Funny Photo Maker is a clever tool which makes it incredibly quick and easy to add fun effects to your photos.

Open a portrait shot of a friend or family member, for instance, then position the selection rectangle around their face, and you're ready to go. Just choose one of the 200+ templates on offer for instant results.

Click one frame and it'll show your friend on the big screen in Time Square, for instance. Another might show them as the face on a dollar bill (as well as many other currencies and denominations). And you can add their face to movie posters (Avatar, Iron Man, Lord of the Rings and more), magazine covers (Cosmo, GQ, Details, Vogue), put their face on an animal's body, display them on calendars, and more.

This is just the start, though. Maybe you'd like to turn that picture into a work of art? Select the Artistic tab and you'll find more filters, each of which can transform your image with a click. So you can add rain, snow or dew drops to the picture, say; give it an oil, water painting or pastel look; add all kinds of colour or lighting effects, turn it into a collage, add some neat distortion effects, and more.

Browse the menus and you'll find even more tools to play with. So "Expression", for instance, will take the picture of a face, distort it to look happy, angry or sad, even animate it.

You can also edit an image in more regular ways, perhaps removing red eye, sharpening a shot, adding a text caption or some clipart.

And when you're done then you can save the image locally, or share it directly via your Facebook or Twitter account.

You do have to keep your editing expectations fairly low here, as the program is more about ease of use than trying to rival Photoshop. So you don't get advanced selection tools to try and precisely separate a face from the image background, for instance, and there aren't 100 hi-tech ways to adjust your image colours (or really any at all).

That doesn't matter, though. Funny Photo Maker works because you can have the basic setup complete within seconds, then there are a huge range of quality effects to explore, and applying them mostly only takes a click. If you want a fast and fun way to get more creative with your images then this tool is an absolute must.

Version 2.4.2:

• •Added the category Template Collage, with 30 templates in it.
  •Removed the drop down menu from the template tabs.
  •Added the function "click on the frame to adjust source image and double click the frame to add photo" to MultiFrame Templates.