Picnik

Picnik is a web-based photo editing site which allows the user to upload, edit and add items to photos in a snap.  The webware is incredibly easy and so much fun to use!!  I initially learned of Picnik from people's uploaded photos on facebook (all of which were bedazzled and decorated with hearts and wild fonts).  I was surprised to find that so many of my younger friends (the ones decorating their photos like so) were competent in photoshop!  Little did I know, and later learned, that they were doing these impressive photo edits on Picnik. I thought I would try it out.. The image tbelow is the original photo. I took this photo in the summer of 2008. I always wanted to edit it and fix it up but never really had the time to learn how to really fix it up.

I uploaded the photo into Picnik and in a matter of 8 to 10 minutes, I had a finished product! (see image below) All I did was change the exposure, soften the background, highlight the flower in the foreground, zoom in a bit on the foreground flora, and add some fun text. It was incredibly easy and I had to peel myself away from the computer to stop myself from spending all of my time editing old photos!!

What do you think? Try out Picnik for yourself!