Picnic, a photo editing program associated with Flickr, is now gone. What do you do when that was the basic program you used for editing your photos?
Did you know there are a several photo editing sites online that are absolutely free?
PicMonkey – my favorite for quick editing with a lot of options. It’s very similar to Picnic only you don’t store your images online. You don’t even need an account! Instead you upload the image you want to edit, work it over, then save it directly to your computer. Here’s a before and after of Tybee Island Lighthouse in Savannah, GA taken by Brownie on their trip to Florida in May.
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With PicMonkey you can even create beautiful collages to post on your blog!
Pixlr Express is similar to PicMonkey but there aren’t as many options for effects.
Pixlr Editor is a great site for those that want even more control over the editing of their photos. It is similar to Photoshop with many of the same features – layers, levels, exposures, curves, etc. Just like PicMonkey you don’t need an account for either PixlrExpress or PixlrEditor.
Oh thank you Cocoa! I was beginning to think my “edited photos on the blog” life was over since Picnic shut down. It was too much work to put the pictures on the iPad and use an app to edit and then import the edited ones into another app to make a collage. I love that you can make collages on PicMonkey. I’m off to check out some new photo editing sites!
I also like picassa. That way everything can actually be on my computer (because I am a freak like that!) until I put it out on blog land. 🙂
PicMonkey is lots of fun though. 🙂
Oooooh, thank you! I have been looking for a good program to edit photos, and feel free to laugh, I have been trying to do it with Adobe Indesign…. could there be a more horridly hard way to do things? I am off to try these out, free and user friendly? That is just about heaven.
I love, love, love PicMonkey. I wish it was connected to Flickr like Picnik used to be, but it’s still fabulous. I wonder how much it’ll cost when they start charging for premium…
Picasa has worked well for me, but just an fyi… As a homeschooler, if you ever decide to pursue Photoshop/Lightroom/Photoshop Elements, you can get an educator discount via the Adobe website. I wouldn’t recommend the whole Photoshop (which I bought), but lightroom or Elements instead. It’s really complicated. Hopefully, I’ll have the time to figure it out how to use it in a basic way soon.