Online photo editing continues to be a hot market. From Flektor, Slide and others with a MySpace focus, to Adobe’s development of an online version of Photoshop later this year, there’s a lot on offer or soon coming to a browser near you.
Seattle based Picnik has grown an audience without gaining much attention. We previously covered the site in February as part of an overall market review. Facebook’s F8, the Facebook as a Platform service is going to change market awareness of Picnik, Picnik being an early content provider to Facebook’s millions of users.
Picnik is a user friendly service. It’s 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, clean, easy to use and comes complete with built in support for Flickr, Picassa Albums and Facebook albums. Registration isn’t required to use Picnik. It simply works, and works well.
Since F8’s launch last week, Picnik has added an additional 50,000 users and according to co-founder Mike Harrington is now the third most popular service in this space behind Flektor and iLike. The site remains in independent ownership but with this level of functionality is bound to be an acquisition target in the future. Give Picnik a try then imagine Picnik’s photo editing functions natively in Flickr; I’d like to see that!
(image via Blake Burris)
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i got to play around with it after i added it to my applications. i’ve kept it because i love it so much. not only does it allow you to use basic photoshop tools to ready photos but it gives you creative tools as well. i found myself quickly making pieces of art that i’d put on my deviantart account in a matter of seconds. it’s absolutely fantastic. now if it would just motivate me to upload those pics stuck on my memory card.
This is best described as a light online version of Photoshop Elements - It has enough Image Editing tools to satisfy the newbie as well as the intermediate-level Graphic Designer.
The only thing it lacks is layers, which a couple of online tools offer.
If there are any image editors out there, the Creative Tools area is well worth exploring
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This is best described as a light online version of Photoshop Elements - It has enough Image Editing tools to satisfy the newbie as well as the intermediate-level Graphic Designer.
The only thing it lacks is layers, which a couple of online tools offer.
If there are any image editors out there, the Creative Tools area is well worth exploring
Tired a few different site like this before - basically from the out this does “what it says on the tin” - simple, flexibe and everything you need to touch up those flickr photos that you batched up, without thinking about fixing first
Love it.
Is the Picnik co-founder Mike Harrington an alias of Michael Arrington?!
Boy-o-boy would I love it if this sort of functionality was included in Flickr! In my mind this is exactly the sort of thing that Flickr really needs to integrate. Just imagine if someone like Zooomr was to integrate editting tools into their offering? I don’t see how Flickr could stay competitive without jumping into the game!
@ Search Engine Web - I think Fauxto (http://www.fauxto.com) is closer to what you are looking for. I’ve covered both Fauxto and Picnik in my blog at http://www.riapedia.com/
Mike
Hey, who are you calling “the mature end of the market”?
Anyway, Piknik requires no download, provides what I need, and just works.
Thanks for the link, if not for the all-too accurate demographics.
What about photobucket and webshots? It’s not enough? Picnic without video uploading? Just the next community. We shall see what we shall see.
I love Picnik and have been using it for a while now. I got rid of Photoshop and Paint Shop pro and only use it since I’m not that advanced at editing graphics. I love how I can connect to my Flickr account and spice up a few old photos.
mike harrington?
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Interesting to see your final note. “Native” flickr support to such editing. A lot of people are asking Flickr to come up with similar tools. Flickr does not want to loose eyeballs in this way. If major services like Flickr and Picasa come up with their own tools (online editing), Picnik and other services can come under pressure. Nevertheless Flickr continues to remain a good platform for 3rd party application development like Picnik. Hope Flickr remains “open” to the world, even if they develop their own tools.
Online Picasa sounds nice. Maybe Google will give it a try?
I think the Picnik interface appeals to not only the Generation X like you said, but to mostly every internet user. It doesn’t bind itself down to one style, and its welcoming.
Picnik is rad!
It certainly appeals to all ages with the slickest UI around.
If only they would add blends and cut outs …….
picnik does look great /
it’s good
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Wow, great site, There’s really lots of free online photo editing tool nowadays. http://deefunia.com is also a cool site to edit photo.