Need a way to resize photos, adjust contrast/brightness in a computer lab, library or other environment where you can't install your own software? Modifying your pictures is a picnic with Picnik, the free, online photo editing site.
No membership is needed to use the site. You can read and save photos in a variety of formats: jpg, png, and tiff, just name a few. Recently Picnik has recently entered into a partnership with Flickr.com which allows users to edit their Flickr photos just by clicking a button on the same page with their pictures.
Currently the site is free. There are some premium features, such as levels and using histograms, that become accessible if you pay a membership fee. Most of what you want to do you can get done for free.
Is this site the same as having Photoshop or Photoshop Elements? No, but it does give you tremendous functionality for free, from any computer that has an internet connection. The Wall Street Journal's Personal Technology columnist Walter Mossberg likes it. Picnik.com has also been written up in a number of other publications:
PC World: Picnik.com-Outstanding online photo editing for casual photographers who live online.
Benedict Herold's Tech Corner Blog: Picnik, the Best Online Photo Editor
CNET's Webware site: Flickr gets Picnik's online photo editing
Accroding to CNET News, Adobe is currently working on an online photo editing program called Photoshop Express that is slated to launch later this year. For a reviews of other free online photo editors (such as of Fauxto, Picnik, Picture2Life, Pixenate, and Snipshot) visit this link.
Editing your photos online no matter where they are stored is the trend of the future as photography moves from editing, sharing and storage being done on the computer desktop to more of those functions being done on the Internet.
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