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There are plenty of services nowadays that work with photos. Retouched images usually fulfill their purposes much better than raw ones. If you develop a service that allows its users to upload photos, wrapping a photo editing tool right in the service prior to uploading could save much time for your end users. Even though there is a large amount of photo editing software, both for desktop and mobile and online, editing a photo or a batch of photos in such software could be slower than editing the photo within your service UI.
Let’s imagine a user choosing a photo, applying some changes to it, and simply uploading it. They wouldn’t need to use a complex desktop or mobile software; they wouldn’t need to waste time by uploading the original photo to an online image editing tool first, then having to save the edited image locally, and finally uploading it to your service.