Great images on a website are an imperitive for creating a quality experience. It’s not necessary to have a lot or have large images; but an effort is needed to create a quality image.
Making such effort is limited by the quality of the image editing tool you may have – most likely Microsoft Paint. For many of us Adobe Photoshop is too expensive and too complicated, same for many of the Macromedia creative suite.
One of the best new free to online innovations I’ve discovered Pixlr Photo Editing Services.
This great services offers you an express service which allows;
The Editor services is a more comprehensive graphics design tool, not complicated like Fireworks, and not unstable like Gimp.
A couple of the usability features that make this service so fantastic are the cropping box, and the option to upload an image directly from a URL. This don’t excuse you from respecting copyright laws, but here’s a sample of grabbing an image from my facebook gallery and popping my photo into my blog.
Sample of how to grab an image url (Quicktimemovie)
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