35+ Really Cool Photo Editing Online Services

Photo editing online is made possible using a wide range of free tools. It is a lot of fun for both kids and adults to make funny makeovers, add text and illustrations to photographs.

However you can also use the online photo editors for more serious tasks even though desktop version may be a lot better! So if you find Photoshop too expensive, too hard and time consuming to learn and work with – you have alternatives online as you can see below.?

Photoshop can certainly create the effects you can dream up, but it is expensive and not that easy to learn. On the desktop side there are also some interesting free and open source Photoshop alternatives.

A large number of photo editing online services are available to help us all saving time or just having fun manipulating photos and creating effects instantly. Most of these are also free so you may get you graphical job done without investing in expensive tools. Of cause these tools have their limits but they are fun and can be useful some cases.

Please post a comment if you know a great online photo service that I missed. Please note that this article was just updated, links checked and many new resources were added. It is of course essential to have an online portfolio to showcase your best photos and artworks. Building an website and designing a professional portfolio is actually quite easy if you use WordPress portfolio themes. I encourage you to take your time to see this collection. Enjoy!

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Index

• One Click Photo Editing Tools
• Real Online editors
• Funny Makeover Tools

One Click Online Photo Editing Services

Fun Photo Box

Fun Photo Box is a really cool place. It has loads of stunning effects and a well designed interface to apply them. This is fun for hours!

Big Huge Labs

This site offers various ways to make fun of your photos online. You can create fake magazine covers, movie posters, calendars, and other special effects available.

WriteOnIt

Easily create your fake pictures, captions and fake magazines and other funny jokes for you and your friends.

Imagechef Photo editing online

Imagechef have four interesting services. Sketchpad and Word Mosaic are both really cool.

picjoke

May may photo editing online effects found here!

PiZap

This service as awesome for making funny images. You may also use it for serious purposes like adding a text bobble .

Funny Photo

It lets you make photo collages, make fun of your pictures, and add picture fames that are available at various designs.

Enjoy pic Photo editing online

EnjoyPic.com is an online photo editing tool where you can add funny photo effects to your pictures. It is very easy to use. What you need to do is to upload any picture or photo you like, and wait to see the reslut of magic.

BeFunky

This photo editing site lets you edit and create effects on your pictures even without registering on the site. The good thing is, it offers free photo editing service online.

PhotoFunia

PhotoFunia is a site with tons of creative backgrounds to play around with. With only a few click you can create very cool effects. PhotoFunia allows you to make fun of your photos fast and easy. In addition, there are many available cool effects to choose from.

FotoTrix

The site offers various ways to make fun of your pictures online such as creating frames, fake magazine covers, and other special effects.

Loonapix

Loonapix lets you add photo frames on your pictures and add face effects as well.

Imagic Photo Enhancer

This is a fast and easy way of enhancing your photos online.

Photo505

Another wery cool photo effect service.

Dumpr

Create multiple interesting effects from your normal photos. The tools are good and simple to work with.

Photofacefun

Lots of nice free photo editing online services here.

Phixr

Phixr allows you to create various photo effects on your pictures which you can take from your computer.

Festisite Money

Here, you can upload your photo and create a personalized paper bill online.

Pato

More than 400 photo editing online effects

Pixisnap

Here you can create wonderful photo mosaics and polaroid images.

Picartia

Create a photo mosaic of your choice for free online. Only you fantasy sets the limits here. Here a Mosaic illustrating a pregnant woman created from baby images.

Real Online editors

Need to do basic image editing like resize, crop, rotate etc.? You can do that for free online.

pixlr

Pixlr is a really great on-line photo editor with layers, history and other features you know from tools like Photoshop. The GUI is created to look like Photoshop. You will find that there’s an express version as well that focus on basic features like resize, crop etc. For sure one of the most feature rich online image editors I have seen.

Photoshop Express

This may be the best online editor you will find. It’s a free online photo editor that’s not meant to replace Adobe’s current offerings, but “make Adobe imaging technology immediately accessible to large numbers of people.

Splashup

Splashup is designed to give you a feeling of working in Photoshop. It is integrated with Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, and more and even support layers. Being a free tool this application offers many features, filters and is really worth trying out.

Picnik

Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools and it is one of the most popular online image editors. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames. It is very popular because it integrated with Flickr, Facebook, myspace, Picasa, Webshots, Webs and more. Picnik offer the basic features needed and also have a premíum plan that adds more powerful features.

Phoenix

Aviary offers a suite of tools for editing images, vectors etc. Phoenix is the Aviary image/photo editor and it offers layers and compositing. It is integrated with Flickr, Facebook and Picasa allowing you to import images from these popular services. This is another very interesting free tool to check out before investing in commercial packages.

Anymaking Image Workshop

Simple image editing tools. You will also find a few photo effects.

Makeover Tools

Some will hate these tools and some will love them…I will keep my opinion for myself!

Yearbook Yourself

Turn your face photo into yearbook alike black & white old school photo. The service is paused and will be back this Summer.

Hairmixer

Choose a photo for the left and right side and start mixing their hairs up. There’s a lot of celebrety photos you can choose from but really does it make sense to mix hair on people…. you decide. You can as well create a magazine cover with the end result photo.

Moron Face

Moronize yourself but be careful you’re not going to like the result 😉

Revitalizer

This is a funny tool that allows you to retouch a face really easy. The interface is ok to work with but the results may not satisfy a professional photoshopper. Anyway it is quite fun.

Hollywood Hair Makeover

Love those celebrities’ look? Wear thier hair instantly and see how you look. You can also put on some makeup and see how it looks with a new color.

Create a magazine

Your own Wired Cover

This service is powered by Xerox, and it allows you to create your own Wired magazine cover. You can customize almost everything from titles, colors to photos.

MagMyPic

Create different fake magazine covers from your photos.

Lars

Lars started tripwire magazine back in January 2009. He is really passionate about web design, web development and loves to look into new technologies, techniques, tools etc. and to write articles for his readers.