"I couldn't capture an image from my webcam. I'm using latest Firefox, Flash & Macbook Pro... tried all sources listed and all I got was a black image."
Go to fauxto, right click the window and click settings, then the webcam tab, then select your webcam in the drop-down list. On a MacBook Pro you need to select "USB Video" to use the built in iSight.
Really nice. It does suffer from a lack of keyboard shortcuts. Just for simple things like holding down shift while drawing an oval to get an exact circle.
I can't see it replacing any of my current tools yet, but it's well on the way.
impressive, although i dont think i'd ever really use it. its surprisingly advanced, which is good - but being an advanced user, theres NO reason to NOT just get photoshop.
Indeed. It's very impressive, and makes a great demo, but I can't think of a single type of user who wouldn't be better served by some desktop application.
For power users, the lack of different color modes (CMYK, Lab, 16 bit/channel) or any kind of color management, curves (or even levels!), the kind of rich interaction (shortcuts, modifier-clicks, etc.) that desktop apps allow, serious retouching tools, line drawing tools, precise text control, etc. etc. makes this almost completely useless. Just the lack of the curves tool is frankly enough to doom any image editor (aimed at power users) which doesn't replace it with something of similar power.
For non-power-users, this is still missing important features, but it also has the same complex photoshop-like interface that has been confusing newbies for years. The learning curve of Splashup is steeper than it is for products aimed at casual users; they are better served by those tools.
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Clearly a lot of work went into splashup, and the technology will surely be useful for something--if nothing else it can be sold to some big company for piles of cash. But in its current incarnation it's basically useless.
Well, if the target market is professional designers (where by professional == getting paid), Photoshop pays for itself in a day or two. If the target is complete newbies, then their competition is not Photoshop, but a whole series of cheap/free/comes-with-the-machine tools, like Picasa, iPhoto, Photoshop Elements, etc.
I would like if my mouse turned into a different icon when I am using a tool.
Example: I was cropping an image, but my mouse still looked like the standard mouse pointer. Later I clicked on the image and forgot I had the crop tool still in use. Not sure how photoshop does this, but I don't remember having this problem with PS.
i found a form to submit this but when I went again to "contact us" i didn't find the feedback form
bug: when creating text if the text box is empty and click somewhere in the image new text layers are created with the previous textbox remaining active.
also simple users wont be familiar with the layers concept so if they try to create some text and right afterwards try to paint with the brush because the background layer is not selected it will seem to them it doesn't work because they wont be able to paint.
other than that its obvious it's great work
* oh and i was impressed when I even found layer effects
I think the fact that I have to pay 650 bucks for a new version of photoshop makes this an attractive option for potentially lots of people. Great job guys !
feature request: tour to include some case-scenarios? my home pc has literally GBs of photos - can you provide some scenarios that would tempt my wife to invest some time in using your web app? examples include: backup your photos with our secure server, using filters to make your beach photos awesome, batch renaming functions (prefix suffix etc) etc. not hassling you at all, i just can't see the hook to a non-PS user
very impressive - i've been awaiting the release of this app and it surpasses my expectations so far - this is huge - congrats and thanks for building this!
Small bugs:
File -> Exit still says Fauxto
I couldn't capture an image from my webcam. I'm using latest Firefox, Flash & Macbook Pro... tried all sources listed and all I got was a black image.
Feature request:
Ellipse tool... make it like PS so that I can constrain it to a circle.
All in all, the best image editor I've seen so far. Congrats.