When comparing Pixlr Editor vs Photopea, the Slant community recommends Photopea for most people. In the question“What is the best online image/picture/photo editor?” Photopea is ranked 1st while Pixlr Editor is ranked 2nd. The most important reason people chose Photopea is:
Photopea allows dragging & dropping images in to the browser window to upload them and add to the scene.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Works with Google Drive
Can be used to directly edit images right from Google Drive after installing its Chrome App.
Pro Can save to cloud or download
Pro Has a Chrome App
Pro Can zoom using mouse wheel
Pro Has advanced filters
Pro Has most Photoshop filters
Pro Drag and drop support
Photopea allows dragging & dropping images in to the browser window to upload them and add to the scene.
Pro Very reactive on feedbacks
Pro Fast to load
Pro Can save as PSD
This means you can open these files in Photoshop, so if you don't have Photoshop on one device, you can still export your Photopea project and continue editing on Photoshop on another device
Pro Photoshop Like Interface
It has a Photoshop-like interface with most of its features for basic editing.
Pro Has many features
Pro Uses Photoshop standard shortcuts
Pro Requires no browser plugin
As it is an HTML5 application, running it requires no additional plugins on modern browsers.
Cons
Con Requires Flash
Con Ads
There are ads on the main page of the site, making for a less than stellar fit on screen. This can of course be countered by using an ad blocker in ones browser, though this does not work when using the Chrome Web Store app (which is the same as the site) as adblocker's do not work on Chrome Webstore apps.
Con Some known bugs
- If you save and the name you give has system weird characters like :, <, >... it'll simply refuse to save and do nothing (you'll have to give a name without those characters first).
- Saving to cloud is broken in many cases
- Merge down layer with mask changes actual rendering (workaround: first apply layer mask)
- ...
Con Lacks drag and drop support
Doesn't yet support dragging & droping images in to the browser window.
Con Hard to get used to it at first
However, you'll get used to it later!
Con Has only basic filters and operations
