Geek Sisters

Everybody loves Photoshop and Gimp. But, imagine yourself in a situation like that:
You are travelling and want to send your pictures to your friends and family. You go to an Internet Cafe and using a on-line photo editor you can adjust, rotate, cut, and others things.

Yes, you can do it. Of course, all these tools don’t have all features that Photoshop and Gimp have. But I’m pretty sure, in the near future all these tools will be replaced by Web 2.0 tools.

So, here is the list:

It’s very simple create your account at Phixr.com, in less than 15 seconds you’re done. To send your pictures you can:

• upload it
• give the photo web address
• edit a picture directly in your Flickr account
• using Phixr Upload Tool

Here are Phixr major features:

• Flickr and Picasa integration
• Support for Windows XP Web Publishing

You can:

• Rotate
• Scale
• Crop
• Black & White
• Sepia
• Equalize
• Brightness, saturation, hue
• Mix it with other photo
• Add effects
• Download and save as JPEG, PNG, PDF, GIF, OCR

Rating:

Geek Sisters Opinion: Easy to use, fast, always allow you to undo to the initially uploaded version of the photo.

It’s fast, has an intuitive interface and the crop, rotate, size bottons remember flickr style.

• Special effects
• Blur/Grayscale/Sepia
• Crop Tool
• Resize and Rotate Tools

Limitations:

• You can save just in the following formats: JPEG, GIF, PNG e BMP

Rating:

Geek Sisters Opinion: Simple and efficient, but just with too few options.

Fauxto is an elegant online image editor, the most advanced and most similar to Photoshop.

It’s the only one working with levels, such as blur and shadow for each level.

Major features:

• You can open jpeg, png, gif, bmp, and tiff images via ‘Open Web Image’ in the ‘File’ menu.
• You can put folders inside of folders.
• You can zoom.
• You can free-transform beautiful, anti-aliased text within a layer, and then apply a multi-colored radial gradient with a variable focal point in another.

Fauxto is Flash based, fast, one of the most complete web 2.0 photo editor, but of course, with some limitations:

• You can’t open .PSD files
• Has some bugs (I received a error message when tried to save an image)

Rating:

Geek Sisters Opinion: Easy to use, fast, we can say it’s a Photoshop online.

Picnik is a flash and Ajax based tool, with a beautiful interface, efficient and with great accessibility.

You can send a picture from your computer, you can edit a Flickr picture or even use one of those picnik sample pictures, just to test the tool.

• One-click photo fixing or in-depth tweaking
• Auto-fix, Rotate, Crop, Resize, Exposure, Colours, Sharpen, Red-Eye in real-time
• Tons of special effects, from arts to fun
• Borders and Rounded Edges
• Works directly with many photo sharing sites
• No download required, nothing to install
• Free version, premium version (soon)

Rating:

Geek Sisters Opinion: Picnik is getting stronger and stronger and right now is the best online photo editing tool.

Preloadr is a free service providing image editing functions. It is designed to pre-process photos uploaded to Flickr.

It uses the public API of Flickr and connects you to your Flickr account, where you can enhance your photos before sharing them with your friends.

You don’t need an account since you will use your valid Flickr account. Has several functions such as:

• cropping, sharpening, colour correction and other usual tools.
• scale; add text, move and histogram.
• layer feature.
• adjusting luminosity with green, red and blue colour individually.
• editing the colour graduation of the image itself.

Preloadr works with the following browsers (minimum requirement):

• Mozilla Firefox (1.0)
• Apple Safari (1.2)
• Opera (8)
• Internet Explorer (5.5)

Rating:

Geek Sisters Opinion: Preloadr does offer great advanced tools and it’s really handy, due to the integration with Flickr.

Picture2Life allows you to ‘bring your pictures to life’ with its simple and easy-to-use online image editor that works great with your pictures that you already have online.

Guess what? That includes all photo sharing, photo hosting or photo blogging websites such as Flickr, ImageShack and 23.

You can do effects such as:

• Rotate
• Sepia
• Shadow
• Watermark
• Brightness
• Color
• Contrast
• Flip
• Gamma
• Grayscale
• Hue
• Invert
• Collage

Rating:

Geek Sisters Opinion: It’s a good editor, with several special effects and allows you storage your images in its own server space, but has an odd and complex interface.

Pixenate is online photo editing software that you can use stand-alone or integrate into an existing photo-sharing or photo-printing website.
If you don’t want to install it in your website, got to its page and just use it.
Things you can do:

• Rotate
• Sepia
• Shadow
• Red Eye
• Resize
• Colour
• Enhance
• Zoom
• Whiten

And also the fun effects: Add text, add border, transform in a oil paint, add filter, or even add snow.

Rating:

Geek Sisters Opinion: Easy to use, simple, with a traditional interface, good for those moments you just need a quick picture editing tool. Don’t expect advanced tools control.

Snipshot is a tool for basic picture editing, has great integration with several browsers and other websites, but just a few of editing options: crop, enhance, brigthness, contrast and rotate. It’s also very fast and you can edit really big pictures.

Snipshot features:

• No download necessary—100% browser based, no plug-ins required
• Free API lets you use Snipshot for your own website
• One-click import from any webpage
• Save to a free permanent URL at WebShots or to your Flickr account
• Save as GIF, JPG, PDF, PNG or TIF
• One-click enhance improves most images
• Basic editing tools like crop, rotate, resize
• Basic image adjustments like contrast, brightness, saturation, sharpness and hue
• Unlimited undo and redo (Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y, or ⌘Z and ⌘Y on your Mac)
• Nondestructive editing— always working from the original
• Edit big pictures—up to 10 MB, or 25 megapixels (5000×5000 pixels)
• Import PDF (first page only), EPS or SVG

Rating:

Geek Sisters Opinion: Simple and efficient, but just with too few options.

GIFWorks is probably the oldest and most widely used online image editing tool in the market.

Pros

• Comes with a wide array of Photoshop like Filters [effects] like Pixelate, Watercolor, TV Lines, etc.
• Allows creation of animated GIF files
• Image Info dialog gives detailed information about the web graphic.

Cons

• Works only with GIF format images
• Some of the editing options open the image in a pop-up window. You may have to turn off the browser pop-up blocker.
• Cannot fetch images from other internet locations.
• Poor interface.

Rating:

Geek Sisters Opinion: Still a good tool to work with your animated gifs.

Wiredness looks like a software installed in your desktop. If you like a traditional software interface, Wiredness is for you. You will find File menu, Edit menu, etc.

• It doesn’t need Flash installed and seems faster than other using Flash.
• You can upload 5MB files.
• Works with on-line files (you just have to give the url)
• Also Flickr integrated.
• Basic tools like resizing, cut, brightness and contrast.
• Allows cool effects like polaroid borders.
• You can open several tools at the same time.
• You can save it in the following formats: JPG, GIF or PNG, or even send directly to a webhost like ImageShack.

Rating:

Geek Sisters Opinion: Good tool, useful, and the possibility to open several tools at the same time is really handy.

Popularity: 18% [?]

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