Written by WordPress 2.9 built in image editor
WordPress 2.9 is to have a built in image editor, in your admin panel.
It has been long that wordpress will have some new features for image editing. However, I am not sure how much loading time is increased, but hopefully it is not much more that was in last version due to Ajax.
Here are the screen captures (images belongs to WPEngineers)
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