I have recently discovered a website called Picnik run by Google, which
is a photo editing website. And I also recently discovered that in
April of this year it will be canceled and move many of the popular
features to other Google properties, including the Google+ social
network. From what I have read Picnik users are not too happy about
this move because they feel as though Google is trying to force them to
use Google+. Some say google+ isn't user friendly others are
unimpressed and uninterested in using it.
Anyways, atleast for
the next few months I will have access to all of the features Picnik
offers on one website. I have so many pictures of my daughter I have
taken on my cell phone because it was the fastest and easiest way to
take them at the time and some are gritty and out of focus. This
website allows you to chose from many free photo editing options and are
all very user friendly. You can crop, sharpen, change color, resize,
add special effects, borders, etc. with nothing more than the click of
your mouse. I have yet to find another free photo editing website that
is this user friendly and that offers that many options for free. There
are premium options that you can pay for also, but the majority of them
are free. And you know what they say, if it's free it's for me!
Feedback:
Erin- I never heard of this website and I just got done playing with the
tools. This site is pretty awesome and I'm not particularly interested
in working with photos. After even a few minutes I found myself going
through a bunch of my photos and trying out the cool effects. Any idea
why they are moving it to google+? And what is google+? It's too bad if
the move is going to ruin the set up and integrity of the site. I think
I'm going to use this website while it lasts to get some cool pictures!
Thanks for the cool site!
My response to feedback:
A friend suggested it to me when I was looking to clean up some of my
blurry photos. Google acquired Picnik a few years ago and is shutting
it down supposedly because its taking some of its basic features and
incorporating them into the google+ social network which is just another
way of "socializing online and sharing content". I've heard they want
Picnik users to come to the google site instead of a separate website
even though it was owned by Google. Not sure what features will be
available and if they will all be in the same place or you will have to
search for them. It's too bad because I was just getting used to it.
Feedback:
Have you ever tried fotoflexer.com? It allows you to do alot and I believe it is still free and not moving to google+.
My response to feedback:
I just went onto this site and I like it. I has a lot of the same
options that Picnik has and it is free!!! It also allows you to edit
photos from facebook and a few online photo storage websites which is a +
too. It must have been around for a while because they have a button
to download from myspace and that was years ago.
Mrs. Novak, I have not heard of Picnic either, but I have had some interaction with google+. It is a very similar idea of skype, but I dont think it is as good. You can, however, allow 10 people at one time to speak to one another. I am not sure is you can do that in skype. That would be the only advantage that I see.
ReplyDeleteErin,
ReplyDeletePicNik is totally a cool way to edit pictures! I have personally never used it because my photo library comes with a built in editor, but I have seen people's facebook pictures that were edited with Picnik and they are awesome!