Picnik now supporting Pixel Bender
Picnik, the official online image editing software for Flickr (and others), has just added support for Pixel Bender, Adobe’s pixel shader-like platform. Users can not only use Pixel Bender files they have created or found online (say, from Adobe’s Pixel Bender Exchange), but also use an assortment of readily available filters inside Picnik. There’s a photo thread about it here, with users showing off the results of said filters applied to their own images (you have to go to Picnik’s main app and activate the “Sandbox” feature to use it; editing from Flickr won’t work).
This, and a few other similar developments, make me believe Flash Player 10 will have the fastest adoption rate of all player versions – big websites and online applications will want to push it out. Call me crazy, but I think in 6 months it’ll have a 90% penetration rate already – previous versions needed around one year to reach that mark – and we’ll all be able to target it without feeling too guilty about it.
[...] actually quite surprised that my own prediction of a 90% in 6 months for Flash 10 – previously it would take one year for Flash to reach that mark – seems more realistic now. That, [...]
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[...] One year ago, in October 2008, Flash Player 10 was released. At the time, due to some major early adoption, I predicted it’d reach a 90% browser penetration after 6 months. [...]
Posted on 5/October/2009 at 11:55 | #
[...] Part of it is the initial investment, but one of the things I think is telling is that the Picnik guys never switched away from Flash. They had the basic start in Flash Player 8, built it on (I believe) Flash Player 9 which gave them the performance improvements they wanted, and they even moved to Flash Player 10 pretty quickly to get better file upload support as well as make heavy use of Pixel Bender. [...]
Posted on 2/March/2010 at 23:30 | #