Photofunia Style Photo Editors

PhotoFunia is an online photo editing tool that gives you a fun filled experience. You upload any photo and just wait to see the magic. The proprietary technology automatically identifies the face in the photo and let's you add cool photo effects and create funny face photo montages.

For the effects with facial recognition of your photos, it is necessary that the face on the photo is front facing, well lit, not blurred and not covered by anything (a good example - your passport photo). Preferably, the photo's background should be neutral. If there is more than one face on the photo then the first in the row will be chosen.

Jpgfun has a wide variety of images to edit - ranging from G rated, to PG and all the way onto the rest of the alphabet.

PhotoMontager is similar to the many of the services we have discussed, but it has a wide range of effects including Disney images. Now - I am suspicious if these are legally licensed so proceed as you wish. Also, PhotoMontager leaves their watermark in the lower right of all images

Photo 505 is yet one more site where you can have fun inserting your photo in one of their many images.

The FunPhotoBox site is a place where you can create funny pictures from your photos. FunPhotoBox allows you to add special effects to your photos as 1-2-3. You can pick from a wide variety of effects and they are adding more each week

ImageChef has it all - Tattoos, Tree Carvings, Team Jerseys, Word Mosaics, id cards, photo frames, sketchpads, animations, license plates and much much more. However - all the free versions have either limited resolution or watermarks on the images. You have to pay for the best versions. Prices are good - but as this site shows you can find many similar tools for free.

Picjoke is a funny picture editor where you can upload your photo and make a lot of different amazing effects in less then one minute. Picjoke has more than 100 effects and they are adding more almost every day. Not everyone who always has digital skills to enhance their daily photos - Picjoke is more like online photoshop that will allows you to enhance your photos with various effects - it's absolutely amazing within only a few clicks(upload photos) and get something unique in seconds.

Glogster is a global social network that enables people to create an online, interactive poster, or "glog" for free. A glog is made with text, images, videos, photos, graphics, and more. Simply put, Glog is a kind of poster - fully designed by you! Glog is a fancy creation from text, images, music and video. No matter if it is colorful, sexy or just plain strange - it gives you a perfect tool to express yourself. This lens shows the visual parts of glogs - but check out Glogster itself to see the video and audio part of glogs.

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.

FlauntR is loaded with effects, fonts, clip art, borders, and other tools that allow you to prepare images to be social-network avatars or cell-phone wallpaper. You can apply color schemes from famous paintings to your images, create electronic greeting cards, or even place your photo on a mock magazine cover.

To use flauntR all you have to do is sign up for an account (no credit card or confidential data required), upload your images and start editing them. The flauntR image editing service is pretty basic. The most important FlauntR features are the dozens of special effects, backgrounds, frames, and other overlays and filters you can apply to your images with a single click.

To many people's surprise, the iPad is a great photo editor. To many the iPad is an awesome computer for watching movies, browsing the internet and playing games. But one of the family of applications for which the iPad is not as well known is photo editing application. Unlike the iPhone, the iPad has no camera. But if you bring photos from another source, you will be amazed at what some of the top Photoshop style apps for the iPad can do with your plain old photos.

Not as fancy a website as Picnik but an amazing number of features are available via one-click on LunaPic. Especially powerful with easy to build animations. Crete cubes, add effects, zoom, crop, remove blemishes - you name it! They say "Pimp Your Profile Pictures for MySpace and FaceBook" and indeed they make it easy to move photos to those sites.

It's not like the world needs one more photo editor, but if one is going to be built at least make it a good one. Citrify is a great addition. The best feature is the ease of touching up photos. I took the above photo on the left (a Citrify default photo) and enhanced it to the image on the right in the first 4 minutes of using Citrify. No training. No research. I just uploaded the photo and used the out-of-the-box touch-up tools. Citrify does not have all the features of other photo editors - but for facial touchups with almost no training Citrify is awesome!

You don't need to be an expert to play with your photos, so it's time for some good fun Pictures4fun provides new original effects every day. Choose an effect from one of their categories (Photo Fun, Magazine Covers or Picture Frames) and upload your own photo. After resizing your photo you can download the fun photo to your hard disk or use it as an avatar.

Amazifier brings a new dimension to photo editing simplicity and fun. From basic photo editing to doing the coolest things with your photos, Amazifier makes it a breeze. Enhance your photos with stickers, text and customized seals - choose from their large collection, there's something for almost every occasion.

While many new photo editing programs are web based, Amazifier is a software that you download to your PC. This is a great benefit if you have a slow Internet connection or frequently travel where you have limited access. Amazifier is being updated regularly - a new update in 2011 - which is great as a number of the downloadable software programs that I love are getting less love from their developers in recent years.

Stunning photo mosaics make unique photo gifts--ones that'll keep wowing everyone who sees them for years to come. At Design A Mosaic, they make it easy for you to take all your favorite digital pictures and create your own personalized photo mosaic. Simply upload your images (as few as 20 is fine), select your options, and they'll take care of the rest. You will get a digital preview of your photo mosaic.

The feedback on Design A Mosaic has been great - both customer service and the mosaics themselves. There are several good services - but this is a favorite.

Feature

Photofunia

Deefunia

FunPhotoBox

Funnywow

JPG images

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

GIF images

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

PNG images

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

File Limit

8 Megabyte

6 Megabyte

4 Megabyte

8 Megabyte

Face Detection

Yes

No

No

No

Funny Effects

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Border Effects

No

Yes

No

No

Calendars

No

Yes

No

No

Magazines

No

No

Yes

No

# of Effects

~130

~300

~160

~100

Save to Disk

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Save as Avatar

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Languages

20

1

3

25

With FACEinHOLE.com you can easily and in a matter of seconds create a totally "new look" for you and your friends. You just have to select a scenario, upload and adjust a photo (or use your webcam) and there you have it; a great FACEinHOLE that you can send to your friends, post in your blog or make available to the world.

One Step Photo Editing is a collection of photo editing tools that are all one step. Each tool only does one thing - like add text to a photo, add a reflection to a photo, add a text bubble to a photo - but it does it quickly and easily.

Edit photographs with this online photo and graphics editing tool, which does much more than adjust brightness or remove red-eye. Aviary's purpose is to "make creation accessible to artists of all genres," including graphics and even audio editing. CLICK HERE for Aviary Tips and Tricks.

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.

Tuxpi is a easy way to apply photo effects or picture frame effects to a photo directly from a webpage. you only need to upload a photo, apply a photo effect or picture frame and the re-download it the modified photo result. Every effect is one step! So it's a not a full service photo editor - but what it does it does with ease! It has several effects not easily found on other sites - filmstrips and newscast are great to create fun photos.

Dumpr.net offers a tool set for turning your existing photos into works of art. Dumpr offers some unique online photo manipulations options for your photo uploads, links to photos and photos directly from your Flickr account.

Create Collages. Sometimes one picture just doesn't say it all. Think of a collage as a picture of pictures! You can create as many collages as you like with your favorite pictures, choose from over 200 different, customizable, styles and layouts!

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.

MagMyPic has added more new magazines, and now has 30 different magazines to choose from. You can select any of them and make an impressive, unique, custom fake magazine with ease - it's simple! Just upload a pic and get started, or you can browse the magazines before hand. Web based and easy to use - but all you can customize is the photo - you can't change any of the text.

Fotoflexer is quickly giving Picnik a run for the money in features. Not as popular yet - but I have had a ton of email on it lately.

• Enhance image color and lighting. Add Different color effects.
  
• Re-color hair or skin with only three clicks.
  
• Fix red eye, fix blemishes, smooth wrinkles
  
• Animate: add text, speech bubbles, bug-eyes, pointy ears, devil horns, and more.
  
• Twirl, bulge, pinch, stretch, squish: Bulge muscles, trim waist-size, turn a frown into a smile, and more.
  
• Easily cut people/objects out without having to trace their outline.
  
• Export/Import your pictures from Flickr, MySpace, Picasa, and Facebook.