I have to say that I do get a touch jaded when people tweet me, email me or pm me with a ‘hey, have you seen this…’ message.
Band waggon jumping and a general sheep like mentality is prevelant amongst the average Web 2.0 fanboi’s…. 
But, there are exceptions… namely the bloody marvellous Pixlr.
In a nutshell Pixlr is a self contained Flash IDE full featured, robust image editor.
There’s a quote on the Pixlr homepage
It made me have the same feeling I had when I first saw Gmail:
“this can’t be running in my browser”… - kitsched
and that is exactly what I thought when I used it for the 1st time! You really will think that it’s a desktop application. There’s support for layers a plethora of tools - which you’d expect from an image editing tool - and even the usual shortcut keys to speed up your workflow are there!
I was concerned about using HUGE files as any files appear to be staged on Pixlr for editing. I edited a 1.3mb jpeg there wasn’t any noticeable lag while performing various edits or applying filters. Unless you’re on a fast pipe I would stick to using PS if you want to edit 25mb raw files straight from your camera…
The environment is attractive and well layed out using the now ubiquitous panels layout found in PS and Fireworks. When running in full screen mode I’d challenge anyone to guess that this was a web application - it really is that good.
This is one for the Art and Media depts at school this September for sure!
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