MyTheme Online Photo Editor is almost as good as using Photoshop software to amp up photos — and it’s free. It has an easy uploading format that allows multiple pictures to be worked on at once. Users can do everything to photos from basic cropping, resizing to color normalizing or take it a step further.

At www.blibs.com/editor add trippy effects and turn photos into Andy Warhol-style canvases. Slim down photo subjects with the plastic surgery option and give them a Hawaiian vacation-worthy tan with the skin-tanning tool.

The reflecting water tool is another cool option, subjects look like they’re wading in a rippling ocean. Get artsy and redesign the format of a photo to look like comic strip art, a cartoon or a charcoal portrait.

Anything from text to floating hearts and lightening bolts can be added to photos — the site has all of the best effects and adjustment applications to do nearly anything to a photo. Using Photoshop-esque applications can be confusing, but on MyTheme Online Photo Editor there’s plenty of help. Want to learn how to make photo subjects wink? There’s a tutorial for that, along with plenty other tutorials on making the most of the animation options offered.

Another plus is advertising is kept to a minimum (often free sites are cluttered with ads) and it’s just a click to save the edited photos at no cost. Make photos realistically altered (no one will notice the slightly tanner skin or slimmer thighs) or wack them out to the abnormal with animation and glitter. No registration and a plethora of photo-pimping options make this site a best pick for taking photos from boring to bangin’.

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