Comments on: SumoPaint -- Photoshop in your browser

SumoPaint -- Photoshop in your browser

spiderskull — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:56:28 -0800

SumoPaint is an impressive little flash applet that mimics Photoshop in your browser, complete with layers and filters. See it in action.

By: theperfectcrime

theperfectcrime — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:16:25 -0800

Very nice. Can't wait to play around with this, and good to see we are back in action!

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:22:47 -0800

[this is good]

By: woodblock100

woodblock100 — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:36:53 -0800

[this is good] Good? This is incredible!

By: jfrancis

jfrancis — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:14:00 -0800

Not bad, but doesn't support enough image formats, and without pressure sensitive brushes I can't paint with it.

By: spiderskull

spiderskull — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:20:23 -0800

It supports PNG, which you can then use some free tools (IrfanView on Windows, or this website) to convert into something else. I'm at least glad they let you export in a non-proprietary format.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:45:15 -0800

Is there a way to control text object attributes, such as font, color and size, after text is put down?

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:15:11 -0800

By: ArkhanJG

ArkhanJG — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:22:07 -0800

That's seriously impressive. Definitely one on my recommended list for next time someone wants a free copy of photoshop.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:28:11 -0800

Neat, but refused to open the a JPG, citing an error. It opened the second one just fine, but took forever to manually adjust Brightness and Contrast. I'll stick with Photoshop, thanks!

By: fourcheesemac

fourcheesemac — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:38:46 -0800

It loads JPGs from URLs, but has trouble uploading them from your local machine, I'm finding. Super cool for free. Not bad.

By: rokusan

rokusan — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:34:29 -0800

Not bad, but doesn't support enough image formats, and without pressure sensitive brushes.... Dude, it's a freaking web app! I have been using this for a couple months. It's definitely best of web as tech demo alone. Expecting web apps to outperform desktop apps in 2009 is asking a lot, and Photoshop is one of the holy grails. Much harder than your average word processor, spreadsheet, slideshow, database...

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:16:43 -0800

Wow, impressive stuff, thanks!

By: headspace

headspace — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:14:42 -0800

That is freaking amazing. And now I have to go see if my Photoshop has that symmetry tool. Thank you for sharing!!

By: jfrancis

jfrancis — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:54:40 -0800

There seeme to be quite a few web-based image editors. Here are six, but there may even be more.

By: uni verse

uni verse — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:19:11 -0800

Wow - I can't imagine the level of effort involved here - mimic-ing a program that is so large and cpu intensive they use it to benchmark new computers! Kudos. And all the filtering effects, I programmed a few in college, they are not easy to deduce (at that time), I must assume alot of the matrix secrets for filters have gotten online...?

By: maudlin

maudlin — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:49:47 -0800

This is unbelievable. I have to show this to my students at the next Photoshop class I teach.

By: cereselle

cereselle — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:11:33 -0800

My work productivity is about to take a huge dive. Thank you.

By: talldean

talldean — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:49:54 -0800

Wondering how it compares to Pixlr?