FotoFlexer: web-based image editor

First web-based image editors began to appear about three or four years ago. They looked like experimental projects as powerful as Microsoft Paint. In other words, they were not so useful and it was too difficult task for them to compete with desktop-based editors. Newer web applications which have been launched more recently have all the features of desktop image-editing programs, and you can fully enjoy their functionality, simplicity and reliability in your browser.

Today you can find so many online editors for your image that sometimes it's difficult to decide which one to use. Dave Brushinski is one of the earliest web-based image editors' writers. His Splashup was one of the first online editing software. Now he thinks that there are too many players on the market of web-based image editors and that this industry now is overcrowded. If you ask him why you should use his software and not the other one his frank answer will be that people should try several of them and decide which one image editor fits them best.

Brushinski admitted that considering what software to use you should rely on the feeling of saturation there. Using FotoFlexer, you can upload an image straight from your MySpace, Facebook, Flickr or Photobucket profile and edit it instantly on your Internet browser. When the process of editing is completed and the photo is ready, you can save it back to your social network or image-share website.

The program allows you to work with pictures so that you'll see the results of all the changes immediately, and you can completely control the process at each stage. Among the tools of this program, you can find the means to remove blemishes and roughness, smoothing the wrinkles on the face and much more. You can change background, insert other pictures, animated stars, hearts, butterflies and ribbons.

FotoFlexer photo editor is more for fun than for professional usage. But on the other hand, it's possible to use FotoFlexer to create works of art from scratch. You simply download any color image to start, and then use a set of tools for drawing and editing. That's all that you need to do - just to draw, erase and perform other simple functions.

Still, FotoFlexer has several photo-editing tools worth thinking about. "Smart scissors" and "smart cutout" are perfect for masking out things from images, and also layers are available. If you need to work with the levels of a photo you can pull up histograms which are also available there.

Unfortunately, for each barrel of honey there is a spoon of tar. It's difficult to recommend FotoFlexer for widespread usage because of one small detail. A lot of discussions have broken out recently over the rights to user-generated content at social websites and networks, such as the recent Facebook flare-up. Similarly, FotoFlexer rises a lot of questions about its terms-of-service agreement concerning the rights to a user's images that are loaded to its server. It's strongly recommended to take a closer look at the TOS agreement of any service which you are going to use in order to upload and edit your photos.