Collaborate on the quick with Finetuna

Finetuna is a dead simple collaborative image annotation tool. Meant mostly for casual designers, it lets you make a few short notes on an image and send it off to someone else. As soon as they get it, they can view your edits, make their own, then send it back. This keeps the paper trail out of your e-mail in-box, and in a single place.

Finetuna's key appeal is that it does several simple things with ease. You can highlight, underline, and cross out text. There are also simple tools to insert text and make comments, which are essentially the same thing; you just get a box to write in suggestions to the sender. There's no free-form doodling tool to make mark-ups, which photographers might yearn for, but the highlighter comes close.

Finetuna lets you make small suggestions or edits to an image, then send it off to someone else--all for free.

(Credit: CNET Networks)

There are a handful of ways to get images into Finetuna, although the easiest is just to upload the shot from your computer. You can also drop in a direct URL from where the image is hosted, or download the Firefox extension which lets you mark up an image from any page you're on.

I'm not sold on professionals using this over tools like ConceptShare and ProofHQ, but if your basic needs are highlighting, making small comments, and you don't want to sign up for anything, it's tremendous.

[jennifer-pcb]

I think professionals may be able to use this on smaller scale myself. <br /> <br />That actually gives me quite a few ideas for my real estate business &lt;a href="http://www.jennifermackay.com"&gt;Panama City Real Estate&lt;/a&gt;. <br /> <br />I can use that for my new home buyers when working with the home builder and/or architect. Specially if they are not in the area. <br /> <br />I can see lots of uses for this application for the real estate industry actually. It looks like a nice quick and easy way to get clients comments on floor plans or layouts etc. <br /> <br />Not to mention it just looks like fun and free is always a good thing :) <br /> <br />There was another website that offered something similar to this awhile back, but I can't remember the name of the site. It was mostly used for family photos and the like. Perhaps you can remember the site? <br /> <br />Thanks for the story.

[alanorourke]

Thanks Josh for the great review. Glad you like it.

[weblaureate]

this is so neat-o. already using it. i guess it was named by a hungry kitty cat :) makes me feel...<br />http://web-poet.com/2008/10/12/and-the-cat-thinks/