Aworkman’s Weblog

            www.picnik.com is a website that you can use to edit a photo by changing color temperature, saturation, contrast, shadows, highlights, and many other things. I think I am most impressed with the shadows, highlights, and contrast feature. The only thing that would make it better in my opinion would be to add more features and tools to the picture editing. A great thing about Picnik is that it is free unlike Photoshop Elements ($99.99), Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 ($99.99), Photoimpact ($89.99), and PhotoPlus ($39.99). Other people also think that this is a great photo editor (http://www.benh.org/techblog/2007/03/picnik-the-best-online-photo-editor/). I edited an image by changing the contrast, shadows, and temperature by turning them up above 0 where it is originally set. I personally like the outcome of the edited photo more than the original product.

           In my overall opinion I think that the basic program is great. One reason is because it is very useful and has a lot of features for a free program. Also it is convenient to edit an image quickly and easily because you just upload an image from your computer and edit it with the tools provided. If you’re looking for a free program with basic photo editing tools then I would definitely give www.picnik.com a thumbs up.