Online Photo Editing
So Nadine showed me this awesome site called pixlr.com that allows you to edit images via a flash application. Translation: Do image editing work without using Photoshop! They have a few photo editing apps on there, but I use Pixlr Editor.
I haven’t used it that much yet, but I have used it on my junky slow laptop that I wouldn’t dare install Photoshop on. The interface is a lot like Photoshop. Translation: It’s pretty much a blatant imitation of Photoshop.
For the light weight user who just does stuff for blogging, this is a really good option. You can resize, crop, optimize for web, use the healing tool, magic wand, change levels, blur, vignette… awesome!
Something I do a lot is take screen captures, so I downloaded this plugin called Pixlr Grabber for my firefox browser that allows me to right click a website and open it directly in the image editor.
Nerdy side note: Something like this is super important to the web centric OS movement. I really think that one day we’re all going to have web based operating systems like Google Chrome OS, and development of applications like these are essential to making that happen.
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The PS app for iPhone is actually pretty decent too, at least for general stuff like rotating, crop, etc
I hear it’s pretty cool… too bad I don’t have an iPhone!