14 DAY TRIAL // Some time ago, it was rumored that Adobe prepared a freeware flavor of the famous Photoshop that can be accessed straight from the Internet without any fee. The speculations were not confirmed, but other companies thought that it would be a great idea and developed their own web-based photo editing tool that allows users to manipulate all kinds of image files. According to Philipp Lenssen from Google Blogoscoped, Fauxto was released in late 2006 but it's still a beta service that supports only jpeg, png, gif, bmp and tiff images.
As far I can see, it is quite a useful tool because it includes impressive utilities to work with your photos and several effects to be applied on the pictures. "Fauxto... like photo, perhaps the world's most comprehensive, feature-laden, web-based image editor. It should go without saying that it's way beta, baby," it is mentioned in the description of the product.
The product is quite similar to the famous downloadable tool GIMP, a photo editing tool that is described as the perfect alternative for Photoshop. Besides the basic utilities to edit a photo such as pencils, text and colors, Fauxto also allows you to apply several effects such as sharpen, blur, noise, emboss, posterize, clouds, invert and colorize. You can also crop, resize and flatten the photo as well as work with layers just like with an advanced editing tool.
Although it's not quite clear if the developers of the service intend to make Fauxto a rival for the famous Photoshop, Philipp Lenssen from Google Blogoscoped said that it might be possible to be acquired by a big company such as the search giant and include it into a suite of tools such as the Google Office. As you know, Google owns Docs, Spreadsheets, Calendar and soon Presently, a presentation tool that will complete the suite.