One of the biggest advantages of working on a blog is that you can work on it from almost anywhere as long as you have an internet connection (and I’ve even worked on mine without an internet connection and uploaded the content later).

Even if you don’t have a laptop with you and go into an internet café, you have the same options in WordPress as you do at home, so you can write and publish posts, and to a certain extent even tweak your theme.

However until now I have always faced the problem of editing photos whilst on the move.  I love Adobe Photoshop Elements on my computer in the office, and even have an older version running on my laptop for longer trips.  But when I’m on the train or in a café I use my netbook, which runs Linux, and where I have installed GIMP.

Now I’ve discovered a new plug-in for WordPress that is going to make my life easier – and probably yours as well, especially if you don’t yet own a decent graphics suite.

It’s called WP Paint and is probably one of the most complex WordPress plug-ins that I’ve seen, yet it sells for less than $10 per site (at the time of writing). Continue reading →