Free Online Image Editors for Rapid E-Learning
Aviary has a few image editing tools and offers a pretty complete solution for most of what you need to do. They also have a very active user community which is a plus and lots of tutorials.
- Aviary Feather is a basic image editing tool. You can crop, adjust the image, add some text, and apply filters.
- Aviary Phoenix is a more robust application and close to something like Photoshop with the layering and more complex editing capabilities.
- Aviary Raven is a vector editor similar to the free Inkscape or Adobe Illustrator.
Pixlr has all of the standard features you’d need. I like some of the pencil drawing effects and it can output to Flickr and Picasa. I find it really easy to use and one of my favorites of the online tools. They also offer Pixlr Express, a streamlined editing tool.
Splashup is an image editing tool and photo manager. I like that I can bring in images from sites like Flickr and Picasa, which I already use. It has all of the core features you’d expect in an image editing application. They also offer Splashup Light for download.
Sumo Paint
Sumo Paint is a very capable tool and comes with all of the core editing features. They also offer a Pro upgrade that gives you a desktop version with additional features.
Simpler Tools
- Photoshop.com offers simple image editing, but not the layering that you get with its desktop cousins.
- Dr.Pic seems to have all of the basic features. I like the framing feature. My guess is the Polaroid frame would work well with some elearning screens.
