Free Photo Editing Software Programs
If you have photos you want to change or edit then here’s our guide to the best free photo editing software programs and tools you can find online.
Everyone has photographs they want to edit and thanks to today’s technology you can either undertake these online or download a program that will help you do it on your pc or mac whilst sitting in the comfort of your own home. So without further ado here’s our guide to the best free photo editing software programs that won’t cost you anything.
Free online editing software programs
If you want to upload your photos online and edit over the internet then here are some programs to try out right now:
- Phixr allows you to upload and edit your photos online without even having to create an account. You can also upload direct from your existing social networking applications such as facebook, flickr, photobucket etc and you can do so much such as basic changes like rotate the image, flip or resize it, crop parts of it that you don’t want, resize it (ie: make it smaller), make it black and white or sepia, colorize the photo based on a group of colors, change the contrast or brightness, add speech bubbles, blur or sharpen, remove red eye, add borders or rounded corners. Everything that an expensive software program such as photoshop can do. Highly recommended.
Picnik is similar to the above and again you don’t need to have an account although there is a premium option available. There are also plugins for your favorite browser including firefox and internet explorer where you can edit “on the go” whilst you have a photo on your screen. Picnik and phixr are very similar in what they can do and the user interfaces for both are easy to use for any photo you have online, on your hard drive or anywhere really. Highly recommended- Other online photo editing programs we have seen include fotoflexer and flauntr and we are sure there are many more you can try.
Free photo editing software
As mentioned above Picnik has application add ins you can use directly with your browser that make editing offline as easy as pie. Here are some other programs you can download and use like a normal program you have on your computer.
Photoscape is a free download that can undertake some basic changes to your photographs – it’s not advanced as the above online programs but has many features that most people require and may be all you need depending on what you want to achieve.
Google Picasa - of course Google would have something you can download for free and picasa is their photo editing program. You can do almost anything to your photographs and then share them online via a picasa web album. Basic fixes include cropping, retouching, reducing red eye, color enhancing, adding text and changing contrast or light. You can also add effects to your photos including tinting with colors, changing to black and white or sepia and adding soft focus – in fact there are 12 effects in total.
So those are our top picks for free photo editing software programs you can use online or download to your computer. If you have used others you’d like to share then please let us know about them below.
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