Sweet photo editing features in Flickr
This news about tight Flickr and Picnik integration is awesome. I reckon Picnik must be one of the coolest untalked about web apps around, and it is amazing they havn't had more press. I've been using them for a few months now and only yesterday signed up for a premium membership which I can now take advantage of directly from my Flickr stream, sweet!
For major amateurs like myself Picnik does pretty much everything I imagine I'd ever use Photoshop for if I only knew how, plus it is entirely web based, visually gorgeous and fast...amazingly fast considering all the heavy lifting it does (and I'm all the way down here in NZ). This partnership is going to do huge things for Picnik in terms of users. Surely the acquisition announcement must be imminent.
The pic is a picnik remix of Flynn & me at the park...a little Lomo filter and a bit of drop shadow(!)
UPDATE: I think Picnik is feeling the impact of integration with Flickr and the sudden load, which they presumably expected, but for whatever reason it is running slower than it has in my experience...hopefully they can address this smartly.
You’re right, Picnik is definitely one of the coolest apps that people aren’t talking about yet! (was new to me)
I’d tried a competitor back in the day (“online version of photoshop”) and was a bit let down.
I like the “new” design btw. (not sure how new it is as I normally read via RSS =))
Neat idea. Hopefully soon Microsoft and Apple will get the idea of making it easier to do stuff that we intuitively expect to do, like cropping and resizing before uploading to sites like Flickr.