Online photo editing

Most bloggers, and lots of others, spend a lot of time manipulating
images for posts, sharing, etc. Personally, I use Photoshop, which is
way more horsepower than I need since I generally just grab, mashup and
resize images. But it still works far better, and far faster, than any
of the online image editing tools we’ve reviewed.

Today I tested a new desktop application, called Skitch,
that works far better than Photoshop for basic grabbing and editing of
images. And it also has an associated online account for storage and
sharing with others. For now, it only works with Mac (and is still in
private beta), but a Windows version is in development. All of the
images included in this post were grabbed and edited using Skitch, and
it saved me a ton of time v. Photoshop.





The
desktop application is a small, resizable window. Drag an image into it
from the desktop, another application (like iPhoto) or from a web page
and it presents it for editing. Alternatively, Skitch include an
excellent screen grabbing tool that also automatically pulls it into
the window for editing, or it will access the built in camera and snap
an image. Most file formats are accepted (jpg, gif, tiff, png, etc.).

The editing tools include adding lines, free drawing, arrows, and
text. Images can also be cropped and resized by dragging and dropping.
Once complete, the image can be named and saved as a jpg, png, pdf, svg
or proprietary format (no gif or tiff for now), uploaded to your Skitch
page or dragged to the desktop or other application. Skitch also keeps
a history of all files edited.

Images that are uploaded to your personal Skitch page (called
“MySkitch”) can be commented by other users, and there are a number of
options to embedded that image in other websites. See the screen shot
above and to the right for an example. MySkitch also allows hotlinking
of images, subject only to restrictions on “excess use.”

Source : techcrunch

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