The FotoFlexer Blog

Rafe Needleman, editor of Webware.com says: “Fotoflexer… is redefining what you can do on the web.”

But you know that already.

As announced yesterday, FotoFlexer won in the Webware 100 - which showcases the best apps on the internet - but now we have also been selected as one of Rafe Needleman’s very own top ten favorites. We’re not kidding, check out the video. This is a great accomplishment! Rafe is not an easy man to impress, but clearly, FotoFlexer has impressed.

Thanks again to our users. You guys made this happen!

It’s official: FotoFlexer has won CNET’s 2008 Webware 100 competition! A huge number of users have voted FotoFlexer as one of the 100 best web applications, out of a group of thousands. We’d like to give a heartfelt “Thank You!” to all of our wonderful users who took the time to vote for FotoFlexer. CNET Editor Rafe Needleman also highlighted FotoFlexer as one of his ten own, personal favorite websites — thanks Rafe!

Please continue to tell us ways to enhance FotoFlexer – we’ll keep listening and working to ensure FotoFlexer gets better and better!

Thanks to all of the great FotoFlexer users and everyone who voted in the Webware 100! We appreciate your ongoing support.

From Josh Lowensohn at Webware:

“I got a chance to talk to Alex Welch, CEO and co-founder of Photobucket about picking FotoFlexer over building out an in-house editing tool. Welch said that editing was the No. 1 user requested feature on the service…”

From Jeremy Neal at Lead Inspectors:

“Fotoflexer is a great tool for web publishers, bloggers, professional photographers or anyone who edits photos for business or pleasure.”

From Scott Gilbertson at Wired:

“FotoFlexer, a web-based photo editing application, has rolled out an impressive upgrade with new features designed to compete with desktop software like Photoshop.“

From Josh Lowensohn at Webware:

“Web based photo editor FotoFlexer has been given an update this morning that’s specifically designed to accommodate the needs of advanced users.“

From Kristen Nicole at Mashable:

“Looking at the new features that will be offered with the professional FotoFlexer service, it’s clear that the company is hoping to provide more detailed options for modifying images in a less automated way, and allowing users to get more involved on a deeper level with their images.“

“Web based image editing tools are all the rage right now, …but the best and most powerful is probably FotoFlexer.”

“We like FotoFlexer for it’s awesome integration with social networks.”

“Unlike Photoshop, it offers some pretty slick how-to videos on it’s website.”

“[FotoFlexer has] an extremely impressive smart-resize feature that resizes photos or lets you cut elements of a photo without any distortion.”

Watch the complete review on CNET TV:

www.cnettv.com

We hope you enjoyed a wonderful year! We’ve been busy, and having fun at FotoFlexer.  Since it’s the year-end, we thought we’d reflect on some of the nice things written about FotoFlexer:

“FotoFlexer [is] a user-friendly photo editor that offers one-click tweaks, along with advanced tools on par with desktop class photo editing software. All in all, FotoFlexer is a really well put together app that could make a solid piece of standalone software. The fact that it’s free and runs in your browser makes it even better.”

– Webware

“FotoFlexer is a powerful, simple-to-use, highly automated and feature rich online photo editing and enhancement tool. Probably the best web-based Photoshop alternative out there.”

– Makeuseof.com

“FotoFlexer looks like the editor that devoured the features of all the rest and then went back for seconds.”

– Lifehacker.com

“FotoFlexer continues to be my favorite online photo editing tool.”

– Michael Arrington, TechCrunch

“FotoFlexer is a powerful Web-based image editing solution with features that let users do more with their images than any other online editing site — and in some cases, even more than can be accomplished with desktop photo editing software like Photoshop.”

– CameraTown

“FotoFlexer: Incredibly clever image resizing.”

– CNET

“Rich Internet Applications in action: FotoFlexer, Nike Air and eBay Desktop”

– Adobe online RIA showcase

We truly appreciate the great support and feedback. 2008 will bring some great surprises that no one on the internet has ever seen before. Stay tuned.

FotoFlexer: Incredibly clever image resizing

by Rich Trenholm