You don’t need to install software like Photoshop or G.I.M.P. All you  need are some online photo editing tools, that let you edit photos within the browser itself.

Editing images from the browser itself lets you be highly productive.

Finding best  tools, that can satisfy all your needs can be a daunting task. So, in this post, I’m going to present you the best 7photo editing tools that are completely free.

7 Best online tools

#1. Pixlr Editor Online

This is perhaps the best free online photo editor.

Pixlr- best free online photo editor
Pixlr editor

It comes with various advanced features such as online lasso tool, magic wand, marquee tool, clone stamp tool, gradient tool, color replace tool, smudge, blur, dodge tool, spot healing tool, blur tool and much more.

It has also layer support, which helps you to create images from scratch or to add effects and text to the already existing image. For layers, there are options like the layer mask, rasterize layer, merge and other options.

In the filter menu you’ve got blur, gaussian blur, noise diffuse, pixelate, tilt-shift, swirl, HDR, night vision, emboss, engrave and other options.

This tool is developed by Autodesk.

This is perhaps the best free online photo editor. A good online alternative for Photoshop.

#2. iPiccy

iPiccy- photo editor

This is perhaps the next best image editor to Pixlr.

It has features like curves, clone tool, background eraser, dodge, burn, levels and liquify tools.

This tool also supports layers. The best thing about this tool is that it supports various patterns inbuilt like grunge, paper, fabric, light streaks, material, nature, and other patterns. You can also add various frames to your images, to make them look appealing.

It has all the basic to advanced photo editing features. You can also add various effects to your photo such as B&W, sepia, color boost, matte, vignette, vintage looks, artistic, bokeh effects, cartooning, liquify, and much more.

For portrait images, it has features like blemish fixer, skin tools, eye tools like red-eye fixer, eye color, teeth whitening and other tools.

#3. FotoFlexer

This tool is one of the advanced online image editing tools.

It has basic image editing features like AutoFix, crop, resize, rotate, flip, adjust contrast and others. You can also add effects such as color splash, posterize, retro, bokeh, etc. Image distortion features like twirl, pinch, squish, are also available.

It also supports layers, which is a plus-point.

There are also several geek features like smart resize, recolor, cutout, and curves. It has smart scissors which is the greatest online alternative for magnetic lasso tool.

Fotoflexer

#4. PicMonkey

Picmonkey

This tool has basic features like crop, rotate, exposure, and others. It also has text tools, that helps you create texts on background images with ease. It helps you create good visual graphics.

It has various inbuilt image effects and patterns to be applied to the background images.

It is one of the easy-to-use image editors out there.

#5. BeFunky

Befunky photo editor

This editor also has the layer manager, which is its main power.

It also has got basic editing features like levels, tilt, blur, crop, vignette, and others. There are plenty of touchup tools for portrait images.

Apart from these, there are plenty of effects to choose from like B & W, charcoal, grunge, HDR, and a dozen of others.

The best thing about this tool is the addition of graphics to images. You can also add your own graphics to the images. This helps you create outstanding images from scratch.

There are also dozens of textures to choose from.

#6. Fotor

This editor is a good one to make basic editing like cropping, rotating, straightening, tuning, adjusting brightness, contrast, sharpness, saturation, exposure, temperature, etc.It also has  curves feature that helps you  edit your image flexibly.

Fotor

There are also tons of preset photo effects that you can apply. The best of those are lens flare, black & white, tilt shift, magic brush, and others.

#7. LunaPic

Lunapic

Easy to use image editor packed up with plenty of features.

The best features among them are filters like Neon, Retro vintage, night vision, color gradient, HDR lighting, lens flare, thermal effect and much more.

There are plenty of interesting effects and great animations to choose for your image.

Great tool to have fun with your images.

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Final words


Along with these tools, there are also plenty of online tools to efficiently resize and compress the images for web use.

I hope you found these photo editing  tools helpful.