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WSJ - Personal Technology - Now, It’s a Picnik To Edit Your Photos Using a Web Program, by Walter S. Mossberg (in 860 words)
One of the best examples of these slick new Web-based application is Picnik, a sophisticated, photo-editing application offered free of charge at picnik.com. I have been testing Picnik and I like it a lot. It’s a fast and impressive program for tweaking and improving your photos, then posting them to popular photo Web sites, saving them to your own computer, emailing them, or even printing them.
Picnik, which comes from a small Seattle company called Bitnik, isn’t meant to compete with Adobe Photoshop, or to serve professional photographers or dedicated hobbyists. Instead, it’s for the same casual photographer who would use the limited editing tools in Apple’s iPhoto or Microsoft’s Windows Vista Photo Gallery. …
The designers of Picnik have done such an elegant job that I wish the site would allow storage of photos, or organization of photos across your multiple online accounts and your hard disk. If you want to see how good a Web application can be, take Picnik for a spin.
ninme falls about coughing
July 25th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
Well done! This could be under “Peter Recommends”.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
Walt, you forgot to mention that it still takes 50 seconds on a broadband connection to upload your photo. It is about as good as a web product gets, but such a major lapse of mention does take away from your normal lack of bias…
July 26th, 2007 at 6:35 am
I’m starting to get the picture.
July 26th, 2007 at 8:31 am
I can’t, for the life of me, understand why I would want to edit my photos (especially multi-megabyte TIF files) with a web-based application instead of the superbly-crafted Irfanview. I-view is free (and no ads), less than 2 MB in size, doesn’t invade the registry (it can even operate from a flash drive), provides all basic editing functions AND, will also play all video formats (if you want it to). Millions of people use it, and Irfan (the developer’s name) continues to upgrade it. Try it, you’ll like it.
July 29th, 2007 at 5:04 am
I for one prefers Darkroom 101.
Seriously, I do miss the smell of acetic acid, nothing beats the magic of the developmer tray.
July 29th, 2007 at 11:16 am
Ah, three hours of fumes on an empty stomach.