A closer look at 5 free picture and image editing tools

A closer look at 5 photo editing tools mentioned in this month’s Campus Technology article, “The Super-Secret, Never-Before-Revealed Guide to Web 2.0 in the Classroom“.

I read this article this week, and there is a section in it entitled “4 Itty-Bitty Content Tools“, which in turn has a subsection titled “Become An Image Editor”. They mention five photo editing tools in this section, but don’t go into a lot of detail about them. I sat down this weekend and took most of them for a trial run. Here’s what I learned.

Pixenate
This tool has features like “red eye reduction”, “normalize” (improve color balance), “fill light” (lighten entire pic), “whiten teeth” (although I found the result a little overdone in the example I tested), and “colors tool” (lets you change brightness, saturation, and hue). But the real fun here is the “fun effects”, such as Lomo ...

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