Fotoflexer: A free photo editor with some professional features
By Emily Price
FotoFlexer is a free online photo editor, with features that rival that of high-dollar image editing programs. The site let’s you import photos directly from photo sharing sites, and perform advanced editing functions on the images.
Import Photos from other sites
FotoFlexter allows you to upload pictures from your computer, but it will also accept photos from PhotoBucket, facebook, MySpace, Picasa, Flickr, Panfare, Smugmug, and Yahoo Search. While I can’t say that I use this feature very often in online photo editors, it has come in handy when I’ve wanted to crop a picture from facebook and don’t want to download it onto my computer and re-upload it to the photo editor.
Basic Effects
FotoFlexer has all the basic effects you’ve come to know and love in online photo editors. There is the traditional crop and resize options, as well as rotate and flip controls and adjustments for contrast.
Special Effects
Fotoflexer has more effect options than any online photo editor I have ever seen. Options include: Blur edges, Blueprint, Neon, Greyscale, Invert, Painting, Cartoon, Pop Art, Bronze, Sepia, Nightvision, and a dozen are so others. Almost anything you could possible want to do to your photo in the way of a single effect, you can do with the effect tab.
Decorate
The decorate tab is one of the more interesting aspects of Fotoflexer for me. The decorate tab allows you to do things like add text, stickers, and glitter text to your photographs. The tab also lets you take faces off your pictures and insert them on things like bodybuilders bodies, or the front of dollar bills. You can create cards with your pictures, posters, and put fun borders on them. All the decorate options are fairly easy to use, and can create some pretty neat looking effects.
Beautify
Fotoflexer has a button to fix blemishes, as well as one to smooth wrinkles on photographs. While not seamless as you might get from working with Photoshop, the effects are pretty effective at what they claim to do.
Layers
The layer option was one of the first outstanding features I noticed about Fotoflexer. The layering feature allows you to take several photographs and edit them together into one. While not as advanced as Photoshop and other programs, it gets the job done. I haven’t seen another free online photo editor that has had this option.
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October 29th, 2008
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November 9th, 2008
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