Best On-line Photo Editors for Your Tourism Business
Prerequisites: You should have some photos ready to edit. I also recommend you have descriptions and titles ready for your test photos as well.
Estimated Time for Completion: 1-2 hours
Details: Thanks to improvements in Flash technology and increased access to broadband Internet access, there are now a growing list of on-line photo editor that can support high resolution photos from today’s digital cameras. The benefit of these tools is that they don’t require you to download any software and many, but not all, are integrated directly with photo sharing sites like Flickr or PhotoBucket, making uploading and tagging your photos for marketing purposes much easier. I’ve reviewed a variety of sites and prepared a list of the photo editing sites I think are the best for tour operators who plan on doing minor edits to their tour or activity photos.
Aviary Phoenix is a very well developed on-line photo editor. It’s interface is very reminiscent of Adobe Photoshop and it has many of the same sophisticated layering and filtering tools. The Phoenix user community is very large and quite supportive. You can also move your creations between Aviary apps quite easily providing for extra editing capabilities.
Price: Free
Website: http://www.aviary.com
flauntR is developed by FotoDesk which is a European company. This tool is useful for those operators who don’t speak English because it supports a number of other languages. flautR is also part of a larger suite of on-line tools and allows you to move images between applications for additional editing.
Price: Free
Website: http://www.flauntr.com
Photoshop.com has both a free and premium model and integrates nicely with PhotoShop Elements, a consumer version of the popular PhotoShop application. The on-line editor is very close (in functionality) to the desktop version and makes the transition easy for those who are used to a desktop app. The application also includes your own photo sharing site on the photoshop.com domain.
Price: Free
Website: http://www.photoshop.com
Picnik.com is a really nice and simple editor with some pretty powerful features. The benefit of Picnick is that it is already tightly integrated with Flickr.com and allows you to upload, edit, and share in one easy process. Although this is similar to Photoshop.com, Flickr has much greater reach (from a sharing standpoint) then does Photoshop.com.
Price: Free
Website: http://www.picnik.com
Splashup has some some editing capabilities and will allow you to basic as well as more advanced editing. Although it is not integrated directly with sharing sites, it does allow you to share your photos out to the various sharing sites, so it makes pushing out your photos a little easier.
Price: Free
Website: http://www.splashup.com
In the end, I only chose to talk about photo editors that are based on Flash and have some sharing capabilities. There are many others out there that are based on HTML or Flash but do not allow for easy social sharing. Regardless of which one you choose, all of them have fairly good editing capabilities. I would recommend that you try them all and get a feel for which one works best for you.
Outcome: If you are successful at completing this daily action, you will know what photo editors to look for and where to go to try them.
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