Online Photo Editing Tools

[Andy]

http://www.smugmug.com/photos/128369195-L.jpgThere are many out there, and most are in the process of hooking directly into SmugMug.

Phixr (http://www.phixr.com/) is one that already works, and is pretty darn good. It's free, you sign up, log in to Phixr, and just choose gallery and image from SmugMug. It imports and you start tinkering. At the end, you just save it back to SmugMug with a click. Easy in, easy out.

Here you can see that I used the redeye tool on one of the eyes. It works fine, and there are some other neat options. Not a substitute for Photoshop by any means, but for those without photoshop, or other image editors, well, it fills a need!

[Stustaff]

Hmm thats Very clever! and could be useful I guess.

[Andy]

Bump.

[Allen]

Works great for web pictures, but it gives you back a much lower resolution.

One I did changed from 2.69meg to 119.58k with no EXIF.

It uploads a new version so the original is still there and untouched.

[Over Achiever]

Silly question about online photo editing, but I noticed that Phixr doesn't have a straightening tool either. Is it difficult to integrate photo straightening with a basic crop tool? Just curious.

[ThomasW]

This is Thomas from phixr.com. Thank you for your visits!

1) phixr has limited resources - image thousands of people editing photos at the same time. Therefore, phixr only allows images up to 1440x1080 currently. Larger photos will be scaled down during upload (and you will be notified about that). However, the reduction mentioned above seems unrealistic. Are you positive that you didn't save the image you saw, instead of clicking on the "JPG" button in the bottom?

2) What does "straightening" mean?

/Thomas

[mkress65]

This is Thomas from phixr.com. Thank you for your visits!
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2) What does "straightening" mean?

/Thomas


Allowing the person editing the photograph to "straighten" the image -- imagine you are at a beach, you take a picture, your camera is not level w/ the horizon. A straighten tool would allow you to rotate your image so that the horizon (or some known level object) to appear to be "straight" or level w/ the edges of the image (or paper when its printed.)

[Andy]

This is Thomas from phixr.com. Thank you for your visits!

1) phixr has limited resources - imaging thousands of people editing photos at the same time. Therefore, phixr only allows images up to 1440x1080 currently. Larger photos will be scaled down during upload (and you will be notified about that). However, the reduction mentioned above seems unrealistic. Are you positive that you didn't save the image you saw, instead of clicking on the "JPG" button in the bottom?

2) What does "straightening" mean?

/Thomas
:wave Hiya Thomas, and welcome :D

[ivar]

Phixr supports OpenID, and SmugMug happens to provide OpenID :D

You can log in, using your SmugMug account!

http://myskitch.com/ivar/phixr_-_online_photo_editor-20070804-223118.jpg