Features:

• East to use online photo cropper.
• Rotate, add shadows and rounded corners.
• Supported image formats: JPG, GIF and PNG.
• Save edited images back onto your computer or share via email.
• No registration.
• Similar tools: ResizeYourImage, EasyCropper and PicSlice.

Check out CutMyPic @ www.cutmypic.com

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Users may apply a variety of face-lifting enhancements (forehead, eyebrow lift, mid-brow, around eyes, beside eyes, inner and outer cheek, cheek lift, nose reduction, lip lifting… etc) and quickly visualize the results.

Steps:

1. Upload image from your computer or from the web.
2. Align white face box to the face.
3. Adjust image by rotation, zoom and colors.
4. Apply face lift enhancements using the slidebars.

Features:

• Upload profile photo from your computer and apply facelift enhancements.
• Visualize results online.
• View and compare before and after images side by side.
• Forward image to any email address.
• No registration required. Free and easy to use.

Check out LiftMagic @ www.liftmagic.com

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• Monjee: Generate Faces and Add Effects To Them
• WriteOnIt: Create Fake Photos, Captions and Magazines
• RoundMyCorners: Make Pictures with Round Corners
• PimpTheFace: Create A Face Online
• Photoshop Lady: Cool Photoshop Tutorials

The process is fairly easy, just list URLs of input images, select the shape or type in a text and hit “Create” button. Few seconds later you will be redirected to a new page showing your collage. Ready collages can be saved to your computer, embedded online and shared with other by forwarding a link.

Features:

• Create shape and text collages online.
• Create as many collages as you like.
• Works only with web hosted images.
• Save created collages onto your computer.
• Share collages by embedding or forwarding a link.
• Free, no sign up.
• Similar tools: Fotonea, Photovisi and Collagr.

Check out Shape Collage @ www.shapecollage.com/online

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The process is simple, just choose a template you like, upload your photo and wait for SeeNow to align, crop and blend it for you. You can also tweak the face position manually if needed. When readey your enhanced photo can be easily shared online, downloaded onto computer or printed on a t-shirt.

Features:

• Have fun with your photos by adding various photo effects.
• More than 350 different photo effects and templates to choose from.
• The templates are organized in categories i.e. Halloween, Magazines, Movies, Music, Sport etc.
• Check out popular templates.
• Share enhanced photos online and download them to your computer.
• Similar websites: FunPhotoBox, MeOnMag, Facebomb and many others.

Check out SeeNow @ www.seenow.com (via CrunchGear.com)

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• FunPhotoBox: Adding Special Effects to Pictures Made Easy
• FunPhotoBox: Apply Funny Effects On Your Images
• Word Mosaic: Make Cool Word Mosaic Images
• WetFloorMaker: Add Reflection To Image
• Watermark-images: Batch Watermark Images Online

Once you are done, you can download the image onto your computer or share it online using the provided buttons on the right. If you register on the site, you will be able to send your images as email greetings, save them online in an album and more.

Features:

• Create image mosaic from your text in different shaped symbols.
• Free, no registration needed.
• Register to save your images online in an album, send your images as email greetings and more.
• Site available in multiple languages including Spanish, Russian, German, Turkish and others.
• Similar tools: Wordle, Pixisnap and Picartia.

Check out ImageChef’s Word Mosaic Maker @ www.imagechef.com/ic/word_mosaic/

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• Tuxpi: Make Your Own Wanted Poster
• TiltShiftGenerator: Tilt Shift Photo Maker

Features:

• Easily remove skin spots from your photos.
• Make your face beautiful, by removing blemishes, acne spots, marks, etc.
• Enhance as many photos as you like.
• Minimum image resolution: 500 x 600 pixels.
• Free, no registration needed.
• Similar web tools: PicTreat, MakeUp, FotoCrib and FlauntR.

Check out PinkMirror @ www.pinkmirror.com

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• TiltShiftGenerator: Tilt Shift Photo Maker

As a guest, you can upload files with up to 1 MB in size and 5 pages per hour. Registered users on the other hand can upload files up to 20 MB in size, store docs online, convert files in zip archives and more. The restriction for them is that only the first 5 documents are free to convert. Additional pages will cost you 0.1$ for every page.

Features:

• Convert scanned images into editable format.
• Recognizes documents in 28 languages.
• Handles documents in following formats:  PDF (files including multi-page PDFs), TIF/TIFF (Multipage TIFFs supported), JPEG/JPG, BMP, PCX, PNG, GIF and ZIP.
• Output formats: PDF, MS Word (2003/XP, MS Excel (2003/XP), HTML, RTF and TXT.
• Free, no registration required. Conver files up to 1 MB in size and 5 pages per hour.
• Register to upload files up to 20MB in size, convert zip archives, multipage PDF files, choose recognition languages and output format.
• Similar tools: FineReaderOnline, Free-ORC and OCRTerminal.

Check out OnlineOCR @ www.onlineocr.net

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• OCRTerminal: Convert Scanned Documents To Text
• NewOCR: Recognizes Text From Images
• Free-ORC: Extract Text From Image Files
• FineReaderOnline: Web Based Image Text Extractor
• WebMarkers : Print Documents To Web

Here is the list of things you can do:

• Resize Images - Lets you resize images. You can specify the image size in a percentage or resize images to a custom size. Options for preserving aspect-ratio is also available.
• Crop images - Lets us crop images to a custom size, which is very helpful to create fixed size avatars, favicons, gravatarts and thumbnail images.
• Convert Image Formats - Lets you convert file formats between jpeg, gif, png, bmp, ico, pbm and a lot more. Not only this, we can also select the quality of the rendered image from highest to medium to lowest.
• Add Effects - Lets you apply perspective, texture and mirror effects like horizontal flip, wave, vertical flip, emboss, engrave, change colors etc. The effect application can also be set by a certain value.
• Photo frames - Select and add variety of frames on to your images.

Most of these effects require images to be less than 1 MB in size.

Check out Change Images @ www.change-images.com (by Chinmoy from Techarraz)

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1. Select an effect from a the list.
2. Upload your image.
3. Apply effects.

When your image is ready you can download it onto your computer and share it with others by forwarding a link or embedding the image on your Facebook or MySpace profile.

Features:

• Create funny pictures from your photos and apply high quality special effects.
• Around 112 photo effect templates.
• Create animations, ecards and funny magazine covers.
• Supported image formats: JPG, PNG and GIF.
• Download photos to your computer or share them online on your webpages.
• Maximum allowed image size is 4MB.
• The website available in English, German and Italian languages.

Check out FunPhotoBox @ www.funphotobox.com

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• SeeNow: Have Fun With Your Photos Online
• FunPhotoBox: Apply Funny Effects On Your Images
• Word Mosaic: Make Cool Word Mosaic Images
• WetFloorMaker: Add Reflection To Image
• Watermark-images: Batch Watermark Images Online

The best part about the tool is that you can upload your own image and use it as a background to get the best matching photorobot possible. Ready face images can be saved online, printed out and shared on your blog or Facebook profile in seconds.

Below I posted a couple of videos shwoing PimpTheFace in action. Check them out.

Features:

• Create people faces online.
• Easy to use face editor with a drag and drop interface.
• Control scale and opacity effects on different face parts.
• Upload background image to get better results.
• Print out or save created images online.
• Similar tools: BeFunky, FaceMaker and PhotoFace.

Check out PimpTheFace @ www.pimptheface.com

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• Watermark-images: Batch Watermark Images Online
• Tuxpi: Make Your Own Wanted Poster

There is no registration, simply upload your images, add a watermark note and customize it. When you’re done download the watermarked images back on your computer. That’s it!

Features:

• Online batch watermarking tool.
• Watermarks up to 20 images at a time.
• Total size limitation: 10MB
• Customize watermark text, font, color, position and style.
• Add effects such as box, background and shadow.
• PDF watermark tool included.
• Similar apps: see 4 Ways To Watermark Your Images Online.

Check out Watermark-images @ www.watermark-images.com

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• TiltShiftGenerator: Tilt Shift Photo Maker
• StretchYourFace: Make Comic Pictures

Features:

• One click online photo retouching.
• No registration required. Quickly upload and treat the photo.
• Download the photo or bookmark the url.
• Share it via MySpace, Facebook and other mediums.
• Similar tools: MakeUp

Check out PicTreat @ www.pictreat.com (By Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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• Tuxpi: Make Your Own Wanted Poster
• TiltShiftGenerator: Tilt Shift Photo Maker

Currently there is also 400k image size limit per images. The GIFs can be uploaded both from a hard drive or web URL. Below is a list of features GIFWorks offers:

• Transload.
• Optimize for web.
• Revert.
• Insert text.
• Resize.
• Crop.
• Rotate.
• Flip.
• Replace color.
• Add transparency.
• Split  to frames.

Check out GifWorks @ www.gifworks.com/cgi-bin/gifworks

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• GIFmake : Online GIF Maker Program
• MakeAGIF: A Simple Animated Image Maker
• Gickr: Create Animated GIFs Online
• OnlineBannerGenerator: Free Online Banner Maker
• LiveBannerMaker: Free Banner Making Tool

Works really easy, just click on the “UPLOAD IMAGES” button and select images on your computer. The application will then automatically process chosen images and then provide a download link to the optimized images. It will also display how much space it has saved.

Features:

• Free online image optimizer to reduce the size of image files.
• Optimize as many images as you like.
• Upload and optimize multiple images at the same time .
• Supported image formats: GIF, JPG, and PNG.
• Maximum allowed image size: 500 KB.
• Similar tools: Smushit and ImageOptimizer.

Check out PunyPNG @ http://gracepointafterfive.com/punypng

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• Pixer.us: Lightweight Online Image Editor
• Online Image Splitter
• ImageOptimizer: Optimize Images For Web
• Go2Convert: Universal Image Conversion Tool
• YearbookYourself: Give your Photos 1950s, 60s, 70s …. look

Simply upload an image from your computer, select the output image format and click “Convert and download” to get the direct download link of the converted image. No need to enter your email or sign up.

Your image will be kept on their servers for up 10 days. Maximum image upload size is 5MB and you can optionally resize the output image for use as an avatar, as a thumbnail,  for message boards and other sizes.

Features:

• Universal image converter.
• Convert an image into more than 100 different image formats including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG,  PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG and others.
• Convert images up to 5 MB in size.
• Resize the output image for use as an avatar, as a thumbnail, for messages boards or other bigger sizes.
• Free, no need to sign up or enter your email.
• Similar services: Convertfiles, CometDocs, MediaPirate, YouConvertIt and Zamzar and several others.

Check out Go2Convert @ www.go2convert.com

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• Text-Image: Convert Photos to Html, Matrix Text or Ascii Art
• PunyPNG: Reduce the KB Size of an Image File
• Pixer.us: Lightweight Online Image Editor
• Online Image Splitter
• OCRTerminal: Convert Scanned Documents To Text

To start, simply select and upload two images, first one will be used a background and the second one will be imposed onto that background. You can easily customize orientation of the second image by dragging it around. When the merged image is ready you may download and save it onto your computer.

Features:

• Online image merger which lets you add one image on top of another.
• Merge as many images as you like.
• Add watermarks to your images.
• Additionally includes image resizer tool.

Check out ImageMerger @ www.imagemerger.net

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There are three ways you can use Talon:

1. Go directly to the site and enter the URL of the page you want to capture.
2. Install Firefox plug in or browser bookmarklet and click it to capture pages.
3. Add aviary.com/ to the beginning of the URL  Eg: aviary.com/http://makeuseof.com.

You can customize resolution, quality and the region of the screenshots. Once the screenshot is taken it can be saved to your clipboard, desktop or somewhere online. Furthermore, you can edit, crop, resize, rotate, add effects and generate color palletes of your screenshots.

Features:

• Online screen capture application.
• Capture as many screenshots as you like.
• Firefox add-on and browser bookmarklet supported.
• Save screenshots to your clipboard, desktop or online.
• Additional features:  Edit, crop, resize, rotate, add effects and generate color pallets.
• Free and no registration.
• Similar tools : SnapCasa, SuperScreenshots, Clip2Net, Kwout , WebSnapr and Thumbalizr.

Check out Talon @ www.aviary.com/launch/talon

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Moreover, the site lets you apply other cool photo effects such as adding a postage stamp frame, speech bubbles, water reflections and other cool photo effects. All the effects are free and doesn’t require registration.

Features:

• Create a free wanted dead or alive posters online.
• Upload your picture, modify caption and reward lines and download the image to your computer.
• Apply other photo effects on your pictures including speech bubbles, water reflections, postage stamp frame and others.
• Similar tools: FunPhotoBox.

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After you’re done with your editing, it provides a direct link, an HTML link and a vBulletin link for sharing your image.

Features:

• Free basic image editor.
• Add a number of effects to the image.
• Resize, rotate and crop your image.
• Get a direct link, an HTML link and a vBulletin link for sharing your image.

Check out Resizem @ www.resizem.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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You can further customize the background color and the number of images in each collage. Ready collages can be downloaded on to your computer and shared with others online.

Features:

• Create original collages online .
• Generate as many collages as you like.
• Photo collage generator can use images from your computer or web URL.
• Control the background color and number of images in your collage.
• Save created collages on to your computer or Flickr account.
• Register to access your recent uploads.
• Similar tools: Fotonea, Photovisi and Collagr.

Check out Hockneyizer @ http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/hockney.php

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• TiltShiftGenerator: Tilt Shift Photo Maker

There are also some other features like batch image resizing and compressing. The site offers both free and paid accounts: free accounts come with a limit of 0.5 MB per photo and doesn’t let user save his/her watermark preferences for future.

Feature overview:

• Quickly add watermarks to photos online.
• Add text and image watermarks.
• Watermark multiple photos at once.
• Watermark as many images as you like.
• Supported formats:  jpg, jpeg, png, gif, bmp, tif and tiff.
• Free account has a limit of  0.5 MB per photo.
• Customize watermark type, text, size, position, colors and style.
• Batch image resizing and compressing.
• Download watermarked images in a single zip file.
• Premium account with more options available.
• For alternative apps see MakeUseOf article on best tools to watermark images online.

Check out Watermark @ www.watermark.ws

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Features:

• Create animated GIF images online.
• Upload content from your computer, Flickr or YouTube.
• Up to 10 images can be used in the animation.
• Select speed (Normal, Slow, Fast, Slideshow).
• Get direct image link and BB code for forums.
• Free, no registration.
• Similar websites: MakeAGIF and GIFmake.

Check out Gickr @ www.gickr.com

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• MakeAGIF: A Simple Animated Image Maker
• GIFWorks: Web Based Free GIF Editor
• GIFmake : Online GIF Maker Program
• Text Anim: Easily Create Animated Texts
• SplitGif: Split GIF Animations Online

When the image is ready you can download it to your computers or publish on PsykoPaint gallery for everyone to see. You may also check out its public gallery and see what others came up with.

Feature Roundup:

• Online painting tool to give your images an original painting feel.
• Apply different brushes: strokes, polygons, particles, shapes, ribbons and geometrics.
• Apply variety of blend modes: erase, darken, hardlight, multiply, overlay, screen and more.
• Color selection is done automatically.
• Save ready images onto your computer or publish them on PsykoPaint gallery.
• Browse gallery of images created by others.
• Free, no sign up needed.
• Similar tools: ImageMixer, Viscosity,  Mutapic, Bomomo, Dekaf and Wordle.

Check out PsykoPaint @ www.psykopaint.com

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• PimpTheFace: Create A Face Online
• WetFloorMaker: Add Reflection To Image
• Watermark-images: Batch Watermark Images Online
• Viscosity : Modearn Art Generator

The online image splitter works in the following way:

1. select the image from your computer
2. set number of rows and columns
3. pick output format and resolution
4, click on the “Process” button.
5. Download the ready image onto your computer.

There are also some advanced options for dressing up sliced images such as enabling links, mouse-over effect and previewing borders. The application also provides HTML tags for easily pasting the slices back together.

Features:

• Online image slicer.
• Slice as many images as you like.
• Customize number of rows and columns.
• Provides HTML tags for pasting the slices back together.
• Advanced options to optimize image
• Free and no sign up.
• Similar website: PicSlice.

Check out Online Image Splitter @ www.htmlkit.com/services/

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• PunyPNG: Reduce the KB Size of an Image File
• Pixer.us: Lightweight Online Image Editor
• ImageOptimizer: Optimize Images For Web
• Go2Convert: Universal Image Conversion Tool
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You can also download and use this tilt shift photo maker on on your desktop just like any other program (Adobe AIR Runtime required).

Features:

• Create tilt shift images.
• Generate as many images as you like.
• Customize blur, color, vignetting and quality using sliders.
• Desktop version supported.
• Free, no registration needed.
• Similar website: TiltShiftMaker.

Check out TiltShift Generator @ http://labs.artandmobile.com/tiltshift

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• StretchYourFace: Make Comic Pictures

Upload and edit your images without registration. Instantly apply and preview the effects using the slide bar, click “Apply” to save the changes. You can always revert changes to the previous or to the very original image version using “Undo”. When you are done  click “Save” to download the image on your computer in your desired format (JPEG, GIF, PNG, or BMP).

Features:

• Simple lightweight photo editor.
• Perform most common image editing functions like resize, crop, rotate/flip, saturation, blur/sharpen etc.
• Instantly apply and preview the effects using the slide bar.
• Revert changes to previous or to the original image version.
• Upload, edit and save images without registration.
• Save edited images in multiple image formats (JPEG, GIF, PNG or BMP).

Check out Pixer.us @ www.pixer.us

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• PunyPNG: Reduce the KB Size of an Image File
• Online Image Splitter
• ImageOptimizer: Optimize Images For Web
• Go2Convert: Universal Image Conversion Tool
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Sign up to get started. First upload an image file and then click on “YES” to begin the processing. When done download the converted file in multiple text formats (TXT, DOC, RTF).

Service also lets you convert PDF files into Word.

Features:

• Online scan to text converter.
• Convert from JPG, GIF, BMP, TIF image formats into TXT, DOC, RTF text documents.
• Convert from PDF into Word.
• Convert free up to 30 images per day.
• Similar websites: Comombo, Qipit and Scanr.

Check out OCT Terminal @ www.ocrterminal.com

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• OnlineOCR: Convert Scanned Documents to Editable Text
• NewOCR: Recognizes Text From Images
• Free-ORC: Extract Text From Image Files
• FineReaderOnline: Web Based Image Text Extractor
• Web2PDF: ‘Save as PDF’ Button for Your Blog

Just upload an image, select the area using arrow controls (width/height) and click on “resize your image” button. Once the image is cropped you can download it to your computer.

Features:

• Easy photo cropper online.
• Crop the image area by entering width/height values manually or using the arrow controls.
• Rotate, zoom in and zoom out controls provided.
• Width and height values of the cropped area always shown on the buttons.
• Supported image formats: JPG, GIF, PNG and TIFF.
• No signup.

Check out ResizeYourImage @ www.resizeyourimage.com

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Start by selecting an image from your hard drive (or the web) and click on the “Optimize” button. Shortly after you should get a list of optimized images. Just pick the one you like most and save it to your computer.

Features:

• Optimize images for the web.
• Optimize as many images as you like.
• Supported image formats: GIF, JPG, and PNG
• Max. allowed image size:300 kB.
• Similar tools: Smushit.

Check out ImageOptimizer @ www.dynamicdrive.com/imageoptimizer

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1. Upload your pictures (up to 6 images, each not larger than 2 MB or 3100px.)
2. Select background and frames from supplied library.
3. Create collage.

You can modify the collages and be as creative as you like. Point mouse cursor to the middle and drag the pictures to move them around, or drag through a corner to rotate or resize them. Additional features such as adding custom text, image border and graphical elements are provided as well.

When the collage is ready you can easily download it to your computer or share them with others online.

Check out the sample collage below:

Features

• Cool collage maker online.
• Make as many collages as you like.
• Collages can have up to 6 images, each not larger than 2 MB or 3100px.
• Customize collages by moving , rotating and resizing images.
• Add customized text, borders and other graphical elements.
• Save collages on to your computer or share online.
• Similar websites: Photovisi and Collagr.

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Features:

• Stretch and make comic photos online.
• Maximum image upload size is 2 MB.
• Download the distorted image and share it with friends.
• Embed the code on a website you like.

Check out StretchYourFace @ www.stretchyourface.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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To start select image from your computer or the web URL. MakeUp will then automatically upload and enhance your image. Once image is ready you can compare before and after views, download it onto your computer, save it online (registration needed), and share with others by forwarding a link or embedding.

Features:

• Online photo enhancement tool.
• Automatically applies eye and skin makeup, whitens teeth, removes imperfections, and adds special glamor soft focus effect.
• Upload images from your computer or web.
• Download enhanced images onto your computer.
• Save image online (registration needed).
• Share enhanced images  with others by forwarding a link or embedding.
• Quick, easy and free.
• Similar tool: FotoCrib and FlauntR.

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The site provides you with number of templates to choose from. Simply select one and upload  your photos. The application will then automatically generate your collage. You can easily crop, replace and delete any image on the collage before saving it. Once completed the collage can be downloaded on to your computer or forwarded to an email adders.

Features:

• Free photo collage creator online.
• Create as many collages as you like.
• Upload images from your computer or Flickr.
• Currently 18 collage templates are available.
• Option to crop, replace or delete images while creating the collage.
• Save created collage to your computer or forward to any emails address.
• No registration and free.
• Similar websites: Collagr

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If you’re not satisfied with the result, you can esily undo and change the tolerance settings. Once the red eye effect is gone, download image back to your computer.

Features:

• Online red eye removal tool.
• Fix red eyes on as many image as you want.
• Max image size: 2MB max.
• No registration and free.

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Features:

• Add reflection to photo online.
• Add as many reflections as you like.
• Customize angle, camera height, brightness, reflectivity, sky / floor colors and size:
  – Angle: lets you rotate the image left or right
  - Camera height: View images from above or bottom
  - Image sizes (pixels): from 160×120 to 1024×768
• Free, no sign up.
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Once created, you will be able to save this picture onto your computer. You may upload it to your social network, share it with friends or use it anyway you like. WriteOnIt also publishes your created images on the site for everyone to view. Viewers can browse and vote on the funniest pictures. Who knows yours might be next to hit the front page of WriteOnIt.

Key Features

• Easy and quick way to create fake pics.
• Variety of pictures to choose from.
• Personalize pictures with your own text
• Upload your own photos on your favorite magazine covers
• Create unlimited numbers of pictures.
• Save and Share images with friends.
• Upload pictures on social networks or your blog.
• Similar websites: FunPhotoBox, PhotoFunia and Dumpr.

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Features:

• Convert images into ASCII.
• Convert as many images as you like.
• Upload images from your computer or the web.
• Supported image formats: gif, jpeg and png
• Maximum size: 1.5Mb
• Display color or turn it off.
• Similar websites: Text-Image and ASCIIPoster

Check out the sample ASCII image below.

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Features:

• Apply effects online and create funny photo montages.
• Create as many images as you like.
• Supported image formats: JPG, PNG and GIF.
• Maximum size of uploaded image should be no more then 4MB.
• Chose between 60 funny photo templates, more aded every week.
• Save pictures onto your hard drive.
• Embedding supported.

Here is a sample photo montage created using FunPhotoBox

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Usres can also customize newspaper name, story heading and date.

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There are also options to control the animation speed, get it as a buddy icon for your AIM and adjust the frame length and image sizes.

Features

• Free gif making online.
• No registration or software download required.
• Upload images upto 1 MB in size.
• Various options to make the animation better.
• Similar sites:GIF maker, CoolWebcamAvatars and GIFup.

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