Fix Up Those Holiday Photos
There’s about a billion programs out there that will help you fix up those bad holiday photos, but should you really need software to do that?
A new online photo editing site, Phixr.com doesn’t think so. Phixr offers most of the commonly used photo editing tools in an easy-to-use web interface. Phixr lets you upload and edit images right in your browser. You can adjust brightness and saturation, color, sharpen images, remove noise and of course, reduce the dreaded red eye problems. Don’t turn your grandmother into a vampire.
There’s a number of sites out there that offer some or even most of this functionality, but I haven’t seen any that are as simple and intuitive as Phixr.
Phixr also offers integration with Flickr, Photobucket and more. I grabbed a photo out of my Flickr stream and Phixr imported it without any troubles. I was then able to edit it and upload it back to Flickr. It’s also easy to export images in a variety of formats.
Naturally you can upload an image straight from your hard drive if you’d prefer. Unfortunately there is no batch uploading feature, you’ll have to upload images one at a time. If you have a whole bunch of images you may want to look elsewhere since there is no way to batch edit either.
If you happen to have a Livejournal account or use Fotolog, Phixr can upload your images as blog posts, just enter your login information.
If you’re a professional photographer Phixr will probably leave you wanting, but if Photoshop confuses you and you just want to crop an image, get rid of some red eye and adjust a few colors without getting a computer science degree in the process, Phixr will be a welcome relief.
