Hasta La Gadget!

For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to design some new interfaces for iPhone 4.0. And you know what? Some of these look pretty damned cool.

First Place— Juan Ozuna

Second Place—Katrina Laffey

Third Place—Torsten Wulff

This article was written on September 07, 2007 by CyberNet.

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Adobe announced back in March that they intended to create an online Photoshop that is geared towards home and casual computer users. The solution that they came up with, called Photoshop Express, will offer a simplistic interface that is free for everyone to use. However, it will be ad supported (I’m guessing that’s what the box in the bottom-right corner of the screenshot is for).

The online Photoshop Express is not yet available, and all we have to go on at this point is the screenshot that has been provided by John Nack, the Senior Product Manager of Adobe Photoshop. Aside from the screenshot the only feature he mentioned was being able to  "adjust an image just by rolling over the different versions shown at the top, previewing the results & then clicking the desired degree of modification."

I think I’ve been able to draw some fairly accurate conclusions by analyzing the screenshot of Photoshop Express:

• Options available in the sidebar:
• Crop and rotate photos
• Auto correct is available (hopefully this is as good as Photoshop’s)
• White balance adjustments
• Tuning – probably adjusting hue, saturation, exposure, etc…
• Details – might be some basic filters from Photoshop, such as blurring
• Touchup – probably things like removing red eye and fixing small imperfections in the photo
• Fun – probably for adding shapes, callouts, etc…
• Recent – things you’ve recently applied to the image?
• Zoom in and out
• Undo/redo or reset the photo back to the original
• A history of your edited photos is kept in the sidebar
• A history of changes to the current photo is in the top bar
• You can save an image, or export it (probably to Photoshop)

So that’s my best guess of what the online Photoshop Express will have at launch, and all of that is based solely on the screenshot. One of the more interesting things that I’ve noticed is missing from it is a lacking of layer management. One of Photoshop’s strongest features is being able to manage insane amounts of layers, but I see no section dedicated to that type of feature in the online version.

I would say that the best online Photoshop clone has got to be Fauxto. The interface is extremely close to that of Photoshop, and it has an extensive list of features available (including layer management). I would say that Adobe should have just acquired this site instead of making their own version of Photoshop online, but I have a feeling that Adobe wouldn’t have been comfortable with Fauxto since it is a bit too close to the real deal.

Source: Adobe Blog [via CrunchGear]

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It’s amazing what one letter will do. The Segway becomes the Kegway, Nikon becomes Nixon and Gatorade becomes, uh, Gatorape. I know that last one isn’t gadgety, but I let it slide.

First Place — JPS

Second Place — Jeff Forde

Third Place — Harm Veenstra

This article was written on March 03, 2008 by CyberNet.

Thanks to Max, we received an invite to try out Aviary. It’s a suite of web-based applications for “people who create.” When I say a suite of applications, I mean it.  In all, they offer (well, eventually they’ll offer) 18 different applications that each have their own purpose and function. “From image editing to typography to music to 3D to video, we have a tool for artists of all genres” their site reads. At this point they only have the Phoenix application available which is their take on a web-based image editor, so we decided to put it to the test.

Phoenix allows you to start from scratch and create an image or load an existing file to edit as you please. By starting from scratch, you get to decide the width and height you want the image to be and you can also select a background color. Phoenix is no Photoshop, but they do have quite a few great features which include:

• Create Layers (this is a must for most image editors)
• View history (as you would in other photo editing programs)
• Filters (like blur, emboss, etc)
• Transform option to distort, transform, rotate, and flip an image
• and much more…

My first impression was that it looked like a nice and clean desktop application. They really did a great job with the design and interface. The menus they offer are exactly what you’d expect from any desktop application which makes it natural to use. While most online image editors are enough to satisfy only the basic users, Phoenix has enough features to satisfy semi-pro users.

Now, as we mentioned, Phoenix is only one of 18 different applications that make-up Aviary. At this time, the others aren’t available, but they have listed all of them and what they will do. Here what we’ll see in the future (all apps are named after birds to go along with their “Aviary” theme):

• Toucan -color swatches and palettes creator
• Peacock – computer algorithm-based pattern generator
• Raven – vector editor
• Hummingbird – 3D Modeler and skinner
• Myna – audio editor
• Roc – music generator
• Starling – video editor
• Owl – desktop publishing layout editor
• Penguin – word processing software geared towards creative writers
• Pigeon – painting simulator
• Tern – terrain generator
• Horus – font editor
• Woodpecker – smart image resizer using seam carving
• Rookery – a free unlimited distributed file system network that anyone can connect to and store data in.  It also powers their file search engine
• Hawk – digital content marketplace
• Crane – custom image product creator
• Eagle – a smart online application that can identify complex data about an image based on the pixel patterns

One of the first things I noticed when I signed in to the service is that it has a social side to it if you want. You can save your favorite artists and share your images.

Five Invites to Give Away!

The team over at Aviary has a lot of work ahead of them, but it could potentially be amazing once they’re done.  At this time, it is available on an invite-only basis. We have five invites to give away so be one of the first five people to comment and you’ll receive an invite! Just be sure to include your email address in the proper field when you leave your comment otherwise we will not be able to get an invite sent to you.

Thanks for the tip and invite Max!

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Is it possible to love the results of a Photoshop Contest too much? Because oh man, these had me rolling on the floor. Seriously, you’re going to want to check this gallery out.

First Place—Jim Chitwood

Second Place—Andreas Kokkinos

Third Place—Sergio Hikawa