2/12/08

Info on Picnik.com

Many people seem to enjoy taking pictures and viewing them. One thing however is most photo editor programs are out of the ball park expensive! There is however a website that is free to anyone to use. As long as you make a profile. The site is easily used and very affective. However there are costs to using the free websites. There is a premium sampler, which costs $24.95 to use yearly. Not bad, but it costs. Here's the hyperlink:http://www.picnik.com/



This is an example of what a picture I chose to edit. It is and fun at the same time.


This website seems to be of great help because you could alter the photo. Making it bigger or smaller, fatter or skinier. You can add snow to your picture, or make it a classic photo. In many ways this website is woth the time.
There were many things that impressed me on this website. A cool thing was making the picture look like some sort of high colored painting. All colors were bright. Also you were able to make the photo into neon lights. It was awesome. The neon light made the picture look like it was actually done in real life.

Although there are a few negatives to this webware. One thing that tied my knickers in a knot was how majority of the effects cost money. The website was limited. The premium sampler for example, you couldn't use it unless you paid an extra $24.95 to use the product. However it would be worth the payment once every 12 months. Another thing that was knicker knotting was the confusing color effects. how one slide bar would not do anything, but another would alter the picture completely. Those were my two biggest dislikes of the websites.

Of course in internet, there are lots of other photo workshops. Many of course are advertising as free. As a consumer, you have to read between the contract. It'll ask for credit card numbers, and you end up paying for something in the end. Here are a couple of high pirced photoshops.

With these two websites, they all have amazing software, however, in my book, its not worth as much, because I could pay $24.95 for one year, one payment, and get these same exact tools as these other competitors. Picnik.com is free, unless you want more cooler offers, which is still cheaper.

Here are a couple of positive reviews on Picnik.com:

Written by Elizabeth West:Picasa was the first online editing software that I heard people rave about, but I was left out of the fun; I couldn’t use it from my Mac. I still can’t, because I haven’t upgraded to 10.4, so I’ll never know what all the fuss was about. However, now I can play with Picnik.com, so I’m a happy camper.
Although Picnik is still in Beta, most of the time you wouldn’t know it. The site, which is powered by Flash, smoothly performs many of the tasks that most users want from a photo editor. Furthermore, these tasks are logically organized.
When you first visit Picnik, you are faced with four large tabs: Your Photos, Edit, Creative Tools, Save & Share.

With Picnik you can quickly edit all your online photos from one place. It's the easiest way on the Web to fix underexposed photos, remove red-eye, or apply effects to your photos. One-click photo fixing or in-depth tweaking; crop, rotate, and resize in real-time; tons of special effects, from artsy to fun; works directly with many photo sharing sites.

You could read both of the these articles by clicking on the links.

This is one of the many pictures I used on Picnik.com. The tiger was originally white with colored background. I changed it into a softer classical look, with the color red hinted into it. Seeing as red is the cooler color then most.

Its really easy to do. Of course. its fun as well.

For me picnik.com is by far a good website to use. I plan to use it in my near future. This website gets my thumbs up!