Sumopaint: a solid looking online photo editor
Big props to JKK for shooting me the link to Sumopaint this morning. This free beta service is an online photo-editing application which could fit in nicely to my "web-only" challenge that’s still going strong. It doesn’t hurt that I nabbed that Canon XSi last night too… right before deciding to run a 5K race on a whim. Clearly, I haven’t lost all of my "race smarts" as I was drafting behind the big boys last night. Then again, with my 120-pounds of "bulk", pretty much anyone in the race could draft for me. (Thanks to the 12-year old in mile 2!)
I’ve only spent a few minutes with Sumopaint, but I’m impressed already. That could be due to not looking into other online image processing apps, so excuse me in advance if there are better tools out there… and please share them in the comments! I see plenty off editing options and effects, plus support for multiple layers here. Final images can be saved locally or online if you have a Snap account. Sumopaint might not have all the bells and whistles of some apps I just started looking at (Aperture and Lightroom to name a few), but it just might do ya for basic photo editing, especially if your device doesn’t offer a ton of horsepower under the hood. Thanks JKK!
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Kevin, I’ve been using picnik.com for some online editing. It doesn’t do layers, but it has some good tools for editing and enhancing photos. In fact its my tool of choice for fixing “green-eye” on pictures of my dogs. I’ve tried doing this with Photoshop Elements and it always ends up being a thrash. Picnik seems to recognize the difference between “gree-eye” from “red-eye”, lets you put a crosshairs over the eye and click – its fixed. Other tools include crop, resize, contrast, brightness, color saturation and hue.
But you have to UPLOAD a ginormous JPEG tyhen download it again when fixed. Sheesh.
And after one or two uses, I’ve gotten out of using Snipshot and have been using Photo Toolkit.
The Cloud will rule only when governments outlaw local mobile storage.
What’s your typical 5K time?
Define “typical”. ;) I haven’t raced in nearly 5 years and I didn’t train for this at all. Last night was 23:42. 10 years ago when I was training? 7 minutes faster. I may pick up the training again and see if I can bust under 20 minutes by year end.
I don’t know how well this will fit into your cloud computing experiment, but Adobe also has an online version of Photoshop. I looked at it briefly, but don’t remember all of the features it has. You might want to check it out anyway:
https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html
Andy Ihnatko gave it a pretty good review on MacBreak Weekly a while back. :)
I haven’t looked at a single one of the online photo tools, since I already have quite a few locally, but I am interested. Do any of them let you work with camera raw files, or support ICC profiles for color management? I can’t imagine a non-color managed workflow, or using anything but raw files.
L.M.Lloyd: I can only speak for Sumopaint at the moment. No such luck: support for GIF, PNG and JPG at the moment. I’ve just started to use RAW (RAW + JPEG, really) on my DSLR, so I’ll be looking for RAW image support. I suspect that it will be a long time before we see online image editing support for RAW, simply because of the file size. My JPG might be under a MB, but the corresponding RAW file is at least 15 MB or more.
Jezlyn, thanks for the link. I just took a quick look but didn’t play with it yet. Going back to the last question about RAW image support, here’s the deal on Adobe Photoshop Express.
Q: What photo file formats can I upload to or download from Photoshop Express?
A: Photoshop Express works with JPEG photos only—the most common format used in cameras. Other formats such as raw, TIFF and PSD produce files that are too large to comfortably upload, and GIF images are inherently low quality when used for photos.
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Maybe you would like to know that SUMO Paint is recently updated to version beta 0.31. Lots of bug fixes, new features and many improvements for the app and for the site.