 | By Scott Dunn You may not need a disk-hogging image-editing app to repair your less-than-perfect photos. If you’re willing to trade a little performance and a lot of features for the convenience of free Web services, you can retouch photos right in your browser. |
A new crop of image-editing services brings us one step closer to first-rate photo retouching with no PC software required beyond a browser.
Granted, today’s Web-based photo-editing services can’t offer anywhere near the range of features you’ll find in a product such as Adobe Photoshop, or even in that program’s less-expensive sibling, Photoshop Elements. But these sites offer some unique capabilities of their own. For example, if you’re away from your computer but need to touch up a few photos while on the road, an image-editing service may be just the ticket.
A lot of these sites offer silly effects and special services that are more entertaining than useful, unless you really need your photo on a coffee mug. I set out to find the most practical tools and test them with such everyday image-editing tasks as cropping, straightening, and tonal adjustment.
The interfaces of the services I looked at fall into two categories:
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