Free and Paid Online Photo Editor Tools for ecommerce

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.