10 Online Photoshop Alternatives For Simple Photo Editing
Gustavs Jurisons
There are very few circumstances in which you have to work on other computer that doesn’t have Photoshop installed. What to do in such a moment? The easiest way is to visit one of these 10 websites, which are quite closely related to Photoshop. Not all features are always available, but the simplest will remain.
I would like to say that a very big plus is a fact that these sites practically do not use your computer memory, so you can always be sure that none of your images will disappear. And you don’t have to worry about getting your computer crashed if you have slow one :)
1. Pixlr
Pixlr is a perfect online image editing application that is designed for non professional users and allows them to easily edit images. It combines image design and paint tools with photo editing and adjustment features more convincingly than any other online image editing program.
Major features:
- Create an image or open one from your hard drive or a URL
- Save your image to your desktop
- Undo/Redo
- Resize an image
- Rotate an image
- Use layers – something not heard of with other online image editors
- Change the brightness, contrast, hue and saturation of the image
- Apply different effects to the photo
2. Sumo Paint
Sumo Paint is an online image editing application similar to Adobe Photoshop.
Major features:
- Layers with blending modes
- Layer Effects
- Shape Tools, Brush, Ink, Clone Stamp, Eraser, Gradient, Custom Shape, Symmetry, Transform, Magic Wand, Lasso, Smudge, Line, Blur, Curve, Zoom Tool
- Color Picker
- Swatches
- Saving images with multiple layers
- Selection Modify
3. Splashup
Splashup is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With the features professionals use and novices want, it’s easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once. Splashup runs in all browsers, integrates seamlessly with top photo-sharing sites, and even has its own file format so you can save your work in progress.
Major features:
- Online graphic editor
- Take pictures directly from a web cam
- Tool bar that almost matches Photoshop or Gimp
- Similar interface to most desktop graphic applications
- Sharing features to share images and photos with friends
4. PicMagick
PicMagick is an online photo editor that enables you to make ordinary photos look wonderful within a few clicks. It will surprise you how fabulous your photos can be and how easily this can be done.
Major features:
- Designed to be simple and intuitive
- Enhance colors and details of your photos
- Expose hidden details in shadows and highlights
- Professional yet simple skin retouch
- Remove red-eyes or unwanted color casts
- All common tasks: crop, rotate, sharpen, etc.
- Absolutely free, no registration, no download
5. Photoshop.com
Photoshop.com is the complete solution for managing, editing, storing, and sharing your photos online, with tutorials, inspiration, and more. Photoshop.com is available from any web-enabled computer, compatible mobile phones, and directly from within Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 or Adobe Premiere Elements 7 software. With Photoshop.com, you can organize, tweak, create, e-mail, display, and store your photos.
Major features:
- Personal URL to access your account
- Online private and public sharing
- Tutorials
- Online photo management, editing, and interactive photo galleries
- Browser-based upload and download
- Anywhere access to your photos and videos from Photoshop Elements 7 and Adobe Premiere Elements 7, including syncing and backup from your desktop to the web
- Mobile access
- 2 GB of online storage space
- The Plus version adds special artwork, album templates, and effects, and 20 GB or 100 GB of online storage.
6. Pixer.us
pixer.us lets you manipulate, edit, enhance and apply filters to your digital pictures using only your web browser.
Major features:
- Simple lightweight photo editor.
- Perform most common image editing functions like resize, crop, rotate, flip, saturation, blur, sharpen etc.
- Instantly apply and preview the effects using the slide bar.
- Revert changes to previous or to the original image version.
- Upload, edit and save images without registration.
- Save edited images in multiple image formats (JPEG, GIF, PNG or BMP).
7. Phoenix
Edit photographs with this online photo and graphics editing tool, which does much more than adjust brightness or remove red-eye. Aviary’s purpose is to “make creation accessible to artists of all genres,” including graphics and even audio editing. Phoenix is only one of many editors
Major features:
- Peacock – for creating patterns
- Toucan – color swatches and palettes creation
- Raven – a vector art editor
- Hummingbird – create 3D Models and skins
- Myna – audio editor
- Roc – music generator
- Horus – font editor
- Tern – terrain generator
- Pigeon – a painting simulator
- Owl – desktop publishing layout editor
- Woodpecker – image resizer
8. Picnik
Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames.
It’s fast, easy, and fun.
Major features:
- Fix your photos in just one click
- Use advanced controls to fine-tune your results
- Crop, resize, and rotate in real-time
- Tons of special effects, from artsy to fun
- Astoundingly fast, right in your browser
- Awesome fonts and top-quality type tool
- Basketfuls of shapes from hand-picked designers
- Works on Mac, Windows, and Linux
- No download required, nothing to install
9. Snipshot
Snipshot is a fast online image editor. You can use it right from your browser, no downloads or Flash required.
Major features:
- Use Snipshot with Open IT Online—the best way to open any kind of document
- Our free API lets you use Snipshot for your own website
- No download necessary—100% browser based, no plug-ins required
- One-click import from any web site with our bookmarklet
- Save as GIF, JPG, PDF, or PNG
- One-click enhance improves most images
- Basic editing tools like crop, rotate, resize
- Basic image adjustments like contrast, brightness, saturation, sharpness and hue
- Unlimited undo and redo (Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y, or ?Z and ?Y on your Mac)
- Nondestructive editing—we always work from the original
- Edit big pictures—up to 10 MB, or 25 megapixels (5000×5000 pixels)
- Import PDF (first page only)
10. Flauntr
Lots of one-click options to edit your digital photos instantly.
Major features:
- Defined tabs with unique tools and features for photo and image editing, photo and image styling, text and embellishments and others
- One-step batch uploads and gallery creation
- Instant export to cell phones and PDA devices with visual make/model search engine
- Built-in store where prints, posters, wall decals and greeting cards can be ordered directly; no need to be directed to another website
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Saket Jajodia
Posted 19 days ago 21I hardly knew about three of them from this list.. And in that Picnik is going to close soon.. :(
Thanks a lot Gustavs for this list.. Will share it with my team to help them..!! :)
Sweety
Posted 20 days ago 20i was just wondering if someone has a name a photo editor like picnik as easy as picnik i have been useing it for 3 years and now its closeing in april of this year 2012 i got a Email saying that so now im trying to find something very like it thank you for your help and sujstions :))
melisa christian
Posted 20 days ago 19im a photographer that uses picnik and now that it is closing in april of 2012 does anybody have any tips on a different site that is the same as the picnik,, i love the user friendly way its put togeter..
JAY STEVENS
Posted 125 days ago 17HOW COME I CANNOT PRINT YOUR BLOGS..?? IS IT FIREFOX , OR WHAT…PLEASE ADVISE..I CAN REALLY USE YOUR INFORMATION BUT IT’S NO USE IF I CAN’T PRINT IT. PLEASE HELP…!!! THANKS …JAY…”JS66416@GMAIL.COM”
Rean John Uehara
Posted 125 days ago 18Hi, go to your desired article and press CTRL+P
CastleofCostaMesa.com
Posted 128 days ago 16Wow! Thank you so much for this resources. So far I love Picnik. I will check out the others.
Vixka
Posted 333 days ago 15I often use Pixlr for crop or resize image without photoshop.
SemExcel
Posted 340 days ago 14Good resources I was looking for an alternative to photoshop and I didn’t know there were so many other good softwares
Whirledmud
Posted 475 days ago 13I also like paint.net and gimp — down-loadable and free
Warner
Posted 597 days ago 12Wow cool. I am going to try this.
Yacht Davits
Posted 632 days ago 11Good list of online image editors. I knew about one 1 of them. Thanks for share good source.
CSSim Benim
Posted 728 days ago 10I personally love Pixlr :)
Patricia aka Karmacrochet
Posted 728 days ago 9Great list! I personally use Picnik and I love it. You can grab and publish from most networking sites (FB,twitter,picasam flickr, etc) all from there so it is very handy. :)
Scott Thomas Photography
Posted 733 days ago 8Wow! So many these days. When I first started using Picnik.com, there was only a couple of others (and I think they are no longer around). I like Picnik so much I pay extra for the full version. I use it for collages, adding text and quick edits to my online photos on Smugmug and flickr.
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Mary
Posted 733 days ago 7Thanks for this. I’ve been a fan of Pixlr for a while now (it’s always nice to have something I can use when I’m not at home with Photoshop), but it’s great to see some other options I’d never heard of.
Emmanuel Barthe
Posted 734 days ago 6Although it does not do as much as most of the sofware you’re presenting, IrfanView should be listed here — in my humble opinion :-)
It *is* very easy to use indeed and there is a version for virtually every language. Also, lots of filters and add-ons.
Noel Wiggins
Posted 735 days ago 5I personally love picnik…
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Michel
Posted 736 days ago 4Very intéressant, i like!
Tinu
Posted 736 days ago 3Nice Roundup… Thanks for this list. I was not aware of some of the best sites, until now..
Jordan
Posted 737 days ago 1Ouppsss
Photo editing,photo editing and photo editing…
Flauntr,picnik……..etc
Same editors,same topics in the same blog..:)
Isn’t this enough guys? :)
Dainis Graveris
Posted 737 days ago 2Jordan great to see, you evaluate our work and note difference between these posts.