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Concluding: As we’ve seen in the test, options are one thing, and real world usage is another. After applying some basic commands to the image, I’ve gotten very interesting results. Picnik’s auto-fix worked best, but its auto-colors did more harm than good, giving the image an unnatural blueish hue. The enhance feature of PXN8 definitely did too much (look at the loss of detail in the trees), while Snipshot’s was quite a bit better but still not perfect. Fauxto’s sharpen wasn’t useful at all (and interestingly enough, although Fauxto has the most options, when it comes to sharpening you only get one option: sharpen, without any additional settings). Preloadr’s auto-contrast was solid, producing similar results to Snipshot. Finally, I couldn’t find an auto-fix option in Picture2Life, so I tried with sharpen, but none of the settings produced remotely acceptable results.
As usual, there is no clear winner here, as each application offers something unique. For real everyday usage I would recommend Picnik and PXN8; you should definitely look at Fauxto if you want complexity and don’t mind a couple of bugs, while Snipshot is great if you want to include it on your own web site. Preloadr is good, but only for Flickr users, while Picture2Life needs a GUI overhaul and a change to some of its image processing algorithms, but it also offers several interesting and unique options. So, the moment when I’ll tell everyone in the office to ditch whatever software they’re using and switch to one of these apps is not yet here, but I feel it’s just around the corner.
If you're looking for something beyond an online Adobe Photoshop, check out new tools like FrameFree who's pixel matching technology animates still images in an easy to use environment.
1 comment:
jonas, thanks for the comment. i love that you're reviewing web based tools and web 2.0. thanks for the comment...keep it up.
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