Explore how the action is built, choose which adjustments you want to apply and finally just enjoy great results. In this article you’re going to find 45 sets of actions that help you enhance the colors and change the main look of Your photo.

1. Powerful Colors 3.1 by Othman Fahd

2. i-Dark 3.03 by Othman Fahd

3. Exclusive Summer Heat Action by Danielle Gillain Svedin

4. Classic People Action by apartyintheUSA

5. Photoshop Action ver.3 by Gökhan Bartu Yüksel

6. StarDeviant action 1.06 by Stardeviant

7. StarDeviant action 1.08 by Stardeviant

8. Photoshop Actions – 78 by Julia Starr

9. Photoshop Actions – 75 by Julia Starr

10. Lomo Action Set by WingsOfAHero

11. Action set 03 by KissOfDeathXxX

12. Photoshop Actions – 32 by Julia Starr

13. Action Collection 1.0 by Philipp Soul

14. Photoshop Action by kahwe

15. rEDacrion by getinline

16. The Day Is Passing By by ArinThoughts

17. Actions 1 by allthebesthere

18. Photoshop Action 2 by saturn-rings

19. Red Action by sd-stock

20. Photoshop Dream Blur Action by Josh Janusch

21. Oscar Pilch Photoshop Action by Oscar Pilch

22. Black white sepia PS action by rosalindharrison

23. Retro by ShadowsInMyEyes

24. Photoshop Actions by wolf-minori

25. Retro Love by Patricia Nabong

26. Action Set 1 by ImaginaryRosse

27. One Less Lonely Girl Action by Nick Jonas

28. Photoshop Action 31 by miss-etikate

29. Landscape and Sky Action by fcpr

30. Sarah1 Action by supersarah089

31. sa-cool actions 1.05 by Othman Fahd

32. Nature Actions 2.09 by Othman Fahd

33. Action 2 by lolipopek

34. Vintage Dream PS Actions by Chitulescu Iuliana Amalia

35. Pure Luv by GSInteractive

36. Pack Actions 01 by Patricia Torres

37. Selective Sepia by Aditya Rao

38. Horizon Actions by LonelyDiary

39. Powerful Colors 3.2 by Othman Fahd

40. sa-cool actions 2.06 by Othman Fahd

41. Photoshop Action 22 by Oscar Pilch

42. Lomo-Cross Processing Action by efete-stock

43. A-Actions by LonelyDiary

44. Go Green Actions Set by LonelyDiary

45. Action 6 by Flurish

Combination of skill, imagination and creativity deliver to you those amazing inspiring photo manipulations!

1. Fire by Eric Vasquez

2. Urban Environment by Craig Shields

3. Authority Blowing Away by Félix Ajenjo

4. Robotic by Bram Vanhaeren

5. Secrets Of Egypt by Kevin Roodhorst

6. David Lynch + Ice Cube by Alberto Seveso & FACTORY311

7. The Big Catch by s-pov

8. Evoke One Unity Oppression by Aiven – Yvan Feusi

9. Steampunk – Old London Memories by Aiven – Yvan Feusi

10. Devotion by Skam

11. Rainbow’s End by externalmind

12. Tree of Life by Przemek Nawrocki

13. Mariposas 2 by Elena Dudina

14. Fire Within Me by Ana Fagarazzi

15. Reflections by neodecay

16. Steampunk Ice Cream by Aiven – Yvan Feusi

17. What to Wear? by ThreeProngs

18. Roadworkers Coffee Break by Erik Johansson

19. Escapeby Maciej Mizer

20. Ellaiyria by Julia Starr

21. Gods of the North by GrandeOmbre

22. Day the World Went Away by Fluox3tine

23.Frank Uyttenhove

24. Koen Demuynck

25. Plumber by Matt Silk

26. If I Can by Final Foto

27. Murat Süyür

28. LSD Photographers

29. Gregor Collienne

30. Pawel Fabjanski

31. Andric

32. Love Is Gone by desideriasp

33. In Our Memory by Zainab A. Alameer

34. Sisters by Wojciech Magierski

35. Castle of Calm River by Rodrigo Adolfo

36. Christope Gilbert

37. Dirk Karsten

38. Hans Kroeskamp

39. Kayaking by Heru Suryoko

40. Escape by Krzysztof Olak

41. Guitar Treble-Clef In Flames by DDL999

42. Japan Landscape by lorency

43. New Landscape by Oceandeep76

44. City of Exile by Jim Lind

45. Waterfall City by Andreea Cernestean

46. Day After Tomorrow by lorency

47. The Hot Gates by Derek Emmons

48. WildWest by Lukasz Wiktorzak

49. Man Eats World by Alexander Lataille

50. Tom Nagy

You can find anything here from the basic skin smoothening with gaussian blur to complex picture part extracting from background.

Tutorials are sorted in categories, so there shouldn’t be any problem finding the right one for you. I didn’t create this article for you to scroll down 100 same, old, basic tutorials and just tweet them further. I created it for you to find something useful for you, acutally read it and learn something.

Skin

1. Retouching Skin Tutorial

Learn the basic things to do when you need to smoothen someon’s skin a bit. If you aren’t familiar with the art of retouching, you should take a quick look into this.

2. Superb Skin Airbrush Technique

This is pretty basic tutorial as well. If you didn’t like the previous one, take a look into this and I’m pretty sure you will understand the basics of skin smoothening.

3. Skin Softening Tutorial – High/Low Pass

Video tutorial – learn how to smoothen skin tones, while retaining skin detail and texture using High Pass filter.

4.Create Action for Smooth Airbrushed Skin

In this tutorialyouwill seehow to create an action to use in your photos for simple retouching jobs using blurring techniques and grain filters.This is recommended only for beginners, because you can’t replace retouching skills with an action.

5. Removing Skin Blemishes With The Spot Healing Brush

Learn how to ably use Spot Healing Brush Tool to remove blemishes and clear up ugly spot.

6. How to Get Perfect Skin

Litte bit more explained and advanced use of default retouching tools – Healing Brush, Clone Stamp, Gaussian Blur.

7. Soften Skin with Surface Blur

Another easy, fast way to smoothen skin. You will see the difference between Surface and Gaussian blur here. Ofcourse this blurring doesn’t replace work with Healing Brush Tool, but it ain’t so bad either.

Whole face

1. High-End Facial Retouching Video Tutorial

This is a video tutorial that’ll teach you to make the necessary steps in high-end fashion/skin photo-retouching on all of your photographs.

2. Correcting Reflective Make-Up

This video tutorial shows you one way to address reflective make-up on a model or in a portrait.

3. High Quality Portrait Retouching

In this tutorial you’llbe demonstrated the level of editing that goes into removing any discrepancies in the skin.

4. De-Aging in Photoshop

See some of the common retouching tools in action.

5.Professional Photo Retouching Tutorial

Another tutorial to see retouching in action and learn something you didn’t quote understand from writen tutorials.

Hair

1. Professional Hair Retouching

Learn not just how to change hair color, but also how to remove unwanted strands, work with shadows and highlights, boost image vividness.

2. Change Hair Color With Photoshop

This tutorial will show you how to change the hair color easily with Photoshop. You can experiment yourself with color tones to achieve different outcomes.

Whole Photo

1. Professional Photographic Retouching Tutorial

In this video tutorialyou will be guidedinto acomplete, professional photographic retouching from start to finish. Additional to all the standart retouching techniques, you’re also going to learn how to simulate realistic depth of field and how to enhance some photos areas.

2. How To Straighten Crooked Photos

In this Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to learn a quick and easy way to straighten crooked photos.

Face Parts

1. Easy Digital Nose Job In Photoshop

In this tutorial you’re going to learn how incredibly easy it is to give someone a digital nose job.

2. How to Digitally Paint Lip Gloss

This tutorial demonstrates how to use digital painting with a drawing tablet to create the illusion of lip gloss on bare lips.

3. Face Shaping

Learn how to change the shape of nose, chin, lips, eyes etc using Warp and Liquify Tool.

Quick Tips

1. Whiten Teeth in Photoshop

Learn how to quickly whiten teeth in Photoshop in just a couple of minutes.

2. Virtual Weight Loss in Photoshop

Learn how to use Liquify Tool to remove overwightusing Photoshop.

3. Removing Makeup in Photoshop

Really easy tutorial showing you how to get rid of the needless make up using just Brush Tool.

4. Eye Make Up

Learn how to easily apply make up to eyes. You can use this technique to other face parts as well.

5. Retouch Eyes

Learn how to hightlight eyes, apply a bit of make up to make them look beautiful, not hyperbolic.

6. Dodge and Burn Tool Retouch

Learn how tu use Adjustment Layers, Dodge and Burn Tool to achieve similar result if you would used something like Healing Brush Tool.

8. Changing Eye Color

In this Photoshop photo retouching tutorial, we’ll learn a very simple technique for changing someone’s eye color in a photo using a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. This is basiccly the most popular way to change the eye color. After you get more familiar with other Adjustment layers, you can experiment with them too.

9. How to Quickly and Effectively Clean Out Body Hair in Photoshop

Use Smudge Tool to quickly clean out body hair. This technique isn’t nearly as good as Healing Brush Tool, but it can be a good time saver and sometimes the effect isn’t so bad.

10. Applying a Realistic Tattoo

In this tutorial you willhave demonstrated an advanced technique to achieve a realistic tattoo.You will be using masks, adjustment layers, displacement maps, and several brushing skills will be applied.

11. Using The Red Eye Tool Non-Destructively

This photoshop tutorial will show you how to use Photoshop Red Eye Tool tool in a non-destructive way. You will alsosee you how to use the red eye tool to create a mask that you can use for any kind of red eye correction.

12. Healing Brushes

See how all of the Healing Toolswork.

Color Adjustments

1. Awesome Photorealistic Coloring Techniques

2. Fix Tone and Color with Levels In Photoshop

Learn how to use basic Photoshop Adjustments to make your photos look more professional.

3. Simple Focused Lighting Effect In Photoshop

In thistutorial, we’re going to look at how to bring focus and attention to a specific part of an image using a simple and easy to create lighting effect.

4. Advanced Color Correction Tutorial

In this tutorial you’re going to learn how to use Curves adjustment with concrete Channel. It is a more sophisticated technique of removing unwanted color casts

5. Add Dynamic Lighting to a Flat Photograph

In this tutorial, you will seehow to spice up a fairly dull and flat photograph. It’s very easy and fast. Go from flat photo to a uniquely lit style.

6. Using the Selective Color Adjustment

This is a tutorial on how to use the selective color adjustment layer in photoshop to optimize colors and tones in your photos.

Landscape Retouch

1. Retouch a Damaged Photograph

In this Photoshop tutorial we’re going to improve the quality of a landscape photograph. Learn how to reduce noise, fix damaged areas and use Adjustment layers.

2. Improve Colors of Your Photo

Learn really basic Adjustment Layer techniques to achieve good looking result.

3. Landscape Retouching and Editing in Photoshop

A video tutorial on how to retouch landscape photos; includes information on brightness adjustment, sharpening, noise reduction, proper flattening, and artifact removal.

4. Professional Sharpening For Landscape Images

Learn how tu use Smart SHarpen Filter and get the effect done with blending modes.

5. Enhance Photography

Enhance many aspects of your photography such as saturation, contrast, sharpening techniques and finish of the final presentation with an extremely slick border.

Extracting From Background

1. Selecting & Extracting Hair – Masking Tutorial

One of the most challenging montage or masking jobs in the profession of post-production editing is the hair lift. Learn how to extract hair from background with masking.

2. Background Replacement Tutorial

A tutorial showing you how to add backgrounds and textures to your existing images using Color Range and Layer Masks.

3. Advanced Selecting Hair

Watch step by step videohow to use channels to extract difficult image areas like hair.

4. Digging into Channels as an Extraction Tool

Learn how tu use channels as an extraction method. Again, the example is a portrait with hair in it, so you could see the power of this technique.

Further Resources

• 10 Free Retouching Photoshop Files
• 70 Beauty-Retouching Photoshop Tutorials
• 26 Professional Photoshop Retouching Tutorials
• 50 photo retouching tutorials
• 23 Professional Facial Photoshop Retouching Tutorials
• Glenn Feron Portfolio
• Greg Apodaca Portfolio
• Nikos Vasilakis Portfolio
• Euphoria

Clicking on the images will take you to the artists page with possibilities to watch the pictures in bigger formats. Some can also be downloaded or bought as prints.

1. My Dream of World Peace by ~killmatthew33

2. Water Witch Eye by ~asdfgfunky

3. Eye serie 30 by ~MelckyXY

4. Eye See you by ~MonkeySeed

5. Apophysis Eye by =peach

6. He is wacthing you by ~gatopreto208

7. Eye from some Eyes by =Fatalsoul

8. Aquarius eye by =ftourini

9. Jade by `Lilyas

10. Apple of my Eye by ~mickeykumar

11. Eye eye by ~norking

12. Leafy Eye by ~reinedescoeurs

13. Looking at You by *DraculeaRiccy

14. Eye Color by ~Whistala

15. Disturbia by ~RudolphEurich

16. Flower eye series by ~Jenya88

17. Eye of Time -II- by ~YourSweetAgony

18. I Dream of Freedom by ~loopyluv

19. Eye scream by ~maliciaZintent

20. Apple eye by ~toxic92

21. Eye by ~deGimbalz

22. For the world to see … by ~keikei11

23. Steampunk Ring green eye by *CatherinetteRings

24. Darksiders – End of My World by *DomMcCann

25. Eye Candy by ~LiNoR

26. Cool eye 2 by ~fallen-angel-636

27. Eye Candy by ~RooCouture

28. Reflections XXII by ~neodecay

29. Apple by ~Khay88

30. Soft Leaking Eye by *VegasMike

31. Eye Candy by *SaraSchool

32. Macro eye vector by ~seldom-sleeping

33. What meets the eye by *Hera-of-Stockholm

34. Soul Searching by =MichaelO

35. Zombie eye by ~freakshow6661

36. Werewolf eye by ~Esroth

37. With this Eye by ~blue-mirage

38. Sea Eye by ~Dyyyy

39. In Your Eye by ~BrokenWings3D

40. Snowy Eye by ~darkchilightchi

41. Passion Of The Night by ~Dyyyy

42. Rose Love Eye by ~Dyyyy

43. Yellow Magic Eye by ~Dyyyy

44. Eye of a devine by ~PheoniX-VII

45. Eye of a predator by =ftourini

46. Eyes open wide by ~LiNoR

47. Natural Eye by ~LiNoR

48. Rainbow eye by ~ThErEaLDoLLyFrikka

49. Eye by ~sweety-girl2oo8

50. Eye Sketch by ~LyonsGate

51. Eye of the lemon by ~MLep

52. Eye Hate Spiders by ~Forgotten-Myth

53. Kiwi eye reloaded by =ftourini

54. In The Eye Of The Begotten IX by ~neodecay

55. T-eye-M by *123Stella

56. Eiko Eye-Con – Competition by =TheNeonGryphon

57. Eye of a nymph, by ~iheartsomersby

58. Fish eye by =ssecret

59. Eye grabber by ~lorrainemd

60. Chestnut Eye by ~oilcorner

61. Behind the eye by ~Ober88

62. Eye love d you by =ftourini

63. Eye candy by =ftourini

64. Eye – full HDR by ~ridethespiral1

65. Another eye??? by ~gyuszi02

66. Big eye goldfish by ~inmc

67. Eye On Fire by =Birthstone

68. Eye Candy by ~mprox

69. Avatar eye by ~MrJackXIII

70. The eye by ~Black-Ban

71. Into the Depth of an Eye by ~Snow-Owl

72. Fire Eye by =MEGAN-Yrrbby

73. The eye by ~morkovka55

74. Blue cup eye by ~bangrud

75. Broken Eye by ~SoloEvolution

I hope you enjoyed this collection of “eye candy”. If you have any feedback, please leave a comment! :)

WordPress doesn’t make it easy for you to engage your readers with images. You’re going to have to look beyond core to the hundreds of image/photo based plugins available to make your blog highly visual. Below, you’ll find a score of solutions to all your image/photo problems in the form of the best plugins around. There are lazy loaders, gallery creators, slideshow generators, photoblog initiators and much, much more. You’ll soon realize that there’s more to WordPress than a few lousy thumbnails!

1. jQuery Image Lazy Loader WP

Lazy Loader is the perfect plugin for those who want to upload lots of images to their blog, but maintain a snappy site. Rather than loading all of the images on a page at once, which can take a considerable amount of time, Lazy Loader loads the images at the top of each page first and continues to load images further down as the user scrolls downwards.

2. Frontpage-Slideshow

This plugin does exactly what its name suggests: it lets you create a professional slideshow on the front page of your WordPress blog. Each picture is clickable, leading you to its related post, and information about four different slides can be displayed at a time. Transitions between slides are faded to look extra sleek.

3. NextGEN Gallery

NextGEN is without question the best WordPress gallery plugin available and you should certainly try it out if you haven’t already. It’s comprehensive, with an easily understandable back-end. The only problem is that everyone’s using it. It does pretty much everything you’d want from a gallery plugin, looks professional and comes with a Flash slideshow option.

4. WP Photo Album

Unlike most of the plugins in this list, which focus more on user experience, WP Photo Album is made specifically for the blogger him- or herself. It makes creating and managing your photo albums easy, letting you move images between albums and adjust the sizes of thumbnails and full view pictures.

5. Flickr Photo Album

If you regularly upload photos to Flickr before transferring them to your WordPress blog, this plugin’s going to make your life a whole lot easier. You simply select Flickr photosets and display them on your blog as galleries, which you can customize to suit the look and feel of your site. It comes with a great widget which lets you display your latest Flickr photos in your blog’s sidebar.

6. FlippingBook

Use FlippingBook to add an extra element of interactivity to your blog and fully engage your visitors. Rather than displaying images in the standard way (a la NextGEN), FlippingBook displays them in Flash books, which can be flipped through with ease and great enjoyment. You can create these “books” in the administrator panel.

7. Cincopa: Post Videos and Photo Galleries

When it comes to displaying images, Cincopa does it all, creating polished image galleries and slideshows, not to mention videos, playlists and podcasts. It gives you access to 44 different skins to be sure that all Cincopa blogs retain a degree of individuality.

8. Lightbox2

Lightbox2 is simple, but devastatingly effective. Like all lightbox-type plugins, it lets you enlarge and overlay images on the current page, while dimming what’s left in the background. Unique to Lightbox2 is the ability to group related images and use numerous visual effects.

9. WordPress Content Slide

Use WordPress Content Slide to create jQuery slideshows anywhere within your WordPress blog. These slideshows fade in and out to add a touch of class to your site. Content Slide is fully customizable, even letting you link to another website if you like, to use the slideshow as an advertising banner.

10. Yet Another Photoblog

Far more interesting than its name suggests, Yet Another Photoblog (YAPB) is perfect for those who upload more images than text. It’s not a gallery plugin; it only lets you upload one image per post with a description. Using the YAPB Bulk Uploader plugin, you can mass upload images to your YAPB blog in an instant.

11. Lazyest Gallery

Lazyest Gallery is a powerful plugin with lots of great features. It rotates random images from your gallery, fading each one in and out. It’s fully customizable from the back end, letting you select the number of random images shown, portrait/landscape or both and various fading settings. It also allows comments on images and folders.

12. Shadowbox JS

Shadowbox is not only a great way to display images on your WordPress blog, it’s ideal for sharing videos too. Never again will you have to guide visitors away from your blog for them to view media as all images, audio files and videos, including YouTube videos will play directly on your site.

13. Sidebar Photoblog

14. Thumbnail For Excerpts

With this simple plugin, you can add thumbnail images to any excerpts you might have on your site, making it instantly more attractive and easier to navigate, improving usability and visitor experience.

15. Flickr Gallery

There are several plugins available which make uploading your photos from Flickr to WordPress easy, but this is one of the best. It lets you quickly create galleries of your most recent and most popular Flickr photos, view photos in gallery mode without leaving the page, display small images automatically in lightbox mode and embed Flickr’s Flash movie player.

16. Featured Content Gallery

Featured Content Gallery can transform your humble blog into a professional looking portfolio site. Besides other things, it creates a rotating image gallery of your posts or pages, which you can place anywhere on your blog. Each image can be overlaid with an extract from the text too.

17. Freebie Images

If stock images play a significant part in your professional (or personal) life, Freebie Images comes highly recommended. Search through a directory of thousands of regularly updated, free stock images which you can drag and drop into your posts.

18. Dynamic Content Gallery

Dynamic Content Gallery generates an image gallery with a shot for each of your latest or featured posts and pages (although default images can be added too.) What makes this plugin stand out from the rest is the slick look of the gallery itself.

19. SlideZoom

SlideZoom prides itself on its simplicity and quite rightly so. It’s particularly lightweight and straightforward. It lets you bulk or zip upload images to your blog, generating a HighSlide JS gallery that you can embed in WordPress or anywhere else you like, such as on another blog, eBay or a forum.

20. DM Albums

DM albums presents your photos in a really distinctive way, enlarging all images to perfectly fit the size of your blog, rather than showing them in a window half the size of your screen. You can add captions to individual photos and albums from within the WordPress Editor.

Let us know if we forgot some great plugin. We would love to hear your thoughts.

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

Throughout this year several new fun websites have been released and become popular. After heavy research this is what I could come up with! Enjoy, take a rest and have a fun time!

1. Picjoke

In Picjoke you can choose from many cool effects to apply. Just choose picture from your computer and it will do the rest.

2. Cardgame

Create your own personalized playing cards at the click of a mouse button.

3. Condenent

Design your own Wired magazine cover.

4. Blibs

Here you can find lots of effects including animation, adjustments and even kaleidoscoper.

5. Imagechef

In imagechef you can easily create anything from word mosaics to football shirts. With over 100 templates it’s a great place to have fun with your photos. After you have created your photo you can share it social networks.

6. Anymaking

Anymaking is a great place to edit your photos online. Here you can find all the necessary tools for picture editing. Cropping, rounded corners, shadows, frames – it’s all here. There are also some cool effects to have fun with like wanted poster.

7. Frontpage

In 3 easy steps you can create a unique and fully personalised magazine cover for yourself or someone special. Use the magazine covers on your Facebook, MySpace profiles or on your own web site for free. You can even send the cover images to all your friends and family easily and quickly with the email options provided.

8. Maronface

Moronize your photo.

9. flauntR

flauntR is a flash based online photo editor, where you can quickly edit your photos, add some effects, blend photos and create social network photos.

10. Tiltshift maker

Tilt-shift miniature style photos are pictures of real-life scenes that are manipulated to look like model photographs.

11. Effmypic

Choose from over 30 cool effects to your picture

12. Avatar.pho.to

Upload your photo and create a cool avatar from it.

13. Seenow

In seenow you can find a lots of good quality effects and later share your outcomes.

14. Funnywow

Choose from over 40 cool effects to apply to your photos in good quality.

15. Wishafriend

Create photo effects, photo frames, name acronyms, fake magazine covers and much more.

Do you know more fun and free online photo editing websites? Share with us!

You will find a great list of photo sharing sites all with similar features, however each are unique in their own way. Explore the different options to see what fits your photo sharing needs.

Learn more: Check out this list of 28 Photo Editing Sites if you want to learn how to get the most out of your photos.

1. 23 Photo Sharing

With 23, you can keep all of your photos in one central place. Organize, share and even order real prints from your account. With great features like bulk uploading, email photos in batch, and customized album colors, allows you to manage your photo collection. Browse the community albums to see what people have recently uploaded, make a comment on photos you like, and even post photos to your Facebook account.

23 will allow you to upload up to 25 photos a month for free. For $25/month you can upload unlimited photos to your account. Sign up for a free account.

2. Flickr

One of the most popular photo sharing sites, Flickr, allows you to upload, edit, organize, and share your photos. Organizing your photos has never been easier with the “collections”, “sets”, and “tags” features. If you want to only share photos with certain people, Flickr has privacy features that allow you to pick who can see which photos, along with a usage license for copyright protection.

Make uploading photos easier with the Flickr desktop application. This app is a stand alone desktop tool that lets you connect to your Flickr account and easily upload photos directly from your desktop.

3. Photobucket

Photobucket will allow you to upload all of your photos and videos to your account to share with everyone. Family and friends can view your photos without having to sign up for an account. You can share photos by email, IM and mobile links. It also comes with a built in organizer, editor, and searching tool to help you find your photos quickly.

With the scrapbook builder, you can build online and printed scrapbooks by a simple drag and drop feature. You can also create slideshows with their slideshow builder, and post it on your website, blog or profile.

4. Webshots

Along with being able to upload, organize and share your photo collection, you can buy professional prints, screensavers, and wallpapers. They also have a full ecommerce site that lets you buy calendars, cards, mugs, office gifts…all customized using your photos.

If you are looking to do more than just have a place to upload your photos, this is a great option. With the e-store and the ability to order prints you can do a lot more with your pictures than most other photo sharing sites. There are two different accounts, free and premium. See an account comparison to see which account type is right for you.

5. Picasa

Google acquired the photo sharing site, Picasa in 2004. Since then, Google has improved the service by offering excellent usability, updated uploading, sharing, and editing features to touch up your photos.

Similar to Flickr, Picasa also has a desktop feature that will allow you to connect to your account and organize your photos on your hard drive. You can easily pick which photos on your computer that you would like to add to your web-based account.

6. SmugMug

Upload unlimited photos without the worries of spam or advertisements within your account. Customize your account by changing the colors, layout, fonts and graphics. Purchase professional prints and gifts like photo books, posters, framed prints, and holiday cards…all at great prices. If you are worried about your photos getting deleted, SmugMug has that solved. SmugMug uses Amazon.com to safely backup your photos with their network of datacenters. If you would like to retrieve your photos you can do so by downloading them or put them on a DVD.

You can try SmugMug for free, however their are 3 different price points for premium accounts. Premium accounts start from $39.95.

7. Zoom

Create a free account and have no limits on uploading, storing and archiving photos. The free account does however come with advertisements, but can be removed by purchasing a premium account. There is a social community aspect that allows you to see who “Faved” and commented on your photos with a featured called “Social Stream”.

8. eSnips

Get up to 5GB of free space on eSnips so you can upload and share not only photos, but files, videos and music. If you like to share things other than just photos, this is probably a site you should sign-up for. eSnips can act like a mobile hard drive that can be accessed from any computer. You can also connect with the community and people who share similar interests as you. There is now a new feature that will allow you to upload and publish your photos to eSnips via Twitter.

Sign-up for an eSnips account

9. Photie

Photie is a free photo sharing site that allows you to upload photos with no file size restrictions and unlimited storage. Easily post your photos to your own website, social network profile, and photie community. You can also keep track of where people are looking at your photos across the web. Access your photos from anywhere, share your photos publicly with your family and friends, and back up your photos by gaining unlimited storage space.

10. Shutterfly

Upload and share your photos with your friends right from your email. Members of Shutterfly will be able to get printed photos delivered directly to your home. Shutterfly comes with uploading options for PC, Mac, and Mobile users. You can also mail in a CD of photos, use software like Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 or Picasa desktop software to send directly to your Shutterfly account.

Shutterfly also comes with a photo store that allows you to turn your pictures into a wonderful product. Create customized photo books, cards, stationery, calendars, and gifts.

11. Fotki

Fotki is known as a photo sharing, photo printing, photo selling and blogging site. What makes Fotki unique is the social community aspect. Interact with other Fotki users to comment, share and make friends in a fun community environment. Fotki also holds weekly contests where you can showcase your latest photos and gain recognition within the community.

12. PBase

A great place to host and share photos with your friends and family. Pbase allows you to create a profile, upload your photos and share with other base members.

You can get a yearly membership for only $23, which includes 500 MB of photo storage or for $60 you can get 1500 MB of storage. If you want to try before you by, they offer a free account that allows you to see the features before you commit to a premium membership.

13. Blue Melon

Get up to 1GB of free photo storage with a Blue Melon account. Install their desktop application and upload existing photos from Flickr, Picasa, SmugMug or Facebook. With an easy drag and drop system you can move photos into albums, then organize each album into categories. You can personalize your albums with customized themes and layouts, as well as create slideshows and embed your slideshow into your website or blog. Once your photos are uploaded, feel free to print them using various sizes and layouts.

14. Shozam

Shozam allows you to create a website for your photos, making it easy for users to navigate your photo album. Packages start at $24.95, which include creating a website in just minutes, upload your photos to any website, and the ability to make money from your photo galleries.

15. Pikeo

Store, organize, and share 1GB of free photos with your friends and family. Pikeo has built a community around people who love to travel and take pictures from around the world. You can create your own group and publish photos, allowing other fans to comment and connect with you. Invite friends to your group to join in the fun!

16. LifeSnapz

Have you ever wanted an easy way to keep in touch with family and friends? Well now you can with LifeSnapz. Capture life events with photo sharing, videos, timelines, and maps and share them with your family. Create a digital scrapbook or diary with your family of memorable events that happen. Keep your photos and videos private by only sharing your content with people you know.

17. ComBoost

Share your photos, visit photo albums, and create slideshows for your blog or website. ComBoost comes with neat features like full screen slideshows, PDF printing and the ability to download photos in 5 different formats. If you are looking to create a slideshow of your photos, you can customize it with colors, titles, and comments. Visit a public gallery to see other peoples photos, or receive an invitation from one of your friends.

18. Jalbum

Jalbum has published over 28 million photos and over 5.5 million app downloads. In order to create an account you must create your own personal url on the jalbum.net website…and best of all, it’s free. Once you have uploaded your photos you can customized the look of your albums with skins and themes. There have social widgets you can use to paste into your blog or website.

19. Ipernity

Feel free to publish your photos, video, and audio to anything like your blog or website. There is also a powerful feature that can let you search through all of your content to find what you are looking for.

Search through the different groups to find photographs that interest you. Join groups, leave comments, view other photos by the group owner and download photos you like.

20. Kodak Gallery

The Kodak Gallery allows you to do much more than just upload your favorite photos. Have the ability to create photo products like calendars, prints, frames, cards, photo books and more. Unlike many of the photo sharing sites, this is probably the most flexible site in terms of creating unique products that incorporate your photos. To make things easier, you can use the Kodak editing software that will make it easier for you to upload, organize and share your photos.

21. iPhoto

The iPhoto software will do wonders for editing your photos. Crop, retouch, remove red-eye, then share on the web with places like Facebook, mobile me, and Flickr. Design custom photos, books, cards, and calendars. Apple also leverages the latest face recognition technology that will be able to recognize peoples faces and tag them properly.

You can also purchase iLife, which lets you get the most out of your photos, movies and music. Organize photos, makes a movie, and publish photos on a website.

22. Panoramio

Are you an avid traveler? Panoramio allows you to upload your photos and tag them with places you have been from around the world. Panoramio uses the Google Maps API to give users the ability to browse photos with the ease of clicking on a spot on the world map. This is a great resource or anyone looking to travel to different parts of the world, and want to see what pictures others have already taken.

23. Phanfare

Phanfare comes with unlimited storage for all of your photos and HD videos, create your own photo website, a customized url, high quality 720p HD video, slideshow creation, and safeguard disaster to backup all of your digital photos and videos.

Phanfare comes with a 14 day free trial, to let you enjoy the unlimited storage, beautiful web albums, and other great features, before you purchase a subscription. If you are looking for a package to purchase, you can buy a premium or pro package that give you different options and the flexiblity based on your needs.

24. Snapfish

Snapfish by HP has over 70 million members in over 20 countries and over 2 billion photos stored online! There are over 100 customizable photo gifts, free photo editing tools, mobile uploading, subscription video uploading, and the ability to share with only family and friends.

Receive a free account with online digital photo printing, free online photo albums, digital photo sharing services and fun photo gifts. Sign up now and get unlimited storage and 50 free 4×6 prints with your first upload. Get great discounts on printing your photos, with 35% off all calendars and 9 cents for 4×6 photos.

25. Woophy

Woophy is looking for the help of amateur photographers to upload their photos and cover ever inch of the world with images that represent the world’s beauty. Users can upload their photos and browse the community photos to see recent and top rated photos of the day.

It was commercial theme I tested, but since most of people look just for free stuff, I gave it a try and searched for free Portfolio, photo gallery type themes. Enjoy, by the way I also put like 3-4 best portfolio premium themes I found, I hope you wont mind, they are just beautiful alternatives and for very cheap prize!

1. Photocrati WordPress “Supertheme”

Photocrati is a powerful WordPress theme for photographers that comes with 60 built-in styles plus an options panel that allows customization of most elements on the site. It comes with a fully featured gallery management system – and it’s the only photography theme with built-in ecommerce for selling images and prints. One of the premium themes I tested – with huge built-in power.

1.1. PhotoSquares2 Photography WordPress Theme

PhotoSquares is very flexible premium gallery WordPress theme that is perfect way for designers and photographers to display their portfolio.

This theme allows you to set your own thumbnail sizes so everyone will be able to create most suitable layout.

Download PhotoSquares portfolio theme here.

2. WordPress The Unstandard

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3. Gallery 1.2

Gallery is a beautiful, free, gallery-style Thematic child theme for WordPress, designed by Christopher Wallace especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. It is extremely flexible and can be used as a starting point for design galleries and portfolios.

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4. wpFolio – Free CMS / Portfolio WordPress Theme

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5. Blue Bubble

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6. Creative by Nature

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6.1. Gridlocked: Minimalistic WordPress Portfolio Theme ($40)

I really enjoyed this theme because of it’s clean looks and in the same time powerful features built in. Beautiful theme you can easily customize.

Gridlocked is a grid-based, post-format supporting, layout-shuffling, minimalistic theme for creatives. It is both a classic portfolio for showcasing your work and a modern tumblr-style blogging system.

A truly versatile theme, Gridlocked can be configured to focus on your work, your blogging, or both. Support for post formats means you can jazz up your blog with your own self-hosted video, audio, images, galleries, asides, links, quotes and of course good old standard posts.

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7. Linquist

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8. Work-a-holic

Work-a-holic is a free minimalistic two and three column WordPress theme that focuses mainly on showcasing portfolios for artists, web designers, photographers and illustrators. Work-a-holic separates your portfolio from your blog, enabling easy navigation for clients in a clean, intuitive fashion. It also has a separate sidebar for portfolio (shows recent projects) and a separate widgetized sidebar for the blog and pages.

9. Fotofolio WordPress Theme

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10. Portfolio WordPress Theme

“Portfolio WordPress Theme” is a wordpress theme designed for web portfolios and (for now) just for web portfolios. It is coming with an Administrative Panel from where you can edit the head quote text, you can edit all theme colors, font families, font sizes and you can fill a curriculum vitae and display it into a special page.

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11. Irresistable

Use as a standard blog or use the customized homepage layout, as shown in our demo, that you can activate via our options panel

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12. Sharpfolio: WordPress Portfolio Theme

Sharpfolio is a WordPress theme designed to enable Web Designers, Graphic Designers, Photographers, Motion Designers, Artists or any creative professional to showcase their work in a simple, clean, beautiful portfolio. Sharpfolio aims to focus primarily on your work, because after all, this is what’s most important.

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13. Portfolio Press

This is a dark-colored theme suitable for anyone who wants to create a quick portfolio or wants to showcase his work through WordPress. The theme is fully CSS/XHTML validated, WordPress 2.6+ ready and comes with easy to modify code.

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13.1. Garnish: Clean-Cut WordPress Portfolio Theme ($35)

Garnish is a clean-cut, straight to the point, simple to use portfolio theme. The uncluttered, one-page, ajax-powered portfolio is perfect for placing your most important work directly in front of your potential clients.

If you have ever used a “coming soon” page in place of your portfolio on account of being too busy, Garnish is for you. It’s simple, convenient and to the point. If you’re the modifying type, it’s a pretty decent blank canvas too!

Support for post formats means you can jazz up your blog with your own self-hosted video, audio, images, galleries, asides, links, quotes and of course good old standard posts.

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14. Desk Space

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15. Snapshot

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16. WP Coda

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17. Infinity

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18. AutoFocus

AutoFocus is a WordPress theme specifically for photographers looking for a simple and elegant way to display their work online.

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19. FotoLog

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20. Free Photo Gallery

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21. Grace Photoblog

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22. Vivee WordPress Theme

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23. Nishita – Free Photo Blog WordPress Theme

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23.1. Autochrome

New, just released theme from the same creators of Nishita. New theme really looks much crisper and cleaner – beautiful theme for photographers! Enjoy!

24. Fhi-Zin

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25. ViewPort

Viewport, a free WordPress theme created by Paul Bennett is focused around a clean and simple, content based layout. The aim is to grab the user’s attention and draw them straight into the content.

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I wish you good luck, while exploring and learning so you could spice up your own photos, impress friends and evolve your design skills! This list is a little bit shorter than other ones, but I thought I better focus on quality than quantity, because we already have many, many useless list tutorial articles around here repeating same stuff over and over again.

1. Water effect photo montage tutorial

Outstanding tutorial, you really must try this one and understand how to use this effect, giving you unlimited opportunities to express yourself.

2. How to Create a Sparkling Fantasy Photo Manipulation

In this tutorial, we’re going to create a photo manipulation using different techniques. We’ll be adjusting each layer and element to make a compact final image. We’ll be using multiple photos and a handful of effects to create this work. Let’s get started!

3. Dance Photo Manipulation Part 1, Part2

I love this one, you can really learn several advanced techniques from this two part tutorial, amazing advanced level tutorial!

4. Create dynamic distortion effects

Extend feel of dynamics and create work, you cannot take eyes of! Really advanced techniques!

5. How to Create Super-Malleable Effects with Colorful Lines

Very trendy tutorial, teaching you how to create beautiful artwork out of almost nothing!

6. Create a Sleek Illustration that Fades from Line Art to Color

Combine reality with line art in beautiful poster and learn advanced techniques from this high quality tutorial!

7. How to Turn Humdrum Photos into Cinematic Portraits

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to transform usual photo into regular, humdrum portrait, even faking HDR effects a little bit.

8. The RoboHorse Turn Ordinary Animal to a Robot

In this tutorial I will show you with an example of horse how to turn an ordinary animal to a robot.

9. Design a Colorful Illustration Using Patterns and Shapes

This is really beautiful tutorial using patterns,coloring and 3D shapes to gain outstanding effect! Tutorial is easy to create and modify, so you should really enjoy it!

10. Awesome Snowboard Poster Tutorial

Simple tutorial, showing how to gain great effects using just few brushes and basic Photoshop skills.

11. Create a Funky Perspective of a Model Riding Digital Volume

Learn how to create photo manipulation using perspective achieving depth and motion in artwork. Easy to follow up – enjoy!

12. How to Create a Steampunk Style Illustration in Photoshop

Learn through simple steps how to montage many different elements in one picture and make it look really good with lightning, shadows and image grading.

13. Make your image look awesome with a few light effects

For every beginner – advance effects!

14. How To Create A Vibrant Image Using Photoshop

Explore how to add dynamics, energy to photo turning it into great artwork! Excellent learning piece!

15. Beautiful Lady Effect Photoshop Tutorial

Colorize and extend this great photo to look it even more beautiful and artistic!

16. Electrifying Energy Beam Photoshop Tutorial

Great and very easy to archieve effect I really love to use in many works I create as well!

17. Tutorial: Use lighting effects to make photos sparkle

Add some simple brushes,lightning and color to make your photo stand out!

18. Dazzling Dance Photo Manipulation Tutorial

Detailed and really well explained Photoshop tutorial, which will learn how to combine several photos, add special effects and get outstanding results!

19. Create A Glowing Extreme Wallpaper in Photoshop

In this tutorial, you’ll create a complex glowing wallpaper using Photoshop, which is really easy to follow up.

20. Stylish Light Effect in Photoshop

Yet one more stylish image effect achieved playing with blending modes and adjustment layers.

21. Super Fast – Speed Lighting Effect Tutorial

Add speed of light in your works!

22. How to Create an Abstract Photo Manipulation

Nasty photo manipulation, which can be used in really various ways. Lots of useful techniques included in this tutorial!

23. Fashion Shot Photo Manipulation Tutorial

Enhance your photos with simple effects and get unbelievable effects!

24. Make Photos More Suggestive Tutorial

Subtle effects, great outcome, easy to follow up steps! Enjoy!

25. Add Another Dimension Photo Effects Tutorial

Use brushes and colors to spice up your photos to really stand out!

26. The Making of Mystic Tutorial

In this tutorial Nik Ainley walks us through the process of making a spectacular image. Completely outstanding!

27. Expressive lighting effects tutorial

Learn how to combine several lightning techniques to achieve stunning outcome!

28. Displacement effects tutorial

You’ll learn here how to use several filters and techniques to show you the way how to experiment, use lightning effects and recreate those effects in your own style.

29. Seriously Cool Photoshop Explosion Effect Tutorial

Very cool explosion effect tutorial, teaching how to break apart a body, add lightning and glow!

30. Create a Powerful Mental Wave Explosion Effect

Crazy and very powerful work. This tutorial will teach you how to combine photos and filters to produce wave explosion effect.