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.

Source: WikipediaAdobe has launched a cutdown (essentially basic) version of Photoshop online. Enjoy the various quick features you may use now without the hassle of installing Photoshop; or acquiring it (illegally which is never wise) or for many dollars.

Adobe today launched a basic version of Adobe Photoshop available for free online. Photoshop Express will be completely Web-based so consumers can use it with any type of computer, operating system and browser. According to Yahoo! News, Adobe says providing Photoshop Express for free is part marketing and part a strategy to create up-sell opportunities. It hopes some customers will move from it to boxed software like its $99 Photoshop Elements or to a subscription-based version of Express that’s in the works.”

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