George Allen Miller One Geek's take on all things SciFi

I’m a web junkie. I regularly read all the big blog sites, wired, techcrunch, dvice, boingboing, etc. What I rarely see though are really cool innovations on the web that someone has spent a good deal of time working on. Normally it’s post after post about the iPad, AT&T or something all the other ones are constantly posting about. It really becomes a war to see who posts the same story next. Where do you find really cool geeky sites then? Stumbleupon. Great site for just touring the web and seeing what’s out there.

Well one day I found http://www.splashup.com/ and let me tell you it’s very cool. Perhaps one of the slickest things I’ve seen on the net for awhile. Yeah yeah, all you uber geeks already know about it and use it regularly, well STFU, I didn’t.

Basically, the site lets you do image editing. Really good image editing. No install on your PC, not a pay site, no need to even sign up. They want you to of course and I recommend doing it but it’s not required.

It’s all flash driven. With it you can edit your image to your hearts content. Size, shape, bevels, colors, etc. All the basics that any good web developer would want to do. For me, and the little editing I do, it totally replaces any software I needed before. Goodbye Photoshop!

Now, I’m not saying that this can replace Photoshop for publishers or designers that do heavy duty image magic things. I don’t do that high level stuff as I find it to be pure torture and hellish. Photoshop does a lot of things and I really don’t know if splashup does all of them. But if you are just manipulating an existing image that you may have gotten from istockphoto.com or your iPhone then give it a whirl, it’s very very cool.