Shared Creation Magazine

We’ve talked about online music mixing before, but nothing like Animoto.

Put simply Animoto is a place to mix photographs, video and music. However what is cool is that it has a whole bunch of great tools and also the ability to match playback to the beats of the music.

In other words - very fast and east music video creation.

Its great for education, great for video podcasters, musicians and artists.

One cool tool

Last week I noted the launch of Photoshop Express, but at that time I was unable to test it.

Now I have.

Which gave me the problem of reviewing it without gushing too much. Then I decided that perhaps what you needed to know should come in a bit of a torrent.

It is a seriously beautiful, flexible and powerful web application. It comes with 2GB of server storage for free (nice!) but most importantly this is a clever piece of software. It is not going to replace Photoshop on a desktop, but for quick editing and presenting of photographs it is ideal. After using it you cannot help to thing that the day of software as  service for most people is pretty much here.

From an artistic point it gives you a great deal of control of your photographs from any Internet enabled location.

One odd thing I did notice - it integrates with a lot of web services such as Photobucket and Facebook; yet it does not allow you to load photos from Flickr. This is a great shame. I can’t help but wonder if that is something to do with Adobes long term plans for Express. Will it be a Flickr killer? I can’t answer that one yet. All I can say is that I really like Photoshop Express

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We’ve mentioned a few online photograph editing systems in the past but none with so venerable a name as this. Adobe has launched its much anticipated online version of Photoshop. I haven’t had a chance to study it in depth yet so - take this as an announcement. No doubt I’ll take a longer look in the near future.

In the meantime if you want to know more here is the website:

https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html

http://workerant.co.uk is a new web site for those who work from home or alone. The idea is simple - People who need work done place ads on the site and people who want to do work can advertise themselves on it.

It supplies a place for those who want to work and those who work to meet up.

At the moment the site is young, but already there are adverts for designers and photographers on it. This could well grow if WorkerAnt takes off.

This could become a useful resource for those who are trying to step into the world of working in a creative capacity for themselves. If you have a demonstrable talent this may help you start to make an income from it.

I’ve just found out that Aesthetica magazine has developed a free events listings section in its web site. It’s very simple - fill in a short form and your event gets listed.

Looking at the events it does seem that Aesthetica is capturing a wide range of things going on. In fact given the Aesthetica ethos of covering arts in a cross media fashion, it is very likely that Shared Creation readers will find this useful. Both Aesthetica and Shared Creation believe that arts are becoming more and more interdisciplinary, with creators using a wider variety of techniques and collaborating with others to create their works.