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Tool: FotoFlexer

Tool Description: FotoFlexer is a free online image editor that allows you to easily make customized images for your online campaign.
Activist Application: In an online campaign, images are key. You’ll need an original image for the header on your advocacy blog and for your badges and banners. Now you don’t need to spend money to buy the editing software necessary to make original images for your campaign.
Ease of Use: Easy. The FotoFlexer web site makes editing really self explanatory. As soon as you land on their homepage, www.FotoFlexer.com, they start guiding you through the steps to editing an image. You can upload your images onto the FotoFlexer website and edit them online, then download then to your computer and use them.

You can do something basic, but there are a lot of features to choose from. You can turn any image into a blueprint, Andy Warhol-like pop art image, or convert it into black and white. There are also tools for eliminating red-eye, cropping, resizing, rotating, cutting and pasting your images. You can also add layers to your image, a necessity for serious image editors.

The best way to improve your image editing skills is practice, practice, practice, so upload and image to FotoFlexer and start creating.

sources: Download Squad (description of FotoFlexer features), Life Hacker (original image)