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Friday TechTip for May 16, 2008: Digital Photo Rodeo, Pt. 3 and Survey

Posted by techtips on May 16, 2008 in Web Service, TechTips

Good Friday afternoon!

Today is the last part of the digital photo rodeo. Apparently you can’t beat a dead horse too much. Over the past couple of Fridays we’ve covered various tools to organize your photos on your computer as well as hosting options to share your pictures with family and friends. In today’s tip I want to tell you about two online tools for editing your photos. The great thing about each is that they fully integrate with both Flickr, Facebook and other services, so you if want to edit photos you’ve already uploaded elsewhere, you’re in luck!

Picnik – http://picnik.com – Picnik has a very colorful, Web 2.0 look about it. You can even use it without creating an account, however you’ll need to establish one if you want to access the photos you’ve already uploaded to other services. In addition to Flickr and Facebook it also interfaces with Picasa Web Albums, MySpace and other services. Picnik offers a full slate of editing and photo correction features for free. They also offer more tools for Pro accounts which cost $24.95 per year. When I’ve used it I’ve found that the free version has met all of my needs. Picnik is also a great tool to use to edit a photo you have stored on your computer. Simply select your computer as the source, upload the file, make changes, and then Picnik will save the file back to your computer.

Photoshop Express - https://photoshop.com/express – Adobe has decided to join this space as well and now offers Photoshop Express. Currently it is an entirely free service and also offers 2GB of online storage allowing you have yet another place to share photos with others. It also interfaces with Flickr, Facebook, Photobucket and Picasa Web Albums (sounds familiar doesn’t it). They offer a series of short instruction videos under the help section to help you get started on the path of photo editing excellence!

Personally I really like both services for different reasons and think there’s room for each. As with the services mentioned over the past two weeks, it really comes down to what your needs are when deciding which one is best for you. Next week we’ll be moving on to another topic, in the mean time please take 60 seconds to answer 3 questions to help me better gauge your needs and interests:

Survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=KiwaGqSvfQdi22AGqI5orA_3d_3d