So you took some photos with your digital camera and they turned out great. Now you want to put them on your website and you feel empowered because you have our wonderful CMS and you can add photos to your website all by yourself. Yay…but WAIT. A common newbie mistake is putting that photo directly onto your website.
The photo that comes from your digital camera is for print. Which means in is HUGE in the web world. In order to have a nice sharp image when your photo is printed out it needs to have a high resolution, which makes the file size large. However, with web you don’t need that and should NOT have a high resolution photo on your website. Photos should be as small in terms of Kb/size as possible without loosing major quality. So how do you shrink your photos and optimize them for web use?
I use photoshop, but it is a bit pricey and really unnecessary if all you need to do is shrink your photo. So now what? Have no fear I’m back with more FREE stuff for all of you to use.
Below is are 20 Free Online Photo Editors that I found and they don’t just shrink, you can crop, add effects & kewl borders, text, remove red eye…all kinds of fun stuff. Now you have no excuse for uploading massive photos to your website that can take forever for a viewer to see. Enjoy.
flash/flex
Adobe Photoshop Express
Picnik
Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools.
Phoenix Image editor
It’s still closed β version. But it’s really high performance software.
Splashup
Splashup, formerly Fauxto, is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. It looks similar to Photoshop. So, I think Photoshop user can easily use.
Scrapblog
Scrapblog is the best place to share your digital scrapbooks with your friends, family, and the world. Enhance your photos, and express yourself through a rich multimedia experience with our online scrapbooking tools at scrapblog.com.
FotoFlexer
FotoFlexer is the most powerful online photo editor in existence. It can remove blemishes, change skin/hair color, morph photos and more! 100% free.
Graphita.com
Easy to use visual effects for digital photos�live on the web in print resolution!。
pixer.us
Need a quick fix for that photo? With pixer.us you can edit your photos online using only your browser.
flauntR
Move your photos in and out of this world from any other place on the net, and use flauntR to make them feel special. In our world, everyone gets to be a pro.
Mixbook
Mixbook software makes book creation easy and fun, it also allows groups of people to build books together.
Sprout
Sprout is a quick and easy way for beginner and pro users to create living content including websites, banners, videos, music, photos, RSS feeds, calendars and more.
rsizr
rsizr is a web application that lets you resize images.
SlideRocket
It is not launched yet… But it looks really nice! SlideRocket is a web application that provides everything you need to design professional quality presentations, manage and share libraries of slides and assets, and to deliver presentations in person or remotely over the web.
Ajax
Snipshot
You can easily crop images online with SnipShot.
pikifx.com
Pikifx allows you to upload a photo and make it look professional. Add borders, effects and cool text with a click of a button
Wiredness
Quick and easy browser based online image manipulation and photo editing.
pic resize
Resize, shrink, and crop your pictures online for free at PicResize.com. Resize photos before posting them on your MySpace, Xanga, Facebook, and blog!
Pixenate
Pixenate is the photo editor of choice for photo printing and photo sharing businesses.
Click here to find out how Pixenate can enhance your photo website.
Pikipimp
Pikipimp allows you top upload your photo and add some bling
LunaPic
Free Online Photo Editor. Photo and paint effects.
Phixr
It’s a simple Online Photo Editor
mypictr
Resize your pictures for social networks online, such as myspace, digg, youtube, last.fm, openbc and other. mypictr makes your profile picture!
Java
Onlinephototool.com
Edit your photos online on Onlinephototool.com: resize, filters, sepia, black/white, crop, rotate and flip, online photo editing, photo editing, photo tool.
Wow! Thank you. Great list of tools.