Do you picnik?
Posted by myg
If you’ve got a Flickr photostream, are you using picnik? I am! It’s the new web-based image editor that’s embedded into Flickr, and happens to be my latest SL obsession. In just a couple of minutes I was able to make this image below:
from this original, sent as a postcard from Second Life:
Let me explain how simple this is.
You’re in Second Life. You take a snapshot and send it as a postcard to your Flickr account (go to your flickr account page and look under the email tab to find out the email address you send the postcard to). And if only I didn’t have to paste the email address in every time, wow how much easier!
Then you go to the photo’s page on flickr and hit edit. You can use picnik as long as you can use Flash.
In picnik, under the “edit” tab I cropped and adjusted the exposure. Then under the the “create” tab, I used the effects boost, soften, and vignette. Then under frame I made a border.
It’s super quick and easy. It’s no photoshop, but it’s free (for those of you who don’t have PS and can’t spend the L on it…) and there’s a bunch of fun stuff you can do with it. Also, you can upgrade to premium for additional features ($24.95 a year).
What I love is not stockpiling a zillion random photos on my hard drive and not using PS for simple editing coz I suck at PS and am too impatient to learn and besides, it runs like poop on my computer if I’m running SL.
So, are you using it? What do you think? And on my wishlist is for Vint to review and contrast with PS!
*runs over to Flickr to try this*
Thanks for posting about it!
*waves to Myg & Alex*
Interesting. I think PS (or other programs where you’re editing the base image) allow you to correct issues like jaggy edges, blur by pixel, use layers, etc. But, I will give this a try
Yay Timothy! Can’t wait to see what you do with it!
And yeah Gillian, it’s definitely a limited tool. This is just a handy way to crop and brighten pics without having to even open PS, which has been a longtime secret desire of mine! heh
myg! thank you so much. i got photoshop via my employer for very cheap but its way tmlw for me to learn. this handy dandy little tools is just perfect for the time i have to mess with my pics. gracias!!
I use Picasa from Google to do my minimal editing. To my eyes SL images tend to be a bit dark and the lightening tool in Picasa does the trick. Best thing about Picasa is that it’s free and it helps organize my collection.
I tried to get hooked up with Picasa at one point and got really frustrated with it. I will need to give it another go!
[…] was reading a friend’s post about her friend that posted about this awesome editing tool in Flickr called “Picnik”. So I played with it today […]