Web delivered image editor - essentially Photoshop for free

As was pointed out when I submitted aviary.com a few months ago - this isn't nearly as powerful as Photoshop, though it has a good set of features. Photoshop is Photoshop because it is a dog of a program with more features than any casual user will ever need to use. I do understand why you mention Photoshop in your title, though, but something like "layer-based online image editor" works more precisely.

That said - anybody who likes this might like Aviary.com. It's got more tools, though it seems to be slower to load, it hosts your images online, and it's got a very nice social hobbyist environment.

Very similar to SUMO paint (sumopaint.com). I'm not a professional graphic designer, and therefore both of these are enough for my uses. On the other hand, I see very little advantage these have over free desktop software (I usually use seashore on my mac).

Overall, no professional can truly trust keeping their data here to be secure/reliable, and the functionality isn't any better than the GIMP was 10 years ago. The market seems to simply be people unable to install image editing software on their computers, which doesn't seem like a high-profit market to me.

dupe:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=345140

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=336903

Though this is impressive, it's still pretty far from the feature set of Photoshop or even Gimp. It's useful in situations where you might need a better image editor than the one that comes with the OS and you can't install one.