Pixiq

Almost everybody has a photo editor these days. Many laptops even come with a free edition of Photoshop Elements, so there’s no excuse to not edit your photos. But if you find yourself some place without one but have a computer with connection to the Internet, you can edit your photos online.

Imagine this situation. You’re travelling abroad and have some fantastic images you want to share with friends at home, but you have no computer to do the editing. Well, if you can find a computer — at a public place, an Internet cafe or something of the kind — you can just use an online photo editor to get the job done.

Photoshop online   http://www.photoshop.com/

Photoshop Online is a good destination. With so many companies offering their editors online even Adobe could not resist, and they have a simplified version of Photoshop online that will do the trick. Give it a try. You have to register to login, but after that it's completely free.

 Pixlr Express   http://www.pixlr.com

Pixlr is a two-way street: you can either use the Express for editing your photos, if you don’t have much time, or go for a more classic approach, with an editor that works a bit like Photoshop.

MugTug   http://mugtug.com

MugTug is the odd one out. It does not use Flash but HTML 5.0. It looks very much like Adobe Lightroom (well, everything does these days, I use to say…) and works fine.

Phoenix, from Aviary http://www.aviary.com/launch/phoenix

Phoenix is another program that does the trick of getting your pictures looking better in no time. It's kind of classic on some aspects but has some neat tricks under the hood. Give it a try.

The list of programs like those above is endless, I suspect. Every day I look around the Web there are new options, showing how dynamic the software market is. Not all of them work as promised, but some are surprising and might just be the tool that is right for you.