Upload and Add Effects to Your Photos with flauntR

From AppScout:

Every now and again, I’ll get caught on a computer without any image-editing software and need to upload an image to the Web. And most people aren’t interested in downloading potentially complicated image-editing software to add effects to their photos, or in opening Photoshop every time they need more lens flare. With flauntR, you can upload your own images, tweak and change them, add hundreds of effects, overlays, and filters with a single click, and then e-mail them, save them, or upload them to Flickr.

FlauntR is completely Flash-based and works in any browser. The service is as simple as signing up for an account, uploading your images, and editing them. The image-editing options aren’t particularly robust from a resizing and image-cropping perspective; you can’t do either of those using flauntR. But the aim of the service is not so much to allow you to add text to your images or edit them but to add dozens of special effects, backgrounds, frames, and other overlays and filters to your images with a single click.

Once you’ve signed up for an account, you can immediately begin uploading images and adding effects. There are a number of frames, textures and canvases, distortions, and filters that you can apply to your images. Many of them are tacky and useless, but as you sift through them you can find the occasional effect that might actually make for a useful Web graphic or banner. I found that most of the compositions were cute if not useless; meaning that they were fun to look at, but I couldn’t see actually publishing any of my photos to the Web using their templates. At the same time, some of the light effects and color filters looked interesting, and I could see using them when creating a Web graphic or banner for a blog.

FlauntR has an attractive and intuitive interface, and a full screen mode that gives you the feeling of using a desktop image editor and not a Flash-based Web application. Once you’ve edited your photos and images, you can save them in your library for review later, e-mail them to friends, or publish the images to Flickr, all straight from the flauntR interface. You can download the final image and upload it to another site, or revert the changes back to the original image.

FlauntR is an easy tool to use and a good way to add some fun to your photos and images before sharing them. The service claims to have over a thousand effects and filters that you can use to spice up your image with one click, and is easy enough to use that anyone can do it. I wouldn’t recommend flauntR to someone looking for real, serious control over their images, but for someone with no image-editing experience who might be looking for something easy to use and a lot of fun, flauntR is a good option.

Upload and Add Effects to Your Photos with flauntR - AppScout