Online Photo-Editing sites have been covered by thePhotoFinishes.com before; but not a free online PhotoFinishing site. Befunky changes that – it is devoted to taking your photos and transforming them into works of art using special effects like Cartoonizer, Oil Painting, Inkify, Old Photo, Charcoal, Impressionist, and my favorite – PopArt. Then add some goodies. Its free to try and if you register, you can save and/or share your works. $50/year you get the full range of special effects, support for giant images, plus no befunky.com watermark in the lower right corner. For $250/year you can sell your works of befunkey-ized art.
Befunky is easy to try yourself – navigate to befunky.com and upload an image and for free, you can be the next Andy Warhol. There are some downsides – only one effect can be applied to an image [no combining effects] – but there are 2 or 3 user customized settings to each effect. Also there is no way to mask or create layers for more “finished” photo effects [take a look at www.fotoflexer.com for these capabilities plus a new set of special effects]. Befunky won’t make a badly composed shot look good, but will save a good shot slightly off focus, color shifted or in need of a little cropping and styling. Try it, you may like it a lot.