Sumo Paint - An free online Photoshop

Website: www.sumopaint.com

Photoshop. A program that allows us to exercise our creative talent for digital media. It allows us to edit images for creative and funny purposes and also allows us to create digital sketches and designs that mirror those in real life. Many of us have thought once in their life about using Photoshop.

The only problem is that most of us don't have the money in order to buy the better Photoshop programs, such as Adobe Photoshop or Sketchbook.

Introducing Sumo Paint, your free ticket to supply your photoshopping needs. Sumo Paint is a free online photo editing website that pretty much covers everything that Adobe Photoshop could give you. It's simple to get started. All you need to do is make an free account and start working on whatever piece of media you want to create.

Features of Sumo Paint

Like Adobe Photoshop, you are able to upload an image and use certain tools, like the liquify, crop, change tone, colour to recreate the image you prefer.

Sumo Paint also allows you to paint your own digital drawings, as a normal software would and comes with all of the tools for you to make a piece of art. It includes the brush, erasers, colour palettes and other tools you can use to make a drawing/painting. You can then save your creations or edits onto your computer in any format that you like for you to view and share with your friends.

Being on the internet gives Sumo Paint the opportunity to edit from not only from your computer but also from the internet as well. You can type the URL of a photo when starting new project and it will appear when you start. In fact, you can get an image from the Sumo Paint website and edit them however you like.

There is also a fullscreen mode which behaves like the fullscreen mode that you can find on Youtube. It fills up your whole screen and can be reduced to its normal size with a touch of the esc button.

Sumo Paint is easy to use, having its own help section if you want to look something up.

They will guide new users to explore the tools and give descriptions of each one. It's better than using the tools not knowing what each of them do.

Uses in Learning and Reasons for Recommendation:

Sumo Paint allows under-privileged people in the world of computer graphics to try out Photoshop programs for free. It only takes a few minutes to start an account to access all the tools you need to start adding better illustrations into your work.

For School, it can be used for making better graphic for designs in subjects such as Design Technology, IT, Art Textiles and subjects where you can use it for designing. It is not limited to just those subjects. What if you need to illustrate a diagram for a math assignment but can't find a good one? Use some coluored straight lines and text in order to make your own.

For those in Y7 and Y8 you can use this to prepare for a Photoshop unit that you will have to do in ICT. Many of you will not be able to get Photoshop in time for this unit and will have to resort to using the school's computer which cna be a hassle in and out of school. Using this will solve the problem of having to pay for Photoshop programming.

By: Michael Kang 9F