I’ve been following online photo editors since they first presented. I’ve even created an in-depth review of 6 most promising such products. After that, many new products arised - I reckon there’s by 15 free online photo editors out there. And at least 5 of them have lots of features, good usability and speed - in short, they’re all around solid products.

But I will never use any of them in my daily work.

It’s simple: they lack one feature that might seem too abstract or too complex or not essential to the developers, but it’s fundamental to me (and, I guess, thousands of other users): crop & resize at the same instance. You know, it’s that thing in Photoshop where you set your crop area to some predefined size, and whichever portion of the image you choose with the crop tool, it will get cropped and resized (up or down) to the exact size you’ve selected in the toolbar. I need that feature considering I work for the web; on most web sites, you have some predefined image size that you use, and you want to fit as much visual info

in it as possible. I reckon most online journalist can’t do without that feature; whether they don’t use it, they should; it’s a life saver.

The reason why I remembered that is considering I’ve just found about yet another online photo editor, perhaps the most full-featured of them all, called Cellsea. The first thing I tried to do, of course, is crop a portion of the image to a predefined size. And, of course, it doesn’t work. It crops, but it doesn’t resize.

Once again, no crop&resize.

So, all in all, I’ve tried by a dozen free online photo editors, and should they all amount to nothing in the end, I will consider it to be due to the lack of that one simple feature. perhaps I’m the only one who thinks that way. Or, possibly all those developers that created all these photo editors were all wrong to omit that one feature. It happens sometimes, you know.

Once again, it’s back to Photoshop for me.

Original post by Stan Schroeder