Comments on: Review: Sumo Paint http://www.digitalimagemagazine.com/blog/reviews/review-sumo-paint/ Digital Image is all about creating art on the computer, using software such as Corel Painter, Adobe Photoshop, and Vue Infinite. We invite you to learn from our tutorials, reviews, and articles. Digital Image Magazine is written and maintained by Bob Nolin. We hope you find it useful! Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:45:34 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 By: Harris31761 http://www.digitalimagemagazine.com/blog/reviews/review-sumo-paint/comment-page-1/#comment-1858 Harris31761 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:26:53 +0000 http://www.digitalimagemagazine.com/blog/?p=174#comment-1858 (This was a review made by students in a technology class who used Sumo-paint for a unit in Photoshop.) Sumo Paint - an online image editor to create/adapt images to the users' own liking. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Photo Editing Features: -You can select Parts of the photo can be selected and shapes, text, and layers can be added to enhance the overall look. -Good to use for watercolor and painting on the computer, the paintbrushes look like actual paintbrush strokes. -Cropping images and resizing pictures was convenient and touching up the lighting effects as well as hues/shades looked great! Adding these cropped images and merging them was easy. -There are histograms showing color-balance levels and allows visual users to edit images without fussing around with complicated numbers or values. All they need to use is move the sliders up or down. -Text boxes placed on images are difficult to move around and flexibility isn't exactly this program's MAIN feature when concerned with movement. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Interface: -The tools are displayed in an organized manner and are easy to find and understand. -The way this software is displayed and put out looks just like photo shop (somewhat) -Overall, Sumo Paint is like a mini-version of Adobe Photo shop with speed being a negligible problem and storage space being minimum since it is ONLINE. While Photo shop takes up a lot of space on the computer due to it being a desktop interface, Sumo Paint is trouble-free. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ease of Use: -Objects and frames can be easily moved...but sometimes parts of the images are randomly cropped, ruining the image instantly. -The select tool is hard to use. -You cannot copy and paste pictures or texts. -After inserting text, a user cannot edit or move the text around after you deselect the frame. -A user cannot move a picture out of the frame while dragging it. If they do, it will cut the portion of the picture that went beyond the page's frame. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Import/Export: -It is easy for them to get imported/exported into images BUT there is a limited variety of file formats with there being only .jpg or .png...for those users who DO have accounts( you can get an account for free), they have the option to DIRECTLY export to the account. However, the file location doesn't show up and users have to hunt around their desktop. -When pictures are inserted, they get cut automatically according to the page's frame size and you cannot edit them. -When you import pictures they become pixilated very easily when adjusting to the wanted image size and do not fit well. -You cannot control what parts of the image are cut off or adjusted, and you cannot return the image to its original format afterwards. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Additional features that you may want?: -More color options; as users you are only given a certain selection of font colors so the appearance of the image/text is limited. They should not limit all the programs to the pro-version. ------------------------------------------------------------------ OVERALL RATING ( *****): ***.5 (3.5/5) (This was a review made by students in a technology class who used Sumo-paint for a unit in Photoshop.)

Sumo Paint – an online image editor to create/adapt images to the users’ own liking.
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Photo Editing Features:

-You can select Parts of the photo can be selected and shapes, text, and layers can be added to enhance the overall look.

-Good to use for watercolor and painting on the computer, the paintbrushes look like actual paintbrush strokes.

-Cropping images and resizing pictures was convenient and touching up the lighting effects as well as hues/shades looked great! Adding these cropped images and merging them was easy.

-There are histograms showing color-balance levels and allows visual users to edit images without fussing around with complicated numbers or values. All they need to use is move the sliders up or down.

-Text boxes placed on images are difficult to move around and flexibility isn’t exactly this program’s MAIN feature when concerned with movement.
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Interface:

-The tools are displayed in an organized manner and are easy to find and understand.

-The way this software is displayed and put out looks just like photo shop (somewhat)

-Overall, Sumo Paint is like a mini-version of Adobe Photo shop with speed being a negligible problem and storage space being minimum since it is ONLINE. While Photo shop takes up a lot of space on the computer due to it being a desktop interface, Sumo Paint is trouble-free.
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Ease of Use:

-Objects and frames can be easily moved…but sometimes parts of the images are randomly cropped, ruining the image instantly.

-The select tool is hard to use.

-You cannot copy and paste pictures or texts.

-After inserting text, a user cannot edit or move the text around after you deselect the frame.

-A user cannot move a picture out of the frame while dragging it. If they do, it will cut the portion of the picture that went beyond the page’s frame.
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Import/Export:

-It is easy for them to get imported/exported into images BUT there is a limited variety of file formats with there being only .jpg or .png…for those users who DO have accounts( you can get an account for free), they have the option to DIRECTLY export to the account. However, the file location doesn’t show up and users have to hunt around their desktop.

-When pictures are inserted, they get cut automatically according to the page’s frame size and you cannot edit them.

-When you import pictures they become pixilated very easily when adjusting to the wanted image size and do not fit well.

-You cannot control what parts of the image are cut off or adjusted, and you cannot return the image to its original format afterwards.
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Additional features that you may want?:

-More color options; as users you are only given a certain selection of font colors so the appearance of the image/text is limited.

They should not limit all the programs to the pro-version.
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OVERALL RATING ( *****):

***.5 (3.5/5)

]]> By: butterflygoingsolo http://www.digitalimagemagazine.com/blog/reviews/review-sumo-paint/comment-page-1/#comment-1855 butterflygoingsolo Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:05:30 +0000 http://www.digitalimagemagazine.com/blog/?p=174#comment-1855 Cropping images and resizing pictures was convenient and touching up the lighting effects as well as hues/shades looked great! Adding these cropped images and merging them was easy.There are histograms showing color-balance levels and allows visual users to edit images without fussing around with complicated numbers or values. All they need to use is move the sliders up or down.Text boxes placed on images are difficult to move around and flexibility isn't exactly this program's MAIN feature when concerned with movement.The way this software is displayed and put out looks just like photoshop (somewhat).Overall, Sumo Paint is like a mini-version of Adobe Photoshop with speed being a negligible problem and storage space being minimum since it is ONLINE. While Photoshop takes up a lot of space on the computer due to it being a desktop intercface, Sumo Paint is trouble-free.You cannot copy and paste pictures or texts. After inserting text, a user cannot edit or move the text around after you deselect the frame.A user cannot move a picture out of the frame while dragging it. If they do, it will cut the portion of the picture that went beyond the page's frame. It is easy for them to get imported/exported into images BUT there is a limited variety of file formats with there being only .jpg or .png...for those users who DO have accounts( you can get an account for free), they have the option to DIRECTLY export to the account. However, the file location doesn't show up and users have to hunt around their desktop.When pictures are inserted, they get cut automatically according to the page's frame size and you cannot edit them.When you import pictures they become pixilated very easily when adjusting to the wanted image size and do not fit well.You cannot control what parts of the image are cut off or adjusted, and you cannot return the image to its original format afterwards.More color options; as users you are only given a certain selection of font colors so the appearance of the image/text is limited. They should not limit all the programs to the pro-version. REVIEWED STAR RATING: ***.5 (3.5/5) Cropping images and resizing pictures was convenient and touching up the lighting effects as well as hues/shades looked great! Adding these cropped images and merging them was easy.There are histograms showing color-balance levels and allows visual users to edit images without fussing around with complicated numbers or values. All they need to use is move the sliders up or down.Text boxes placed on images are difficult to move around and flexibility isn’t exactly this program’s MAIN feature when concerned with movement.The way this software is displayed and put out looks just like photoshop (somewhat).Overall, Sumo Paint is like a mini-version of Adobe Photoshop with speed being a negligible problem and storage space being minimum since it is ONLINE. While Photoshop takes up a lot of space on the computer due to it being a desktop intercface, Sumo Paint is trouble-free.You cannot copy and paste pictures or texts.
After inserting text, a user cannot edit or move the text around after you deselect the frame.A user cannot move a picture out of the frame while dragging it. If they do, it will cut the portion of the picture that went beyond the page’s frame.
It is easy for them to get imported/exported into images BUT there is a limited variety of file formats with there being only .jpg or .png…for those users who DO have accounts( you can get an account for free), they have the option to DIRECTLY export to the account. However, the file location doesn’t show up and users have to hunt around their desktop.When pictures are inserted, they get cut automatically according to the page’s frame size and you cannot edit them.When you import pictures they become pixilated very easily when adjusting to the wanted image size and do not fit well.You cannot control what parts of the image are cut off or adjusted, and you cannot return the image to its original format afterwards.More color options; as users you are only given a certain selection of font colors so the appearance of the image/text is limited.
They should not limit all the programs to the pro-version.
REVIEWED STAR RATING:
***.5 (3.5/5)

]]> By: phil hydleman http://www.digitalimagemagazine.com/blog/reviews/review-sumo-paint/comment-page-1/#comment-1422 phil hydleman Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:07:37 +0000 http://www.digitalimagemagazine.com/blog/?p=174#comment-1422 sumo paint is an amazing free website and it amazes me that you can use the symmetry tool to create beutiful peices of art, but there is one downside to it that is quite hard to use the mousepad to create pictures , but overall it is a really good peice of software . sumo paint is an amazing free website and it amazes me that you can use the symmetry tool to create beutiful peices of art, but there is one downside to it that is quite hard to use the mousepad to create pictures , but overall it is a really good peice of software .

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