Pimp Your Photos

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.

LunaPic is one of the most established web based photo editors. While the interface is a little dated in this Web 2.0 world, LunaPic remains a solid online image editing program for its precise, useful paint tools, intuitive photo editing tools and especially it's customizable animation effects. As you would expect from an online photo editor, Lunapic integrates with several photosharing and social networking sites including Flickr, Facebook, Myspace and Picasa. However, in terms of video and image file formats, Lunapic offers a great selection of formats with GIF, JPG, BMP, PNG, AVI, MPG, FLV, RM and others.

To create the above example - I loaded the photo, picked the Photo Spread Efffect and then picked 2 animations

FunnyPhotoFrames.com simplifies photo editing and funny photo effects. Just select a photo effect from the library to turn your ordinary photos into extraordinary "framed" art work.

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.

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.

There are tons of web based and free photo tools - just explore this site. I encourage you NOT to pick these downloads which bring advertisements and toolbars onto your computer. No need for downloads to clutter our computer and bring you more ads.

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.

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.

Imikimi (pronounced: immy-kimmy) is an online creative community where millions of people throughout the world gather to create, re-mix and collaborate on their digital self-expressions in a fun and easy way.

Pixlr is a web service that offers a really easy pixlr-o-matic one step option AND a option that combines image design and paint tools with photo editing. So whether you want to create a free form image , layer one image over another or use a variety of filters, effects and level adjustments to transform photographs, Pixlr is equally capable of meeting your needs. Even with all these features, Piixlr remains easy to use - certainly much easier and cheaper than Photoshop.

There are tons of web based and free photo tools - just explore this site. I encourage you NOT to pick these downloads which bring advertisements and toolbars onto your computer. This one is an example where they make it look like a website - but then when you try and use the site it tries to force a download - without even mentioning the toolbar and other ads.

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.

iPiccy is a free, completely web-based photo editing and sharing application to give users everywhere the ability to quickly and easily edit, enhance and share their photos from any Internet browser. There are other web based editors like Photoshop Express, Picnik, and Citrify but iPiccy's is a new (Spring 2011) entry that is a strong competitor to these services. iPiccy provides new, easy-to-use tools for modifying pictures, using advanced image processing.

iPiccy offers a clear and easy interface allowing users to pull images from any Web site or file folder on their computer. iPiccy includes an extensive variety of easy Web-based photo-editing tools such as Auto-fix, Rotate, Crop, Resize and Color adjustment and Sharpen which you have come to expect in any photo editor. But in addition, iPiccy can also be used to turn photos into creative masterpieces, with clever special effects like liquify, painter, vignette, pencils, and many more. Some of these are features you would have to upgrade to premium service with other online photo editors. Like Photoshop, it even has an advanced photo painter that works with levels for the most complex types of photo editing.