Online photo editor: Picnik
If it didn't keep locking up my browsers, I'd be totally head over heels.
Posted on 2007-02-23 14:56 by Jørn Støylen [permalink]
Today, Photojojo praises a new online application for photo editing called Picnik, and I can understand why. It’s an extremely slick web application which works in a very intuitive and user friendly way. For example, getting it to work with my Flickr account was a breeze.
But getting it to work after getting it to work with Flickr wasn’t as easy. I tried editing a couple of my badly color balanced mobile pictures, and while the resulting pictures look much better, it caused my browser to hang several times during processing (and I even tested in Safari after Firefox hung twice, with the same result), requiring me to restart the browser. That said, full props to Picnik for getting me right back where I left, with almost no work lost.
I’m looking forward to when it’s getting more stable. To be fair, it’s not much more than a month old, and has the all too common “beta” tag in the upper left corner. So while I won’t be using it much right now, I’ll be following their blog to see how it comes along. And I suspect it might work better in Windows, so if you’re a Windows user, go ahead and check out Picnik and judge for yourself.
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Hi Jørn, could you email me specifics on your OS, browser, and Flash plugin versions? Would also help to send feedback via Picnik itself (assuming you can get it to stay open that long!).
Yes, it’s still in beta, but nobody should be seeing stability issues at this point. Thanks!
Peter: Email sent!
And for the record, it was on an Intel Mac. I’ve just been testing Picnik on my iBook G4, and it works without hanging! I’ve been using it to fix my stencil tag mobile camera pictures. Much easier than downloading, fixing in Photoshop and uploading again.