YC summer startup, Splashup launches (formerly Fauxto)

http://www.splashup.com

by sharpshoot • 19 years ago

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nickb2• 19 years ago

Beautiful web design, excellent execution of the app!

Small bugs:

File -> Exit still says Fauxto

I couldn't capture an image from my webcam. I'm using latest Firefox, Flash & Macbook Pro... tried all sources listed and all I got was a black image.

Feature request:

Ellipse tool... make it like PS so that I can constrain it to a circle.

All in all, the best image editor I've seen so far. Congrats.

axod• 19 years ago

Same here regarding webcam. Webcam didn't light up. (MacBook)

jey• 19 years ago

"I couldn't capture an image from my webcam. I'm using latest Firefox, Flash & Macbook Pro... tried all sources listed and all I got was a black image."

Go to fauxto, right click the window and click settings, then the webcam tab, then select your webcam in the drop-down list. On a MacBook Pro you need to select "USB Video" to use the built in iSight.

nickb2• 19 years ago

Works! Thanks!

elfred• 19 years ago

Didn't yc also fund Pixoh/snipshot?

brlewis• 19 years ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=78815

adnam• 19 years ago

Impressive

eusman• 19 years ago

i found a form to submit this but when I went again to "contact us" i didn't find the feedback form

bug: when creating text if the text box is empty and click somewhere in the image new text layers are created with the previous textbox remaining active.

also simple users wont be familiar with the layers concept so if they try to create some text and right afterwards try to paint with the brush because the background layer is not selected it will seem to them it doesn't work because they wont be able to paint.

other than that its obvious it's great work

* oh and i was impressed when I even found layer effects

alaskamiller• 19 years ago

Just curious: how does Adobe's plan to release the web-based Photoshop play into your strategy?

dbrush6• 19 years ago

Adobe isn't going to eat their own cash cow. You can see their response to online image editors here: http://www.download.com/8301-2007_4-9790734-12.html

joefaron• 19 years ago

impressive, although i dont think i'd ever really use it. its surprisingly advanced, which is good - but being an advanced user, theres NO reason to NOT just get photoshop.

herdrick2• 19 years ago

Being a webapp Splashup can do some things Photoshop can't, like saving directly to your Flickr or Facebook account (among others).

jacobolus3• 19 years ago

Not too hard to google for such functionality, and find a free plugin that does the job: http://pixelnovel.com/flickrshop.html

But an image editor is really not the place for such tools, which belong in an organizer tool like Lightroom, iPhoto, or Bridge.

jacobolus3• 19 years ago

Indeed. It's very impressive, and makes a great demo, but I can't think of a single type of user who wouldn't be better served by some desktop application.

For power users, the lack of different color modes (CMYK, Lab, 16 bit/channel) or any kind of color management, curves (or even levels!), the kind of rich interaction (shortcuts, modifier-clicks, etc.) that desktop apps allow, serious retouching tools, line drawing tools, precise text control, etc. etc. makes this almost completely useless. Just the lack of the curves tool is frankly enough to doom any image editor (aimed at power users) which doesn't replace it with something of similar power.

For non-power-users, this is still missing important features, but it also has the same complex photoshop-like interface that has been confusing newbies for years. The learning curve of Splashup is steeper than it is for products aimed at casual users; they are better served by those tools.

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Clearly a lot of work went into splashup, and the technology will surely be useful for something--if nothing else it can be sold to some big company for piles of cash. But in its current incarnation it's basically useless.

collision• 19 years ago

Ehh... price?

jacobolus3• 19 years ago

Well, if the target market is professional designers (where by professional == getting paid), Photoshop pays for itself in a day or two. If the target is complete newbies, then their competition is not Photoshop, but a whole series of cheap/free/comes-with-the-machine tools, like Picasa, iPhoto, Photoshop Elements, etc.

wschroter• 19 years ago

Nice job guys ... but why is Posterize in there? Having been a hardcore photoshop user since v2.0 I can't ever find a reason for that filter!

dbrush6• 19 years ago

You know, even while putting it in I couldn't figure out why people would use it. Nonetheless, it was nice to have figured out how it worked.

trekker7• 19 years ago

Man, I had no idea server-side GUIs had gotten this good... if it ran a little bit faster, it would feel close to a desktop app.

tlrobinson• 19 years ago

I wouldn't call this a "server side GUI"... It's a client side application that happens to be loaded from a server and run within a browser.

brezina• 19 years ago

I would like if my mouse turned into a different icon when I am using a tool.

Example: I was cropping an image, but my mouse still looked like the standard mouse pointer. Later I clicked on the image and forgot I had the crop tool still in use. Not sure how photoshop does this, but I don't remember having this problem with PS.

dbrush6• 19 years ago

You're right. Cursors, and keyboard shortcuts, should go a long way toward increasing the usability of Splashup, that's our hope anyway.

Mistone• 19 years ago

very impressive - i've been awaiting the release of this app and it surpasses my expectations so far - this is huge - congrats and thanks for building this!

nsrivast• 19 years ago

Would it be possible to add an option where you can design your own (3x3, 5x5, etc.) filter?

dbrush6• 19 years ago

Certainly. Do you think a lot of people would use it?

ian• 19 years ago

Congratulations Dave and Hugo!

lsb• 19 years ago

congrats dave! congrats hugo!

bouncingsoul• 19 years ago

Are keyboard shortcuts going to be added?

dbrush6• 19 years ago

Yep, it's just difficult because there are so many scenarios to account for with any given shortcut.

dannyv• 19 years ago

First off, super impressive app.

When I went to submit feedback while demoing, it asked me to authenticate after I submitted it - not sure if it went through.

I found a bug as well: Open an image, select an area, go to edit -> copy, and then the image disappears.

dbrush6• 19 years ago

Thanks, I'll get right on that. There will be another release in the next day or so and that'll be fixed.

danielha• 19 years ago

Congrats Dave and Hugo! Fauxto was awesome but this rocks so much harder.

kajecounterhack• 19 years ago

impressive....useful when I'm at school and don't have photoshop but need to crop/edit an image.

I doubt it can be used seriously for design though...still lacking too many features. I'm using Photoshop 7 and it still doesn't quite compare...

mattmaroon• 19 years ago

Congrats fellas!

mhidalgo• 19 years ago

I think the fact that I have to pay 650 bucks for a new version of photoshop makes this an attractive option for potentially lots of people. Great job guys !

herdrick2• 19 years ago

Way to go guys, look and feel is fantastic. This is a great step for the world's most jaw-dropping web app.

tristian• 19 years ago

Really nice. It does suffer from a lack of keyboard shortcuts. Just for simple things like holding down shift while drawing an oval to get an exact circle.

I can't see it replacing any of my current tools yet, but it's well on the way.

dhouston• 19 years ago

congrats guys!

jgamman• 19 years ago

feature request: tour to include some case-scenarios? my home pc has literally GBs of photos - can you provide some scenarios that would tempt my wife to invest some time in using your web app? examples include: backup your photos with our secure server, using filters to make your beach photos awesome, batch renaming functions (prefix suffix etc) etc. not hassling you at all, i just can't see the hook to a non-PS user

YC summer startup, Splashup launches (formerly Fauxto)

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