3 great photo editing tools you can use for free

Shawn Dixon • March 31, 2020

Edit your photos and optimize them for your website

A very common task when adding content to your website is preparing the images. Images not only need to be cropped to fit a specific layout, but all images should be optimized for speed. Optimizing images can be a complicated task. It requires a balance between file size and file quality. This can be easily accomplished through professional photo editing software, but it can be extremely expensive and not worth the investment if you only have basic photo editing needs.

Here are some common basic needs with tools we found online that will get the job done with ease.

1. Cropping Photos

Cropping photos is probably the most common task. With mobile device camera quality, there is no shortage of pictures. It is easy to snap a picture of your business, staff or products and publish it to the web. The challenge is, sometimes the image layout doesn't fit with the page design, or you need to focus on a specific part of your image so you need to crop the image. A great resource online for this task is https://pixlr.com/

PIXLR has a very user-friendly website that gives the basic imaging editing capabilities as well as some pretty advanced stuff if you need more.

2. Optimize Images for Speed

You may have heard your web designer mention website optimization. Website optimization is essential to online success. It includes onsite(internal) and offsite(external) changes that make your website search engine friendly. And one major factor is speed. Having a fast loading website is very important. Many studies show that if your website doesn't load within the first three seconds, the visitor will move on. They assume the site is broken or it is a bad link. There are multiple factors that contribute to the speed of a website and file size is at the top of the list. You will always want your images to be as small as possible without losing any quality. And a great tool we use often is SHORTPIXEL. You can upload multiple images or one image at a time and it will optimize your images(even your PDFs) for your website. Here is a link to their image compressor. https://shortpixel.com/online-image-compression

3. Remove Backgrounds

And last but not least, we often get asked about removing backgrounds in photos. If you are looking to remove a background from a photo that will be printed, you will need to hire a professional image editor. Feel free to give us a call! However, if you want the image for the web, or just want to have some fun on social media, this tool is the best. Removebg could not be easier. Simply select an image you want the background removed from and Removebg will detect what is in the foreground and take care of the rest. Check it out here https://www.remove.bg/

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