Photo Editing Web App: A Review of Picnik

I've been using the Picnik web app for that past week or so for editing my photos (thanks to @KateMontgom for the tip). Been quite enjoying it, and here's why.

Firstly, its free, and there's no need to download any app. It even installs into Chrome if you want it to. Works on Windows and Mac. Whoop! All good so far. I love the easy integration with other photosharing sites and social networks (more on that later)


If you register (yes, its still free at this stage) you can upload 5 photos at a time, otherwise if you are happy with one at a time then you can continue to use without registration.

Its very simple and easy to use thanks to the friendly interface and has some good features and effects.

Different effects applied to the same photo

Here is an example of the original photo with different effects applied: Cross Process, Color Focus on B&W, Neon. And there are heaps and heaps more, all with the click of your mouse.

There are touch up features available as well, such as blemish fix, red eye, teeth whitening and my favourite .....'Insta- Thin'. Talk about Insta-Win!

You can also adjust the exposure, highlights, colour, contrast, crop, resize, sharpen, many of which have an 'auto' setting to correct your photo in one click.

Within each effect there are lots of options to allow you to change the end result, eg brush size, fade percentages etc all controlled using sliders like the ones shown below.


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