Sixty-employee PicMonkey isn't likely to dethrone Adobe among serious professionals, Habermann said. He co-founded InDesign earlier in his career. That makes PicMonkey, which costs $6 a month for an annual subscription, a more serious competitor to Adobe's own products - not just Photoshop for photo editing, but now Illustrator and InDesign for design and layout, too. Multiple photos can be placed on a larger background and turned into fill for shapes and text, Chief Executive Frits Habermann said.
The company also significantly expanded the app's utility as a design tool, not just a photo editor. Browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Apple Safari have made it harder to run Flash, and Adobe in 2017 announced it'll scrap Flash in 2020.īut the new PicMonkey foundation, announced Wednesday, is only one change. But browser makers have been banishing plugins because of problems with security, performance and battery life and because the web itself has embraced many of Flash's features, like advanced graphics, camera controls and polished text. PicMonkey for years used Adobe Systems' Flash Player plugin for web browsers. In the meanwhile, remote working has became a standard and thanks to various technologies we are communicating effectively and consistently.PicMonkey, an online photo editor, has taken the web technology plunge - and not a moment too soon. In this way, we speed up the processes and don’t waste time waiting for feedback and instructions. Same goes for PicMonkey’s QA team: while we are sleeping, they can test and validate features we previously added or fixed. However, we are using this situation to our advantage and are able to work on adding features and bug fixing while our colleagues in Seattle are sleeping.
One of the challenges is working on two continents and in different time zones (our team is in Graz and PicMonkey’s in Seattle). Aside from the maintenance and improvement of the existing platform as well as the launch of the new one, we were also working on the relaunch of PicMonkey’s mobile apps. The project rapidly unfolded as a multifaceted scheme in which various tools and technologies were used and more and more of our services were needed – from designing the software architecture to developing for web and mobile. By then, PicMonkey had to seamlessly migrate hundreds of thousands of users to the new platform. Although the end of Flash was set for late 2020, all major browsers started disabling it mid to late 2018.
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