The feedback points are collected under several categories like design, purpose, engagement & originality. Also, you can read the written feedbacks of the community & discuss with them.

It works so simple:

• become a member (free)
• upload your design (website,advertisement, logo, etc.)
• receive the fedback from the community
• improve your design, get feedbacks again & compare with the previous one

And, as a member of the community, you can send feedbacks to the works of other users.

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They generally offer a similar interface with the popular image editing softwares which lowers the learning curve so much.

Almost all of them are Flash-based (no extra installations -like plugins- are required) & load/work very fast.

Why To Use Them?

You may be asking yourself why to use a web-based one when there is a powerful image editing software installed on your computer like Photoshop, Fireworks, GIMP, etc.?

Portability

There is no need to have a software other than a browser to run such applications. Also designs created with them can be saved instantly online.

This function is specially handy for anyone working at different locations/computers.

The Price Factor

Most popular image editing softwares, except GIMP, are generally not cheap & every new version requires a new license.

Online image editing platforms are free or come with cheap subscription plans.

Lower System Resources

As such applications would run on browsers & files are remotely hosted, they will be consuming much less system resources.

This makes them a good fit for older & non-strong (like netbooks) computers.

Backup

Every designer/developer, generally, experiences data losses because of hardware failures & no backups.

All the content created can be saved in these platforms which are mostly hosted in the cloud with daily backups. So, this is taken care of.

They have cons too:

As expected, they are not perfect:

• you may not add your custom fonts, brushes, shapes, etc.
• not being able to export designs to formats of popular applications (generally, only PNG, JPG, GIF & TIFF)
• lack of some features
• some of them don't have keyboard shortcuts

Here are 5 amazing applications which offer a similar functionality with your favorite image editing software & have support for creating new images (not editing-only):

Sumo Paint

Sumo Paint is an amazing application which Photoshop users will find it very friendly as the interface & functionality is very similar.

It offers most things Photoshop offers, supports layers, filters & has some awesome geometric shape tools.

There is also a huge community behind the application where you can get inspired.

Aviary Phoenix

Phoenix is the image editor part of the powerful other Aviary applications.

The editor works with layers, has various filters & can be exported to popular file formats or saved online for future editing.

Photoshop.com

Official online Photoshop service of Adobe.

The application has a very different interface compared to Photoshop itself & offers fewer functions. It is mostly focused on editing & optimizing images.

Pixlr

Pixlr is a feature rich online image editor that has several versions to make things easier:

• Editor – all-functions included editor
• Express – more basic version
• Grabber – to right click any image and start editing from Firefox browser + Windows desktop

Splashup

A very Photoshop-like application that can run multiple images.

It integrates well with photo sharing services like Picasa & Flickr.

There is also a light version for simpler functions.

There are also other great applications like:

• flauntR
  
• Picnik
  
• FotoFlexer
  
• & much more

which are totally focused on editing images & don't offer creating a new one from scratch.

Which one do you prefer? Any great ones missing? Share them in the comments.

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It is a highly customizable web-based graphics engine that enables anyone to insert "instantly created custom images" to their websites.

How it works?

EasyImg works by sending a formatted query to the service as the source of an image. An example will describe it better:

<img src="http://images.easyimg.com/fd592fce/h-60/w-480/bw-2/r-15/bc-e0dede/fc-fcfbdc/c-fc2671/font-Tahoma/size-30/banner.png?text=WRD Test Banner" />

will return:

 where:

• fd592fce = is the token for my account
• h-60 = height is 60px
• w-480 = width is 480px
• bw-2 = border width is 2px
• and you can possibly guess the rest easily..

Besides the standard image properties, it is possible to use various fonts, rotate the final image, add gradients & more.

And, as it doesn’t use any JavaScript or CSS hack, it is totally compatible with any browser.

EasyImg can be set to re-create the image every time it is called or use caching for faster usage.

Also, it is not a must to host every image generated at the system. They can be downloaded as a single ZIP file anytime.

Where can I use it?

Primarily, it is a great fit to be used in websites where images must/can be customized like:

• users customizing the look & feel of their accounts (you may need to create rounded corners with different colors)
• usage of rotation
• usage of custom fonts
• no image editing software (ideal for customers who are not into webdesign but want to update the look of websites – can be integrated into CMSs)

And, it is a perfect fit for special cases like dynamic barcode generation (just use the barcode font).

EasyImg comes with different plans where a free one exists as well.

You can see how powerful it can be with the options it offers & from the samples. Or, you can play with the online canvas.

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It does not require any software and works in few steps:

• download (PDF) & print a special template
• fill it with your handwriting
• scan & upload the template

The service automatically creates your font & presents you the download file.

Also, just before downloading the generated fonts, you can see a full-preview & decide to re-create a new one or not.

P.S. The service is currently in beta status.

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It can be used with or without registering (free), but by signing in, you can tag & categorize your fonts for reaching them quicker in the future.

A custom text can be displayed with all fonts in both swatch & list views. Also, gylphs view allows you to quickly scan characters and symbols.

The font metrics view displays guides to show default kerning, text baseline, and median height. And, a selected font can be printed easily with several style samples by the click of a button.

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It enables you to add up to 5 colors with different gradients & define the background, orientation and stripe/spacing widths.

The generated images can be downloaded as PNG or transparent GIF files.

Also, stripes generated by other users can be viewed & downloaded.

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In order to submit websites to these galleries, you need to:

• have a list of the galleries
• know which ones are more popular
• browse all of them one-by-one

MeeCSS is a free web-based application which eases this process. It is not an automated submission system which would not be ethical.

It simply asks you to fill the information that will be required (name, e-mail, website address, etc.) & with the help of an iframe, you can submit to the galleries one-by-one by copy-pasting the fields you had filled.

It also displays to CSS galleries sorted by pageranks & enables you to select which galleries to submit.

P.S. it would be much easier if the selected fields were auto-selected (or better: auto-copied).

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And, it provides color palette suggestions from Adobe Kuler & Colourlovers which can be used with the image.

Once the color palette is created, it can be downloaded as an Adobe Swatch file.

Pictaculous also enables you to send the image & get results via e-mail (which is nice for using the service in phones).

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AIE, an open source Ajax image editor, is one of them but with a difference: it can be installed under your websites.

So, besides using it as a standard image editor, it can be integrated with other applications you use (like image galleries, blogging apps., etc) by simply setting the "images folder" of these applications.

AIE has great features like:

• resizing images
• cropping images
• rotate/flip images
• apply filters
• add text with a text tool
• apply watermarks & more..

It is built with Ext JS & uses PHP+ImageMagick on the server-side. For a demo, click here.

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Conversions are based on 16px browser default size & you simply:

• Select your body font size
• And get the conversion
• Or, manually enter PX or EM values to get custom conversions.

The CSS file of the values you’ve choosen can be get based on the typography.css portion of Blueprint CSS to setup a default typography.

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