A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS

Abhishek Pandey


“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.” When William Wordsworth said this he was not aware that walls can mean something else other than a vertical concrete structure. In the virtual world walls are synonymous with Facebook pages where users share their sweet, bitter memories in the form of pictures and texts with their online pals. More often than not their walls are decorated with pictures. This week, YS brings you a list of websites that you can use to play around with your pictures and astonish your friends with your Photoshop skills


Sometimes we—especially those not well-versed with Photoshop and similar sophisticated photo editing software—face difficulty in correcting images of our fleeting moments.


There are many photo editing websites— which are made in Flash providing hundreds of features to beautify images online. Users need not have Photo editing software installed on their system for using features available on these sites. Many websites provide online editing services free and while a few websites charge a fee for accessing premium services.


One can play around with texture, colour combination and tone and can retouch smile and frown lines. These websites also allow users to add text bubbles, create photo mosaic and place your photos on pre-designed magazine covers. Users can try their hand on these features to make a good impression of their photo editing skills on their friends.


You need not to be a master of photo editing software to apply effects to your photographs. In websites like funphotobox.com, enjoypic or photofunia, you can select a photo effect, upload your photograph and the effect will be applied on your photograph in a few minutes. If you want to create a photo mosaic of your pictures you can try it on picartia.com. On yearbookyourself website, you can place your pictures in vintage photos or make your own yearbook pages. If you want to add some celebrity hairstyle on your photograph, you can visit instyle.com and click on Hollywood Make Over tab to don the hairstyle or makeup of selected celebrities.


Some other websites that offer jaw-dropping photo effects include picnic, pixlr, aviary, loonapix, jpgfun, fotoflexer and phixr. Try your hand to have fun with pictures.