the Jasc program that came with my computer, and believe it or not resize with the resizer that comes with AOL email.  You can also do some editing in AOL email.  I have been doing it that way for four years!  But to be able to do all your editing in a one stop place looks great.  I have been wanting something like what you have showed us for years!  I will check it out Will, and get back to you, and let you know which I think is best!  Thanks for finding these for us1

Krissy :)
http://journals.aol.com/fisherkristina/SometimesIThink  

Anonymous said...

Thanks so much!  This will be lots of fun to play around with...
Happy 4th!
Nancy

Anonymous said...

This is awesome!  The last link is incorrect.  Thought I would let you know.  I LOVE these sites and really appreciate this!!  Val
http://journals.aol.com/valphish/ThereisaSeason

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the links here as I am a novice at this editing thing and can always use some help!
Nancy