5 free AI tools for editing your photos
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With the passage of time and the emergence of cell phones and social networks, photo editing is no longer the exclusive domain of professional photographers. Thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), there are numerous free tools that allow anyone to improve the quality of their shots in just a few clicks.
In this article we will explore five free AI tools for photography that will help you edit photos for free with some pretty amazing results. Shall we get started?
1. Canva
Canva has become a household name in the world of non-designers who want to dabble. Here are some of its main features, some with AI:
- Improve photo quality automatically. With a single click, Canva can adjust brightness, contrast and saturation to instantly improve the look of your photos. You can even retouch your portraits to smooth skin, whiten teeth. And all in a few easy steps.
- Remove backgrounds with a click. Canva’s AI can detect and remove complex backgrounds in seconds, allowing you to create images with transparent backgrounds easily.
- It has an extensive library of filters and effects. It also has a wide variety of predefined filters and special effects that you can apply to give your images a unique touch. Kids love it.
Design and editing, all in one
If we had to talk about its advantages, we would tell you three: it has an intuitive interface, integrates seamlessly with other design tools and available web and mobile application. It’s all easy. With Canva, you can easily enhance photos for free.
2. Pixlr
Pixlr is a powerful editing tool with which you can edit images almost like you would with Photoshop, but for free and with AI functions of the most impressive. Among its most important features are:
- Automatically adjusts color and exposure. Pixlr’s AI analyzes your image and applies color and exposure corrections to improve its appearance instantly. And you don’t have to do a thing. And like Canva, Pixlr also includes options for removing blemishes, smoothing skin and retouching portraits with precision.
- It features AI filters and effects. Pixlr also offers a wide range of smart filters that can incredibly transform the look of your photos with a single click.
- It has layers and masks for advanced editing. Finally, one of the most powerful abilities is that it allows more precise and complex editing, similar to what you would find in professional software, thanks to its layers and masks.
A very versatile online editor
If you ask us what we would highlight in this editor, we would tell you that it requires no download or installation, that it has a very familiar interface if you have used Photoshop before and that it has versions for beginners and also for advanced users.
3. Fotor
Fotor is an online image editing tool that focuses on simplicity and efficiency accompanied by powerful AI features to enhance your photos. What are its main features? Here we tell you:
- Beauty retouching and focus effects. Fotor offers automated features to enhance portraits, including skin smoothing, eye enhancement and even face shape adjustment. And it lets you add depth and clarity to your images with automated HDR effects and intelligent focus adjustments.
- It has a tool that removes objects. Fotor uses generative AI to remove unwanted elements from photos, filling in space in a very natural way.
- It offers collages and predefined layouts. To make it even easier for users, Fotor provides smart, predefined templates to create attractive collages and professional layouts with your photos.
Photo retouching made easy
What are Fotor’s strengths? In our opinion, that it is very easy to use for beginners, that it has advanced photo retouching features and that you can use it online as well as in its desktop application.
4. PicWish
Among our favorite free AI tools is PicWish. It stands out for its ability to remove backgrounds from images with pretty amazing accuracy. Its use of AI is so powerful that the results would blow any professional photographer’s mind. Aim:
- Removes and replaces backgrounds automatically. PicWish uses highly advanced AI to detect and remove complex backgrounds with pinpoint accuracy, even in highly detailed images. And it also helps you replace them by adjusting content, lighting and color.
- Improves portraits. Like the previous platforms, it also has the ability to do AI-driven facial retouching. If you use PicWish to enhance your photos, you will notice that the results are most natural and professional.
- Restore old photos. You might like this. Because in addition to all of the above, PicWish uses its AI algorithms to restore and colorize old photos, giving them new life with amazing details.
The background removal specialist
What do we like the most? That you can get high-quality results from photos in seconds and that it requires no editing skills and is ideal for creating product images.
5. SnapEdit
SnapEdit is a quick editing tool designed to optimize photos for social networks, so it can be very useful if you are a regular on Instagram, for example. Here are its most relevant capabilities:
- It offers AI filters and effects to be trendy. SnapEdit has a selection of filters and effects that are regularly updated to keep you up to date with the latest social media trends.
- It has automatic adjustments for different social platforms. It optimizes your photos depending on the network you’re uploading them to, adjusting sizes and formats to fit them in the best possible way. And as we’ve seen on other platforms, it also helps you do quick portrait retouching.
- Create collages and stories. Proof of its focus on social media is that it provides smart templates for creating attractive collages and story layouts that will make you stand out from other profiles.
Edit your images for social media
The secrets to SnapEdit’s success? It’s highly optimized for mobile use, it offers frequent updates with new trending filters, and it’s super easy to finish an image and post it directly to your social networks.
TU VerifAI or the power of authenticity
As we have seen, some platforms have introduced AI into their way of editing images to achieve impressive results in a very short time. It is becoming easier and easier to edit images to unsuspected limits and that is why it is essential to maintain authenticity and transparency in visual content.
This is where tools like VerifAI come into play to detect whether content has been manipulated with AI or not. VerifAI uses advanced deep learning algorithms to analyze patterns and detect subtle alterations that the human eye might miss. And with this information it is able to give a verdict on the likelihood that the image has been edited with AI, which can be extremely helpful
Soy redactor publicitario y llevo más de 15 años creando contenidos sobre creatividad y tecnología. Muy fan de las redes sociales, la inteligencia artificial y el cine indie.
