Dopp Juice Archive

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve asked someone to resize an image and heard the response, “How?” The quick answer is “Use Photoshop,” but not everyone has a $600 budget for image editing (or the time to learn such a complex program!). Add in the fact that many people work on public computers and various platforms, and even the most basic software is hard to rely on.Let’s face it: sometimes it’s hard to find a decent way to fix an image quickly. Enter CreatingOnline.com. They took a common problem and found a way to offer a free solution. Their Online Image Editor makes it easy to upload any picture, resize it, tweak the colors, crop it, and add text. All within your browser. And it works with Firefox!If I sound overjoyed, it’s because I am. This makes my work 100 times easier. Now I can ask someone to resize an image, send them the link, and trust that they’ll be able to handle it. And I know I’ll be using it too, while floating between public computers on campus. I do have a few gripes. It’s not flawless. The “add clipart” function, while useful, doesn’t allow me to resize the clipart images to make them fit the composition. Dragging objects across the screen, while impressive for a browser application, doesn’t work very smoothly or quickly. But it’s free. It crops and resizes from the web. Use it for that, and forget the fancy clipart. It does its job well.