This post is all about where my pictures meet the web. I'll talk about my history with pictures and the web in a moment, but since this is a Chrome OS blog, let's talk Cr-48. The above shot is a screen capture I took from the Cr-48, uploaded to Picasa, and
shared with people on Buzz. It was simple, but not the most intuitive experience*. Most of my pictures I have on Picasaweb, but the majority of those are managed with the desktop software.
There are
dozens of web-based photo editing tools available. Before Google purchased it, I had tried
Picnik for editing pictures online. It was slow, and kind of awkward, but it worked. Now, it's integrated into Picasaweb (and it's much faster), so you can do your album management and editing all in one place, which is great. Then there's
Aviary (with its
dozens of Chrome Apps...ok eight), and even
Photoshop. Because my stuff is in Picasaweb, I tried the baked-in version of Picnik to see how it fared.
This is where I hit a bump. Editing a single photo on the Cr-48 took
forever. In fact, I didn't even do
one. It was far too slow to be practical. Now, I haven't figured out if it if the problem was my home network (3Mbps on a good day, but usually between 1-2, over wireless. Thanks
Sunflower Silver. >:-E) or if it was hardware. So I tried it on a much better connection, and it was relatively painless. Here is a great example:
The picture on the left is au naturel. On the right is the Picnik'd version, first color-corrected, then exposure-corrected, both using the "Auto Fix" button. Having taken the picture, I can tell you that the one on the right looks much more like the real thing. This all took about 10 minutes, including taking and uploading (with a good connection, that is). Photoshop online had some equally pleasing results. (I'll update with the picture later.) (UPDATE: here it is!)
So there you have it. Photos can live entirely on the web, but leave the heavy lifting (read:batch editing) to desktops
for now. (Continue reading for some of my personal history regarding photo sharing on the web).
*The Chrome OS version of pop-ups, called "panels," are mediocre when it comes to navigation, so finding a file isn't the most simple of experiences. You have to type in chrome://downloads and hope that there's something in the list so that you can click "Show in folder." Chrome OS needs a more friendly dedicated file explorer. It needs to come as a pre-installed app, or be much more apparent in some way. Until USB media is more compatible, the hard drive is going to be used as a middle man from devices to the web.
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