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FlauntR is a slick new tool that is almost everything what I want in a photo editor. Those that know me can attest that when it comes to computing platforms, I tend to go over economy and quantity over quality. I have about five or six desktop systems, all clocking in at or around 1 Ghz, and with varying amounts of RAM that tend to satisfy the minimum hardware requirements of the $9.00 rack of software at your favorite retailer (and no, they’re not on a Beowulf cluster).

I loaded up FlauntR this evening on one of said machines after seeing some interesting screenshots. Right away, I was amazed at the load times. There are pages on Facebook, let alone MySpace, that load slower than this - I think it spent a grand total of about seven seconds, and instantly I had a full screen interface to play with adding effects and making lighting tweaks to photos I could load into the system.

Flauntr actually offers three web-application solutions for photo editing: PhotoStylr, PhotoEditr, and PhotoProfilr. Each one is different in it’s approach to photo editing, and all three are free to use under one single site login.

PhotoEditr is the vanilla of the three, offering the user a variety of simple picture fixes such as red eye or blur and focus correction. PhotoStylr adds to the mix special effects, light effects, tone adjustments.. essentially the types of fixes you see in your standard photo library editor like Picasa. PhotoProfilr is the social component, allowing you to take a picture you’ve edited and load it to any social network, resized and compatible.

I’ve been looking for a replacement set of image utilities (preferably online utilities) to use on some of my slower machines for rapid image editing, ever since my personal favorite image editor (PaintShopPro) got bought by Corel and turned into bloatware. This, at least for now, is going to end up in a special place in my bookmark file for when quick changes and edits are needed for images.

[via profy]

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