1. Canva
Canva is a popular online design and publishing solution, offering free online photo and image editing as part of its package. Canva users have created over 1 billion designs since the tool's launch in 2013. Canva's free service provides you with 250,000 customizable templates and 5GB of cloud storage space to save your designs.
The free online photo editor requires registration; then, you can apply filters, resize images, and add text overlays. If you love Canva and opt for the $99 annual subscription, you can schedule social media posts, create brand kits, and use 100GB of cloud storage space.
Canva features include:
- Quickly add stickers and drag-and-drop speech bubbles.
- Straighten photos and apply patterns and filters to enhance your images.
- Add frames to images
- Add animated text.
- Sized templates for most social media platforms.
- Offers a desktop client app for both Mac and Windows, along with smartphone apps.
Website: https://www.canva.com/vi_vn/


2. Instasize
Instasize offers a free online photo editing app to work on images before uploading them to social media. Although its name suggests it's for Instagram, you can upload your edited images to any social platform. There's a range of filters to instantly enhance your images, and you can use layers to add backgrounds to your photos. Moreover, you can also add text, classic overlays, and even edit short videos on your smartphone.
If you don't have the image you need, there's also an image library stored on Instasize to work with. The premium version includes over 100 filters not found in the free app and advanced beauty tools to fix flaws, remove blemishes, and whiten teeth.
Features include:
- Over 130 filters grouped by color and type.
- Apply classic overlays.
- Add a text layer to photos and videos.
- Automatically resize narrow images.
- Hundreds of backgrounds.
- One-click presets to resize your images for different social platforms.
Website: https://instasize.com/


3. Adobe Photoshop Express
Adobe Photoshop Express is the gold standard in photo editing. So much so that its name is used as a verb to describe enhancing images. Alongside their premium products, Adobe also offers a free mobile photo editing app called Adobe Photoshop Express for editing on the go.
Downloadable for free, and you can access the tool using your Google or Facebook account. The Adobe Photoshop Express app allows you to quickly enhance your photos using filters it calls 'Looks.' Additionally, you can add text, fix image flaws like red-eye, and use overlays to add that finishing touch. A premium subscription package is available, offering more advanced tools like RAW image editing.
Features include:
- Blend photos together to create photo montages.
- Artistically blur parts of your image.
- Straighten photos with perspective correction.
- Blend your photos with creative textures.
- Remove haze and fog using an easy-to-use slider.
- Add captions to create meme-style images.
Website: https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-express.html


4. BeFunky
BeFunky is a user-friendly and easy-to-learn free online photo editor. It can apply various effects to a photo with just a few clicks. One of its standout features is the 'Cartoonizer' that turns any photo into a cartoon with just a click.
There are many similar tools as good as business. If you need to create advertising materials or flyers, BeFunky is an ideal tool for advertisers to quickly create marketing content. BeFunky is free to use, but if you want to access some more advanced tools, you have to pay $4.99 per month.
Features include:
- Crop, resize, and remove background.
- Edit tools to fix image issues.
- Convert any photo into a cartoon.
- Add textures to the background or make them transparent.
- Hundreds of photo effects and filters.
- Batch photo editing tool.
Website: https://www.befunky.com/


5. Pixlr
Pixlr offers a comprehensive range of free online photo editing tools to meet all your basic photo editing needs. It's browser-based, so you can use it on any computer and has a mobile version that you can use within your smartphone's browser.
One handy feature is the background removal tool on Pixlr. This tool uses AI to detect the main subject in your photo and remove the rest of the background. You can then download the image as a .png file with a transparent background to paste into another setting. You can also edit any image with various tools and apply filters and effects to transform your photos.
Features include:
- Working with layers, objects, and custom brush sizes.
- Performing complex edits with fewer steps using advanced tools.
- Including pre-sized templates for major social media platforms.
- Adding stickers, borders, and text overlay layers.
- Removing backgrounds with a one-click tool supported by AI.
- Creating flyers, business cards, and collages.
Website: https://pixlr.com/vn/


6. Fotor
Fotor is a free online browser-based photo editor. Its simple controls and clean interface make it ideal for those unfamiliar with photo editing. Free online photo editors like Fotor have helpful tutorials guiding you through its main tools, meaning you can quickly catch up.
You can adjust colors, apply effects, and use portrait editing tools to enhance your images with just a click. Then, you can add additional elements, such as icons, shapes, and templates. Fotor offers cloud storage to keep your images safe. If you subscribe to the paid version, you get access to 1,000,000 licensed stock photos for commercial use.
Features include:
- Over 100 photo effects.
- Stickers and customizable frames.
- Resize images and convert file formats.
- Create photo collages and merge photos together.
- Work with RAW images.
- Short video tutorials demonstrating key features.
Website: https://www.fotor.com/


7. Photopea
Photopea is a free online photo editor offering many functions of a professional photoshop tool. Free online photo editors like Photopea are ad-supported and free to use, but you'll need some advanced photo editing experience to best utilize this tool.
Photopea can work with '.psd' file formats and you can also open .pdf files. Additionally, if you have RAW format photos, then the Photopea website is a good choice for editing this format. There's a paid version, but it only removes ads and gives you more undo steps.
Features include:
- Save and work in file formats of professional photo software.
- Advanced tools like healing brush copy stamps.
- Work with layers and masks.
- Use smart objects to copy layers.
- Draw vector graphics.
- Perfect for professional photo editors who can't access their regular computer.
Website: https://www.photopea.com/


8. Photoscape X
For a free program, Photoscape X is quite impressive, excelling in editing and managing your personal photo library. While the Photoscape website may lack a bit in interface (which might be somewhat confusing), it encompasses an image viewer, batch processor, a screen capture tool, and a plethora of filter and effect options to elevate your photos to new heights.
The photo editing portion of this app is where it truly shines, and even novice users can create standout, professional-looking photos in moments. Photoscape X even boasts some handy minor features to make your photos resemble similar captures, a good cropping feature, image conversion capability; it also grants access to over 240 shapes, frames, and borders as well as over 1000 templates to use in your ads.
Website: http://x.photoscape.org/


9. GIMP
When it comes to free photo editing software, GIMP reigns as the 'king' of editing websites. Short for GNU Image Manipulation Program, GIMP is the closest program you can get to using Photoshop without spending a dime. It's equipped with some impressive professional-grade features, a fully customizable interface allowing image refinement, and houses a comprehensive set of integrated tools enabling the creation of professional-quality original artwork.
If you can edit photos in Photoshop, you can almost certainly do it in GIMP. If you want even more options, you can also use Photoshop plugins, providing you with unprecedented flexibility compared to any other free photo editing software. GIMP is also open-source, meaning if you have the know-how, you can add your own filters and features if you wish.
If you're experienced with photo editing software, you'll grasp GIMP relatively quickly, but those not adept with photo editing software may find the interface cluttered or unintuitive. A fair compromise for the absolute editing power you receive without spending a penny! This website caters to experienced users and those wanting robust processing and artistic tools without paying any fees.
Website: https://www.gimp.org/

