For those who like to publish fun and well edited photos, a simple and fast image editor is always useful. Without having to install software or register, including emails and personal data, some sites offer free tools to make your life easier and make the illustrations, photographs or screen prints shared the way you prefer.
To help you find the ideal platform for each task, here are six online editors for editing photos. There are options to facilitate the creation of memes, a platform to cut the images according to the social network on which you want to publish them and one to blur elements quickly. See also two sites complete with features for retouching wrinkles, shine and makeup and layered work similar to Photoshop.
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Landscape allows you to resize images to the ideal size for social networks Photo: Reproduo / Isabela Giantomaso
The Landscape tool (sproutsocial/landscape), from the Sprout Social media manager, can be very useful for those who need to publish images on different social networks and do not want to miss any detail of the photo by placing it in the size configured by the platforms. When inserting a computer image, the site allows you to choose between Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, YouTube or a custom size.
Each platform has three to six clipping options, such as profile picture, cover, image for link, logo and thumbnail. It is possible to crop and center the photo as you prefer with the help of a zoom. The "Download" option allows you to download all edited photos within a single .zip file.
ImageBlur applies an effect to hide photo details in a simple and quick way Photo: Reproduo / Isabela Giantomaso
As the name of the site already says, Image Blur (imageblur.io) serves to apply the Blur effect to images, the one used to blur confidential elements or important data from a photo. To use the editor just add an image that is saved on the computer and select the area you want to hide.
You can select multiple areas of the image to apply the effect before saving. In addition, there is a button to undo the last application. When ready, the user just needs to click on the "Continue" and "Download" icon to download the image in .png format.
Screely transforms screenshots into friendlier images with background and shadows Photo: Reproduo / Isabela Giantomaso
Even simpler than previous editors with specific functions, Screely (screely) is a website for transforming screen prints into slightly more user-friendly images. For this, the platform centralizes the capture and allows you to choose a color to frame the photo with shading to give depth to the composition.
If you want to edit the print further, Screely also offers a button to insert a fake macOS window around the capture. The image is also downloaded in .png format and it is possible to change the personalized photo whenever you want.
AddText offers dozens of fonts to apply to the image, ideal tool for creating memes Photo: Reproduo / Isabela Giantomaso
Have you thought of a fun meme and don't want to waste time on heavy software to edit it? AddText is an editor for PC, Android and iOS (iPhone) to insert captions and text in photos quickly and easily. The site offers an internal gallery with fun images, as well as making it possible to choose between a photo saved in the gallery.
The platform offers dozens of font options, with separate boxes to place each part of the text where you prefer. There is also how to define the sentence size and a fixed place to insert the caption. After editing is finished, AddText allows you to share the photo or download it in .png format. As a free editor, the end result comes with a small gray watermark in the lower right corner of the image.
Pixlr is an online photo editor with advanced functions, but simple to use Photo: Reproduo / Isabela Giantomaso
For those looking for a more complete online photo editor, to solve all demands just on one website, Pixlr can be an interesting option. With functions similar to those of Photoshop, the platform does not need registration and works only with an Adobe Flash Player plugin installed on the computer.
With Portuguese version, it is possible to create images from scratch, use one from the computer, from a link or from the platform's internal library. In addition, the user can work with layers, make cuts, apply filters, adjust brightness and contrast and use masks. There are also buttons to insert text, gradients and reduce red-eye in photographs.
Pizap offers 'Retouching' tab to remove wrinkles, excess shine and apply makeup Photo: Reproduo / Isabela Giantomaso
Like Pixlr, Pizap is an online photo editor with a free full version to fulfill various functions including some used by professionals to retouch images. When starting work, the site offers the option of selecting photos from the computer, from a free collection, from Facebook, Google Drive or Dropbox.
In addition to allowing you to adjust brightness, contrast, make cutouts and add frames and texts, Pizap brings the "Retouch" option for correcting wrinkles, reducing glare on the skin, applying tanning spray, whiter teeth and even makeup as a differential. There is also a tab to paste a photo inside the other to create personalized montages in a simple and fast way.
