5 Finest And Best Online Photo Editing Tools

Use of images has grown significantly in last decade alongside the growth of digital world. In fact,even for creating a basic or advanced website, logo for an online or offline business, product designs,social media profiles, marketing designs or even for individual and personal designs, you need an image. Image editing has now become an integral part of digital and web world. Earlier, there were just some tools for image editing like Paints (an inbuilt Windows program) and some others.

But with advancement in technology, the evolution of these tools have widened. There are many software and online applications available, which you can use for your basic to expert photo editing needs. We present you here the top and best 5 online photo editing tools which you can use to satisfy your professional and personal needs for playing with any image:

1. Adobe Photoshop Express:

• The most advanced, used and preferred tool for photo editing and photo creation whether online or offline, considering that Adobe are the standard makers in the photography industry.
• Along with their desktop editing tool, they also have their subsequent presence among online editors also.
• This online editor is a sharpened version of their fine desktop software.
• It is a must-have tool for basic editing for beginners.
• It has a marginally different way of exhibiting probable changes to an image. It allows the view of the original as you edit it. It lets you choose from numerous versions of the image with contradictory range of adjustments of the tool, although you can use the sliders as fine too.
• The only negativity we drive for using this online tool is that it requires sign up for an account to able to use it, along with your birthday.
• Also selection of font for text addition is also very small, but being a Adobe product you can avoid this at your own risk.

2. Picnik:

• The most basic and used of all the online photo editing tools.
• It provides a fast interface, even while you open it - It looks like you are just launching desktop software.
• It provides scales of basic changes from cropping, saturation, hue and vignetting.
• It can also sync with your Flickr account which saves much of time.

3. Pixlr:

• A flash-based, and more advanced editor.
• The USP is that you get to use best of the basic Photoshop functionality, all free, in features like layers, navigation, and history.
• You can use the layering functionality to put one image over another, and many more effects to make changes to your photo.
• The best is to use the express or advanced version which provides full-screen options.
• Work with big buttons at a single click to make any no. of changes.
• Make all the adjustments like - crop, resize, colour splash, auto fix, vibrancy, touch-up, airbrush, white teeth, and others.
• Add effects like - overlays (smoke, space, vignette and others), stickers, borders, and text (which provide just 7 font options).
• Add filters like - tilt shift, noise, sharpen, blur and others.
• A lasso tool and a wand tool are given just like you use in Photoshop, also red eye reduction and clone stamp tool, and others too.
• You can your photo saved in a wide range of formats: PNG, TIFF, JPG, BMB, and PXD.
• For Android and Apple users, you can download the Pixlr apps for free.
• Pixlr Express works best for creating collages.
• Best for Touch-up and imperfection-correction in snaps of people.
• It retains the high-res with same quality post editing
• It does not require any log-in to use
• The Pixlr Grabber add-on for Chrome and Firefox allows picking online screenshots or pictures for editing with Pixlr Editor.
• You require editing knowledge for using Pixlr Editor.
• You cannot share your edited images to social networks with Pixlr Express, only the advanced editor allows so.

4. Splashup:

• It is also an advanced Flash-based editor.
• It allows opening an image from multiple places like computer, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, and others.
• It is similar to Photoshop in layout, with filters and layers, but lesser than Pixlr.
• The interface provided is grey, along with moveable boxes.
• You are provided with saving options in multiple formats like JPG, PNG and many more.
• You can choose from various available photo quality outputs.
• The plus point is that you can edit multiple photos at once.
• You can edit even your webcam image.
• The Navigation function is not as cool as in other tools.

5. Snipshot:

• It is one of the fastest online photo editor tools.
• It gives you editing interface right from your opened browser, without any downloads, plug-ins or Flash.
• Save image in multiple formats such as PNG, JPG, GIF, JPG, or PDF.
• One-click boost increases most images output.
• Basic image alterations like brightness, contrast, sharpness, hue and saturation.
• Non-damaging photo editing, just pure and clean.
• You can also edit higher sized and large pictures, for up to 25 megapixels or even 10 MB.

While using these tools, always remember few important points:

• Always check for image resolutions before editing. You can use some add-on tools with your
• browser for this purpose, like – Measureit!.
• Never worry about ppi or dpi for online images.
• Print pictures are ought to be of at least 200 or 300 dpi.