Sumopaint: There's something familiar about this online image editor

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Sumopaint: There's something familiar about this online image editor

by Brad Linder Jun 27th 2008

The world may not really need another online image editing application. After all, there's already Picnik, Adobe Photoshop Express, FotoFlexer, and dozens of others. One of our favorites is Splashup, which has a very desktop application-like feel. And for the life of us, we can't decide if Sumopaint is just a simple Splashup clone or just an incredibly similar web app.

The two web apps have extraordinarily similar user interfaces and you can apply a similar array of effects to images you upload. You can also import images from online various online accounts, although Splashup is the clear winner with the ability to import images from Flickr, Picasa, Facebook, and other web sites, while Sumopaint only supports Snap.

Check out an image of the two apps side by side after the jump and you be the judge. Separated at birth, or imitation is the sincerest form of flattery? After all, both look a bit like PhotoShop or the Gimp.

[via jkOnTheRun]

Tags: online-image-editor, splashup, sumopaint

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

JustinGerard said 4:25PM on 6-27-2008

You forgot to mention a.viary.com

InkBrush said 12:45PM on 6-28-2008

As a digital painter i must say that both are really slick tools, but Sumopaint seems to be the only web app that provides functioning tools for digital painters.

With Sumopaint I can finally use my Wacom tablet with online web app!

Other browser based image editors like SplashUp, seems to focus more on photo editing.

com4myst.blogspot.com said 10:17PM on 8-24-2008

I enjoyed using slashup, i came here looking for the address to sumopaint !

Kimmo said 6:46AM on 9-18-2008

SUMO Paint updated to version beta 0.31. Lots of bug fixes, new features and many improvements. Check out www.sumopaint.com

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