Free Image and picture editor application is designed especially to edit your images, photos or pictures. Edit your pictures & photos, change colores to pictures or just make simple edits and image adjustments to your pictures.
Even if you can't afford to purchase photo editing software, you can still find free software to create and edit images. Some are developed by individuals, and some are feature limited or an earlier version of a more advanced program. In some rare instances, there are no strings attached, but most often you will need to provide information to the company by registering, or endure ads or nag screens.
Though these are all stand-alone applications you also might want to take a look at the free mobile apps from Adobe. They include:
Also don't forget there are also mobile apps from SketchGuru, Skitch, and a number of other Android and iOS imaging apps such as Instagram which gives you the ability to play with images by applying a variety of preset effects and filters to your images.
Finding the Best Photo Editing App for You
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The key decision behind using any imaging application lies with what the requirements are for the task at hand. You need to closely research the product and get really clear on both the product's strengths and its weaknesses. Also, take the time to look at the work others have created with the product. For example, if you are looking to create simple graphics or to touch up family photos, then an application without a serious number of filters and effects may just fit the bill. On the other hand, if you want to do compositing and add effects then a limited feature set may not be ideal for your needs.
Also, it is important that you check out whether the application has been updated recently. A lack of updates is the first clue that this software may just be on its last legs. Also just doing a simple Google or Bing search around the application will tell you volumes. For example, Picassa, one of the apps mentioned in this piece has been withdrawn. That's the bad news. The good news is its feature set has been folded into Google Photos which is free.
GIMP for Mac OS X
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What We Like
Interface familiar for Photoshop users.
Fully featured, despite being free.
What We Don't Like
Might not be updated frequently.
Lacks adjustment layers.
GIMP is a popular open-source image editor originally developed for Unix/Linux. Often lauded as the 'free Photoshop,' it does have an interface and features similar to Photoshop.
Because it's volunteer-developed beta software, stability and frequency of updates could be an issue; however, many happy users report using GIMP for OS X without significant problems. GIMP is not compatible with Mac OS 9 and earlier.
Pinta
Pinta is a free pixel-based image editor for Mac OS X. One of the most interesting aspects of Pinta is that it is based on the Windows image editor Paint.NET.
Pinta offers the basic drawing tools that you'd expect from an image editor, as well as some more advanced features, such as layers and a range of image adjustment tools. These features mean that Pinta is also a viable tool for users looking for an application to allow them to edit and improve their digital photos.
Image Tricks
Image Tricks is a fun and easy to use free image editor for Mac OS X. It is an application that encourages experimentation and offers the ability for a wide range of effects to be combined and applied to pictures.
Image Tricks is an ideal application for less experienced users to achieve creative results, thanks to the range of filters and masks that are available. There is also a paid Pro version that offers more filters, though you can see the effects that they produce in the free version, without saving them.
GraphicConverter X
What We Like
Works with a huge variety of formats.
Cocooner function allows non-destructive editing, preserving original image.
What We Don't Like
Can be difficult at first.
Cluttered interface.
GraphicConverter is a multi-purpose graphics tool for converting, viewing, browsing, and editing hundreds of image types on the Macintosh platform. If there is a file format or image processing task that your existing software can't handle, chances are that GraphicConverter can do it if you're willing to tackle the learning curve.
GraphicConverter is a worthwhile tool to have on hand but needs some serious work in the usability department. The application is not free, but you can use the shareware without time limitation if you don't need batch processing features.
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Fotor was mentioned as the 'lite Photoshop' by BBC and it will cater all your photography needs.
'I found Fotor to be simple and intuitive to use… I think many photographers will like Fotor Photo Editor.' – TUAW
'If you're looking for an easy to use photo editor with lots of editing options and effects, look no further than Fotor' -- Softpedia.com
'Fotor might be the perfect solution for many amateur photographs, which is completely free to download and use.' – Macreview.com
People everywhere are getting their edit on with Fotor’s solid photo editor for Mac!
*** #1 free photography app in more than 70 countries ***
*** In the top 5 free apps overall in more than 50 countries ***
【Portraits Touch Up】
No matter whether you want smooth skin, to reshape your face, or make the way you look in portraits more lifelike, the touch up function helps you with all of that—deftly, and in double quick time. With basic tools such as: Smoothing, Wrinkle Remover, Blemish Fix, Reshape, Clone and Red-Eye Remover, you can touch up portraits with a single click. With make up tools such as: Eye Tint, Eye Shadow, Eye Liner, Mascara, Eyebrow Pencil, Blush, Lip Tint, and Teeth Whitening you can have a whole range of makeup at your fingertips.
【Batch】
Quickly process dozens of photos to save time and efforts. Batch processing can help apply Scenes, Effects, and Borders with one click, and can also quickly complete Batch resizing, renaming, and file format conversion.
【Collage】
Versatile collage feature gives you a ton of flexibility to create and customize! Select from over 80 templates up to 9 photos at a time, or use Free Style to move photos around whatever you want with 26 unique backgrounds to choose from. Finish off your masterpiece with the border color that catches your eye, or select from 10 border designs. Even adjust border width, add a shadow effect or round off the corners.
【Photo Editing】
Fotor's state-of-the-art photo processing engine makes it easy to process high quality photos quickly. Adjust exposure, brightness, contrast, white balance, and saturation, sharpen/blur, highlights/shadows, HSL, add a vignette or film grain, remove red eye, reduce image noise, or crop, straighten, rotate, fix image distortion or correct lens distortion.
Flexible Text Editing Tool
Got something to say? You can now add text to any photo. Lots of options to adjust the font, size and color of your text till it looks perfect!
Sophisticated Photo Enhancement
Most photos aren’t taken in a controlled environment and often there isn’t time to adjust the settings on your camera. Enter the magic of Fotor. “Scenes” offers 15 1-tap-enhance options that have been configured for various photo capture conditions. Click now, adjust later.
Effects & Borders
Fotor comes loaded with over 150 effects, including Classic, Retro, Lomo, B&W, and new popular packs of Cinematic, Disposable, Mono, Filmatic, Lighting Leaking, Groovy, Mellow, Spring, Warm Winter, Solar and Serenity. Over 60 styles of frames, including Simple lines, Borders, Artico, Styled, Floral, Old School, Holiday, Lovers, Gallery and Stamp.
Textures
You can now apply different textures (up to 26) on images under variable shooting scenes just by a click.
Focus
Unleash your creative inspiration by using a mix of clear focus and selective blurring. Fotor’s Focus editor gives your images the depth-of-field normally seen only on professional-grade DSLR cameras.
***Fotor Pro***
- Unlimited premium assets like effects, borders, textures etc.
- keep adding new features
- Subscription of Fotor Pro: USD $ 4.99/month, USD $ 19.99/year
- Price may vary by location. Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You will not be able to cancel the subscription once activated. Manage your subscriptions in Account Settings after purchase.
What’s New
Optimization of performance, increasing speed, stability and compatibility to some device.
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pretty slick, especially as a free app
What few “problems' one has to solve to make this editor work (like how to save edited images) is far overcome by what it can do. The problems just take going online and asking; answers are available and solutions easy with instructions. But features like changing f stop settings on blurry pictures are very sophisticated and save a lot of otherwise trashable fast action shots (I saved almost 2 dozen rodeo shots on my first try that were otherwise too blurry to be any good). I haven’t even started to learn features like touch up. But once one gets into “adjust” and realizes that there are several ways to adjust lighting, sharpness, and other more subtle shadings to enhance or better yet to take what looks like a black picture and make it a beautiful shot makes this at least as useable as Photoshop Elements without the increasingly expensive monthly or annual fees for expensive film editors. I AM IMPRESSED!
Cannot save edited images?
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August 2017 Review - What is going on? Do we have to pay for Pro to be allowed to save images from the Edit function? Suddenly I cannot export any edited images. No matter what edits are made it says “Failed to save image” when trying to save it to my computer. If this functionality is now part of a paid version, then this app is officailly useless.
December 2016 Review - This app used to be great, but the recent updates have made it infuriating and basically useless. Used to be able to drag and drop images from a folder into the app, albeit one at a time, which was silly but it worked. That feature has been removed. Each time you open a new image in Edit mode, the menu resets back to the beginning and you have to navigate to where you were. There is no way to store the prefered folder for saving images. Each time you open the app, the folder setting is cleared and has to be reset. When switching from Collage to Edit, the folder setting is also cleared. For the love of god Fotor, just make a permanent setting for this! And recently, the worst possible thing… every 3rd image edited or created, when you click on the browse button to select the folder that wasn’t saved the last time you selected it, the app freezes and stops responding. The only option then is to force quit, relaunch, reset all your settings, and start again. Seriously Fotor, get it together and hire some qualified people design your app and make it work. This isn’t rocket science.
Developer Response,
Dear user,
Sorry for the inconvenience. In order to solve this problem, could you please provide the following information:
1. the type of device you’re using
2. the device OS
3. the version of your Fotor
Meanwhile, I suggest that you could reinstall fotor.
I love this app!
I’m a food blogger and use this app for creating collages of my photos. My opinion may therefore be less useful because I’m not using Fodor's Edit or Design functions and I’m using just a handful of commands in the Collage function. I also don’t change the photos, unless it might be to zoom in on the food. But after the complexity and clutter of Lightroom, I find Fotor refreshingly simple and direct. I have my collages created and posted in minutes. It’s an enormous convenience to my workflow and I highly recommend it. I downloaded the app, so I don’t have much experience with the online interface, but I’ve seen it and it looks similar to the app, which is pretty easy to figure out and to use. Keep in mind, that this app is FREE! It’s an outstanding value for the price. Update: I’ve gone to the Pro version because it’s still so inexpensive and the program is of great value to me.
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Family Sharing
With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.