Unofficial Russian translation now available

Community translated Russian version of the editor is now available. Translation is done by Evtushkin Alexey. Thank you, we really appreciate your work!

Currently the only way to change the language is to set core_locale parameter to "ru_RU" in your embed code.

For example:

var picmeleo = {
key: "842f3298f90f01fa8d7086b05252e7051",
core_locale: "ru_RU",
receiver: ""
}

Enjoy!

Coming up: predefined crop dimensions

Predefined crop dimensions are one of our most requested features. To response to the demand, we've started implementing the feature that enable users to easily crop and scale their images to the specific dimensions.

When we have user interface mockups ready, I'm going to show them to you and collect some feedback. We hope that we can release this feature during May.

Picmeleo Alive Beta launched

Today we launched a new tool called Picmeleo Alive that let's you highlight your photos with mouseover bubbles. We believe that Picmeleo Alive will be very useful to bloggers in particular. Move your mouse over this photo to see how it works:



It's very simple:
1) Open a photo in Picmeleo Alive
2) Add bubbles anywhere you like
3) Save and copy the embed code to your blog or website
4) Voilà! Bubbles appear when your mouse is over the photo

Head over to http://alive.picmeleo.com and try it.

WWD Screencast: Picmeleo

WWD Screencast: Picmeleo from WebWorkerDaily on Vimeo.

Press Roundup

Last week Picmeleo was featured by KillerStartups.com and the MakeUseOf.com directory:

http://www.killerstartups.com/Web-App-Tools/picmeleo-com-making-pictures-come-alive

http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/picmeleo-picture-editor-for-website/


Here's also an interesting review in Portugese
http://www.baixaki.com.br/download/picmeleo.htm

Get it now! New free version of Picmeleo Photo Editor

After some period of silence we're back and very happy to announce a brand new version of Picmeleo's photo editor. It's totally free and ready to be integrated to any website!

Check out the demo on the blog sidebar or our website www.picmeleo.com. You can add the editor by signing up here and copying a piece of embed code.

We had to change a bit our initial direction, but we hope the change is for the better. What do you think? Give us your feedback!

Why are we creating Picmeleo?

Welcome to the Picmeleo Blog's first post! In this post I'm going to write about the motivation behind Picmeleo project.

We've started this project to fullfill our own needs. We've been designing and developing hundreds of different kind of web services. Case after case we are heading the same problem: publishing images for the web is difficult. With for example content management systems or web shop platforms - open or closed source - the problem exists.

There are numerous good and advanced WYSIWYG tools for text editing, like CKEditor or TinyMCE. But something similar for images? No.

There is something wrong in this setup!

We wanted to offer browser based image editing tool for our clients. We wanted that our clients can edit their images for the web without buying an expensive desktop app. We wanted that image editing is smooth and easy and the image editor is easy to integrate into various environments.

After exhaustive search we found nothing for our needs. So there was no option - we have to make it by ourselves.