Web-Based Photo Editor Roundup

mikemuch writes "ExtremeTech has a roundup of 5 web-based image editing programs. The mostly Flash and AJAX-based webware ranges from simple touch-up services like Snipshot to the Photoshop wannabe Fauxto. They vary greatly in interface and extra goodies; some offer bookmarklets for getting images from a web page you're browsing, some offer artistic or goofy effects for you pix, but all fear the specter of Adobe's online version of Photoshop on the horizon."

Re:For the love of God!

[l-ascorbic]

It makes more sense when there's an actual reason for it to be on the web. For example, CleVR stitches photos into panoramas [clevr.com], then uses a flash thing to display them and embed them in other pages, youtube style. It's like Apple's old Quicktime VR, but without the $500 authoring environments and plugin and embedding nightmares.

I would expect a bunch of geeks to get this.

[Fross]

Between this and the other threads talking about Photoshop moving "online", there is a hell of a lot of misconception that surprises me from this crowd.

No, these clients don't do the image processing on the remote server. Yes, it would take masses of bandwidth. They use simple, easy to implement algorithms that run on the client machine. Most of these are written in Flash, hell, Photoshop Online will be written in Flex. Why bother making a heavyweight client app, then send the images to the server for processing each time?

They're not.

It runs on the client-side.

This isn't difficult to understand.

Re: I would expect a bunch of geeks to get this.

[fyngyrz]

HLL image processing is a joke. Plain and simple. It'd actually be better - and probably a lot faster - to hand the images to a machine that is running serious, efficient code, and get the job done that way. Flex... Aside from the name, which is actually a 6800/6809 CPU operating system from the 1970's, the Flex engine is just more crawl-ware to complement Java and the rest of the web 2.0 silliness. And Flash? Are you kidding? Just benchmark that sucker against a few cores (or even one!) running close-to-the-metal image processing and see how silly you feel. What's the line... oh yes: That's just how you feel when you bring boxing gloves to a gunfight. That breeze you're feeling is blowing through your chest cavity. :-)

Re:As...

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh dear god! you aren't seriously talking about the heap of junk which is WinImages, are you?

http://www.blackbeltsystems.com/kowMEfDEpics/wi_sc ap.jpg/ [blackbeltsystems.com]

The screenshot just about says it all, if your own website can't show examples that don't look like utter crap then what hope does anyone else have? I see higher quality output from MSPaint users, let alone GIMP and PhotoShoppers.

Are your clients all interested in producing ultra low quality animated web graphics they're going to travel back in time to the mid-nineties to sell to web content producers?