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10 Free Web-based Alternatives to Photoshop. I’m fed up with Photoshop and its one billion rarely-used features.

10 Free Web-based Alternatives to Photoshop

How about a simple photo-editor that’s quick, easy, and doesn’t cost a thousand dollars. Fortunately, there’re tons of web-based photos editors popping up. Most are crap, but some are promising. Check out these free web-based Photoshop alternatives: Arguably, Picnik is the most popular web-based photo editor. Very polished interface. Part of the Aviary suite of creative apps, Phoenix also offers layers and compositing. Adobe was a little late to the web-apps game, but this is a pretty good first try. Nice, simple, and clear interface, with no ads at all. flautR offers a cornucopia of image tools, boasting thousands of photo effects. Another ad-free editor.

Hmm… looks like Pixenate was “inspired” by Pic Resize. Another simple interface. An example of how ugly these apps can get. Let me know if I’ve missed any other good ones. If you liked this post, please bookmark it on del.icio.us. Slideshow Maker. Favicon - How To Create A Favicon.ico. Try before you buy.

Favicon - How To Create A Favicon.ico

Download any Adobe product for a free 30 day trial. Try Adobe Stock Free for One Month - Ends Soon! Here's a great deal from Adobe that will last until only the end of November — Get 10 Free Adobe Stock Images. Offer ends November 30th. Your first month will be refunded when you sign up for one year of Adobe Stock (10 images a month plan) at US$29.99/mo. Mysteries Of The Favicon.ico — How To Create A Favicon In Photoshop A Favicon is a little custom icon that appears next to a website's URL in the address bar of a web browser. All you need to add a Favicon to your site is a Windows Icon (.ico) file usually called favicon.ico that you upload to the main directory of your website. Download The Plugin You'll need the Windows Icon (ICO) file format Photoshop Plugin to export to the .ico file format.

Let's Begin Because 16 x 16 is such a small canvas area, it can be very difficult to be creative. Saving The Custom Icon Troubleshooting. Free favicon.ico for your website (animated. Recover Detail and Sharpen Your Blurred Photos. Sculptris. SlimPic: Easy Way To Look Slim in Photos.

You have a perfect family portrait but you think it would have looked much better if you were a few pounds lighter.

SlimPic: Easy Way To Look Slim in Photos

SlimPic can help you with that. It is a simple web tool that lets you make any person in any photo look slim. Just upload a photo from your computer or upload from Facebook, then specify how much weight you want to shed off in lbs or kgs. SlimPic will actually tweak the image and make the person look slimmer. You can also explore some public pics where celebrities have been slimmed and post comments on them or share them on Facebook.

Features: Eight Tools for Capturing Screenshots in Firefox 3. It isn't difficult to imagine that we need to take a lot of screenshots during the course of a day here at Mashable.

Eight Tools for Capturing Screenshots in Firefox 3

Sure you can do the old "Print Screen" trick, but that's a lot more hassle than it's worth when there are so many great options out there, especially if you are using Firefox as your browser. Here are eight Firefox 3 screenshot tools that are worth trying. These tools will do everything from save just a section of a page to entire pages, as well as give you the ability to upload images automatically to specified image hosting services. In case you were wondering, I use FireShot for all of the images in the lists I create. Abduction! FireShot - An extremely handy screenshot extension that can shoot just the visible area of a page or capture the entire thing, no matter how long it is. Grab Them All - A bit different type of a screenshot program in that you enter multiple URLs, specify the type of image to shoot, and where it will be saved. From Sketch to Vector.