FotoFlexer, which we first covered in August, continues to be my favorite online photo editing tool out of a batch of…many.
Most of the tools are for creating fun changes to photos (see my previous post on them for an overview), and users can easily pull and push photos to social networks like Facebook, MySpace and Flickr. But it’s also a serious editing tool (it supports layers, for example).
Since their July launch, the company says over 5 million photos have been edited using their tool, from 150,000 registered users on their site and another 275,000 users of their Facebook application.
Today they will announce a few additional editing tools – one serious, one fun. The fun one is a morphing tool that lets you take two photos and morph them into a single image. See this YouTube video for an example.
The second tool takes advantage of some of the recent thinking around seam carving to allow people to intelligently resize photos, and/or remove things in photos without distortion. The video below shows it in action and, as always with seam carving demos, it’s stunning what can be done:
If you’re interested in more information on seam carving, see this working demo, and check out Rsizr (see Go2Web2 coverage).
this is just the tool I was looking for, I’m editing a 6 pack into my out of shape ass and uploading it to fb
I assume that they created this “Smart resize” feature in reaction to the recent hoopla about seam carving.
If this is truly the case, I’m really impressed. How long will it take Adobe to add this feature to one of its products and accessible to all users (not just the tech savviest of the bunch that regularly install updates and new plugins)?
That’s pretty impressive. I’m an avid Photoshop user and I don’t think Adobe has released anything like this yet. Kudos to these guys, a small company beating the big boys to the punch…
this is very cool photo editor.
i am fairly certain that the day when we don’t need photoshop anymore will come.
They also feature some far from recent (try stone age) thinking in marketing – using this “fun” tool to make some models breasts larger. Yay.
Can we all grow the eff up now please?
sigh
A really cool tool indeed.
Really interesting tool.
Will check it out. Big thanks for enlighting this kind of tools.
Good Stuff, Thanks.
Poor Tara
Thats really cool. Bush does kinda seem like a monkey.
Very cool.
As I mentioned in several occasions, I was the VP of Technology at Pictage for 6 years. We built at the time – and continues to be somewhat so – a great image server that allowed you to do a bunch of things. It is indeed a very powerful tool. We never really surfaced even a 1/8th of the functionality. We built an Album Designer that combining the image server and AJAX on the front end, it is just awesome. But I wish we had something like this. It would have made things way easier and better.
Good job guys.
I’m very impressed with the wide-ranging sophistication of the technology behind this site, and the fact that it’s delivered through the browser for free makes it even better. The morph feature, the seam carving, and even the insert-a-face (which looks simple, but in fact is quite sophisticated) are all nice work indeed.
that is impressive. Nice work
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LOL @ their marketing dept: I guess there’s no end to the products that can be sold by bigger breasts! Seriously though, impressive for a web based application.
But have you tried MS cloud paint?
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As Borat would say, WAWAWEEWA! Verrrry Niiiiice.
My favorite program for editing photos, hands down.
I would like to see how to use same approach for MyGrowUp.com user to edit their old photos
the social tools they offer are amazing. the ablility to work off albums off my friends facebook & myspace is incredible. i love it.
This is pretty cool. Thanks for linking to the videos as that really shows what can be done. Since I am apprehensive about even opening Photoshop this seems like its actually something the average person can do.
Regarding Adobe, they have some of the brightest minds in the industry working on this. In fact, they even demoed some awesome functionality at adobe max:
http://www.pete...go-sneak-peeks/
Apart from the seam carving stuff, the other videos are pretty interesting as well..
Great tool, but for morphing, I use http://www.morphthing.com. Love the resizer though.
omg, this is awesome… gonna have so much fun playing with “insert-a-face”… facebook profile pic =D
Most of the tools are for creating fun changes to photos, and users can easily pull and push photos to social networks like Facebook, MySpace and Flickr. But it’s also a serious editing tool (it supports layers, for example).
Since one of the inventors of seam carving joined Adobe and presumably has or will patent it, I wonder if FotoFlexer will face an Adobe cease and desist.
I really like FotoFlexer. I broke my foot last weekend just before an important event and I’ve been able to foto flex my splinted foot out of all the pictures taken from the event. Awesome.
If seam carving is already published and in the public domain, I wonder if it is still patentable. Even if it is, I wonder how broad the patent will be. Why don’t Adobe buy/learn from Fotoflexer and be done with it? Save all the legal hassle and save Adobe from reinventing/re-implementing the wheel.