This one or That one??? Certainly, FotoFlexer may put users in great confusion with their smart and advanced tools for Photo Editing. This online digital photo editor is enough capable to give image such an effect as of given by professionals only by using their expensive software like Photoshop Elements and Paint Shop Pro. Use of the site is totally Free though it is quick in process and work elegantly. Give your photo advanced, clear and unique identity as FotoFlexer features include morphing of photos, change skin and hair color, remove blemishes and wrinkle, add number of effects, insert captions and much more.
New in FotoFlexer version is that it supports incorporation with leading photo sites like flickr, photobucket, picasa as well as myspace and facebook. FotoFlexer was formed by Arbor Labs and a team of students and alumni from UC Berkeley and an MIT alum. No need to use hidden or complicated tools or wait a long for page loading, the site provides you instant effects by their easy to use tools. FotoFlexer do not require any kind of registration or login to edit and save photos. Once you upload a photo to the site, you will be simply getting access on the entire photo editing tools of the site.
Top three boxes of the above image give glance of the collection of 32 advanced effects. Look at the center first box of the site it is framed outstandingly with the Picture frame. Thickness of the frame can be reduced or increased as per the choice. Center box of the image is example of morphing photo. The center last box contains duplicate images of the original one. Twirl shows in the bottom first box where as bottom last indicates that users have rich collection of stickers to add into images. These all are little part of the thing only, rest are presented below one by one.
Starting from the best of the site, first know the use of Geek category tools like smart Resize, smart Recolor, smart Cutout and smart Scissors. All these tools can be used to crop, color and cut images in the most advanced way. Users can able to cut people or objects out of the photo without having to trace their outlines and place the same in another image. For this use the small paintbrush to mark objects that you’d like to keep or remove.
Fotoflexer will make a good attempt in cutting out any parts of the photo that seems tedious whenever they use Photoshop’s magnetic lasso or masking tool for the same purpose. Not limited to this but they can place this cut out part into another photo and make it unique one. Moreover, user can change the color of hair and skin within three clicks only to match the tone of their choice.
The site contains with wide range of options from the Basic like resize, rotate or crop images along with the greatest automatic exposure correction, red eye removal to the advanced animations. User can adjust hue, contrast and brightness of the image in high or low level. EZ collage tool can be used to present images in more than one box. When it comes to advanced Animations, user can add sticker from animated stars, lovies and shapes.
User can Decorate their images by using borders, stickers, and New Glitter text. The unique thing of this category is that it contain with Insert a face and Fun cards. If you are in jolly mood then try change the face option, in which users just need to click on the nose of a face in the photo and move that face to another photo. The site offers several choices of new bodies like a bodybuilder, a dollar bill or a number of celebrity options. Users can resize and angle the face to make it fit into the new photo.
Just one-click and your photo converts in to a blueprint, pop-art style and any of effects available at the site. User can remove unnecessary blemishes, wrinkle and spots of the face-image and beautify their image in one-shot. User may smoothen or sharpen the image easily.
User can “cartoonify” their friends by editing in funny or horrible ways. Tools of the Distort category like Twirl, Bulge, Pinch, Stretch and Squish enables user to bulge the muscles, trim the waist size, turn frown into a cute smile, etc. Layers function is one of the advanced features of the site. In this user can merge and make more than one duplicate images at the time easily. If there is more than one photo to put in sequence then you can use Pull Back or Pull Forward tool of the site.
No doubt that Fotoflexer is solid choice for simple photo editing but Fotoflexer is not adding new features all the time like iPiccy, Citrify and PhotoShop Express and others. The website contains with list of options that range from freestyle doodling, distortions on photo to typical way of adding fonts and more. Nothing is perfect in all the aspects; there are some weak points of the site but it is capable to make it easy to create some great photo effects.
Pros:
- Give effects of professional level as of given by other expensive software
- Free to use and do not require any kind of registration or login
- Gives clear look by removing blemishes and wrinkles
- Change skin and hair color with Smart recolor
- 32 advanced effects to select
- No more hidden or complicated tools
- Smart features to Resize, Recolor, Cutout and Scissors
- Cut any object from one shot and place in another shot
- Add sticker to hide any part of the image
- Decorate with kinds of borders, stickers, and New Glitter text
- Change the face of image with number of celebrities’ pose
- Cartoonify friend’s image with Distort category tools
- Merge and make more than one duplicate images easily in Layers
- Pull Back or Pull Forward to put images in sequence
- Doodle on photos or add shapes and fonts
- Distort and retouch images
- Share or download edited images
- Advanced effects within a click only
- Integrates with the leading photo sites and social networks
- Upload images from computer or webpage or photo sharing sites like Flickr
- Import and export photos with ease
- Save image on the free photo storage services
Cons:
- Improved to 90% only
- Effects are fewer in proportion
- Lack of constant innovation
