Spring and summer are on the way so it’s time to get ready for some picniking (that is not a typo). Oh, you may also want to get ready for the Daylight Saving Time change in a week or so on March 9th but that’s another story. Just don’t forget.
I am going to recommend a site that I found out about a couple of weeks ago that could save you lots of money. If you are like me you may want to “touch up” some of your photos after you have taken them with your digital camera.
There are lots of software packages out there that will let you do this like Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro and many others. However, if you are also like me you don’t have the several hundred dollars to spend on those packages. You may have even gotten some type of photo-editing software included with your camera. That may be all you need. However, if you don’t have those things you should visit www.picnik.com and test out Picnik.
Picnik is free graphics editor that can do many of the basics in photo editing plus some of the not so basics. I did say, “free”, and that is true but if you want more advanced editing features you can pay $24.95 per year. That is a steal if you are really into editing your pictures and the site says this includes, “Advanced editing tools, more effects, more fonts, and more shapes!”
Basic editing includes such features as; red eye reduction, resizing, rotating, cropping, adjusting exposures, color saturation, etc. In other words there are many things available, some you may use often and some that you may never use. No matter which there should be enough to keep you busy. Once again, this would be for the average photo taker. If you consider yourself a professional amature or higher then you will want to get something more heavy duty with more abilities.
I know that there are other online editors out there but this one seems easy to use (for me) and doesn’t have a lot of features that I don’t need. I am mainly using it now for editing photos for the new Double Click site. The site will include some photographs that I have taken over the years. No I don’t consider myself any sort of photographer but even a blind pig can find an acorn every once in a while.
More on my site redesign in the next few weeks but until it is ready, go have a Picnik.
In case you already use them Picnik mixes well with Flickr.com, Facebook.com, Photobucket.com, Picasa.com (my favorite) and Webshots.com. All of these are existing online photo sites where you can save some of your photos and/or view others.
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