Fotor Review: An Intuitive Online Photo Editor

Living in the 21st century, clicking a good quality photo by zapping out your smartphone from your pocket whenever or wherever is a norm. Whereas clicking a lousy quality picture may as well be considered a crime. Anybody with a decent phone can capture the right image nowadays. This scenario is where Fotor steps in to make your life a whole lot easier. In this Fotor review, I will take you through all features that Fotor Photo Editor has to offer.

Fotor is an online photo editor that you can use on the go. Fotor considers themselves as a revolutionary Online Photo Editor and Design Maker. And I can confirm that they have every right to call themselves just that.

You can use Fotor on your browser; all you need is a working internet connection.

Fotor Online Photo Editor: Review Summary

Fotor Review: Online Photo Editor Features

Below are the Fotor features that are most likely to grab your attention.

• Beauty Retouching
• Graphic Design Tools
• HDR Tech Tools
• Photo Collage
• Editing with a One-Tap Enhance Tool
• Filters and Effects
• Photo Stickers, Frames, and Other Design Elements

Looking at these features, you may think, other image processing tools provide similar features or even more. So what makes Fotor stand out from the rest? Well, the simple answer is that the overall experience and the ease of use makes Fotor a step ahead.

 Fotor Review: Getting Started

When you go to fotor.com for the first time, it greets you with a screen describing Fotor with three options to choose from; Edit a photo, Make a collage, and create a design.

Each option is quite self-explanatory, and that goes to show how easy it is to get things done in Fotor. Depending on your need, you have to pick a choice, and you are ready to go and get things done.

 Photo Editing with Fotor

Add a photo > one-click add effects, filters and edits > Retouch photos > Save.

As simple as that. You can edit photos on the go. However, you have to keep in mind that there is no RAW image Format support on Fotor online photo editor.

All the tools are present on the left side of the screen. As you can see, the interface is straightforward to navigate through even for beginners.

Fotor Review: Editing Tools

Some of the tools that you will end up using pretty much all the time while editing photos include:

1. ‘Crop’ tool
2. ‘Magic Clipper’ too
3. ‘Rotate’ tool
4. ‘Fine-tune’
5. ‘Basic’ tool

Photo Editing Basic Tools

As the name suggests, this is where you go when you want to do necessary edits to your pictures. Edits such as:

• Brightness
• Contrast
• Saturation
• Sharpness
• Fine Tune

Here I am doing some pretty basic edits for my new phone background. I uploaded the image from my computer, and I was already starting to edit it. Decreasing the brightness and increasing the sharpness by a little bit already made it feel like an entirely new picture.

Fine Tune

You will find the following here:

• Exposure
• Highlights
• Shadows

If you are new to editing, you will find these terms a bit confusing as to what they mean.

Just play around with the tools, see the difference the changes that you make as soon as you click your mouse and get to know what each tool does without ever taking a graphic designer course. That is the way how most of us start anyway.

Vignette, Resize, Curves, Crop, Color

We use these tools pretty much in any photo editing, and most of us even know what they do. Keeping that in mind, Fotor has made them readily available and accessible. They are easy to implement, and the changes you make are reversible as long as you do not hit that apply button.

Effects and Beauty

You can add effects to your photos, but most of them are only available to you if you paid for the services. However, there are still basic effects that you can touch up your photos with for free.

The beauty tool comes in handy as well. You can quickly retouch pictures or selfies and make yourself more “fabulous.” Here I have edited a photo and added some more blush to it (which is a premium feature). Half of the effects that you can add are a premium feature. So to get the full out of Fotor, the paid account is a must.

 Fotor Review: Creating your Design

You do not necessarily need to have an artistic mind to create something new. The only thing you require is a platform to start somewhere. Fotor can be that platform for you.

From office documents like Resumes to Certificates and Social Media covers, you can personalize your very own design. However, if you are not feeling energetic enough, you can also choose from one of the ready-made templates.

Playing with the templates are pretty straightforward, and a few clicks can get you the personal touch that you require. However, if you are on a free version, I am afraid it will not be of that much use as every good looking template only comes with the paid subscription.

Making a collage with Fotor

We all have seen those fancy edits on social media that we often want to do with our pictures as well. One of those popular edits is making a collage of all your lovely photos and posting them on your Instagram account.

Making a collage is very easy in Fotor. Once you have picked the option to create a collage, then you are immediately greeted by a screen that contains four options for you to choose on what type of collage you want to make.

The picture above shows what types of collage you would want to make. Hence, you can pick the option that best suits your work. Based on the option you picked, you will be able to select various layouts that you can use. Once done, you need to choose the pictures that you would like to use.

The rest is just a drag and drop with customization features such as size, spacing, colors and textures, and a few others depending on your layout. As easy as that.

Fotor Photo Editor: Saving options

After you have done all that hard work with your photos, how to save it? Firstly there are two options for you to achieve that, either by saving it to the cloud or saving it locally on your computer.

The thing you need to keep in mind is the format in which you want to save your final work. Fotor supports .jpg and .png formats and also provides you with an option to export in pdf form in case you needed to print.

Who can use Fotor Online Photo Editor?

If you are a professional photographer, editor, designer, creator, then you will find Fotor more than lacking with features that you would have expected or have used in your professional work.

Fotor Review for Professionals

If you start comparing Fotor with Adobe Photoshop, then Fotor will come out lacking with lesser features. However, the main thing that you have to keep in mind is that if you are trying to compare Fotor with Adobe or other costly applications, it will be unfair. Hence, if you want a manual, from scratch and super professional work, then Fotor may not be the best thing for you. The same thing applies if you are a professional Designer or Editor.

However, if you are in Social Media Marketing, Fotor can help you. It has a lot of templates which allows you to quickly create Promotion type banners. Also, you can directly create them at the right pre-defined resolution suitable for each Platform.

Fotor Review for Home Users

However, if you are not a professional and are only in need for a quick, easy and snappy designing and editing like making a poster, greeting cards, invitations, flyers, or any other stuff with little to no hassle without using advanced editing features, then Fotor is more than perfect for you.

The easy to navigate interface with self-explanatory photo editing options makes Fotor easy to use even if you are starting in designing. For the Fotor review I am using it for the first time and it only took me ten minutes or so to get used to the interface.

Incase you are just looking for a simple photo rectification tool, you can also go for check Photolemur. It has less to no options for real editing when compared to Fotor. However, Photolemur's advance AI can give you quick and sharp photo rectifications. Check our Photolemur coupon codes section.

Fotor Photo Editor Subscription Cost

You can choose your price depending on how often you will use Fotor and for what reasons you are going to use it.

Also, a good thing is the Free version. There is a Free Basic plan, so you do not have to pay to use Fotor for basic features. Upgrading to Fotor Pro can cost either $3.33 or $8.99 per month, depending on the billing period you want.

If you decide to pay monthly, then you would be paying $8.99 per month. However, if you are going to opt for the annual billing, then you would be paying $3.33 per month, but the billing is annual. Hence, you pay the entire yearly fee at the beginning of each billing period.

Depending on whether you are using the Free version or the Paid one, you can see ads, get exclusive photo effects, and advanced HDR photo technology. The paid version makes a whole lot of difference, and once you go Premium, the free version will never be able to satisfy you.

Conclusion

In my Fotor Review, I found that it is a great online photo editor. Also, it costs lesser in comparison to heavy tools such as Photoshop and Lightroom. However, you should not compare the features that you get to that of Adobe’s photo editors, but it is perfect for those who are starting in graphic designing or need to get work done that does not require advanced formatting.

If you are a home user with less technical skills in photo editing, Fotor is the best option for you. The plus point is that Fotor is an Online Photo editor. Hence, there is no installation, bugs, etc. You can open your browser and start editing and even on your mobile device! Anytime and anywhere.