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Snipshot

Ratingstars3 Rated 3 out of 5 stars by AppAppeal Editor
What can you use the application for?
Snipshot is an online image editing tool that helps web developers carry out various necessary changes in images, and then integrate the edited images on to their websites. It is equipped with a bunch of effectual features to allow developers, or website owners to design eye-catchy images for their websites. The feature-set incorporated with the website is extremely user-friendly that makes the task of image editing a cake walk. After bringing upon the necessary changes in the images, users can save them to their websites, by simply clicking on to the callback address. The inventory of image editing tool available with Snipshot includes basic functions, like resizing, cropping, enhancing, applying effects, and rotating. With Snipshot, it becomes possible to edit RAW pictures, add special effects, make face detection portraits, edit large pictures and much more. The website boasts of easy operability, as the editing process gets initiated after the selection of images from the website or from users’ PCs.
What is the history and popularity of the application?
Snipshot was formerly known as Pixoh. The prime aim of this website is to extend the image-editing services to its users. Nevertheless, the users can also use the Snipshot Pro to improve quality of their images, by increasing its resolution. In a bid to simplify digital photography, this website allows the photography enthusiasts to easily edit photos or images from the hard-drive, Webshots accounts, or the Flicker accounts, and then save them back to any of these locations.
What are the differences to other applications?
The services offered by Snipshot are quite similar to the other such applications available online. With this service, a user can also enter a URL of a picture to begin with the editing process. Snipshot offers a bookmarklet service with which the user can pick pictures from the site they visit. However, the website struggles on user-friendliness parameter, as it requires the users to manually feed the values of saturation, hue etc, at the time of editing images. The Snipshot image-editing website lacks certain tools and buttons, due to which it becomes difficult for the users to bring upon effectual changes. The website misses out on key advanced features required for effective image editing, and offers basic functions to users, including rotation, cropping, brightness, contrast, hue, saturation and sharpness. However, this website also has certain positives that have allowed it to survive in the competitive market, such as the unlimited option of using the Undo and Redo buttons. The website supports saving images in a variety of formats, like JPEG, PSD, PNG, GIF, PDF, etc.
How does the application look and feel to use?
The layout of the website is extremely simple and objectively designed, assisting users to easily navigate through its functions and features. It strikes an impressive blend of simplicity and style. It has a remarkable and accurate categorization of content that assists users to easily find out whatever they are looking for. The interface isn’t cluttered with irrelevant information to perplex its users, and the navigation process is fairly easy and quick.
How does the registration process work?
In order to avail the services of the website, users need to register with the website. The registration process necessitate users to feed in some general information, including a valid email id and password, followed by personal details like name, country, card type, card number, card security code, address, phone numbers etc. Registration for Snipshot Pro isn’t free of charge, and users need to enter their card details for acquiring its services.
What does it cost to use the application?
Though Snipshot offers users to edit some free samples, the services of the website are primarily paid, which is the key source for its revenue generation. There are no adverts observed on the website, hence paid services along with VC funding seems to be major sources of its fuelling. Though Snipshot offers users to edit some free samples, the services of the website are primarily paid, which is the key source for its revenue generation. There are no adverts observed on the website, hence paid services along with VC funding seems to be major sources of its fuelling.
Who would you recommend the application to?
Snipshot is of great assistance to website developers who can make use of its services to edit pictures. Aside from the web developers, the Snipshot services can offer benefits to the people who wish to use this service for their projects or assignments.
  • Allows users to edit RAW files online.
  • Enables users to apply special effects.
  • Making of portraits can be turned faster with the help of face detection feature.
  • No download necessary as the site is 100% browser based.
  • Supports a variety of formats, including GIF, JPG, PDF, PNG, and TIF.
  • Lets users to edit large pictures up to 10 MB, or 25 mega pixels.
Website
http://snipshot.com/
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By Anonymous on 10 Mar 2010 at 10:31

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