Today it is not enough just to be able to photograph. Almost any photograph needs post-processing, which will help to hide the flaws that have arisen during the shooting, to highlight its advantages, and to introduce additional effects. To do this, it is not at all necessary to lay out a lot of money for Photoshop, you can use it for free, and it is completely legal.
Online version of Photoshop
The possibilities of Photoshop never cease to amaze users and delight the audience. Many of them get excited about the idea of improving their photos on their own, but the fuse immediately goes away when the price of an Adobe product becomes known. Few can afford to shell out nearly a thousand dollars for a program for home use. However, there is a way out. Adobe offers users an online version of the graphics editor called Photoshop Express, which is completely free to work with.
Of course, you can download a pirated version of Photoshop, but do not forget that such a step is regarded as a banal theft and can be prosecuted.
Features of the program
To use Photoshop Express you only need a computer, Internet access and the most common browser. Of course, you should not expect from the program all the possibilities that are available in the interface of its older brother - a standard modification of Photoshop, but the set of tools offered online is quite enough for carrying out primary processing of photos. The most important difficulty that users may encounter is the lack of familiar layers, which makes it impossible to work with masks or compose collages, but most ordinary users simply do not need such options.
Features of the program
Photoshop Express allows you to upload a photo to the Adobe website, make manual or automatic correction of the hue and saturation of the photo, rotate or crop it, remove red eyes. You can also use it to even out the white balance, darken or, conversely, lighten certain areas of the picture, sharpen, or apply focus blur.
But that's not all. Fans of effects will like the proposed list of filters, almost the same as in real Photoshop. The photo can be toned, converted to black and white using filters from red to blue, and even turned into a drawing. When working with each menu item, you can choose one of the proposed processing options, and if you do not like the result, use the Undo button to go back one step.
Photoshop Express also exists for mobile devices based on Android and iOS systems.
Photo decoration
And if you go from the Edit tab to Decorate, there will be no limits to the flight of imagination at all. You can add anything to the photo, from a banal frame and text to stickers, accessories in the form of glasses or a carnival costume, or even turn the person in the picture into a hero of some comic by drawing a phylacter - a word bubble with some saying. So you don't have to spend a lot of money or, even worse, steal the program. There is no need to do this if there is free Photoshop.
