Edit Your Photos and Add Special Effects for Free at LunaPic.com

You can touch-up any of your digital snapshots at LunaPic.com. Straighten them,  sharpen them, crop them, adjust their exposures and more. But, you don't have to stop there. LunaPic offers an amazing assortment of interesting, free special effects and animations that you can apply to your photos with just a click or two.

Edit Tools:  Resize, crop, change the orientation of your photo. Check out the "Skew Image" tool if you just have to change the angle of your shot a little bit.

Draw Tools:  Add text, borders, frames, shadows and gradients. Fix blemishes on portraits and even do a little cosmetic surgery. Create mosaic and stained glass effects. Try the custom drawing and painting tools.

Adjustments:  Change exposure, contrast, sharpness, color saturation and more. Adjust skin tones. Reduce redeye. Change lighting effects. Create a sepia or black and white monotone of your photo.

Effects:  Apply all types of artistic and playful effects to your photo. Create photo paintings and drawings in a variety of styles. Give yourself plenty of time to experiment.

Instructions:  1. Click on the "Browse" button to upload a photo from your computer or from a disk. Or, use the URL of any photo on your web site or blog. 2. Mouse over the tool symbols on the left side of the edit screen. Or, use the drop-down menus on the top bar to find the tools and effects you need. 3. Try all of the adjustments, tools and controls. You're sure to find some that you'll use again and again to improve your shots. Don't worry about ruining your photo. You can always choose to undo your last edit. Your original is always safe on your computer.  4. When you're happy with the changes to your photo, hit the "Save To" link near the bottom of the edit screen. Choose to save to your computer or to a social media site. Make sure to give the edited photograph a new name so that you don't overwrite your original. 5. Try another photo. LunaPic is free and it's a lot of fun to use.

Test Photo:  I took a dull snapshot of some wild daisies and tried to make it more interesting. The shot was tilted and the trees in the background were leaning, so I skewed and cropped the image. Then, I brightened it and added a bit more color saturation. I experimented with a bunch of different artsy effects and settled on something that's called "Surreal Painting."

The final, edited photograph isn't a keeper. But, it did let me test some of the free tools and effects that are available at LunaPic.com.

Notes:  LunaPic's online editor is free, easy to use, and doesn't require a setup or registration. It's little or no trouble to try and a lot of fun to experiment. To learn more, check out the free tutorials and how-to videos at LunaPic.com.

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Photo Drop-In Effects at jpgFUN.com

Drop your favorite photos into any of over 200 free photo frames and backgrounds. Put faces on magazine covers, billboards, cards and on museum walls. Place yourself, or anyone else in a photo with one of your favorite celebrities. It all just takes a click or two at jpgFUN.

Instructions:  1. Go to jpgFUN.com and scroll down to select the effect that you want to try. 2. Click on the effect and then upload a photo from your computer, camera or disk by clicking on the "Browse" button. 3. Adjust the box on the screen to crop your photo. 4. Click on the "Create Image" button. 5. Save your photo by giving it a Title, Tags and a Description. 6. Try another photo. Try different effects. They are all free and as easy as the first one.

Test Photos:  I played around with a snapshot that I took of my one-year-old grandson Gabriel. I liked the fact that he looked as confused as I felt when I first went to jpgFUN.com. But, as soon as I tried one effect, I learned just how easy it was to use their service.

Notes:  Although creating drop-in photos on jpgFUN is simple, downloading them to your own computer is not. Hit the "Save Image" button and your creation will be posted to an online gallery and to your own collection of saved photos on jpgFUN.com. You can share your photo, easily, on social media sites, or email it to anyone. However, if you try to download it, you'll run into a bunch of ads for other services that don't have anything to do with downloading your photo.

Your best bet is to open the photo you created by clicking on it from one of the galleries. Then, use your mouse or laptop controls to save the image to a file on your computer or on a disk. Or, you can copy the photo and paste it into your file.

As always with photo editors, make sure to give your new photo a different name than your source photograph, so you don't overwrite your original.

Caution:  jpgFUN.com doesn't control the images that people post to their Gallery. A few are not suitable for children, or anyone else. Avoid the Gallery to be safe.

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Sometimes a snapshot just needs a little cropping to make it better. Most photo editing programs and web sites have tools for easy cropping. But, none of them help with decisions about where to crop and what shape our cropped photo should be. Well, none but Croppola.com. Croppola automatically suggests the best crop for your photo.

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Transform your favorite photos with wild effects, captions, frames and much more. Create collages, cards, posters, mosaics and photo paintings. Here's a free and easy-to-use online photo editor that's a lot of fun.

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