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May 7th, 2007

Nifty Web Photo Tools

Every once in a while I run across some very useful web utilities that can help bands or artists with their productivity. One cool thing I found recently is Picnik. It’s an online, flash-based web app that edits images in a way similar to Photoshop. If you’re on the go, can’t afford the cost of an image editing program, this provides most of the services bands and bloggers alike need in a pinch.

They also offer a cool bookmarklet that enables you to bring in authorized, non copyrighted images (ahem) into the program directly from a web site.

Another interesting service in the image area is Imgred. Ever find an image on another site that you want to post, but don’t want to leech the bandwidth of the place you’re embedding the link from? Just simply place “http://www.imgred/” before the URL of the photo link like I did for my previous post, and presto! The image is now hosted elsewhere.

Update: As of this writing it seems Imgred has decided to only embed thumbnails as to conserve bandwidth themselves, as their site was intended to be a demo, not a self sufficient service. The code is open source, available on the site and I may be pestering Sean to put it up on our server, so we can use it.

Written by Bill Wilson