• Adobe Photoshop-like image editor (+ a Firefox extention that allows you to do screen capturing)
• Special effects creators
• Color manager (for creating and finding swatches designers can store and use).
• Adobe Illustrator-like vector editor for logo creation (for subscribers only)

Not bad, said I, but why should my friends care? (I didn’t say that.) Michael said, Because I love them all and want them to be happy! (Michael didn’t say that).

But I do have discount codes for you.

The service has a paid annual subscription fee. The first 100 folks who click here get $55 off your yearly subscription. (I don’t get a cut, sadly.)

So, if you need more than what comes with my favorite Picnik, then get into Aviary, which is just packed with illustration and photo tools you can’t even imagine without risking the explosion of your head.

So there.

• A.viary is a hardcore photo editing app, kind of like Photoshop without the price tag and disk install. But it’s way cooler than that. It’s a whole lot of really interesting editing abilities and a whole community of people doing their own thing with the tools that makes this one a great choice. Note: it’s still in an invite-only beta period (when does that end, guys?), but maybe I can score you a few invites, if you’re interested. Let me know in the comments, and I’ll ask the team.

• Picnik is a lightweight photo editing tool that gets me through pretty much all of my needs right now. I use it about twice a day, and have found that it does most everything I need from a photo editor. It’s not really good with batch-based activities, but if you’re into editing things one at a time, this is for you.

• Skitch (the bonus round) acts as a screen capture and annotation tool. It’s super easy to use, has just enough tools to be useful but not so many that you feel bloated and misunderstood. I use it to do lots of odd jobs on capture screens and little images from web pages. Definitely good to have.

More and more, I’m choosing tools and applications that live in the cloud. Why? Because after dropping my laptop the other day and losing every on-disk application, I realized that there are lots of benefits to having my data and my tools available from anywhere there’s a web browser. There are some exceptions, of course, but when I find great web tools, I want to share them.

What about you? What are you using on the web that’s cool?