Photo Editing - Faces

Everyone takes poor photos, now... rather than throwing them away you can restore them using FaceFilter Studio. You can adjust everything from color balance to skin tone. You can even change the expressions of people in the photo - that is by far my favorite feature (now if it only worked in real life too!)

The software works on all versions of Windows - even Vista - and is pretty easy to use. Utilizing Reallusion's fully automated 3D facial mapping technology, FaceFilter Studio now not only has the ability to change and enhance facial expressions, but also offers new features including: muscle based morphing; editable facial mask; skin filtration; smart color correction; 1-click red eye removal and instant photo-sticker printing. FaceFilter Studio has the ability to truly deliver perfect photos by enabling anyone to enhance expressions, remove common skin blemishes, smooth wrinkles, sharpen and improve facial structure, correct color balance and more.

Taaz.com offers amazing tools for online makeovers. You can use their stock photos or upload your own (free registration required). You can experiment with a palette of thousands of colors and shades in products ranging from foundation and concealer to multi-tone eye shadow and lip gloss and even colored contact lenses!. With the addition of a hairstyle or change of hair color, the look is complete. The effects are immediate, simple to use and so life-like that the saved result looks like a real photograph.

The uses for these makeovers are endless: They can be saved, printed and brought to your makeup artist or hair stylist to convey the precise look you crave; emailed to friends; put on greeting cards; or used as online profile pictures on Facebook or MySpace.

Weight Mirror is a online tool that lets you to lose up to 50 pounds (23kg) in photographs without exercising any fancy Photoshop wizardry.

Morph Thing combines two faces into one. You can combine two celebrity faces into one - which is free and does not even require signup. You can also combine faces you upload with celebrity faces and that is also free - but does require you to register.

FuntasticFace is an easy to use site that allows you to update photo faces very quickly.

LiftMagic is a cosmetic surgery and anti-aging makeover tool that can show the effects of dermal fillers (such as Restylane and Juvederm), Botox, and a variety of other plastic surgery effects including facelifts, creams, wrinkle reduction, nose job, rhinoplasty, and more!

I love editing photos, but when you have the photos say from a wedding, a reunion or a graduation you might want a professional touch. Tucia can add a person into a family portrait or remove an unwanted stranger from your photo. They can digitally open up closed eyes or fix hair. They can also offer glamorize and digital cosmetic enhancement options - get a tan, clear acne or remove braces. Simple touch-ups such as digital camera mark or red eye removal and cropping are also available.

Portrait Professional works in a completely different way to ordinary airbrushing and photo editing software such as Photoshop.

This portrait enhancement software has been trained with hundred of examples of human beauty, and as a result you can add as much or as little photo enhancement as required - by simply moving sliders.

In fact due to the innate knowledge of human beauty built into the software, the highest quality photo touch-up can be achieved by unskilled users in a few minutes - with absolutely minimal training

After a simple mark-up stage where you identify a few points on the face, Portrait Professional photo editing software gives you many controls to enhance your portrait.

Specializes in face shaping, skin smoothing, eyes & teeth, lighting spot reduction and much more.

You can download a trial version - the full product is $69.95.

Check out Modiface for links to tools for hair style, hair color, cosmetics and much much more!

Try-On eyeglasses now at Frame Finder as they allows you to virtually try out various spectacle frames to find out which one suits you best.

A number of readers have commented that Eyeglasses.com has an even better virtual try on tool. I have not seen much difference, but the wisdom of crowds give the nod to this service.

Mypictr provides a free picture resizing service, which allows you to create a custom profile avatar for your favorite social network. You don't need to install any programs, plug-ins or any other software, just upload your picture, resize it online and download it from our server. Imagine the following situation, you are about to create a new profile at a new social network and the size of profile picture is limited to a custom width and height. You would probably search for a software which will allow you to adjust your picture to the right size. With mypictr you don't need to search for the software, all you need to do is to upload your large picture, pick a right size (or custom size) and download a smaller profile picture.

Want to change facial expressions in photos of people with just one click, or even create funny animations? Cartoon Photo! makes this possible! This online service works in fully automatic mode: you just upload a photo from your computer or from the internet by entering its URL, choose an emotion from the list (joy, sadness, surprise, etc.) and get a funniest gif animation, or a static caricature. The service automatically detects the face in your photo and also lets you adjust animation speed and picture size.

Your Face in 20 years is another service from the folks who make MakeMeBabies. This will take a facial photo and age it 20 or 30 years. I have found this okay - you need a straight on photo and many photos just look weird versus aged. Hey, it's free - nothing lost to give it a try.

Hollywood Hair Makeover by Instyle.com allows you to try on your favorite star styles and colors before you make a trip to the salon. Just upload your photo or choose a model and let the transformations begin. Print your favorite looks and e-mail them to friends. Hollywood Hair Makeover is free - but you have to register. Behind the scenes it is powered by Taaz, just gives you some more "Hollywood" options.

Pizap is a fun free photo editor that lets people easily create wacky images with their digital pictures. PiZap was created as a tool primarily for social networking users who want to post their images to their favorite social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Orkut, Friendster, Bebo, miGente, Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, Tagged, and many more. PiZap provides a very easy to use photo editor that lets you add photo effects, custom text or speech bubbles, hundreds of original colorful stickers, a full painting program, and much more.

I love editing photos, but when you have the photos say from a wedding, a reunion or a graduation you might want a professional touch. It was the photo of the windy hair that convinced me to try out this service from Wowapic.com.

Photofiddle.com allows users to create art from photos with free online photo effects software. Photofiddle will transform any picture into art with over 50 photo art styles to choose. Select from oil painting, Warhol pop art, watercolor painting, modern art, abstract art, Leroy neiman art style, Lichtenstein art style, outline sketches, color pencil sketches, photo collages, impasto art, film strip photo collages and more. Have us add a photographic tint like a sepia tint, blue tint, red tint, or green tint to any photograph.