Review: Pixer
07.13.07 - 01:38pm
I find that the longer I am without my Macbook the more resourceful I become in search of replacements for normal routines on my Macbook. Being a blogger I often include a picture or ten to break things up and I understand when people get frustrated with full-resolution images so normally I’d simply fire up Photoshop, shrink the image a bit, cut back some of the details, and voila a 35kb file that even those few select individuals on 56k don’t have to fret about. Now that I am temporarily stuck on Windows and not in the mood to go about installing Paint.net I have come upon Pixer, what I’d consider to be the quick and easy solution for all my photo-resizing needs. Pixer surely won’t be a permanent stand-in for Photoshop but if you need a quick photo resize or crop then Pixer will do the job just fine.
Thankfully whoever developed Pixer decided to stick with a few simple options which works great for me. Combine a simple menu with relatively few options and the user cannot possible screw up and if they do there is always the undo button. Mostly I stick to the left side of the menu with the resizing and cropping features being abused the most. The powers of ajax make the process of manipulating your bits and bytes rather smoothly with only a few hiccups occurring when I was hacking up images for this article. I have recently also discovered Serenity and the Firefly series so I snagged a poster for Serenity with Summer Glau right up front, now time to have a little bit of fun.
All that was done with 14 clicks(~20 seconds) of the mouse from loading the image to saving the image. The longest process is physically uploading the image and from there on it’s a breeze. Asides from your standard resize and crop functions Pixer includes the ability to rotate and flip your images, adjust the brightness, contrast, and color saturation, blur/sharpen the image, along with a bunch of color-altering functions like Grayscale and Sepia. You won’t be winning any photo-editing contests with this application but it does it’s job rather well. Now back to watching the rest of the Firefly series and tweaking the cascade.
I’ve seen the movie but not the series. Anyway the poster girl is super hot.
You know it, I’ve decided that Summer Glau is my future wife.