Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Free Resource: Picnik.com - Photo editing the easy way, online in your browser

I love to be able to share free resources with others! Ran across this site in a blog post and checked it out.

Picnik.com is an web app photo editor. It works on Mac/PC in just about any browser. There are a ton of free features, but the more advanced come with a "premium" membership.

If you need to make some quick, basic changes to a photo - like crop, resize, contrast/brightness, tint, etc. - picnik.com allows you to do so quickly and easily. I was pleased with the array of available FREE effects that are available.

For fun, I tweaked a rather poor shot of myself into a colorful cartoonish caricature in a matter of seconds. It is now my new Twitter profile pic. (it's not great, but that's not the point...)

Picnik includes the ability to export to several different standard formats.

Perhaps one of the best features is that you DON'T have to signup or register in order to use it. You can just book mark it and go to it when you need and no need to "sing in" in order to do what you need to do. Just upload a photo and go.

Picnik also let's you connect to several popular sites where your pictures are already stored (Flickr, Facebook, etc.) so you may not even have to upload. I didn't try this feature, but I like the idea.

In general, I'd say it's worth checking out. Great for volunteers who don't have access to things like Photoshop.

Jason Cooper (@cooperjason)
Cooper-ation Ministry Resourcing
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