ImageWell: Photoshop Unbloated

I’m just going to come right out and say it: you need ImageWell. Period. No matter who you are, this app will prove useful at some point. After five minutes of playing with this app, I knew that it was going in my dock and I wished I had it much sooner!

In short, ImageWell is a simple image editor that’s not so simple. Do you ever have those times when you fire up Photoshop just to crop or resize a simple image? Until I discovered ImageWell, I found myself doing that all the time. But now, instead of waiting for Photoshop to open, I just drop an image onto the ImageWell icon and use the intuitive interface to resize and then save my image. But what if you need to do more extensive editing? Then you’d open up Photoshop, right? With ImageWell, that’s not the case. Click the Edit button at the bottom of the ImageWell window and you gain access to a host of more in-depth features, including drop shadows, opacity, shapes, text, and more.

For bloggers, ImageWell has even more features under the hood. For example, you can quickly and easily watermark your images and publish them directly to an iDisk or FTP server. Another great feature is a built-in screenshot grabber, which will take a full screen snapshot or just a selection area. On top of all this, ImageWell opens in less than a second and uses up only a small amount of memory, a welcome change from the resource hog that is Photoshop.

There is so much more to say about ImageWell, but I recommend that you download it and give it a try. I doubt you’ll be disappointed. ImageWell is free from XtraLean Software, but if you want to unlock some premium features, you can buy the ImageWell Xtras package for $14.95.