Whenever I need to make a tweak to an image without Photoshop I always grit my teeth and bear my way through The Gimp* or an evaluation version of Paintshop Pro. But not anymore – I just discovered Pixlr and I’m really impressed!
Pixlr is free, has a UI suspiciously similar to Photoshop (I’m waiting for the lawsuit), runs in your browser using flash, and (at least on my machine) is zippy and full of features. Layers, adjustment layers, filters, masking, it even opens Photoshop PSD files and brushes from your machine. Amazing!
*I don’t want to throw The Gimp under the bus because it’s gotten me out of a pickle a bunch of times. It’s great in a pinch and it’s got a lot of features, but the UI is really difficult to adapt to when you’re used to flying your mouse around in Adobe software.
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1 Kert Gartner // Jul 13, 2010 at 1:00 pm
that is …. insane! Nice find!
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