Back in the day I wrote a review of online photo editors, and my biggest concern with all of them was the lack of some web-oriented options, most notably Photoshop’s brilliant ability to have an image resized and scaled to a certain (exact) size while cropping. It’s an extremely valuable option if you’re working for the web, where you usually need a photo in a certain size (on this site, I usually want photos that are 490 pixel wide).
A friend just told me that one of the best photo editors out there, Picnik, has added a lot of new features. I went to take a look, and lo and behold, Picnik now has the aforementioned option! Now, it definitely gets my recommendation as an online photo editor; if you haven’t, try it out.
Neat. Makes me wonder if all those recent upgrades to web image editing tools (Picnik, Photoshop Express, to name a few) have something to do with newcomer a.viary. I have high hopes for them given the whole getup is a collective of top-notch international designers, developers and other creatives, which means it was born out of passion, not out of a business plan. I think it’s rather foreseeable that aviary will soon give the Adobe suite a run for its money, wait and see I guess.