Online image editors for blogging: Reviewed and rated

By Rich Trenholm on 14 May 2008, 10:16am

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flauntR
If the first requirement of any Web 2.0 concern is a daft name, blame Flickr for the profusion of -r names. flauntR goes all out, with a suite of programs named stylR, editR, textR, mobilR, picasR, profilR and printR. flauntR and friends have a slick-looking interface, but we found that on our averagely specced Windows XP PC it could be slow, especially when previewing changes. Images can be uploaded and downloaded to Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Picasa and Flickr, or optimised for use with a host of specific social networking sites' profiles, or for mobile phones.

Edit: The basics are all here: resizing, cropping and the like. The most powerful feature is a curves editor. This allows you to alter the colour curves of the whole image or a selected area.

Effects: There are a limited number of effects, including nightvision, infrared and a Lomo-style effect. These can all be tweaked with sliders.

Blog image: Images can be resized, but yet again there's no resolution option, except for dropping the quality of the saved image. Disappointingly, the resizing box has to be dragged from the bottom right corner instead of from any point.

CNET.co.uk verdict: The profusion of programs gives you a wide range of options, but can be a mite confusing. One to watch, though. 7/10