Online photo editors are making fine-tuning photos possible without any software at all.

Adobe Photoshop isn’t the only option for every photographer in every situation. With licenses running hundreds of dollars, Photoshop is an expensive investment for nearly any photographer, and sometimes all a photo needs is a few tweaks.

Enter the online photo editors. Over the past year, a number of different tools have popped up online, offering convenience and a surprisingly rich feature set without costing a dime. With online photo editors, uploading, editing and saving are all handled through a browser, eliminating the need for any downloads. Can these online photo editors match the power of Photoshop? No, and they don’t try. But they do what they are meant to do - offer photographers the means to perform a few common tweaks to a batch of photos from any computer anywhere in the world. And some have convinient options that the Photoshop jockey can only dream of.

Here are the top three online photo editors that I’ve used in the past.

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