There are a lot of very talented designers here at mStoner, and how shall I put this… I’m not one of them.
I don’t have photoshop installed. I work daily on a PC instead of a Macintosh (even though I can hear my colleagues snickering behind my back when I pull the brick that is my Dell laptop out of my bag.) Still, occasionally I have a need to work with images for the web or for presentations.
Enter one of my new favorite web tools, FotoFlexer.
FotoFlexer allows me to upload a photo, crop, resize, add some text or graphics, and save back to my hard drive. Free, quick and no software to install. Its one of the best examples of the new wave of net-based software that is eliminating the need for installed applications.
Does FotoFlexer eliminate the need for Photoshop? Absolutely not – it’s missing a ton of features. A professional designer could never get their work done.
But for the casual user, you can use it from wherever as long as you have a net connection, and it integrates with the likes of Facebook, Flickr and Picasa so you can automatically manipulate images you have stored there. A great site to have in your bookmarks.