How to Edit Photos in Photobucket

Besides being a handy place to store your photos online for free, Photobucket also has a basic photo editor included. Once a photo is uploaded you can use edit photos in Photobucket, whether it's something simple like removing red eye or cropping an image, or something more complicated like adding text or animations. It's all in good fun and allows you to get creative with your photos. We'll show you how to get started editing your photos in this tutorial.

Beginners tips for Photobucket. Part three of ten: Editing and adding effects. Molly McDonald: Besides just giving you a place to store and share your photos, Photobucket also helps you edit them. First, go to the edit link, you can choose from one of these options if you already know what you want to edit or click on more options to enter the full edit suite. Select the photo you want to edit and it will open in the editor. You can do things here like remove redeye by selecting that tool and then clicking on the red eyes in the image. You can crop an image by dragging your cursor over the area you want to keep, then click on crop selected area. You can rotate it, flip it and adjust things like the huo, saturation and lightness. These are the basic editing options. You can use some more advance features to add effects. Just click on the effect you want to try out like cartoon and then adjust the settings as needed. If you don't like it then just click on cancel. You can also decorate your photo with things like stickers, just click on it, add sticker and then you can drag it around the photo and resize it. You can add text, just type in what you want here, resize the box and you can even make it glittery text. You can change text color, and click on apply. You can add fun animations, just click on whichever one you like best and then move it where you like it. There's also a Beautify tool that allows you to try to remove blemishes and with wrinkles. There is even a way to distort your photos using these tools, just play around with all of the edit features until you get the photo looking just the way you like it. There are really some amazing things you can do with very little knowledge. When you are done, you can click cancel and return to your account or you can choose to save a copy of it or replace the original, I'll save a copy. Thanks for watching and don't miss the next episode in beginner's tips for Photobucket series. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/