YC summer startup, Splashup launches (formerly Fauxto)
splashup.com
splashup.com
Small bugs:
File -> Exit still says Fauxto
I couldn't capture an image from my webcam. I'm using latest Firefox, Flash & Macbook Pro... tried all sources listed and all I got was a black image.
Feature request:
Ellipse tool... make it like PS so that I can constrain it to a circle.
All in all, the best image editor I've seen so far. Congrats.
Go to fauxto, right click the window and click settings, then the webcam tab, then select your webcam in the drop-down list. On a MacBook Pro you need to select "USB Video" to use the built in iSight.
I doubt it can be used seriously for design though...still lacking too many features. I'm using Photoshop 7 and it still doesn't quite compare...
I can't see it replacing any of my current tools yet, but it's well on the way.
But an image editor is really not the place for such tools, which belong in an organizer tool like Lightroom, iPhoto, or Bridge.
For power users, the lack of different color modes (CMYK, Lab, 16 bit/channel) or any kind of color management, curves (or even levels!), the kind of rich interaction (shortcuts, modifier-clicks, etc.) that desktop apps allow, serious retouching tools, line drawing tools, precise text control, etc. etc. makes this almost completely useless. Just the lack of the curves tool is frankly enough to doom any image editor (aimed at power users) which doesn't replace it with something of similar power.
For non-power-users, this is still missing important features, but it also has the same complex photoshop-like interface that has been confusing newbies for years. The learning curve of Splashup is steeper than it is for products aimed at casual users; they are better served by those tools.
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Clearly a lot of work went into splashup, and the technology will surely be useful for something--if nothing else it can be sold to some big company for piles of cash. But in its current incarnation it's basically useless.
Example: I was cropping an image, but my mouse still looked like the standard mouse pointer. Later I clicked on the image and forgot I had the crop tool still in use. Not sure how photoshop does this, but I don't remember having this problem with PS.
When I went to submit feedback while demoing, it asked me to authenticate after I submitted it - not sure if it went through.
I found a bug as well: Open an image, select an area, go to edit -> copy, and then the image disappears.
bug: when creating text if the text box is empty and click somewhere in the image new text layers are created with the previous textbox remaining active.
also simple users wont be familiar with the layers concept so if they try to create some text and right afterwards try to paint with the brush because the background layer is not selected it will seem to them it doesn't work because they wont be able to paint.
other than that its obvious it's great work
* oh and i was impressed when I even found layer effects