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Online Picture Editor

Submitted by: JelmerBV
Created: Oct 2, 2006, 8:15 am

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The Elevator Pitch

For people who want to edit their pictures online the Online Picture Editor is a website that let you do this. Unlike other picture editor websites our product gives you paint-tools and not only photo-tools.

The Idea

A site on which you can edit and save your pictures. With 'edit' I mean also functions as you can see in the program Paint. Because there are much sites on which you can edit pictures with 'Photo-tools', but I couldn't find a site on which you can, for example, draw lines on your picture or write text on it.

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I have read about an on-line text editor so I came at this idea.

Comments Posted

rational_ideas Posted: October 3, 2006, 1:32 pm

This wouldn't be much of a problem to build from a technical standpoint (typical photo editing functions can easily be squeezed into a

AdamD Posted: October 3, 2006, 9:24 pm

pixoh.com, etc.

JelmerBV Posted: October 4, 2006, 7:16 am

But I don't mean only "Photo Editing Tools" but also really drawing lines on your picture as you can do in Paint.

Ghostshaw Posted: October 5, 2006, 3:35 am

I really disagree with you AdamD. Pixoh only allows for photo enhancement. That something completely different from editting.

saigon Posted: May 6, 2007, 6:59 am

Do you mean as in "PAINT" with free hand and some "medium to used as tools? say in pastel or pencil..that would be cooler... while adobe/corel is of better enhance feature...yes i can undestand your affection with PAINT program...i dont google much on someone's IDEA..but i guess even if this is done...let the house give the thumbs up and 2 cents.

the law of of natural diselection means not all can be King. =)

Rizal Posted: May 6, 2007, 7:24 am

Ok so here alot of links..

http://pixer.us/
http://www.imageeditor.net/
http://snipshot.com/
http://www.picnik.com/
http://www.phixr.com/
http://www.creatingo...Online_Image_Editor/

and i can post so many more of this. to think that this hadnt been done??

there has to be a niche if you would like to do something like this.. a very very uniqie feature that would stop the world to make it work.. :)

anyways gd luck.. doesnt mean you cant compete...

JelmerBV Posted: May 6, 2007, 8:25 am

Rizal; like I comment before: "But I don't mean only "Photo Editing Tools" but also really drawing lines on your picture as you can do in Paint."

All those sites wich you say are like PhotoEditor not like Paint...

Robintje Posted: May 12, 2007, 5:09 pm

Sounds good, but do you store the files on the net or on your local harddrive? If they will be stored on the web, you need LARGE fileservers..

thestarwheel Posted: July 25, 2007, 12:48 pm

Adobe is one this:
http://www.techcrunc...shop-online-edition/

JelmerBV Posted: July 26, 2007, 1:22 am

Adobe have stolen my idea! =O

vanhees Posted: July 26, 2007, 2:18 am

The google boys stole my idea, what's new ;-)
Tommy

JoeMerchant Posted: July 26, 2007, 8:23 pm

Here's a thought:

Build your picture editor in a cross platform environment (like trolltech.com 's Qt), and let your web-users download and use it.

You could leverage off of software like GIMP, but focus it for ease of use in your target market. Running native means you could do fancy OpenGL eye-candy (MacOS is full of this lately, and they're not losing market share), and other things to set you apart from the stodgy stuff that has "already done this."

It's not a trivial app, I know a guy ( http://www.lview.com/ ) who has scraped by coding this kind of stuff for years - maybe you could tie in with someone like him with fresh ideas....

idevlabs Posted: July 26, 2007, 9:33 pm

Been done to death.

fossiloflife Posted: July 26, 2007, 11:45 pm

well if u still will do it! u gotta compete with the big daddy ADOBE!

kairaspo Posted: July 29, 2007, 7:43 pm

this has been done

deez Posted: July 29, 2007, 10:58 pm

already implimented dude!

d03boy Posted: July 30, 2007, 12:17 pm

What is the advantage of editing a photo on the web? I'd much rather use a faster version that is stored locally on my computer.

joyce Posted: August 1, 2007, 1:13 am

its existing already

PetersonLimitedCo Posted: September 3, 2007, 5:57 am

As far as the idea being done before, I can't argue with that; but without searching online how many people actually know, "Oh, I can go to ___.com instead of paying $500 for Photoshop!" Just about no body. I think the trick to get this successful is to license the idea to a popular search engine so it's a 'main' link on the search engine home page. Just think, Google Maps would never be as popular as it is if it wasn't a main link on their website. Now if they can be convinced to license a product and call it Google Paint, you'd be in business.

txjane Posted: September 17, 2008, 1:06 am

SPAM COMMENT PURGED. -g

JelmerBV Posted: September 17, 2008, 9:14 am

Houston, we've got spam...

GordonMcDowell Posted: September 17, 2008, 4:07 pm

Why'd it just get you any ideas? (Purged it.)

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