It may scare the daylights out of your Creative Director, but we think browser-based image editing is a concept that will stick. If your CMS helps staff to manage content changes online -- outside MS Word -- why not also manage the most basic image changes outside Photoshop? Some CMS vendors, like Day and CrownPeak, already provide this capability. Now Ektron is offering browser-based image editing as an extension to its nearly ubiquitous rich text editor, eWebEditPro. That means it could be showing up in a CMS near you before too long. Like all approaches to browser-based decentralization, there are ample opportunities for abuse here -- you don't want everyone editing images for the same reason you don't want everyone editing press releases. But we think there are even greater opportunities to train staff to perform basic image manipulation (e.g. scaling, cropping) within the CMS, rather than outside the system...
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