Graphics Tools

Since the Internet is a highly visual medium, website graphics and images may become an important part of your website, especially if you sell products. After all, “presentation is half the sale,” as the saying goes, so you want to provide your customers with the best quality graphics and images you can.

In order to do that, you will need to use various types of tools and services that will allow you to optimize your images for the web, add watermarks, crop/resize images, add text, and perhaps other special effects for which you may have a need.  So I’ve compiled a list of websites that either offer their services online, or from which you can download software to use on your own computer for these purposes.

Graphics and Photo Editing Tools

Blingee

Dr Pic

Gimp

Image Embellisher

Paint.net

Picnik

Reflection Maker

Visual Watermark

Watermark Tool

Image Optimization Tools

These tools are a must for website owners. You must optimize your photos for the web to achieve the fastest load times possible for your website. Web surfers and shoppers have little patience, and if your website takes too long to load, they will get tired of waiting and leave. And that just cost you a potential sale. Optimizing your photos will maximize the potential for longer visits from your customers.

Easy Image Batch

JPEG Wizard

Pic Resize

Quick Web Photo Resizer

Web Resizer