Free and Paid Online Photo Editor Tools
for ecommerce
Good product images
enhances the perceived value of your products and increases the credibility of
your store.
This post focuses on one
more crucial aspect of product images: image editing. Because no matter how
well you shoot your photos, there are always little things to fix and retouch
afterwards.
Here are free and paid
tools – including software, services, and apps – that you can use to make your
pictures the most compelling that they can be.
Paid Photo Editing Tools
1. Photoshop Elements 12
The Photoshop suite is the
ultimate in image editing. Elements offers every editing tool you need and then
some. This is top-of-the-line software – which means that it’s not the cheapest
item here.
2. Photoshop Lightroom
Elements offers huge
functionality in editing individual pictures. Lightroom focuses on editing in
batches. So it retains many of the features you’d find in Elements, but is
especially powerful at organizing and editing pictures at a large scale.
3. PayForImage.com
If you don’t want to spend
time hunting down the right person to send photos to, consider payforimage.com,
an agency that has edited over million photos. Unlimited free revisions.
Free Photo Editing Tools
Okay, those paid tools are
great, but if you happen to be on a budget or don't want to invest a lot of
money, no worries. Take a look at the tools below. They may just get you to
where you need to be.
4. Fotor
Want to edit online,
directly on your browser? Take a look at Fotor. It offers editing and beauty
retouching. Most cool is its High Dynamic Range feature: you can take three
photos with different exposures to combine them into a single image, with the
best light and tone from each of the separate photos.
5. PicMonkey
PicMonkey is another great
online photo editor with a very cool feature: Collage. You can take various
photos and arrange them together. If you have lots of products, you can collage
them together as perhaps a banner image for your store or in an email
newsletter.
6. Pixlr
The Pixlr editor is one of
the most widely used image editors online. It has three editions, all free:
Pixlr Editor, Pixlr Express, and Pixlr O-Matic. The latter two can also be used
as apps.
7. Photo Editor by Aviary
This is a free app that you
can use to edit images on your phone. Enhance with hi-def, fix red-eyes, and
adjust various aspects of lighting.
8. Photoshop Express
We’ve opened with a very
expensive piece of Photoshop software, and we feel that it’s fitting to close
with a free one. Photoshop Express is an app for your phone with slightly fewer
functionalities than Photoshop Touch. It lets you crop, fix red-eye, share on
social media, and more.
