Hands-on: Picnik is handy and inexpensive, not very Google-y
- Wednesday, 03 March 2010 19:10
Google recently announced that it had acquired the Web-based photo editing application and website Picnik. We had briefly looked at Picnik in the past, when Flickr integrated its tools for online editing over two years ago. We decided to take a look to see how it has progressed since then, and we compared it to one of the other major Web-based editing site, Photoshop.com.
Like the Photoshop Express editing tool, Picnik is an entirely Flash-based application. You can use it without registering, but you can essentially only work on one image at a time (I learned this the hard way after trying to upload a new image during testing). A free account keeps track of your last five saved photos, and saves settings like the connection to your Flickr account. The site also constantly encourages you to upgrade to "Picnik Premium" for "as low as $2.08 a month." More on that later.
