I’m sure during this holiday season, you’ll be taking many photos. But not all of them may come out perfect, so you’ll want to do some editing. One way is by doing them locally on you computer with something like Picasa. As you can see from the title, we won’t be talking about editing locally but online.

FotoFlexer
(From http://www.makeuseof.com)

Recently, I stumbled oven something called FotoFlexer. This is an online image editor that is both free and has many features including the basic cropping and red eye fix, but you can also add Effects (“Painting”, “Sketch”) or turn your photo into a greeting card. Another great feature in FotoFlexer is layers, a feature not commonly found online. This is extremely useful in combining photos together. Also, a feature called “Smart Resize” is also very useful. Instead of the normal fashion of cropping, the program removes the parts in the photo with the least “action”. This way you can keep all the important parts while getting rid of parts of things like the sky or water. You can also put a “mask” on top of things you want to preserve, so faces won’t come out disordered. This feature can also make photos larger by copying repetitive parts like the sky.

With the advanced features, the application can sometimes lag or be slow, but mostly it works fine. The website also gives you a few sample photos to try out their editor.

I’ll probably post more to my blog over the Winter Break! Happy Holidays!