Entropy

A.viary.com has an awesome article comparing its product to FotoFlexer, Splashup, Picnik and Adobe Photoshop Express.

The biggest difference between Phoenix and the other online editors I tried was that Phoenix was created with the serious artist in mind whereas the others seemed to be geared more towards the casual user, the user who needs a quick image crop/photo processing for web.

And in that regard, applications such as Fotoflexer and Picnik, do excel.

Of course, Phoenix still allows for minor image enhancement features and cropping as in the other programs, but the depth of the features in Phoenix and potential to create in-depth composite art puts it in a separate class more akin to desktop software. Aviary’s unparalleled collaboration system, rights management and built-in storage gives the user added incentive to use the program over its desktop predecessors.

I also came across an article stating that 60% of Photoshop users are pirates. That is an insanely high amount of people pirating Adobe’s software. I would think that the majority of users pirating it are using it for basic tasks and hopefully with the release of the online version these figures will come down.