Actually useful online photo editor..

[Fumesucker]

I've moved to Ubuntu recently from Windows and have been frustrated getting a photo editor I can feel comfortable with so I started looking at free online editing for the little bit of editing I'm doing at the moment, after some searching through a lot of overly cutesy online editors I think I've found something useful for occasional semi-serious photo editing, particularly on a computer that's not your usual one. By no means have I tried every function but every one I have worked the way I expected it to with minimal head scratching over obscure icons and cryptic menus.

I'm impressed with this one, it's a lot like a simple Photoshop and remarkably fast for an online editor, I found it intuitive which I don't with a lot of editors.

http://pixlr.com/editor/

To prove it here's a picture of a red tailed hawk I got this morning with my Canon S90 and edited online.

[Sherman A1]

1. Thanks for Posting

Appreciated!

[Callalily]

2. Thank you!

I just may have to try that one out!

[Mira]

3. I ask with trepidation and hope nobody laughs at me so I can hear it

but is it better than Picasa?

[Fumesucker]

5. It seems to be possible to run Picasa in Ubuntu under WINE..

But the instructions for doing so might as well be in High Martian for all the good they do me, I'm a very long way from grokking Linux well enough to do it My face is already all keyboardy just from trying to format a USB drive in Linux, it's got a steep learning curve IMO and a lot of the available help assumes more knowledge than I have.

Pixlr doesn't require any installation at all, it runs completely from the web, all I have to do is click on my bookmark and I can start editing photos and I can use it on any machine that is connected to the internet.

I've used Picasa a bit and it's pretty good but I'm really most comfortable in Paintshop Pro 7, even Photoshop slows me down from what I can accomplish in PSP7.. I feel like if Pixlr didn't have the online delay I could be as quick in it as in PSP7 with some practice.

If you're using Picasa and are happy with what it does for you then there's no reason for you to change, unfortunately I couldn't use my old editor in Ubuntu.

This is along the lines of the cloud computing thing, you'll more and more be doing things in your browser window that you used to do with a program installed in your machine.

[Celebration]

4. what a cool looking hawk!!

Neat. I might try it too.

[Scuba]

6. He gets around...

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