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New PhotoSnack, BannerSnack and SnackTools release

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Yesss !! Finally it’s here. We’ve been working on these new versions for a few month and last evening (local time) we finally released them: SnackTools, BannerSnack and PhotoSnack.

It took a bunch of great people working for many hours for the past few month. I have to thank my colleagues from the Flash and PHP department for making this possible (and for the many extra hours put into this new release), not forgetting Alin, the product manager for PhotoSnack who came up with the many great features of the entire application, the workflow and the photo albums, Raul who helped us with the design and workflow for PhotoSnack and who is the product manager for BannerSnack, Tibi our great web designer and of course the marketing department without whom, many of you wouldn’t have heard of BannerSnack and PhotoSnack.

Thank you guys, we really make a great team :D.

As for the new releases, you’ll notice a great difference between the new and the previous versions. Now, you can have access to any of those SnackTools apps from the same account, which is a SnackTools account. The new design optimizes the workflow within the web applications so you can make the best of them. You should check them out. Of course, we tried as much as possible to leave your existing banners and albums exactly how you made them.

PhotoSnack comes with a few more photo album templates and new features like downloading a published album and improved publishing system. You can check out the new features here. BannerSnack also comes with new features like a new and improved workflow, undo/redo actions and improved transition effects. The publishing system has features that are only available by purchasing SnackTools points so you no longer have free or premium accounts.

All that’s left to do is for you to try them out. Of course we are always interested in what you have to say about our SnackTools apps (ideas, comments, feature proposals) just send us an emai at contact@snacktools.com or leave a comment to this post.

Photoshop online

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Last week, Adobe has launched an online version of Photoshop called Photoshop Express. Of course, it’s an image editing tool, based heavily on Flash/Flex technologies and it’s still in the beta version. They have a Test Drive module that lets you try out some of it’s features, but you’ll be able to have full access once you sign in to your account.

Personally, I really like the interface they’ve designed. It’s really clean and elegant. All the elements of the screen are placed in such a way that you can concentrate on your image editing. A really nice feature is the ability to upload and store your images (up to 2 GB) and organize them into galleries. You can also import images from other sites like Facebook, Photobucket or Picasa. It’s also great that Adobe left all the features free and didn’t put a price on some of them.

Overall, it’s similar to Picnik, another Flash enabled online photo editor which which lacks the ability of creating your own albums but it has more effects to apply on images. Also it can access images from Flickr albums and you can save the edited image back to one of your albums on MySpace, Picasa, Flickr, Facebook, Photobucket or your computer. In Picnik’s case, you need to buy a premium service to be able to have access to all the functionalities.

Right now, there’s a huge difference between the number of features of the online tool (Photoshop Express) and the ones of the offline software package (Adobe Photoshop CS3). But this online version wasn’t intended for the professional photo editors or designers. I believe it’s quite ok for occasional photo editing done by beginners who only what to tweak a little their photos before publishing them online.

Time will tell which one of the two online editors will get more attention from the public. Photoshop Express has behind it an experienced team in creating photo editing tools and all the features are for free. Further more, it offers 2 GB of space to the users to save and share their photos. Picnik on the other hand is more feature rich, but it comes with price. Try them out and decide for yourself which one is best for you.

New way to make easy money

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JumpeyeComponents launched yesterday a new program meant to help registered users get “a piece of the pie”, either by receiving money or discount coupons for JumpeyeComponents products. Once a user has registered, he/she has access, from the user account, to JumpeyeComponents’ Referral Program. The main idea is that you can create your own campaign which consists of a special link to JumpeyeComponents’ website, generated by the referral program and which must be placed in your website. Every time someone follows the link from your website to JumpeyeComponents and buys a product from them, you get 20% of the sale (in cash or discount coupons). If you have several websites, you can create a campaign for each of those sites (one link - one site) and increase your chance of having someone buy a component through the links on your websites. For more information about JumpeyeComponents’ Referral Program, access the program’s web page from your JumpeyeComponents account. If you don’t have yet an account just create one, it could turn out to be useful for you.