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If you’re expecting online image editors to be anemic, you’ll be surprised by the extensive features of many of the nominees like Sumo Paint. Sporting a toolbar, image navigator, swatches, and layers, Sumo Paint does more than just crop and rotate images. In addition to having layers, as some other editors do, Sumo Paint has support for blending modes and other advanced layering magic like drop shadow and outer glow. The brushes and ink tools offer a wide variety of shapes and textures. If you like some of the paint-centric features of Sumo Paint, you’ll definitely want to check out the Gravity tool, which creates some pretty interesting abstract paint effects. Sumo Paint also supports drag and drop image opening for pictures you have stored in your Sumo Paint account. Sumo Paint doesn’t require a login for use, but if you sign up for a free account you can store images online and participate in the Sumo Paint community by submitting your work and ranking the work of others.

Visit: www.sumopaint.com

Decrease your bandwidth usage and save yourself some editing time with Smush.it, a web-based image optimization service.

Although designed with web site optimization in mind, Smush.it doesn’t discriminate. Dump a bunch of images in, and smush.it shaves them down. The service strips metadata and recompresses the images to decrease the file size, while its compression algorithm does an excellent job preserving image quality with little to no visible artifacts.

Smush.it supports bulk upload, and can also pull images directly from a site. It also has plug-ins for both Firefox and the Wordpress blogging platform. If disk size isn’t so much an issue as the dimensions of the image, check out two great programs we’ve reviewed for some quick and dirty cropping: InfranView and, my personal favorite bulk cropping tool, JPegCrops. The web-based service and extensions are free, no sign-up or registration required.

Visit: Smush.it

Writeonit is a fun website which allows you create fake photos, captions and magazine covers. Currently, it is offering more than 50 picture styles to choose from. To get started simply click on  type of picture you want to create.  Add text or image from your computer and click save.

Once created, you will be able to save this picture onto your computer. You may upload it to your social network, share it with friends or use it anyway you like. WriteOnIt also publishes your created images on the site for everyone to view. Viewers can browse and vote on the funniest pictures. Who knows yours might be next to hit the front page of WriteOnIt.

Key Features

• Easy and quick way to create fake pics.
• Variety of pictures to choose from.
• Personalize pictures with your own text
• Upload your own photos on your favorite magazine covers
• Create unlimited numbers of pictures.
• Save and Share images with friends.
• Upload pictures on social networks or your blog.

Visit: Writeonit

AndreaMosaic is a little program for to create mosaics made with photographs. To create such kind of mosaic you need a collection of images to use for the tiles of the mosaic and you also need an image to use for the original, as a matrix for the mosaics. Then you can set the parameters of the program for to create very different kind of mosaics.

Visit: www.andreaplanet.com

FunPhotoBox is an online photo montage maker that allows you to apply funny effects on your images with a minimal effort. All you have to do is select one of the provided templates, upload your image and let FunPhotoBox do the rest. Once the montaged image is created you can easily download it onto your computer or alternatively get a direct link to it and publish it anywhere on the web. The site lists around 60 different effect templates and more being added every week.

Features:

• Apply effects online and create funny photo montages.
• Create as many images as you like.
• Supported image formats: JPG, PNG and GIF.
• Maximum size of uploaded image should be no more then 4MB.
• Chose between 60 funny photo templates, more aded every week.
• Save pictures onto your hard drive.
• Embedding supported.

Visit: www.funphotobox.com