Tuesday
Jan012008
Picnik: Best On-line Photo Editor
Tuesday, January 1, 2008 at 09:26AM
I'm a bit of a geek when it comes to photo editors. A lazy geek. I don't want to spend hours with PhotoShop, and I don't have a Mac (yet) to be able to play with Aperture. That being said, I'm pretty picky about post production work on photos.
I've been a hard core Picasa gurl. I'm addicted to the *glow* enhancement in Picasa. I've also been pretty hot on paint.net... but for some reason, I don't have enough reserve memory to make it run smoothly on all my machines. (My fault, not Paint.net's fault). Paint.net has got some outstanding plugins for softening portrait pictures.
Before Christmas, I stumbled on Picnik. I'm in love. So much so that I'm using it almost as much as I use Picasa. So much so that I even opted for the uber-membership. Picnik integrates itself nicely with Flickr, Facebook, your Picasa Web Albums, and any other on-line photo infrastructure you might have adoped.
Picnik's got features, flexibility and some really neat creative tools. Think Lomo-styling, or Holga, or the Infrared filter I've been trying to recreate. Utterly goof proof. Now that I've shared the secrets, I'm sure amost everyone who thinks I'm a reasonable photographer will begin second guessing my so-called skills. Really, it's all about the tools ;-)
I've been a hard core Picasa gurl. I'm addicted to the *glow* enhancement in Picasa. I've also been pretty hot on paint.net... but for some reason, I don't have enough reserve memory to make it run smoothly on all my machines. (My fault, not Paint.net's fault). Paint.net has got some outstanding plugins for softening portrait pictures.
Before Christmas, I stumbled on Picnik. I'm in love. So much so that I'm using it almost as much as I use Picasa. So much so that I even opted for the uber-membership. Picnik integrates itself nicely with Flickr, Facebook, your Picasa Web Albums, and any other on-line photo infrastructure you might have adoped.
Picnik's got features, flexibility and some really neat creative tools. Think Lomo-styling, or Holga, or the Infrared filter I've been trying to recreate. Utterly goof proof. Now that I've shared the secrets, I'm sure amost everyone who thinks I'm a reasonable photographer will begin second guessing my so-called skills. Really, it's all about the tools ;-)
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Reader Comments (2)
Thanks for the great compliments!
Please send us feedback if there are any features that you would like to see add to Picnik to make it perfect.
Thanks,
Brian
Team Picnik
I've tried using Picnik, but find that it really slows down my machine...eventually to a dead stop.