Over the past few years, I’ve been accumulating links to — and experimenting with — various online photo editors and sites for photo effects. There are certainly a zillion of them out there.
I finally decided it was time to narrow all the links down into some kind of “The Best…” list, and have divided this post into two sections. The first part lists sites where you can upload your own images and, with no registration required (or, perhaps, in one or two instances, an extremely minimal registration process) easily edit the photo or add effects. The second section lists sites that I’ve specifically used with my English Language Learner students. These sites let you easily grab an image off the web, lets you add add a speech bubble to it, and then gives you a more or less permanent url address for your creation that you can post on a student or teacher website/blog.
I’m sure I will have missed some applications out there, so feel free to share your suggestions in the comments section. I suspect there are also additional “categories” photo apps out there besides the two I’m using.
Using my categories and criteria, here are my choices for The Best Sites For Online Photo-Editing & Photo Effects (they tend to be fairly similar — with a few exceptions that are primarily “resizers” — so I’m just going to list the links and not describe each one):
PHOTO-EDITING & EFFECTS FOR UPLOADED IMAGES:
Picnik (I had meant to include this one I originally, but reader Brenda Hallowes pointed out that I had not. Thanks, Brenda!)
PhotFunia is suggested by reader Ann Carnevale.
Pic Ghost is a new online photo editor that lets you upload up to twenty photos at a time. It’s editing functions are rather limited now — you can resize the images and add a watermark to them — but they expect to be adding more features in the future. Their ability to upload multiple images is nice.
Aviary has announced an HTML 5 photo editor.
enThread is a super-simple online tool for photo-editing — drag, drop, edit.
PicMonkey joins the many other tools on the list by offering many different kinds of photo-editing features.
Clipi just offers the ability to resize photos, but it also provides some unique features. One, all you have to do is copy a photo and paste directly onto the website. Two, it will automatically save your photo on ImageShack without needing to register. It only works with the Google Chrome browser now, but they plan to make it compatible with others. It’s ease of use could make it popular.
SITES FOR ADDING “SPEECH BUBBLES” TO WEB IMAGES:
ImgOps is a new multi-use photo application that is worth a look.
iPiccy is an impressive all-purpose online photo editor. It pretty much lets you do whatever you want with your photo, including adding text and effects. You can upload an image or grab its url address off the Web.
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January 9, 2010 at 12:57 am
Hi Larry, thanks for these. I’m really getting into the 365 blog at the moment and it’s good to have resources like this.
Have you used Picnik.com?
January 9, 2010 at 8:40 am
Have you had a chance to look at PhotoFunia (http://photofunia.com)? I just blogged about it for my teachers, and heard some good feedback in the hallways. It allows the user to insert photos into interesting locations and items, such as billboards, sides of buildings, art galleries, stamps, money, etc… It’s a good teacher tool at the elementary level for building writing prompts, and can be a good tool for older students to use on their own.
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January 11, 2010 at 3:40 pm
Great list. Thanks for sharing. Don’t forget:
http://www.imagechef.com/
http://pho.to/
http://repper.studioludens.com/
January 11, 2010 at 6:04 pm
You also forgot http://www.cellsea.com/ which has all kinds of things as well. It used to be one of the few that went through our school filter, however, we changed filters and now it doesn’t work! Grrr… I’ll try some of the others and see if they’ll work!
May 18, 2010 at 7:38 am
I think that you might want to add Picnik, a great, simple, easy photo editing site that a lot of kids at my school use. Thanks for the ideas!
http://www.picnik.com/
Happy Blogging!
~Laurenc604
http://laurenc604.edublogs.org
July 9, 2010 at 10:24 am
Hi Larry!
I love this list! and adding it to Sqworl list! http://sqworl.com/t1m1f8
i’ve also blogged about this topic with examples – cause i’m visual:
http://www.thedaringlibrarian.com/2010/06/digital-photo-fun-and-diane-cordell.html
oh and the Change Image link (2nd on list) has moved to http://www.photofuntoos.com/
thanks again for an AWEsome list of resources! You Rock!
~Gwyneth
October 7, 2010 at 3:45 am
And what about http://photofacefun.com.
Probably the best
November 11, 2010 at 2:32 am
Amazing
Thank you for the list! There’s another similar site which I came across – http://photofacefun.com with more than 300 photo effects, funny images templates!
January 4, 2011 at 1:15 pm
thanks
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May 14, 2012 at 4:55 am
PicGhost is now:
Upload multiple images at once (max 40).
Each image up to 10MB! means you can upload up to 400MB at once.