How does SplashUp match up?

Were you once using Fauxto and you’ve been wondering where it went? Well, Fauxto is back by a different name – SplashUp – and it’s a relatively useful tool if you do a lot of photo editing.

SplashUp is an editing tool that is in its own Web browser. SplashUp is compatible with all Web browsers and it allows you to edit photos from your desktop or many of the photo sharing sites on the Web such as Picasa, Flickr and Facebook. A cool characteristic about SplashUp is that you can edit pictures from various sites and export them back to their original location once you provide your login information.SpalshUp contains advanced tools similar to Photoshop (minus the ever-useful lasso tool) such as layers, layer effects, filters and brushes. You can edit multiple pictures at once, which is a useful tool that usually found in programs that you must purchase to use.

SplashUp is currently in beta. Users are able to start the editing pictures immediately from the homepage, there is no need to sign up or login. An undo/redo button is available and that’s a nice utility.

However, I am a big fan of Picnik and its simplicity. I would rate SplashUp’s difficulty level between Picnik and Photoshop but I think they are attempting to reach a difficult audience. At this time, SplashUp doesn’t enable more tedious picture editing for a photo editing guru and it isn’t easy enough for a novice.