Saturday, March 24, 2007
Life's a Picnik (sorry)
I discovered this very useful tool for editing photos online. The web 2.0 site is called Picnik and like most web 2 stuff it’s in beta. What makes this application interesting is the tie in to your Flickr account. You can allow Picnik access to your Flickr account and do all your editing online.
It certainly does not have all the features of Photoshop but all the basics like contrast, brightness, histogram editing, crop, sharpen and red eye removal are there. There’s also about 14 filters and special effects. It seems they can keep adding these as the product developes.
Picnik certainly seems like an ideal setup with Flickr for travellers. Many photos end up being viewed online anyways so why bother with a desktop program for basic editng only to transfer the images again?
Old way.
Take photos, download to computer, edit with Photoshop, resave, download to Flickr.
New way.
Take photos, download to Flickr, edit and resave in one step.
Downloading twice is the real time killer.
No doubt Adobe is cluing in to this. There are rumors of a partial online component in a future Photoshop version.
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