Digital Home Thoughts: Overview of Online Photo Editing Software

"The launch of Picnik a couple of days ago brought us yet another online photo editing tool. Like Fauxto, Picnik uses Flash, whereas most of the earlier editing tools all use Ajax for in-browser editing. Since all computers come with basic software that rotates, resizes and crops photos, there needs to be a compelling reason to use an online service. Uploading a photo to such a service, editing it and then downloading it back to your hard drive too high of a cost. To compensate for this, most services allow you to transfer the edited photos directly to Flickr, Webshots or other online photo services, saving users the trouble of making round trips uploading and downloading. Most of these online services also offer editing tools that go beyond simple rotation, resizing and cropping and start to creep into Photoshop territory."

A very nice list of all the top pieces of software that allows you to edit your photos online. I have tried about half of them already, so I can't really say which one I like best yet, but it is certainly good to know that there are more and more pieces of sofware to perform online photo editing. I wonder if the guys from Paint .NET are working on porting their system into an online tool of some sort. By the way, I wonder which online photo sharing company is going to buy which one of these photo editing pieces of software first.