Sometimes you want to edit photos with filters without sharing it on Instagram, or you want to work on a photo that you don’t have on your mobile. The good news is you have options on web-based photo-editing websites that allow you to apply Instagram like filters to your photos.
Pixlr-O-Matic
This website doesn’t have any photo editing tools like cropping, resizing and etc. It has a lot of cool filters like Instagram, that allows you to quickly apply a filter for free. You can try out one of their sample photos to see what it looks like before using your own. There are about 25 filters and you can also add effects, overlays and borders to the pictures. The website is very popular, with over 800,000 fans on Facebook. It is also available for download as a web app for chrome or on your mobile.
picyou
picyou is a social photo-sharing website that allows you to apply filters to your photos and easily share it on Twitter or Facebook. You can sign up by connecting with your social network info. It is functionally very similar to Instagram, the advantage being that it allows you to edit/filter your photos online rather than on your mobile application. This is the best option if you are looking for a Instagram replacement on the web.
Google Plus
Google’s very own social network is actually a very handy photo-editing tool. It has a range of filters and photo editing tools to make your photos look better. You can find it under ‘Edit Photo> Effects’
Some of the cool features on Google Plus photo-editing is airbrush and blemish fix tools. Their filters are exclusive the photo-editing site Picnik merged with Google Plus so that is probably where the photo editing tools come from.
Instant Retro
This is a great website, no sign-ups or any of that fuss, it is very easy to use and it has filters that make your photos look retro. You have about 17 filter options; Nostalgia and Sin City are cool filters to play with. However, the filters are not very similar to Instagram so–although it is a photo filter website, the filters are not similar to the ones you get to use on Instagram.
