Sharing the Addiction

Well, I have been having a lot of fun with this tool. You can load pictures into Fotoflexor from your computer or from a number of online photo sites where you have photos stored such as Flickr. You can add a LARGE number of special effects to the images. This has to be one of the most comprehensive free image editors that I have seen. It can also work in layers with transparency and has clever tools for selecting part of images. In the picture above, I cut out a photo of my husband from another picture and added the trees as a background. I then blurred the trees slightly to give the picture a ‘depth of field’ effect. I then put in a picture of myself using my built-in webcam and was able to add that picture of myself to some ready made faces. In the above picture, I decided to be the face of Paris Hilton (I look a little purple because I took the photo of my face at night under tungsten lighting). I was able to scale my face to fit hers and move and rotate it until I was happy. I then removed the background of the photo and added it to my scene. This is just a small taste of the many tools that are on offer.One final feature that I really liked is the ability to send the picture back to online libraries such as Flickr or to download the pic to my computer. By saving it as a png, I was able to keep the transparency. It did take quite a long time to save so be patient. Very cool image editing!!

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