Came across this site which offers online editing. A bit primitive for more advanced photography but may show future developments particularly as Adobe is moving this way.
The disqueiting thing about it is that any photo can be taken from a web page ad manipulated. While quite possible now, this service makes it much easier.
An earlier thread got me thinking and asking questions of one of the gurus who contributes to Adobe's products about why he thinks Adobe, for one, is going this route. His answers make complete sense- it's about having computer terminals everywhere we go so we can get online in a second, have all the tools we want to work with to work on an image without having to get our laptops set up everytime...or even carrying one in the first place.
It's like telephones and cell phones, there aren't too many places where you can't find a phone to do your business. I think it's going to be like that with computers...which I welcome. It would be great to download a few images, work them up quickly and send them to an editor or client fast without having to worry about dragging around my laptop, setting it up, making sure it has got enough charge, finding an Internet cafe, etc. And of course, the uses for terminals goes way beyond photography... I can't wait to look up a recipe at the grocery store's terminal to see what the ingredients are for a dish so I don't have to go back home or to my office to my own personal computer to access that info.
One last note about people stealing images and manipulating them online more easily-I can only imagine that the companies creating this kind of software are reviewing digital rights management (DRM) to make sure we can tell if an image has or has not been manipulated. For instance, check out the latest D200 firmware update that adds an image authentication item to the setup menu so you can add DRM info to your images.
It's going to be very interesting over the next few years to see where this all leads!
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1 repliesThe disqueiting thing about it is that any photo can be taken from a web page ad manipulated. While quite possible now, this service makes it much easier.
http://snipshot.com/
Dave
An earlier thread got me thinking and asking questions of one of the gurus who contributes to Adobe's products about why he thinks Adobe, for one, is going this route. His answers make complete sense- it's about having computer terminals everywhere we go so we can get online in a second, have all the tools we want to work with to work on an image without having to get our laptops set up everytime...or even carrying one in the first place.
It's like telephones and cell phones, there aren't too many places where you can't find a phone to do your business. I think it's going to be like that with computers...which I welcome. It would be great to download a few images, work them up quickly and send them to an editor or client fast without having to worry about dragging around my laptop, setting it up, making sure it has got enough charge, finding an Internet cafe, etc. And of course, the uses for terminals goes way beyond photography... I can't wait to look up a recipe at the grocery store's terminal to see what the ingredients are for a dish so I don't have to go back home or to my office to my own personal computer to access that info.
One last note about people stealing images and manipulating them online more easily-I can only imagine that the companies creating this kind of software are reviewing digital rights management (DRM) to make sure we can tell if an image has or has not been manipulated. For instance, check out the latest D200 firmware update that adds an image authentication item to the setup menu so you can add DRM info to your images.
It's going to be very interesting over the next few years to see where this all leads!