Adobe Photoshop is an advanced digital image editor. But its rich features come with a hefty price tag. Most users cannot afford to purchase Photoshop especially because most users need only a handful of the features that Photoshop has to offer.
If you are looking for a free advanced image editor that will cater to your specific needs, check out the 10 free tools we have listed below. Read about each one and find which image editor suits your needs best.
1. Picnik
Picnik is a web app that lets you upload images and perform the most popular edits on them: auto-fixing the brightness and contrast, rotating, cropping, resizing, adjusting the exposure level, adjusting the colors, and adjusting the sharpness. Check out Picnik @ http://www.picnik.com/
2. Gimp
Gimp is a highly popular image tool that helps graphic designers and artists create brilliant looking images from scratch, if they want to. Third party developers have created Gimp installers for Windows and they can be gotten from http://www.gimp.org/downloads/
3. Aviary
Aviary offers a collection of greatly useful web tools that can be used to edit your images, add effects to them, edit vector graphics, capture your screen, and edit colors in your images. For each tool, you get a separate web interface. Check out Aviary @ http://www.aviary.com/
4. Splashup
Splashup is a brilliant online image editor that mashes up many features in a tidy interface. The traditional editing features – cropping, resizing, etc. – are accompanied by color editors and layers features. Visit Splashup @ http://www.splashup.com/
5. Adobe Photoshop Express Editor
Adobe Photoshop Express Editor will do a decent job of editing your images. It is a web app that can autocorrect your images and perform traditional edits; additionally it offers a some advanced editing effects such as adjusting the white balance, sharpening your images, etc. Visit Adobe Photoshop Express Editor @ http://www.photoshop.com/tools?wf=editor
6. PicMarkr
Blog owners often watermark their pictures before uploading them on the blog. If you are looking for an image watermarking tool, then check out PicMarkr. It is a web app that can place textual and image watermarks on your images. Visit PicMarkr @ http://www.picmarkr.com/
7. FotoFlexer
FotoFlexer is an online image editor that offers an impressive number of features. From resizing and rotation to and red eye removal and layers – FotoFlexer offers its users almost all popular image editing tools. Visit FotoFlexer @ http://fotoflexer.com/
8. Paint.NET
Despite its name, Paint.NET is not an online tool. Instead, it is a brilliant installable application for Windows that offers a number of popular image editing features in an appealing user friendly interface. Get Paint.NET from http://www.getpaint.net/index.html
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