Splashup - the online Gimpy Photoshop tool
More and more tools are ported to the web. It all got started with e-mail (think hotmail), being thrown into a web interface. After that, instant messengers were ported (think meebo“) and not much later we’ve seen entire webbased Office Suites (think: zoho).
Now we see rapid development in the graphics area. An eye-pleasing example is Splashup. This tool/website looks very much like GIMP/Photoshop and it works fairly well (even running it in Firefox on a Linux system). With splashup, you can open files from your own PC (upload), Flickr, Facebook, Picasa or any webserver. Then you can edit the pictures from within your browser and upload them back, or download them to your machine.
It’s awesome to see a tool that allows you to work with layers and let you open multiple files at once. The tool, of course, can be improved (make a selection, use the Paint Bucket on that selection and see that the entire layer is colored…), but it’s fairly impressing already.
Definitely worth keeping an eye on!
Comment from sami
Time: November 3, 2007, 10:59 pm
I’ve been using this since it was Fauxto, and the upgrade is amazing. They keep upgrading so it’s always being improved which is really great. I experimented a bit and found that if I draw a selection (as in using the rectangle or other drawing tool) in a different color than the surrounding area first, and keep the selection selected, then the paintbucket can be used to fill just the selected area and change it til you get what you want. Being able to use layers is a great help with working on images!