20 Best Free Online Photo Editors

Pixlr supports tons of tools for a free online photo editor, some of which you normally find only in desktop software.

It provides an interface that's easy on the eyes, supports fullscreen mode, and is simple to use. The position of the tools, layers, and other settings are flexible so you can create your own custom workspace.

Things like layer styles, filters, and image adjustments are supported with Pixlr as well as tools like a red-eye remover, clone stamp, color fill, magic wand selection, and crop tool, among others.

You can use Pixlr Editor for advanced editing or Pixlr Express for simple changes and quick fixes. You can make a new image from a blank canvas or upload your own from your computer or a URL. Your edited pictures can be saved to your computer or online at Pixlr.

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All of iPiccy's menu items are easily accessible from the side of the screen so you can find basic and advanced editing tools like a crop, clone, and sharpen tool, among others. 

Tools for specific tasks are also available, such as one for a blemish fixer, to make your eyes brighter, to add mascara, to remove wrinkles, and many more. You can also overlay images, change the color balance, manage layers, see a history of changes, add holiday-centered frames, add textures, build collages, and more.

iPiccy lets you create an image from scratch or edit existing ones from your computer, a remote URL, a webcam, or from Flickr. Edited images can be saved to your computer or shared directly to Facebook.

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Fotor provides an awesome interface for editing photos online. You can enhance an image with one click or choose any of the specific editing tasks to apply particular changes.

Basic tools are included like cropping, editing the curves, and altering the temperature/saturation/brightness/tint, and more. Effects can also be applied to an image, such as classic, tile, cool, vintage, black and white, and color splash styles. You can also add borders, stickers, and text to an image with Fotor.

Images edited at Foto can be saved to your computer or Tumblr account, shared on Twitter, or purchased through CanvasPop.

Some of the tools at Foto work only if you create a free account.

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Adobe Photoshop Express Editor is Adobe's free online photo editor. Though only some of the very basic features of the desktop Photoshop programs are included in this online version, it still has a very nice interface and is super easy to use.

The two main menu items are Edit and Decorate. You can apply basic editing tools like red eye removal, saturation changes, and more, as well as image adjustments and effects like white balance, burn, hue, and tint changes, among others.

Adobe Photoshop Express Editor also lets you add text, bubbles, stickies, costumes, frames, and other things to an image.

Fullscreen mode is allowed, which greatly increases the editing/viewing area of the screen and tools.

Images can be added from your computer but only if they're in the JPEG, JPG, or JPE file format. When you save an edit made from Adobe Photoshop Express Editor, the only save option is JPG.

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Picozu has a super clean interface that feels very natural to use. It supports opening multiple tabs for different projects, can enable autosave, and allows drag and drop.

There are various methods you can use to import images to edit, and apart from regular image file formats, ones like SVG and PSD are supported.

Picozu supports common image editing tasks like adding text and shapes, cropping an image, resizing the canvas, color filling, and airbrushing. 

Advanced features are also allowed, such as working with layers, applying dozens of filters, and altering very specific brush stroke settings, such as changing the hardness, flow, tolerance, and type of brush used.

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Photopea is great if you're looking for an advanced online photo editor that lets you work with layers, supports popular file formats, and includes many Photoshop-like tools.

You can start from scratch with a canvas of a custom size, or choose one that works perfectly for a variety of circumstances, like as a Facebook cover photo, Instagram image, iPhone wallpaper, an ad, or YouTube profile image.

There's a selection tool, move tool, spot healing brush, patch tool, pencil, brush, clone tool, gradient tool, sharpen tool, blur tool, smudge tool, text tool, various shapes, filters, and more.

Photos can be imported from a URL, from a file on your computer, or taken straight from your webcam. When you're done editing, photos can be saved to a variety of formats including PSD, PNG, JPG, SVG, GIF, PDF, TIFF, PPM, ICO, and others.

Photopea organizes your various projects into separate tabs for easy access, and you can change the theme to quickly adjust the overall color scheme.

You can use this photo editor for free without making a user account if you don't mind the ads, or you can go with a premium account to remove all advertising.

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PhotoCat is a free online image editor that's likely to suit the requirements of most people because it includes a wide variety of editing functions.

Some of the basic editing tools include a crop, rotate, brightness, contrast, sharpness, saturation, hue, and resize tool - everything you need to perform the basic changes to a photo.

If you need more, however, there are tons of effects to choose from and lots of retouch tools, like a blemish remover, spray tan tool, slimming feature, red eye remover, and mascara painter.

There are also lots of textures and frames you can apply to a picture, as well as a text tool, lots of comment bubbles, and more.

Probably my favorite feature of PhotoCat is the Compare button ​because it lets you easily view a before and after of your picture right next to each other.

You can save an image edited at PhotoCat as a JPG or PNG file. You can also share the photo on Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest. 

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piZap has a rather small interface for editing photos, but it does include some nice features.

You can add regular and glittered text, stickers, and effects, adjust hue and saturation, overlay multiple images, paint with a brush, crop an image, and add shapes, among other things.

There's also a cutout tool you can use to create your own stickers from images.

You can upload an image from one of various sources, such as a webcam or your computer, and save it to websites like Twitter and Facebook or download it to your computer.

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Snapstouch lets you touch up images quickly. Though unlike other image editors, Snapstouch provides just a few one-click effects and not any specific editing tools.

Start by choosing one of the effects, like sketch, painting, or drawing, and then upload the image you want the effect applied to. Change the sensitivity of the effect to your liking and then download the image back to your computer.

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BeFunky is another online photo editor that's really easy to work with.

An image can be imported into BeFunky from various websites, a webcam, or your computer. When saving images, in addition to your computer, you can send them to sites like Twitter or Tumblr.

There are labels, emoticons, tons of textures and frames, a text tool, several effects like oil painting and cartoonizer, and all the basic editing and touch up tools.

There's also a Facebook Cover crop tool that crops the image to the exact size required to use as a cover image on Facebook.

Read our review of BeFunky

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Quick Picture Tools provides just that: a quick way to edit images online. However, if you require it, there are very specific advanced settings for each of these tools.

There are just over 10 editing tools provided by Quick Picture Tools. Start by choosing one of them and then upload an image from your computer.

Say, for example, you're using the Rounded Corners tool. There are tons of settings like whether you want all four corners to be rounded or just some. You can change the corner percentage to create a less round effect, you can change the background behind the corners, optionally add a shadow effect, and resize the whole image.

Similar settings are present for all the other tools.

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BatchPhoto Espresso is another simple photo editor. You can crop, resize, and rotate a picture. In addition, you can touch up the photo with a contrast, brightness, hue/saturation, noise reduction, and sharpening tool. Finally, you can add a whole-image effect like oil paint, among others.

BatchPhoto Espresso supports lots of popular formats like JPG, PSD, PNG, GIF, and TIF. When you're ready to save the picture back to your computer, there are dozens of formats to choose from.

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Sumopaint provides a condensed but well-organized interface for performing many basic and advanced image editing tasks.

Layers are supported with Sumopaint, as well as manipulations like cropping, rotating, and flipping an image. Basic adjustments are supported like changing the brightness/contrast, desaturating, equalizing colors and tones, and more.

There are even advanced tools like a clone stamp, gradient, color fill, brush, lasso and magic wand selection, text, and blur tool. You can also add a number of shapes to an image.

Also, several filters can be chosen such as 3D effects, blur, texture, sharpen, and stylize filters.

Images can be saved to your computer in a few different file formats.

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There are many tools you can use with LunaPic but accessing them isn't as intuitive as some of the above websites. Menus are available for adjusting and drawing on images as well as adding borders, effects, and animations.

You can load an image into LunaPic from a URL, Dropbox, your computer, Facebook, or Google Drive.

LunaPic can be added to Firefox and Chrome so you can open images straight into LunaPic to edit them even quicker than uploading them manually.

Images can be saved to various places like Imgur or your computer, and in several file formats like GIF, ICO, JPG, PNG, and AVI.

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ImageBot is another great online photo editor. Instead of providing tools like a brush, pencil, or clone stamp tool, it includes tons of stickers, shapes, and logos that you can import onto photos.

Because ImageBot supports layers, you can add and manipulate multiple images at once, which can be very handy.

In addition to importing images from your computer, ImageBot also lets you add pictures from a Facebook album or URL.

All the menus you use in ImageBot are easy to use because you can drag them around on the screen to create a custom interface that fits you best.

You can post your edited images from ImageBot to your Facebook page, save them to a Facebook photo album, or simply download them to your computer. You can also produce a URL of the picture and use it for sharing with others; it's displayed without any advertisements or distracting windows.

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Online-Image-Editor.com is another free online image editor. There's a few different options you can choose from for how you want to upload images, and you can even resize an image while you're uploading it.

Lots of tools are included with Online-Image-Editor.com, such as animation support, image converting, and image overlaying, and there are brief descriptions accompanied with each of them to help you understand their editing purpose.

One thing I don't like about Online-Image-Editor.com is that there isn't live previewing for many of the tools, which means you must apply an edit before seeing the effect.

Also, layers aren't supported, which means if you are using multiple images, you can't edit their position, transparency, etc. once you've submitted the initial changes.

Images can be opened from your computer, a URL, Facebook, and Google Drive. When it's time to save the picture, choose a folder on your computer or a place in your Facebook or Google Drive account.

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Yet another free online image editor is available called Phixr. I like the tabbed interface that Phixr uses because it makes editing different images at once easier than having to open separate windows.

There's a mix of basic tools and then some moderately advanced ones. You can use a red eye remover, text creator (with tons of font types), apply frames, add objects and borders, create greeting cards, and lots more.

You can also apply basic color editing like changing the hue and saturation, sharpen the image, add/remove noise, and more.

With each tool you use, you're shown a before and after to make sure it's how you want it to be, which is a great feature since most online photo editing tools don't do that.

Use a picture from your computer, a URL, Facebook, Flickr, Google Drive, Photobucket, or Dropbox to edit at Phixr. When you're done editing, images can be saved to your computer, emailed, or uploaded to various image hosting websites. 

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Ribbet is a free online photo editor that provides an intuitive and easy to use interface to have simple access to all the tools, and drag and drop is even supported.

Photos can be added to Ribbet from your computer, a URL, Facebook, Google Photos, or Flickr, or even taken directly from your webcam. You can upload up to five images at once with the free account, or you can go with the premium plan to upload 100.

All the basic editing tools are present as well as stickers, effects, text, and frames, among other things.

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Edit images quickly online using Editor.Pho.to. All the basics are here so that you can crop, rotate, color, or sharpen the image but there are also some exposure and text settings you can adjust.

The effects tool lets you instantly apply sepia, black and white, tilt-shift, vignette, and other effects to the picture.

I also like the frames and texture buttons since they can really change the shot without much effort on your part.

Images can be taken from your computer or Facebook and inserted directly into the Editor.Pho.To canvas. When you're done editing, download your image to your computer or Dropbox account, or use the public link to share it with others.

There are share links on the download page so you can quickly show your edited picture to your Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, Pinterest, and other social media friends.

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