Fotor: An easier way to edit photos on smartphone or web
Social networking sites such as Facebook and Instagram are at their all-time high, and people just can’t seem to get enough of sharing and liking. Users everywhere, all across the globe are uploading pictures and giving a little piece of themselves and their culture. It has been a fad for quite some time now, and it looks like the future is bright for social networking sites.
Sharing and uploading photos is, by far, the fastest and easiest way to express oneself. It has also been said that a single picture is worth a thousand words. However, sharing pictures online may not be as easy as it sounds. From taking the pictures, to editing and up to uploading, all of these may take quite some time — time, which not everyone can afford.
One of the tools you might find very useful is Fotor. Fotor is an online photo editing site that brings the best photo editing tools all together in one complete site. Being a cloud-based app, Fotor enables you to edit images without downloading and installing a photo editing software. Aside from that, you can grab a photo anywhere, either from your computer or right from the web. It is very is to use. Just click “choose a photo”, find the picture you need to edit, edit the image and then — voila — you are done. After editing, you can either choose to upload your image or save it on your device. This site is very useful, especially if you’re on a mobile device not powerful enough to run heavy photo editing software.
Although Fotor is a web based tool, it does not mean that it lacks juice and holds back on some editing capabilities. You’ll be surprised to see that it is not like your ordinary paint or photo editor. Indeed it matches up to high end photo editing software like ACDC and Corel. Fotor offers some of the best effect you can possibly come up with an ordinary photo editor in an easy to use interface. All you have to do is to select an effect that you want and in an instant, you can already see the effect. You can also go to and from the old and new image.
The Interface
The app’s interface is very easy to navigate and use. There are different set of tools and editing options you can choose from. There is the basic edit tool which consists of a 1-tap button, which is like a magic wand. Just use the 1-tap tool to instantly correct the image’s exposure, sharpness, brightness, tone, etc. It instantly turns every image into a clear, crisp and vivid picture that will surely amaze everyone. Aside from the 1-tap enhance button, you can also find the basic functions found in most photo editing tool. These tools include crop, rotate, curve, resize, basic, tone and colors.
The next buttons you will find below the basic editing tools are the effects function. This is an incredibly convenient tool, because it allows you to give special effects on pictures as if you were using special camera lenses in taking the picture. With this tool you can make your image look like it was a lomo, vintage, blurred or even funky. There are a lot of effects to choose from.
There are tons of effects to choose from. Besides that there are also clip arts and frames you could add to your image to give your image a unique look and to bring out the theme you would like to showcase.
Pros
Fotor is indeed a user-friendly application. It offers sundry filters and features before you upload and share pictures. And it also happens to be compatible with almost all operating systems.
Here’s a brief screed why you should pick Fotor:
- Fotor has apps for Android, iOS, Windows and OS X. You can use both downloaded apps and the web app.
- You can use the application directly on the website. Installation is not needed, really.
- It uses simple and useful features to ease out your photo editing task.
- Varied effects are available. No need for complex editing though it does allow you to add effects.
- Instantly shares to your favorite social media sites.
- It offers collage creation tools.
- It can be used both online and offline, depends on your preference.
- It’s free!
Cons
While Fotor provides excellent features and end results, users should never expect Fotor to be as supreme as Photoshop as the two are definitely not equal. Here are the reasons why.
- Photo editing features is not on par with Photoshop, of course.
- You can only make limited modifications.
- History is non-existent. Once change has been made, you can only undo it to the most recent edit.
Conclusion
This is a great app for sharing photos on your social networks and for the basic edits. Users can never go wrong with this photo editing tool. If you need more advanced editing, you’ll probably need Photoshop, but if you simply need to upload, share or re-touch your photos, Fotor is the right tool for you.
