PP showed me this website this morning. Its a cool website to edit your photo online. I’ve explored it and find it way too cool hence I’ll share this out with you guys.

This website is called Picnik. It is Flash based, and so far its the fastest of the bunch. User interface wise, it is the most intuitive. I like this site’s color scheme, its soft colours is the current trend.

You’ll need to register to use this tool. Complete the simple registration form and you’re free to use the tool. One thing that I like about this tool is you’re able to open your photos from flickr, picasa, facebook and photobucket. I chose to connect to my photobucket’s images.

Some other cool features that comes with this web application are auto-fix, rotate, crop, resize, exposure, colors, sharpen and reducing red-eye. You can undo and redo the changes and also zoom in and out of your photo. Wow, thats way too cool and convenient. You should go and try it out and see how powerful the web application is.

We’ve also discovered some other sites that provides online photo editing tool as well.

• Adobe - Adobe’s free online version of Photoshop is nearly done …..
• Fauxto - Fauxto is a Flash-based Photoshop look-alike. It is the only layer-based online tool that we know of, and is by far the best of the bunch…..
• Picture2Life - Picture2Life is an Ajax based photo editor. It’s focused on grabbing and editing images that are already online…..
• Preloadr - Preloadr is a Flickr-specific tool that uses the Flickr API, even for account sign-in…..
• PXN8 - PXN8 is the best of the Ajax based editors (and the best overall until Picnik launched) and has a great user interface with the main features highlighted on large icons…..
• Snipshot - Snipshot, previously called Pixoh, is another very-good Ajax-based editing tool that stands out because of its above average design and the fact that they have an API into their service…..

Here are some of the software that help you to enhance, rescue and management your photos for FREE!!!

Pixmantec RawShooter essentials
RawShooter essentials is a fast, easy to use RAW image converter and processor that produces excellent results with minimal fuss.

Gimp
The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Restoration 2.5
This useful software can be used to restore pictures wiped from your memory card!

LeechGet 2004
This handy software breaks down large file downloads into smaller parts, making downloading quicker.

Picasa 2
Google’s photo album - Picasa 2, offers a quick and easy way of organising and editing your digital photos.

VCW VicMan’s Photo Editor 7.9
This image editor has a wide selection of features, including over 100 filters and effects plus colour management tools.

Serif PhotoPlus 6
A nice little image-editing suite for your photographs.

Copernic Desktop Search 1.5
Takes less than a second to find the picture you’re after.

XnView
A utility for viewing and converting your image files. You can apply filters, Crop, edit and enhance.

Merge 1.5
Image editing utility that merges two pictures together.

Coffee Cup Free Image Viewer
Easy to use image viewer that allows you to select a group of images to be emailed or uploaded.

Stamp
Renames all your digital photographs to sort them into chronological order.

FxPhoto
Allows you to edit, enhance and organise your images.

Fresh View
A multimedia browser that makes organising images, audio and video films much easier

I uses Picasa most of the time to enhance my photographs. I find it more simple and useful if compared to a much complicated Adobe Photoshop. Here some steps on how to use this tool.

Step 1: Double click to open the picture you would like to enhance

Step 2: Now you are in the editing view

Step 3: Click the Tuning tab, adjust Highlights to increase the brightness and adjust the Shadows to increase the contrast of the photo. This photo color too warm, I have adjusted the Color Temperature to left to reduce the warmness.

Step 4: Now click on Effects tab for more enhancement. I have selected Saturation and to give the photo a little bit more vivid.

Step 5: Next, I click Glow to give the photo some gauzy glow feel.

Step 6: I would like to make the blue sky darker to simulate polarizer effect. I have used Graduated Tint and adjust the Feather value to maximum to give the smoothest feel and increase the Shade value to darken the sky.

Now I am done and satisfied with the result and I am ready to export this enhanced photo to a smaller size.

Step 7: Click File -> Export Picture to Folder…

Step 8: In this window, you can select the size and image quality that you want to export. For this photo, I have selected 1024 x 768 and Maximum Image Quality.

Step 9: Compare the exported and edited copy against the original image. Now you should be able to see that the image has become much better.