Free Image & Photo Editing Software

Zeald.com has reviewed a number of free image edit applications to provide you with the best recommendations for preparing and manipulating your website images.

We recommend the following applications:

Aviary

Aviary is a suite of  web-based multi-media applications primarily for image editing and graphic design. The individual tool names are bird-themed, hence the suite name.

Aviary have 2 plans: a free plan and a Pro plan. Only Aviary Pro members can test current alpha releases ahead of time. Pro Members also have the ability to remove the Aviary Watermark, create groups, and view Premium Tutorials as well as unlimited storage.
The great thing about Aviary is that they provide the option to store your images online and host them for you. This is handy for centralising your images and saves cluttering your hard drive.

They also provide a handy addon for your Firefox web browser called Talon which allows you to snap screenshots direct from your browser and open them in the editor with one quick click.

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Picnik

Photo editing made fun - Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames.
It's fast, easy, and fun.

You'll find all you need to produce professional looking images for the web. Especially handy for creating promotional banners.

• Enhance, repair and tweak your photos
• Crop, resize, and rotate
• Alter and preview specific image layers
• Add text to your images to create your own banner ads or promotional banners for your website
• Add Shapes from hand-picked designers
• Works on Mac, Windows, and Linux
• No download required, nothing to install
• See how your image will look and check the file size as you export, to ensure your images retain their visual quality yet load quickly.

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PhotoPlus 6

For a long time, Serif has given away previous versions of their software to entice users to purchase the current version. Currently you can download a completely free, fully-functional version of PhotoPlus 6.

PhotoPlus 6 is an Offline image editing software that enables you to create, manipulate and enhance photographs or bitmap graphics. You'll find all you need to produce professional looking images for print and the web.

• Enhance, repair and tweak your photos
• Crop, resize, and rotate
• Alter and preview specific image layers
• Add text to your images to create your own banner ads or promotional banners for your website
• Add Shapes from hand-picked designers
• Works on Windows 95, 98, 98 SE, 2000, NT4, and XP.
• No download required, nothing to install
• See how your image will look and check the file size as you export, to ensure your images retain their visual quality yet load quickly.