| sumopaint.com www.VvCompHelpvV.com http www.CashCrate.biz featured Failblog failblog.org "Sumo Paint, recently released as an open beta, joins the growing list of online photo editing applications that allow you to work in your browser much like you do in a regular desktop application (see the review of Phoenix here). As its name implies, however, Sumo Paint is not just another red eye removal tool, such as Picnik, Pixlr, or Splashup. Sumo Paint is designed more for image creation rather than image editing. In other words, its a tool for creating art. Like most of these new Web 2.0″ online applications, Sumo Paint is free. Unlike the other photo apps, its doesnt have hooks into social sharing sites like Flickr and Facebook. It has its own online gallery, however, so you can see what others are doing with Sumo, and upload some of your own work. Just remember: its very new, just released in June 2008 as an open beta, so expect lots of quirks and oddities. For example, I didnt have a lot of luck getting the smudge tool to work. It tended to change colors randomly on me, when it worked at all. But Im sure theyll get these problems ironed out shortly. Sumo Paint has the usual tools youd expect, such as selection tools, gradient, paint bucket, and so on. Sumo supports layers and blending modes, and has some filters as well. But click on the paintbrush, and you begin to see some differences.Not only are there a variety of brushes to choose from, there are settings for size ... |
