Comments on: How does the new, free online Photoshop match up with its free competition? http://www.ojr.org/080402niles/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=080402niles Focusing on the future of digital journalism Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:43:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Robert Niles http://www.ojr.org/080402niles/#comment-1116 Robert Niles Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:46:26 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1461#comment-1116 Didn’t know about it before you mentioned it. Will take a look, though.

]]> By: 98.210.133.26 http://www.ojr.org/080402niles/#comment-1115 98.210.133.26 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:57:14 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1461#comment-1115 FotoFlexer is the main competitor for Picnik. Curious you chose to review SplashUp and not FotoFlexer…

]]> By: Robert Niles http://www.ojr.org/080402niles/#comment-1114 Robert Niles Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:16:56 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1461#comment-1114 I’ve used GIMP before, though it has been a while. It wasn’t enough to get me to stop using the version of Photoshop I’d already paid for, and frankly, once I could do the basic editing I could do with Picnik online, I didn’t bother loading GIMP onto my newest laptop. For this piece, I wanted to look only at no-download free online tools, but, yes, GIMP is a free option for folks as well. Thanks for mentioning it.

Here’s the link: http://www.gimp.org/

]]> By: 38.104.67.254 http://www.ojr.org/080402niles/#comment-1113 38.104.67.254 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:33:20 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1461#comment-1113 What about the GIMP, which is essentially an open source version of Photoshop? I think it is one of the best tools out there, although not necessarily the most intuitive.

]]> By: Eric Mankin http://www.ojr.org/080402niles/#comment-1112 Eric Mankin Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:20:54 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1461#comment-1112 Another alternative exists for Mac users running Leopard (OS 10.5.x). The Leopard upgrade includes a drastically improved version of Preview, which had been just a passive viewing utility. Now it’s a simple, but extremely useful and very user-friendly photo editing application.

The “Tools” column in the menu bar now includes a number of new or improved utilities, including “adjust color” and “adjust size.” You can also crop, add text, paste images in and more. For heavy duty image adjustment, no, but for quick and easy fixes, it is the bomb.

Mac users also, of course, have the iPhoto alternative, which has a powerful suite of editing tools. But to use them, the images have to be imported into the iPhoto library, which for hit & run jobs is more trouble than it’s worth.

Read a write-up of the additional features (I haven’t mentioned what Preview can do with PDFs)
here:
http://lifehacker.com/software/mac-os-x-leopard/do-more-with-preview-in-leopard-318083.php

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