January 18, 2008

People-Powered Photoshopping

by Sean Leow (PSFK Shanghai)

tucia.jpgWith over 200 million Internet users in China, there’s bound to be someone who is willing to help you photoshop your pictures. At least that’s what Tucia, a new Chinese “witkey” website, is hoping. Users upload their photo, describe how they want their photo edited and provide a deadline. Aspiring designers, photoshoppers and students edit the photos and send back a final copy to the original photographer, all for free. Tucia follows the lead of other successful human-powered web services in China like Baidu’s popular Q&A site.

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Article categories: Design, Trends In Asia, User Generated Content, Web & Technology

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3 Responses to “People-Powered Photoshopping”

  1. unif
    Posted from: 218.0.242.105

    January 19th, 2008 at 10:56 am

    actually,tucia.com is not another chinese ‘witkey’,because tucia is free and u will never see 100 designers bidding for one photo on tucia.

    it’s better to consider tucia as an anti-chinese-witkey, while 100 users asking one hot designer for help, and the designer can choose to help or reject, just opposite to chinese witkey model.

    truely, it’s a human-powered revolution for online photo processing.

  2. Sean Leow
    Posted from: 218.81.105.250

    January 21st, 2008 at 2:17 am

    The reason I mentioned Witkey is because Tucia is similar to other Witkey websites in China who usually, but not always require a fee for answering a question or performing a service. I assumed (possibly incorrectly) that there will be a payment element (business model) added in the future when a critical mass of users is achieved.

    You may want to see the blogger Luyi Chen’s from China Web2.0 Review who also calls Tucia a “Niche Witkey Community for Photoshoppers”

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