Picnik

Award-winning online photo editor that gives users fast, easy access to powerful photo editing tools from any computer platform on any Internet browser.

Picnik is the default editor on Flickr and PhotoWorks and integrates seamlessly with a variety of websites including Facebook, MySpace, Picasa Web Albums, Photobucket, Webshots, Lexmark and Box.net. In December, 2007, Picnik won the Macworld Editors Choice Award in the Web category.

Its appeal comes in its simplicity and ease of use. Picnik is very user friendly. Its avoids the cutting edge, youth market focus of sites such as Flektor, instead delivering what can best be described as a web based version of Picasa aimed directly at the mature end of the market. Moms and Dads, to Generation X users who are tired of the trendy graffiti style hip focus of other services will love Picnik.

Picnik is quick and clean, and comes complete with built in support for Flickr, Picassa Albums, Photobucket and Facebook albums. The company has grown largely due to its popularity on facebook as it is one of the largest photo editing tools used on the platform.

On February 27th, 2008, Picnik changed its premium service. Features will now be all ad-supported, with the premium service being offered to those wanting to get rid of the ads.

Picnik has a premium version of their editing tool that will give you more advanced features for around $25 a year. Its feature set will increase by approximately a feature per month.

Picnik can always be used as a guest, without needing to register.

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