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Dear friends!

Let me introduce to you Whimagic Online Image Editor. Well, there is no shortage in various image editors available to users. To have a chance of winning "hearts and minds", a new tool has to explore some alternative approaches and provide some advantages upon existing ones.

Please take a look at the images at the right. These images, prepared with Whimagic, illustrate a quite important concept:

-- It is much easier to deform than to draw.

Frankly, I amazed myself creating them - my drawing skills are almost non-existent. It seems to be proven that almost any person  can transform an existing image to something quite different and (at least) interesting. What it takes is a bit of imagination and a little time spent mastering the image transformation technique.

-- But what about custom drawing? - you may ask...

The most commonly used device for the image editing most of non-professionals "enjoy" is the mouse, which is as convenient for painting as a pencil held with long pliers. Maybe someone can use mouse for drawing curved lines precisely the way he/she wants, but it is not me. Whimagic image editor introduces the following solution: it allows to paint new image elements (curved and straight lines, colored areas) and then deform them as many times as needed without affecting the previously painted elements. If you want to fill some area with color you can draw/recolor an initial circular area and then reshape it in any way you want to.

There is one more thing to consider. Whimagic is a Java Swing applet. Not so long ago a future of the client-side Java seemed to be at least questionable. Unfortunate conflict between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems left the client-side Java mostly to corporate users and computer professionals. Recently things have changed dramatically. Both companies declared that the war is over. Now Microsoft claims to re-establish its full support for Java.

Enjoy!

Best regards,
Felix Golubov.

June 27, 2004

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