You need to edit an image real quick and you are working either on a netbook or someone else’s machine which doesn’t have a copy of your favourite photoshop. Or maybe you never had photoshop in the first place.
Adobe Photoshop has become the premier digital one stop solution for image editing and it should come as no surprise that more than a few would have attempted to ride the photoshop success wave with their own clones.

The first clone which I have been using for a while is the Aviary Phoenix online image editor. Mind you, this has even support for layers and can handle almost anything you might want to get done with an image. Its completely on the cloud (and free as well) and all you need is your trusty Firefox (or any other browser) by your side to edit your image. I guess there’s a sign up required but that’s not so cumbersome. Being a web app has its advantages, such as being able to capture any webpage easily and Aviary even has a firefox addon. Aviary has a complete suite of applications for every possible form of image editing requirement online.

The second is a very light weight application called the Artweaver. Now artweaver is a fully functional free image editor. Users of photoshop would find themselves completely at home because of the interface. What’s more, it even supports export/import as Photoshop format files (PSDs).
The Artweaver interface (I love GITS!!)

Artweaver even has a portable version which you can run off a USB key. You can further enhance artweaver with a number of plugins (which you can find on the download page), you even get to extend it to use XnView, the freeware image viewer.

Both these applications would not be able to replace Photoshop for power users. But when it comes to basic image editing, they get the job done quite well!

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I was getting really bored so decided to visit one of the email websites which I had subscribed to long back..(really really long back)..I had signed up for the service since it was a flash enabled email interface…When I went over to the website, I realized that a lot had changed..it was like going back to the house where you spent your childhood after a long long time (ok that was too much of an exaggeration) What I meant was that the site had changed a lot for the better..It not only boasts of a flash interface but gives you a complete online desktop at your disposal..I would say this is the future of the web..Real web 2.0 (now for more on that click on the link which should take you to a lovely blog on the subject)…I have received a few forwards about how google is planning to come out with an online operating system…But till it comes around, I would like to taste the future..The website belongs to aol now and its got everything integrated into it (online storage space, email, chat, bookmarks, search and even games) In fact, the games on the website are not just there for the sake of being there…Some of them are plain outstanding…I loved the feel so much that I decided to dedicate a whole post just for the website.

When I going through other blogs at random, I realised that people often put up a slice of their personal life on their blogs. I came across, family albums, messages to near and dear ones…love letters and so on…These were all available on the internet for the whole world to see and hear. I realized that it is the human mind’s need to shout out loud to the wide open world that would have initialized such an urge.
My blog would of course tell you a great many things about the kind of person I am, maybe even more than my facebook or orkut profile would tell you…I would not have discussed these with even my closest of friends…which could be true with many others…You might go out for a movie with a friend, share a lot of secrets, discuss things…still you would put lots of stuff online which you would’ve in fact not discussed with anyone….I didn’t even think about this post 3 minutes ago. But now that I have thought of it, I have decided to work on this.
Which brings us to the core idea behind this post. I haven’t worked so much on this topic so it’ll be sometime before this blog gets completed. For now, all I have is this
The wikipedia article
Its not very helpful, since wikipedia still has only a stub regarding the topic. I did my research on the web and came across this great blog on the subject. I also learnt that the phenomenon I was trying to express in the earlier paragraph of this post is known as the disinhibition effect.
Go here for more: Psycyber’s blog
While on the topic of cyber psychology; I did come across this neat little article titled blogging may have psychological benefits. The article is definitely worth a read (all the more so, if you are blogger yourself)