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5 Web-based image editors

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Photoshop, GIMP, Paint.net, Corel Painter, Paintshop pro ..,  there are so many other desktop based image editing soft wares, which offer many facilities on click, then is there need of any web based editor?

The answer would be yes or no .. I say why not ? If someone can’t afford photoshop, or doesn’t want to learn these softwares or doesn’t know how to install them ? then these web based software would be helping hand to them. There are some benifits of these softwares such as

• No Installation.
• Editing with quick simple facilities
• Save your work in common formats like jpg or gif or png. so they can be opened everywhere.
• They are flash based which is [95% ] os independant. so it opens on any computer whether its mac or pc or else. :)
• they are introducing new concepts those may cause for our much better future .

To start with -

SUMO PAINT :

one of my friend told me about sumo paint. great features, lite weight, fully flash copy of photoshop. so easier to use and fast.

1. Sumo paint gives 80% 95% feel of photoshop and its utilities are just the same as in photoshop.
2. Dry brushes, soft air brushes, smudge tool, blur sharp tools, stamp tool ..  are included in toolbox.
3. Plus they have added some shape tools and drawing tools like arc and bulky star tool. My favorite tool is symetry tool in which you can draw multiple threads in one stroke with symmetry. [must try it]
4. multiple image editing windows, blending modes, layers support with layer styles, free hand selection and other selection tool set with support of feather, navigator, swatches, color, gradient palletes are same as in photoshop. but still its not photoshop ..

After this I started searching more in this catagory. I found Pixer.us, Aviary, Splashup, piknik and many more.

Pixer.us :

Non flash Software. At first look I found its interface very very boring. But simplicity of this software is its main feature.

Really no nead to know about software and functions and all. Just choose your options,  move some sliders,  watch preview and click apply. save your file .. it is that simple. I was faculty in some institutes for 2 years . .. I know really how it is dificult to teach concepts like hue saturation or level control or filters and effects to root user who is computer illiterate or not frequent user. This facility is really good for them

This is just plain photo manupulating tool no drawing !

Splashup :

One thing on start you will say … sleek interface ! Its adobe air based software very lite and fast. [i guess // please correct if wrong ].  This facility has few similar features as compaired to sumo paint but one unique feature too. In this software,  you can edit your online photos from picasa, flickr, photobucket or your own domain. You have to just sign in from open dialogbox and you choose your photo or image or just browse from pc.

1. open file wizard has many tabbed options to open images. you need to register for free account on splashup to open any online image from image hosting service like picasa or flickr or photobucket.
2. It also supports to take picture from web cam and then use it for editing.
3. Gradient tool editor is nice feature of this software
4. Layers with layer styles are just working great !
5. brush set are enough good but do not satisfy advance users.
6. basic tool box and filters

Pixlr

Similer to sumo paint. Advance tool box with no shape tools. looks like almost similar to photoshop 7 and works really smooth.

1. toolset is fast and good, except crop and smudge tool. crop tool directly crops image no preview of crop image and smudge tool makes it bit heavy and slows down performance,
2. It has many language support
3. and similar software features to above softwares.

Aviary- Phoenix

most futuristic interface ever. it has many differences as compaired to above tools. very unique and stable.

1. rulars with guieds
2. tool settings appear when you click on tool, nested tools are easy to access.
3. takes lil bit time to load but results are superb.
4. total worth to try software. may say future of image editing tools is gona look like this..
5. bad is you need to sign up for saving your image .. but print screen + copypaste in paint does the job ! ;)

I just had start with sumo paint, editor which had large set of features compaired to others so i just tried to mention most uncommon feature of them. There are many others too like photoshop express from adobe, pikipimp, picnik .. try them out ..

tell me which one did you liked most !