Photoshop rivals – one real, one fake

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Photoshop’s had more than a few imitators over the years, but I’ve never before seen one that was made from real world materials!  It was beautifully constructed as part of an advertising campaign for an Indonesian firm called software-asli.com – you can see how it was made here on Flickr. 

Coincidentally, I also stumbled across this browser-based Photoshop equivalent today:

It’s called Pixlr and though it’s not about to surpass Photoshop CS4 in terms of power and features, it’s more than competent for applying quick fixes and touch-ups to digital photos. It’s impressively fast too – much faster, in fact, than Adobe’s own online editor at Photoshop.com and it doesn’t demand that you fill in any annoying registration forms. You just rock up and use it. 

I’m particularly fond of Pixlr’s Old Photo filter. Let me know how you get on with it on the comments below.