Sometimes MSpaint just won’t cut it, but you can’t justify spending the money for Photoshop. What are your other options?  Take a look at Splashup, a free web based image editor with many of the most commonly used tools for tweaking images for the casual user.

The left side toolbar has crop, rotation, marquee, type, erase, and many shape tools, just like a real image editor! You can choose foreground and background colors and it preserves multiple undo/redo states.

Across the top menu bar there’s (of course) “File” with such favorites as “open”, “save”, “close”, etc. “Image” let’s you set the image and canvas sizes, “Layer” and “Selection” let you manipulate the layers and your current selection respectively.  Filter (see below) let’s you use some of the most often used Photoshop-like filters and control such elements as contrast, color, and hue.  Finally “View” let’s you go from windowed mode into fullscreen and manage your zoom level. continue