Tag: IMAGE-EDITING

This summer the folks at Automattic asked users what features they'd most like to see in the next version of the popular WordPress blogging client. one of the most popular suggestions was image editing, and now it looks lke the developers are beginning to add image editing capabilities to WordPress. The image editor will be baked into WordPress 2.9 and won't require a plugin. The editing ...

The folks behind the open source GIMP image editing application have released the first beta build of GIMP 2.7. The application is available for Windows and Linux, although the download server for Gimp 2.7 beta seems to be a bit fuzzy at the moment. You can get the source code from a mirror, or download the Windows installer from Filehippo. As you can see from the screengrab of the installer, ...

Aviary has added a new tool to its suite of online image editing applications. The company is calling Falcon an "image markup editor" as a way to differentiate it from Phoenix, which is Aviary's online "image editor." Basically, Falcon was designed to power the new Talon Firefox add-on I mentioned last week. It offers basic image editing tools without all the bells and whistles found in Phoenix. ...

I got a chance to catch up with Aviary today at a CEA event in New York, and the first thing I wanted to know is when the company will be ready to launch its web-based audio editor. Aviary makes web-based image editing tools, but the company purchased online audio editor DigiMix in March with the intention of launching its own audio production tools. And with the recent announcement that music ...

If you've been on Twitter for a while, you've probably seen someone with an elaborate background that's designed to work around the text elements of the Twitter layout. Maybe it's got a photo and some contact information on the side, or maybe it just frames the main text field in some creative way. When you want to make your own, though, how do you work around the layout and get the spacing ...

Aviary provides a suite of web-based image editing tools that are pretty impressive when compared to the competition. Like Picnik, Fotoflexer, and others, Aviary lets users upload images and do some basic cropping, resizing, drawing, and color correction. But Aviary also has a web-based screen capture utility, a vector graphics editor, and filter and color management tools. The site offers ...

The developers behind open source the image editing application GIMP have released a major update. GIMP 2.6 includes a number of changes to the user interface and tools and plugins. There are a also a few important changes under the hood. One of the most noticable changes is that the main menu items have been moved from the toolbox window to the image window so that you can access most options ...

IrfanView is a light-weight, but powerful Windows tool for viewing and editing pictures. Version 4.20 is out, and it has a slightly new design, a bunch of bug fixes, and some new features. At its heart, IrfanView is an image viewer with some editing functions thrown in for good measure. Nobody will mistake it for PhotoShop anytime soon. But you'd be surprised just how much you can do with this ...

Twins Visions is a new desktop image manager and editor that's sort of like Picasa if Picasa had image editing capabilities, prettier visualizations, and the ability to occasionally crash your computer. Let's start with that last part first. Twins Visions is beta software, and while it works fine most of the time, we did see our first BSOD in months while testing it out. But if you're okay with ...

Online image editor Picnik has always offered two tiers of service. Free users could access most of the popular image editing tools, while paid subscribers got a few extra bells and whistles and access to early beta features. But up until this week, there were no ads on the site whether you paid for an annual subscription or not. Yesterday, Picnik decided to take all of the editing tools that had ...

Ever want to add a powerful image editing application to your web site, but didn't have the time or expertise to develop your own? No problem. Picnik, which recently announced a partnership with photo sharing powerhouse Flickr, has launched an API which should make it possible for pretty much anyone to integrate Picnik's online image editing application with their site. Using the Picnik API, you ...

While you're waiting for Adobe to release Photoshop Express, you might want to take a look at Splashup. This web-based image editor has all your usual features like resizing, cropping, and some basic effects like sharpening, blurring, and pixelizing. But there are also some pretty advanced color controls and you an even use layered effects. Splashup runs in Flash, so you should be able to use ...

If you've been thinking it's been a while since GIMP 2.2 was released, you're right. It's been three years since the GIMP team has pushed out a major update to the open source Photoshop alternative. This week, GIMP 2.4 was released, with a new icon set, and a whole slew of other features: Redesigned crop, selection, and align tools Scalable bitmap brushes Reorganized menu layout ...

A few months ago we got a chance to talk with Picnik co-founder Mike Harrington (with an H) about the online photo editing application. He mentioned that the company was working out deals to place an "edit this picture with Picnik" button to online image websites. Now Techcrunch's Mike Arrington (without an H) reports that Picnik has landed one heck of a deal: Flickr will be adding Picnik ...

You don't need a tank to drive down the street. And sometimes you don't need Photoshop to edit a photo. IrfanView is one of our favorite light weight image viewing/editing applications. Need to open an image, view a slideshow? Check. Want to crop, resize, pixelize, blur, or brighten a photo? Check. This week IrfanView released version 4.10. The latest update includes support for even more file ...