Free Image Editing Software
Online Image Editing - No Software Download Required
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. 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.
All this for free! Want more? Upgrade to Picnik Premium for only $24.95 a year!
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Phixr
Phixr is an online photo editor - a complete image editor that works within your web browser. Let's pretend you are on vacation. Feels good, doesn't it.
Now, let's also assume that you are at some internet cafe in a country far from home and want to email the photos you've just taken with your digital camera to your friends and family at home to share the unique experience.
There is only one problem. These photo files are huge. And a nice border around the photo would be nice, apart from some color adjustments. .... Too bad.. this computer doesn't have any image editor installed.
That's just one situation where phixr comes handy! Another typical case are computers in schools or companies where users are not able or not permitted to install software.
Phixr can directly e-mail photos to your friends
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LunaPic
Pimp Your Profile Pictures for MySpace and FaceBook! Skin Tanning and Smoothing, Animated Winking Tutorial, Change Eye and Hair Color.
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FotoFlexer
The Worlds most advanced online image editor.
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Piccyfix
PiccyFix.com is an instant, easy-to-use, free, online picture, image and photo editor. Our cool online photo editing wizard does all the hard work for you.
No graphics software to pay for, download, install, configure, register and learn.. just upload your picture below into your browser and you're away!!
We also offer FREE image hosting (NO Registration, 30 Day Expiry applies on stale pictures).
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Picture2Life
Picture2Life is a powerful, but simple and easy-to-use online image editor which also allows you to create collages and animated gif's (or animations).
It works great with your pictures that you already have online!
Guess what? That includes all photo sharing, hosting or blogging websites such as Flickr, Photobucket, ImageShack, MySpace, Friendster, Hi5, FotoLog, Facebook, Blogger, Wordpress, and the list just goes on...
You can still upload pictures from your computer or mobile device if you like.
Visit Picture2Life Website
Snipshot
They have a Free and Paid version
Get our Firefox extension to put Snipshot in your right-click menu. 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 to a free permanent URL at WebShots. Save as GIF, JPG, PDF, PNG or TIF.
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 (5000x5000 pixels). Import PDF (first page only).
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Downloadable Image Editing Software
GIMP
GIMP is a popular open-source image editor originally developed for Unix/Linux. Often lauded as the "free Photoshop," it does have an interface and features similar to Photoshop. Because it's volunteer-developed beta software, stability and frequency of updates could be an issue; however, many happy users report using GIMP for Windows without significant problems.
GIMP for Windows | Download GIMP
PhotoPlus
For a long time, Serif has given away previous versions of their software to entice users to purchase the current version. Currently you can download a completely free, fully-functional version of PhotoPlus 6. PhotoPlus 6 features an export optimizer, editable text, image slicing and image maps, selection tools, smart shapes, third-party plug-in support, red-eye removal tool, and photo enhancement tools. PhotoPlus 6 works on Windows 95, 98, 98 SE, 2000, NT4, and XP.
Serif PhotoPlus | Download PhotoPlus Here
Paint.NET
Paint.NET is a free image and photo manipulation software for Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Server 2003. Paint.NET started development at Washington State University with additional help from Microsoft, and continues to be updated and maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Paint.NET features layers, painting and drawing tools, special effects, unlimited undo history, and levels adjustments. Paint.NET is completely free, and the source code is also available for free.
Paint.NET Website | Download Paint.net
Pixia
Pixia is the English version of a popular free painting and retouching software that originated in Japan. It features custom brush tips, multiple layers, masking, vector- and bitmap-based drawing tools, color, tone, and lighting adjustments, and multiple undo/redo. Like many freeware editors, there is no support for saving GIF format. Pixia is also available for many other languages. Pixia works with Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, and XP.
Pixia | Download Pixia
Picasa
Picasa organizes your entire collection while you watch, scanning the images on your computer and automatically sorting them by date. Picasa's Basic Fixes are buttons that make it fast and easy to crop, remove red eye, fix the contrast and color, and enhance your digital pictures.
Photography aficionados can now fine-tune their photos with Picasa's EXIF display. This window shows you all the camera data that is stored in a picture's original file - such as camera model, date the photo was taken, even if a flash was used. The EXIF display also has a RGB histogram, a real-time graph that shows the intensity of colors in your picture and how they change when you make edits in Picasa.
Take the guesswork out of sending photos. Picasa automatically resizes and attaches pictures to email messages at sizes your friends will be able to open. Works with most email programs.
Picasa Website | Download Picasa
PhotoFiltre
PhotoFiltre offers a simple, but elegant user interface and a lot of one-click image adjustments, filters, and effects. There is a built in image explorer panel for visually navigating your file system, basic drawing, painting, retouching and selection tools, and batch processing capabilities. PhotoFiltre is free for private, non commercial or educational use (including non-profit organizations).
PhotoFiltre Website | Download PhotoFiltre
Ultimate Paint
Ultimate Paint is available in both shareware and freeware versions for image creation, viewing, and manipulation. It has been designed to be fast and compact, and if you're familiar with the old Deluxe Paint program from Electronic Arts, Ultimate Paint is said to be very similar. The freeware version is an older release of the full-featured shareware product.
Ultimate Paint Website | Download Ultimate Paint
If you know of a free photo editing program not listed send me an e-mail so I can check it out and add it to the list.
NOTICE
On 03-16-08 I checked each of these downloadable programs and as of this posting they are all Spyware/Adware Free. Before downloading any programs please update your Virus Protection and scan the downloads before you open or run them.
McAfee SiteAdvisor
This is a must have to help you stay safe online. They have two versions, Free and Paid. I use the Free version and it works great.
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The About Us section from the McAfee SiteAdvisor website:
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