Since we're talking about photos this week, here's a note from Pat Velte, my Web guru.
I thought it might be helpful for some of your artists to know they can edit their images online at Picnik, a great site that's free. There's no need for any software and they can crop, resize (yes, image some of them finally learning how to resize!), adjust and use filters. No need for Photoshop–all they have to be able to do is upload the file and then download it when they're done.
It's really a lot of fun and even Time magazine recommended it as an alternative to Photoshop in their recent article about how free software is gaining ground.
Update: Picnik joined Google in 2013 and helped with the Google photo editor, another free photo editing tool. There are so many other options online now, just a search away.
4 thoughts on “Photo resizing with Picnik”
Picnik really is cool. Another one of these sites is called Splashup http://www.splashup.com. It’s not quite as slick as Picnik, but it can get the job done. In fact I had just did a video tour of both Splashup and Picnik and posted them both to my blog. You can check them out here http://www.craftedweb.com/resources/video-tours-two-online-digital-image-editing-tools/
Thank you so much for the Picnik tip! I love that I can add text (copyright info) to a photo so easily 🙂
Thanks for this info! I haven’t been able to do much with the program that came with my camera. I’m anxious to try it out! Christine
I’ve used Irfanview for years, and find it quite easy to use. From what I can see, it is alot like Picnik. Free and easy to learn are good!