Full featured in browser photo editor! IS Pixlr Editor
Pixlr presents a full featured photo editor direct in your browser, no download, no wait and 100% free.
If you are used to working with Gimp, Paint shop pro or even Photoshop you will feel right at home with this online image editor. It contains lots of the features that you normally see in desktop applications but just one click away. Jump in and start using this tool, no registration required and loads in matter of seconds.
Pixlr editor is the most popular advanced photo editor online!
Some of the tools included are, red eye reduction, spot heal tool, drawing tools, clone tools, sharpen and blur tools and many more.
They would be closing the online photo editing tool as of April 19, 2012. Picnik happens to be one of the SITS girls favorite online editing resources, we’ve been utilizing Picnik and singing it’s praises for years now. It was a platform that provided bloggers like us a quick and easy fix for photos we wanted to improve and share online.
So why is Google shutting down Picnik?
Because Google wants to use all those amazing Picnik photo editing tools on Google+. Now when you upload a photo to Google+ you will see an option to edit your photo…looks familiar doesn’t it?
Adding these elements to Google+ may be a way to gain more users as well as to give Google+ a leg up on Facebook. It really is a great addition to the platform, but already I see some drawbacks. I don’t want to store every photo I edit on Google+. I’ve already experienced the repercussions that arise with so many Google owned accounts…could they block me out of access to my own pictures as well? I want the option of editing and then saving my photos to other sites (like Flickr and Facebook), and lastly I really enjoyed the Picnik collages. It made displaying a lot of pictures in one spot super easy.
So what are some other photo editing sites like Picnik?
I’m glad you asked. I spent hours playing with tons of free options, including the and these two were the closest to Picnik I could find:
1. Pixlr Express is the faster “no brains” version of Pixlr and my favorite alternative when it comes down to ease of use and filters. It claims to be the “best online photo editor in the world” and I have to admit the site is pretty darn intuitive. It appears they’re already prepared for Picnik’s lost users:
