Remember when it seemed like some special future high-tech magic to edit video in the web-browser? Now it’s almost as mundane as composing an e-mail inside Safari. But Pics.io is about to let you edit RAW photos in the browser. The site is currently in private alpha testing, but the promise is of fast online RAW editing on your iPad.
Pics.io will upload your photos – to GoogleDrive at launch, with other options to follow – and let you perform edits. This means that somewhere in the mix is a RAW renderer, capable of taking the soup of RAW data that your camera’s sensor records and turning it onto an image which can be displayed by your web-browser.
This means that – in theory at least – heavy lifting is done on Pics.io’s servers, and that you could actually run it in a tablet browser. In theory: details are light thanks to the alpha status of the project, and the iPad’s paltry RAM might be an issue.
The other neat trick is that the app lets you start editing images before the are uploaded, a boon when RAW files are regularly 50MB and more. Again, details are sparse, but I’m guessing that there’s some offline component to the browser app which lets it get started on a local file.
Interested? Sign up at Pics.io and wait for an invite.
Source: [Pics.io][pics]
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[petapixel]: https://petapixel.com/2013/05/31/pics-io-wants-to-bring-raw-photo-editing-to-a-browser-near-you/
[pics]: https://pics.io/hello
