SUMO Paint Review

SUMO Paint is a free, Web-based art and photo editing program. This program is easy to use for non-technical users. All tools are self explanatory. With a little trial and error, users can quickly learn to manipulate images using the tools. Images can be opened from your computer, the URL, or the SUMO account. You can also access all fonts from your computer to add text to your images. Images can be saved to your computer or SUMO account. In order to save to SUMO you first need to register which is quick and easy with practically no personal information. I had fun playing around with student’s photos but I need a great deal more experience to take full advantage of this application. My favorite feature was the star shape tools. I used these features along with the color filler tool to jazz up images. You can manipulate the star shapes and create different sizes, appearances, and shapes. I feel teachers can utilize SUMO Paint when creating visual aids especially with PowerPoint. If you are planning to buy an image editor, first give this application a chance. It does a nice job editing images for later use. Here is an example I created: