Seven Photoshop alternatives: Online image editors reviewed and rated

LunaPic also creates animations from images, with snappy rotating cube and reflection animations that can be saved as animated gifs.

In an unusual but still intuitive twist, it saves your history as a sequence of thumbnails, so you can actually see and restore each edit. And unlike Photoshop it's not linear, so rather than only being able to hop backwards and forge on from that point with a new set of edits, losing a sequence of changes, you can hop to any edit at any time. The only thing to remember is that the thumbnails are numbered from right to left.

There aren't any layers, but you can paste a selection, move it around and even alter the transparency before clicking apply. You can also view the selection saved in your clipboard.

CNET UK verdict: Animated gifs may not make you very popular around the Web, but they're still fun to make -- and the clever history is certainly different. 5/10