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PhotoSnack is a new online picture slideshow maker that lets you create professional looking picture sideshows in no time. All you have to do is upload images, customize them using provided templates and then share with others by embedding of forwarding a link. That’s it!

The application provides free and premium account options, free account supports all the features except that it’s restricted to 250 MB storage limit and has a company watermark.

Features:

• Create professional picture slideshows online.
• Create as many slideshows as you like.
• Currently lists 6 templates to choose from, more will be added.
• Free account is limited to 250 MBs of space.
• Clean interface and easy to use.
• Share by forwarding a link or embedding.

Visit: www.photosnack.com

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

If you’d like to make an animated GIF but don’t want mess around with downloading software, GifNinja is a web-based application for converting images and video into animated GIFs. Sample inside.

GifNinja will turn a series of five uploaded images or a four second long video clip into an animated GIF—four seconds isn’t a set cap, but the GifNinja FAQ suggests it to keep the GIF files under the file size limitations of popular social networking sites. If you need more than five frames in your GIF, make sure to check out previously reviewed Gickr, which supports up to 10 separate images. You can adjust the speed of your animation for the effect you desire, don’t worry too much about the initial adjustment you’ll be able to refine it after seeing how the speed looks with the actual images you’ve uploaded. Once you’ve finished tweaking the speed, you have the option of making the picture available to the public for viewing and rating or simply downloading the file without the public display. Alternately you can upload an existing animated GIF and have GifNinja break it apart into the separate frames which can be viewed immediately or downloaded in a zip file. The service is free and there are no watermarks or alterations made to your image.

Visit: GifNinja

ImageBam is a free image hosting site that offers unlimited image upload and download. All uploaded images can be easily shared on forums, social networks and blogs. The site is user-friendly and fast. It’s also a very simple to use, first select and upload your images and then share them with others. Compressed (.zip) image archive uploading is also supported.

The site doesn’t require users to register, it’s optional. Although registered users get additional features like multiple file upload, keeping track of your uploaded images, giving/editing title and description of your image galleries.

They also offer a Premium account, which removes ads from your image pages, provides access to premium tools and promises faster page loading.

Features:

• Unlimited image upload, hosting and sharing.
• 3 MB image size limit.
• Supported Image types: JPG, GIF and PNG.
• Automatically creates image galleries from uploaded images
• Upload images from a zip file (up to 100 images and 100 MB total size).
• Get BB and HTML codes for images. Show/hide the codes on image pages.
• Premium account with more options also supported.

Visit: www.imagebam.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