It's kind of primitive next to Photoshop or The Gimp, but it's pretty impressive for a web app. I won't be using this myself, but it's interesting enough to want to pass it along.

http://snipshot.com/

I've got nothing to do with the site; a friend of mine emailed me the URL saying "You have to check this out." What's interesting is that I would have thought this type of software would be too resource intensive to use across the web. It seems like at least some of the work is done client side, but not all of it.

That's pretty cool. Not exactly a lot you can do at the moment, but I think the basic idea is just to make some quick crops to images for now. Image editing programs are resource intensive, but I guess if you limit what they can do a little it's fine. But they might only be able to go so far at the moment.

I guess with all the online word processors and spreadsheets we forgot about image editing programs.

That is pretty cool. Thanks for sharing. I've seen something similar to this a year or two ago, though I can't remember what it is.

Wow! I think this is really cool.
Thanks for sharing.
I think this would come in very handy if you just needed to resize or crop something really quickly.

Yeah, really basic edits: cropping, resizing, rotating, and a rough hue/saturation slider. Not really enough to put Photoshop away, but on the other hand, I'm really impressed that this is possible. And I guess it makes sense, like VanGogh said, Google is killing Office, so an online Paint has to be in the works... I would have thought it'd be another ten years, though.

I think it's meant more for the average person who has some pictures, but no real experience editing them. They don't need much more than a way to crop the images or have someone auto correct the colors or lighting.

It would be interesting to see how far someone could take an online image editor. I doubt it's going to compete with Photoshop any time soon, but it really wouldn't have to either.

Good point. Photoshop users have already spent their software budget.

I think most PS users have a few gigs of ram and a drive exclusively for the swap file, sometimes even another drive just for Photoshop's scratch disc. Occasionally others, too, to distribute I/O and have as much disc access done in parallel ... the same theory behind striped raid. That won't be the case for casual users, but maybe if you only looked at people who actually bought a license?

Anyway, image editing can take a lot of resources, of all types, and after buying a computer that can keep up, people won't want to switch over to a thin client that won't leverage their investment in hardware.

On the other hand, if a lot of the work is done locally, and only the results are sent back and forth over the wire - which I think is the case here, using javascript - an application can be a lot more responsive, and do most of its processing locally, instead of on a shared server fielding plenty of other requests.

Still, even if all the math is happening on your computer, images can be huge. Can you imagine working on a 20 million pixel image this way? We're going to need a lot more bandwidth someday...

This is a nice one too.
http://www.online-image-editor.com/index.cfm

Thanks for sharing

though its looks rudimentary compared to desktop rivals, its a good start for this web-based app. Hopefully its programmers have the will and patience to continue working on it so that it becomes really competitive in the coming years.