It’s difficult to understand why Google didn’t develop an online photo editor: it would’ve integrated with Picasa Web Albums, Google Docs and other Google services. Right now, Picasa Web Albums is just an online extension of Picasa, a popular software that lets you manage your photos. Unlike Picasa Web Albums, most Google services work online and don’t require additional applications.
Instead of migrating Picasa online, Google acquired Picnik, an online photo editor that already integrates with Picasa Web Albums and many other photo services.
“Today, we’re excited to announce that Google has acquired Picnik, one of the first sites to bring photo editing to the cloud. Using Picnik, you can crop, do touch-ups and add cool effects to your photos, all without leaving your web browser,” mentions Google’s blog.
Picnik will not be discontinued and Google promises that the service will continue to support all the existing partners, but I suspect that Flickr will no longer use it as the default photo editor.
There are several photo storage services and alternatives to Flickr online, but not many are powerful and reliable enough to encourage users to bring all their pictures to the cloud. 72Photos is a free online photo management and sharing app that hopes to change that. This sleek website can create online galleries and enhance your pictures with features that rival any desktop photo software.After signing up for an account, upload your photos or import your images from your Picasa, Facebook, or Flickr account. You can organize your files by tagging and creating customizable web galleries. In addition, you can set the viewing permissions for each gallery.
The sharing options of 72photos are pretty seamless. The app lets you create embeddable slideshows for your social networking accounts and a dedicated Facebook application called Photo Stage allows you to post impressive galleries in your profile. 72photos’ killer feature is its set of editing tools. Working with photos is very smooth and can be done in only a few quick steps. If you make a mistake while editing, you can easily revert back to the original image.
72photos offers a generous free account with 200MB storage and 10GB bandwidth limit, while the paid account gives you 5GB storage limit, unlimited bandwidth, and advanced editing options. 72Photos has all the elements of a great online photo app: slick, sleek, quick, and easily connected. This is certainly one of the best alternatives to Flickr we have come across.
Features:
Upload your photos or import from Picasa, Facebook, and Flickr.
Powerful effects and filters available for photo edits.
Photo Stage App Available for Facebook.
Embed image galleries and slideshows to social networking profiles.
Can organize photos by camera.
WordPress and Mephisto plugins available for blogs.
Thumba is an fast image editor that allows you to manipulate images on the go without installing any software/plug-ins to your computer. Using Thumba you can resize and crop your image, rotate it, flip it or and even produce a mirror effect. You can also tweak your image using one of several brushes including a blur brush, sharpen brush, color brush, spray, gray scale and pinch.
Moreover can also add various effects to your image using Thumba and adjust settings such as color, saturation, brightness, etc.
What makes Thumba really different than other online image editors is the underlying Microsoft Silverlight platform which makes Thumba way quicker than flash based image editors. Once you are done editing an image, you can easily save it to your hard drive.
Features:
Light-weight online image editor.
Use one of several brushes to manipulate the image.
Add effects like blur, noise, photo, distortion, etc.
We have covered many free application to edit, resize and crop photos. MobaPhoto is a freeware application that allows you to create some professional looking photo galleries for your webpage from your photo collection . Not only create
photo galleries, MobaPhoto also allows you to resize, crop or correct red-eyes of all your pictures very easily. The main interface has four options to create galleries, batch photo resizer, batch picture editor and batch picture renamer. It can also fix the red-eyes of all your pictures easily.
Once you have created the photo gallery, you can directly upload it to your website using the
application interface.
Features:
Batch photo processing
Photo galleries compatible with every known web browser
You can use the right-click menu for an easy and fast start
Program without installation that you can start from an USB stick
A clear and easy to use interface
Light and portable
application
MobaPhotos is a very useful and handy portable utility for image editing.
Snapact Photo Manager is a free, stylish photo viewer and manager that offers a wide range of photo manipulation functions, and at the same time acting as an interface to Snapact’s online photo sharing service for easier uploading and sharing of photos with the community and friends.
The first thing that I noticed about SnapAct is it’s cool factor – a black skinned GUI, with stylish folder icons and pop-up file information boxes. The image manager has an extremely minimal set of tools but don’t read that as lack of features. The tools are cleverly hidden and show up only when needed. For example, when you hover the mouse over an image in the thumbnail view, it will pop-up a box with information about the file – size, metadata, tags , rating etc. But only when you click on the image, a horizontal bar at the bottom will give you access to edit the tags, description, comments and rating of the image.
A very useful feature in SnapAct is the “Mini Basket” which allows you to create virtual albums. Simply drag and drop a collection of images into the basket and it will behave as a new album which you can view as a slideshow or simply scroll through at your own pace.
The bulk of the image manipulation options are available in the image viewer. These options include rotate, crop, adjust tint and color blur, brightness and contrast, sharpness, remove redeye, add effects like negative or turn into black and white image. What I liked about the image viewer is that it makes the proper use of the mouse wheel. Unlike Windows default image viewer where the mouse wheel controls the zoom level, in SnapAct the mouse wheel cycles through the images in the folder which is exactly why we use the wheel for – scrolling.
When viewing a single image in the viewer the rest of the image in the same folder are available in a carousel styled thumbnail strip at the bottom. Moving the mouse over this strip enlarges the thumbnails.
Snapact Photo Manager can be used as desktop image application without signing up with their online photo sharing service. But if you do use their service you will be able to upload images directly to their free online account from SnapAct and keep your online albums synchronized with those on your local disk.
Docs and other Google services. Right now, Picasa Web Albums is just an online extension of Picasa, a popular software that lets you manage your photos. Unlike Picasa Web Albums, most Google services work online and don’t require additional applications.
encourage users to bring all their pictures to the cloud. 72Photos is a free online photo management and sharing app that hopes to change that. This sleek website can create online galleries and enhance your pictures with features that rival any desktop photo software.After signing up for an account, upload your photos or import your images from your Picasa, Facebook, or Flickr account. You can organize your files by tagging and creating customizable web galleries. In addition, you can set the viewing permissions for each gallery.
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