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October 19, 2007

Flickr To Add Online Photo Editing Tools Via Picnik

Michael Arrington

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flickrnik.pngFotoflexer may be my personal favorite among the many online photo editing tools, but Flickr has chosen Seattle-based Picnik to handle the long requested photo editing feature for Flickr users.

Currently, you can rotate photos on Flickr, but the editing stops there. When the new tools launch, users will be able to edit photos more extensively using the Picnik Flash based tools (see our review here).

The deal has been signed and implementation will occur sometime in the next few months, Flickr told me yesterday. Users will be presented with an edit option on the photo page. Clicking it takes the user to a new Flickr photo edit page, with the Picnik tools integrated via an iframe. After editing, users can add the edited photo to their Flickr account or, if they are a Flickr pro user, overwrite the original.

Business terms around the deal are not being disclosed at this time. Picnik is self funded to date.

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  1. Allen Stern

    October 19th, 2007 at 2:30 pm

    Will there be any Picknik marketing? The screenshot doesn’t show any.

  2. Michael Arrington

    October 19th, 2007 at 2:41 pm

    screen shot is just of current picnik UI. I am not sure yet about the exact integration.

  3. Allen Stern

    October 19th, 2007 at 2:45 pm

    aah - thanks

  4. Sonia

    October 19th, 2007 at 3:03 pm

    i love picnik! fotoflexer is cool too but picnik is my fav!

  5. Alaska Miller

    October 19th, 2007 at 3:05 pm

    curious:

    1) why can’t they develop this in house with the plethora of Yahoo engineers?

    2) why won’t they just buy picnic?

  6. Miss K

    October 19th, 2007 at 3:12 pm

    Picnik Rocks! YAY!

  7. Steve Ballmer

    October 19th, 2007 at 3:20 pm

    Flickr To Add Lame, Weak, Jive Online Photo Editing Tools Via Picnik.
    More accurate, hehe

    http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

  8. Allen Stern

    October 19th, 2007 at 3:20 pm

    alaska - many times integration is first step to acquisition

  9. Michael Arrington

    October 19th, 2007 at 3:23 pm

    FYI, I made some changes to paragraph three around how integration of the products will occur. Trying to get a concept screen shot of how it will look as well.

  10. techmine

    October 19th, 2007 at 3:26 pm

    For me, martest move by flickr since I got the Pro account last year. Seems like Flickr is serious about their future innovations. I hope Video upload comes soon.

  11. Stef

    October 19th, 2007 at 3:33 pm

    Yet another smart move for Flickr. Definitely the jewel of the Y! necklace.

  12. Tony Wright

    October 19th, 2007 at 4:05 pm

    Picnik is just plain outstanding… Great move by Flickr.

  13. charles

    October 19th, 2007 at 4:13 pm

    en… picnik’s functionality is kinda limited compared to fotoflexer, wonder why would flickr choose picnik

  14. Eric Fredericks

    October 19th, 2007 at 4:24 pm

    Flickr is getting better and better every day. Hope this happens very soon, it will save me a lot of time instead of editing photos with GIMP then uploading.

  15. Tan The Man

    October 19th, 2007 at 6:21 pm

    Finally…

  16. Ryan Stewart

    October 19th, 2007 at 7:49 pm

    Wow, this is awesome news. Congrats to the Picnik guys, I love their service and it’s a great example of what Flex can do.

    =Ryan
    rstewart@adobe.com

  17. Ouriel Ohayon

    October 19th, 2007 at 11:12 pm

    Sorry Mike for me Picnik was the killer :) i think Flickr made a good choice

  18. Ouriel Ohayon

    October 19th, 2007 at 11:53 pm

    And by the way they have a great plugin for FireFox which already enables the integration in Flickr. Here you can have a look at the result

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/6.....1648234597

  19. Jeffro2pt0

    October 20th, 2007 at 1:25 am

    I guess no one read or watched the Picnik demo video http://www.jeffro2pt0.com/video-demo-of-picnic/

  20. Emad

    October 20th, 2007 at 6:17 am

    It’s about time they did something like that… I usually use desktop editing software but picnik is pretty cool, there is a review at http://www.thetechbrief.com/20.....ck-picnik/

  21. Bruce

    October 20th, 2007 at 6:24 am

    I really like Picnik, but with one major caveat: if I use it for more than a few minutes, it starts slowing down my computer, eventually making it unusable.

    This has happened on more than one computer — it’s a real problem.

    Has anyone else experienced this? Have any suggestions for how to prevent it?

  22. Orli Yakuel

    October 20th, 2007 at 7:43 am

    Nice. I think Picnik will be a great addition to Flickr.

    FYI,
    Picnik Firefox add-one:
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4889
    Placing an edit button on top on every Flickr picture, but when you click on it, it’s take you to a Picnik page (where you can edit your Flickr pic). I guess the integration will be the same, but the editing will be from Flickr page itself. (powered by Picnik of course)
    Screenshot of Firefox add-one:
    http://flickr.com/photos/orliy1/1654471397/

  23. michperu

    October 20th, 2007 at 1:16 pm

    Agreed. It’s a very nice move for Yahoo!

  24. ryan troy

    October 20th, 2007 at 1:36 pm

    Congrats to Jonathan and crew for some of the slickest UI around. FB app integration is very smooth as well.

  25. Mike Harrington

    October 20th, 2007 at 1:39 pm

    Bruce,

    Sorry to hear that you’re having problems. We’d like to know more about the problems that you’re seeing with Picnik. Can you send us feedback from within Picnik? Select feedback from the Picnik help menu. This will help us get a better idea of your OS/Browser, etc. If could also let us know how much RAM you have that would be helpful too.

    Mike Harrington
    Picnik

  26. Eric Monse

    October 20th, 2007 at 11:28 pm

    This sort of application integration has been on the horizon for a while. - Eric Monse

  27. Mikey

    October 21st, 2007 at 12:18 pm

    Picnik, Hmm I shall keep a close eye on it so maybe you will see something about this on http://www.WhichWebsite.com we regularly post website related news and reviews on websites daily.

  28. Jennifer

    October 21st, 2007 at 1:10 pm

    We have an interview with the Picnik crew here:

    http://www.photoshopsupport.co.....tware.html

  29. Ohio Farmer

    October 22nd, 2007 at 12:33 am

    @Alaska Miller

    “1) why can’t they develop this in house with the plethora of Yahoo engineers?”

    Flickr is bought by Y!, but that doesn’t mean they now share offices, run around in purple Y! shirts etc. They’re pretty much still doing what they were always doing. It’s still quite autonomous company, yet sailing under the Y! flag.

    “2) why won’t they just buy picnic?”

    Again, Flickr is not Yahoo!. Y! Would have to buy picnic. Seems like they don’t want to.

  30. thekaran

    October 22nd, 2007 at 7:26 am

    I’m sure yahoo will end up paying lot more to PicniK in an year or so.

  31. Simon

    October 23rd, 2007 at 3:20 am

    Seems like they are a bit behind. Image editing tools in flash? Why not create a ajax / canvas implementation. It would be a much better use of the tools!

    CMS systems are integrating these tools as standard soon, like Silverstripe. I wonder what took them so long.

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