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Web-based Image Tools and Online Services

Web-based tools and online services for creating and working with graphics. Most of these sites offer free utilities for creating image effects, optimizing images, creating animated Web banners, buttons, logos, and more. No need for desktop software... just upload your images and save the results to your computer.
3D Text Maker
Select font, color, dimensions, and other variables... then enter your text and make an instant logo.
Animation Online
Create free animated buttons and banners.
Animation.com
A template-based approach to creating animated banners, offering both free and premium master templates as well as help with banner placement.
Crecon New Banner Generator
Choose from a variety of backgrounds, then add text and customize it.
DVD Smiles Image Converter
A Web-based tool to convert and resize images.
ePassportPhoto
Free web site to generate a passport photo — just upload, rotate, crop, download, and print.
FlamingText.com
Create logos, text, images, or banners in a number of styles, completely free.
Flickr Toys
Upload your personal photos and turn them into movie posters, magazine covers, trading cards, framed photos, mosaics, ID badges, billboards, calendars, and more.
FotoFlexer
FotoFlexer is an online photo editor with retouch, coloring and distortion tools. It can create cartoons from your photos, make photos appear as painting, and more.
Gickr.com
Create a gif animation from uploaded pictures.
GIFWorks
Create special effects with any GIF image using this free online tool.
Instantizer.com
Instantizer.com is a free online service that puts your photos into a Polaroid-style frame.
JPEG Wizzard
This free service allows you to edit and compress JPEG images without the damage of uncompression and recompression.
Logo Generator
Create customized logos and banners by choosing a font, text size, image size, format, and colors.
LookWow Web-Based Photo Enhancement
A free, web-based photo enhancement application. No downloads or registration required.
myImager.com
This free online image editor allows you to resize, crop, rotate, and flip images, apply various effects, and optimize images up to 200 Kbytes.
NetMechanic GifBot
This free service can reduce image bloat in both GIF and JPEG files up to 90% and offers a choice between before and after results.
Online Graphics Generator
Cooltext.com is a free service that will automatically generate copyright free Web graphics customized to your specifications, almost instantly.
Perception Laboratory's Face Transformer (Web-based)
"You can use the Perception Laboratory's Face Transformer to change the age, race or sex of a facial image, to transform it to the style of a famous artist, to make an exagerated caricature or even make an ape of yourself!"
Phixr - Online Photo Editor
Phixr is an online photo editor with the 'look & feel' similar to desktop applications. Phixr was developed for users in internet cafes and office computers and offers a full palette of tools to edit digital photos.
PhotoShow (Web-based)
"Upload photos from your computer, any MySpace account, or photo URL. After uploading photos, you can customize your music, captions, transition styles, and more!"
PiccyFix
"PiccyFix is a free, simple, easy-to-use web-based online photo, image and picture wizard. You can make your pictures darker, lighter, black and white, color, or sepia tone, and add simple effects, resize, shrink, rotate, flip then save in jpg/jpeg,gif,png and bmp formats."
Picnik
"With Picnik you can quickly edit all your online photos from one place. It's the easiest way on the Web to fix underexposed photos, remove red-eye, or apply effects to your photos."
PikiPimp
Upload a photo and then "pimp your image" (or someone else's) by adding drag and drop hairstyles, beards, mustaches, glasses, chest hair, eyes, jewelry, lips, teeth, tattoos, hats, leather, and more.
PXN8.COM - Photos Made Easy
Rotate, crop, resize, adjust colors, interlace, blur, filter, whiten teeth, remove red eye, and more with this free online photo editor. It also gives you direct access to your Flickr account. Even includes undo/redo, and selection tools.
Quick Thumbnail
"The fastest way to resize your pictures and images. Choose an image file, select some resize options, and hit Resize it. Your image will be uploaded to the server and resized, and then any or all of the resized images will be provided in a single convenient view. Not only can you get simultaneous generation of different sizes but you can enlarge your images too."
QuickBanner
Free online banner creation tool. Choose from two sizes and a number of themes.
Reshade
Reshade.com allows you to downsize and upsize images without losing quality.
ResizR - Easy online image resize
"ResizR is a nifty, free and very useful little helper. ResizR allows you to resize an image from your local computer or the web."
SegPlay
A free, interactive online Java applet that lets you color in images as paint by numbers. You can even submit your own digital photos to be "segmated."
Smilart Fan Studio Online Photo Editor
This free online photo editors lets you correct red eye, reduce noise, remove distortions correct vignette, rotate, flip, crop, sharpen, and adjust color and tone.
Snipshot
Snipshot offers basic editing tools like crop, rotate, resize, unlimited undo and redo. Features nondestructive scaling, rotating, and cropping, and the ability to save as GIF, JPG, PDF, PNG, or TIF.
Splashup
"Splashup, formerly Fauxto, is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With all the features professionals use and novices want, it's easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once. Splashup runs in all browsers, integrates seamlessly with top photosharing sites, and even has its own file format so you can save your work in progress."
The Banner Generator
Free service to let you create graphical banners for your web-pages.
The Rasterbator (Web-based)
"The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. Upload an image, print the resulting multi-page pdf file and assemble the pages into extremely cool looking poster up to 20 meters in size." The Rasterbator i a web-based tool, and is also available as a stand-alone Windows application with no size or resolution limits.
Tracking Shot
"We've made tracking shot to help you create videos that you will want to share with your friends and family. Essentially all you have to do is click upload and then select the photos and music that you want to use. We'll do the rest by putting the files on our site and making a first cut of your movie automatically. The second step is just watching the movie! If you like it, then you're done."
VicImager (Web-based)
VicImager is a free online image processer. Upload images from your desktop or enter any valid internet image URL to adjust size, brightness, add special effects, etc.
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