Pixlr Editor - Online photo editing

Pixlr Editor - Online photo editing

{* offline image loaded into pixlr }

There seems to be a huge surge of on-line photo editing tools to compete with Adobe's Photoshop Express. Online Adobe Photoshop express editing is in infancy compared to robust feature set of offline version. With the recent update, Adobe has updated light room features to it.

I found an interesting online photo editing tool pixlr.com's Image editor.

The UI looks so crisp and nicely rendered. It's pretty quick too in all aspects. Interestingly it's done in flash and the whole scripting is done inside single flash file.

Surprisingly UI and presentaton looks more like Adobe native UI. Adobe's Photoshop Express's suppose to have the offline photoshop UI, which is not the case.But pixlr.com's Image editor has very similar layout as Photoshop CS4. That's the big plus in identifying itself with offline photoshop UI.

Interestingly 'Undo' feature works as Ctrl+Z in pixlr and also many other keyboard shortcuts works too. Loaded image can be edited and saved to offline unlike Express.

>> Checkout pixlr online image editor

Bangalore, mango and election

Bangalore, mango and election

(Mango next to my bedroom window !)

It's hot summer beating anvil of heat. To give instant relaxation to mood and swiveling heat wave on the heads, it rains randomly in Bangalore. Life just rolls on with more recession news, Overclocking design at my notebook, hot coffees, lovely raspuri mangos, jog on thread mill, long walk on the wet pavements of randomly drizzling days, and of-course with my favorite movie session a-now-and-then. And it's a election time again. First time in my life my left hand index finger's tip is oddly dirt ;) in this Lokhasabha election !

A fresh feeling lingers inside me while driving on lovely, greenery clad streets of drizzling Bangalore. When it rains in Bangalore I love to get out of my seat and drive slowly, listening to my favo music playing in stereo. City is just sexy when it rains ! My favorite driving stretch is Laxman rao park double road near south end. I love the pleasure of driving slowly and my streched out hand feeling the cool wind. A song move gently inside me like a wafer carved out of mango, I hum to myself :

This is the springtime of my loving-
The second season I am to know
You are the sunlight in my growing-
So little warmth Ive felt before.
It isnt hard to feel me glowing-
I watched the fire that grew so low. | The Rain Song

"Paradise Now"

"Paradise Now"

{My movie of the week}
I got a chance to watch an amazing movie "Paradise Now" in UTV world movies, recently.

It's the biggest example how great movies can make you feel for the character who is nowhere near you, and you don’t know about them and you still feel about them. That’s the magic of “Paradise Now”

It's a 2005 film directed by Hany Abu-Assad about two Palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack in Israel. It focuses on what would be their last days together. story of two young Palestinian men as they embark upon what may be the last 48 hours of their lives. On a typical day in the West Bank city of Nablus, where daily life grinds. Having a bomb strapped to your waist would raise doubts in anyone--and once doubts have arisen, they respond in very different ways.

It's a penultimate message conveyed to any terrorist, to any brain conspiring behind peaceful nation. Everyone talks about terrorism and its aftermaths. Hardly one gets a time to peak into the soul of terrorist, and glance into his insight about world, love and people. Movie is quite special because of the characters chosen, the director, the story line where it takes place. I suggest any movie buff to watch this Arabic genre Paradise Now.

one of the wonderful lines of director Abu-Assad about movie: "The politicians want to see it as black and white, good and evil, and art wants to see it as a human thing."

Most of the time movies are made out of inspiration or adaptation. This movie is made in the place, where the terror has stuck time and again. In the pauses of movie's pace, lot of finer points to unravel and feel. The silence of the characters makes u utter the words they couldn't.Since terrorism is spreading like a octopus around us, it's the time to watch and also I suggest this one to a terrorist before embarking on erasing thousand smiles somewhere.