On iPhone and Android one of the most successful applications is certainly Instagram, which has become popular and used also thanks to its filters and special effects capable of transforming a trivial photo into a shot worthy of a professional photographer. Today, using a web browser on a PC and without downloading programs or applications, it is possible to apply the same effects and also make larger and more important changes to any photo in an even easier way using the free tools made available by some websites, with which you can edit photos online .
There are tools for all tastes, from simple coloring filters, to clipping ones, those to add writings and stickers, to change shades and other transformations.
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On a normal PC just connect to the Internet with one of the many browsers available (Edge, Chrome or Firefox) and access the following websites that we can consider The best sites to edit photos online, obviously for free
1) Polarr
One of the best sites we can use to edit photos online is Polarr, reachable from here -> Polarr .
The site allows you to choose between a simplified version and a professional version, so as to obtain the right tools according to our skills.
Obviously, to start, we advise you to focus immediately on the simplified mode, which immediately offers all the simplest filters and tools for editing images and obtaining the desired effect in just a few clicks; with experience we can later focus on the professional version.
Numerous filters and tools are available to retouch any photo and embellish them, ready to be shared on any type of social or chat.
Polarr is excellent especially for improving the quality of photos .
2) Photopea
Another site we can use to edit photos online is PhotoPea .
This site allows you to upload your shots online and edit them quickly with tools and effects, very similar to Photoshop.
It will be a walk to edit the photos to make them even more beautiful.
3) iPiccy
Another site that should not be underestimated to obtain changes to the photos on the PC is iPiccy, more recent and lesser known.
iPiccy is a bit the Picmonkey's heir (today paid) for its simplicity of interface and its immediacy.
To edit photos, drag an image file from your computer to that empty space or upload it by clicking on it to upload the photo to be edited.
Once the photos to be edited have been loaded, you can use the basic editing functions: cropping, rotating the photo, changing the sharpness and size, adjusting the color and much more.
Among the effects we find many: Instagram photo filters, advanced changes to add tricks and remove skin blemishes, ways to add text boxes, Overlays (i.e. figures to be superimposed on the photo such as the speech bubble or emoticons) and edges to add a frame to the photo such as, for example, the Polaroid effect.
4) Pixlr
The best site we can try to get a real online photo editing program (in many ways similar to Photoshop) is Pixlr, reachable from here -> Pixlr .
This site has all the tools that we can normally see in Photoshop or similar programs, just upload a photo from your computer or take one from the webcam and start using it in the browser window.
With Pixlr they can apply various effects which are divided into three groups; to switch from one group to another, click on the red blue and yellow color wheel which respectively represent effects, overlays and borders.
Definitely more difficult to use than other sites, but the results obtainable are really of very high quality.
5) Pho.to
Pho.to is a free online photo editing service, already mentioned in several other posts, which allows you to edit photos in various ways; we can access it from here -> Pho.to.
With this site you can add cartoon effects to photos, frames and other effects to improve images or modify them in a fun way or with an artistic touch.
Pho.to can also be used to apply professional retouches, corrections and filters to be used to edit images.
The quality of the application is really high and this site is truly among the funniest that can be found online, considering that you can also make the photo makeup by eliminating wrinkles or bags under the eyes and make quick photo montages.
The Cartoon tool also allows you to transform photos to make animated moving images with facial morphing effect.
Each photo can then be shared on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
6) Yogile
Yogile is a nice website where you can upload a photo to quickly apply the vintage filters that made Instagram famous; we can open it from here -> Yogile .
Once uploaded to the photo you can apply numerous filters and eventually reload the photo on social networks as we have modified it.
There are about 40 filters, 10 effects, photo frames and the possibility of writing on them with special characters.
7) Fotor
Fotor is perhaps the best advanced photo editing application available today for free, which I mentioned in another article but also reachable from the link here -> Fotor .
With this site we will have the opportunity to edit any photo or image with filters and effects, create a collage of images and create spectacular images and drawings using the tools made available by the site.
If the websites indicated are not enough, remember that in another article we talked about many other free photo editing applications for changes and effects to photos via browser.
