Splashup, formerly Fauxto, is a web-based tool for editing and managing images.

My significant other just walked by and asked “Is that Photoshop? ” A reasonable question, as Splashup both appears and works in Photoshop style. There is the canvas work area and there are palettes and familiar tools like brushes, paint bucket, eraser, and the marquee tool. You can work in layers, merge layers when you are finished, and save the final image in other file formats, while retaining a copy in a native Splashup format. Splashup integrates with Facebook, Flickr and Picassa photo-sharing.

Today when I tested it again, I could neither open one of my own photos from my computer nor pull in photos from Flickr. Another thing that tripped me up was the plus and minus signs for adding and removing layers. I kept removing layers when I meant to add them. But otherwise, I’m really excited about using such a powerful (and free, for now at least) image editing tool on the web.