Sumo Paint Brings Illustration Tools to the Web
There are number of web apps out there that offer online alternatives to Adobe Photoshop and other desktop image editors — Picnik, Fotoflexer and Adobe’s own Photoshop Express are some of the options we’ve looked at before. However, most online image apps are geared toward image editing, not image creation, but Sumo Paint would like to change that.
The Sumo Paint site launched in beta form earlier this year and offers many of the tools you’ll find in other similar sites — selection tools, gradients, paint bucket, layers and blending modes and some filters as well.
But what makes Sumo Paint different is the number of options for artists — features perhaps more closely related to Microsoft Paint than Photoshop. For instance, the brushes tool offers options to control size, opacity, scatter, random rotate and gravity, considerably more than you’ll find in alternative offerings.
There’s also an ink tool (which I should note is not vector-based like in desktop drawing apps), a pencil tool and a shapes tool for creating your artwork.
What really sets Sumo apart though is the very slick interface. Obviously taking its design inspiration from Photoshop, Sumo’s interface is Flash-based and should be easy to figure out if you’re familiar with desktop illustration apps.
Sumo Paint is still officially a beta and has a few rough edges, but it’s definitely worth keeping an eye on — especially if you’d like a web-based way to work with illustration tools.
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