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Here are ways you can get the best of your photos by tweaking them online:-

Be Funky- By far the best imaging site I have ever come across. Read this to get more info about it. Easy to use and splendid effects.

Photofunia- A great site for digital frames. Be the Superman, or be Johnny Depp in Pirates of Carribean, Be on a huge poster, etc. Read more here.

The Face Transformer- An application developed by St. Andrews University to transform your face into different type. For eg. Manga Cartoon, Old age, Botticelli Painting, etc. read more and in detail about it here. It’s a little tricky to use.

Yearbook Yourself- A site which enables you to create different photos of yourself according to styling of different years from 1950 to 2000. It requires a lot of adjusting to get a perfect image though.

PicArtia- Create a mosaic of your favourite photo with many small photos. Choose a smaller pixel size for good results. But not too small. And do use a BIG image.  No mobile snaps will give you good enough results.

MagMyPic- Get on different magazine covers by creating a fake picture with this application.

Dumpr- Multiple effects like rubik’s cube, celebrity paparazzi, sketch, etc.

Personalized Money- Get your face imprinted on a dollar bill. Fundoo!

Loonapix- Easy to use interface plus LOADS of effects. Get digital frames, swap faces, Trim your photo, or get a Loonapic effects which is just like photofunia and fun photo box.

Pictreat- One step treatment of your photo which includes color fixing, reduction of face-marks, etc. This doesn’t produce major changes but.. worth a shot. I tested them with one of their examples and it worked. I don’t have pimples you see .

FlauntR- Style your pictures, or use their online editing tool just like Adobe Photoshop. or even better, blend famous paintings in your picture. Awesome site.

Now, here in this post I will tell you about a fabulous website to apply ultra cool effects to your photos. Want to see your photo scribbled or cartoonized? Read on for these and more….

The website is BE FUNKY – Photo effects with one click.

I used one of my favourite photos and used all their effects. The results? Fantastic.

There are 37 different types of effects you can put on your pictures in 9 categories. These are Cartoonize, Warhole, Charcola, Patirotic, Infiky, Line Artopia, Stenciler, Sunburst and Scribbler.

You can save the photos on your desktop or into a gallery. Click on “more options” for adjusting brightness and color detail. You can even rate each effect. Now here are different effects on my phtos. I have uploaded one (the best) from each category. Click on “goodies” for different frames, shapes, appearance, graphic text, speech bubbles, writing text and warping. It also has a “make it real” feature which you can opt for getting your now modified pictures on Cups, T-Shirts, and as Photo Prints.

17 Oct., 2009

I checked out Be Funky again yesterday and it looks like they’re after loads of money now. They have totally updated their site. They have now TOO MANY effects too handle but there are TOO MANY drawbacks as well.

1. Few effects are available only too Premium (paying) users.
2. The effects are so many, that it is difficult to choose from and many are useless.
3. The website has become too slow.
4. The effects are not clearly shown in the picture representing the picture.
5. They now apply a watermark over pictures of free users. In the top left corner, there is a ribbon saying “Created at befunky.com”. One way to fix this is to add some blank extra space at the top of your picture using MS Paint or similar software. However, this may prove to be an obstruction for some effects. But try it out.

So in the end, I would conclude that I liked the old Be Funky better. If it is updated again, please inform me.