Picnik online photo editor goes pro

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Picnik online photo editor goes pro

by Brad Linder Sep 26th 2007

When we spoke with Picnik co-founder Mike Harrington a few months ago, he told us that the site would eventually have two tiers: a free image editing service, and a subscription version with more features. This week, Picnik officially launched its paid service, for $25 per year.

Paid subscribers get access to extra editing tools, effects, shapes, and fonts. The free service also got an update this week, with Photobucket support. Here's some of the new features available to paid users:

Photobucket support - edit photos from Photobucket and/or save your images to the site
Effect painting - choose certain effects and apply them with brush strokes
New effects including invert, pencil sketch, and pixelate
Add shapes, symbols, or speech bubbles
Touch up tool for whitening teeth or removing zits (from photos, not real life)
New image frames

$25 a year seems like a pretty decent price to pay when you consider how much professional editing software like Photoshop can set you back. And because Picnik is completely web-based, the company can continue to roll out new features for paid users without asking you to upgrade.

Eventually some of those new features will probably make their way to the free version as well. But you get what you pay for, and Picnik will most likely be using its free site to promote its paid services.

[via WebWare]

Tags: image-editing, photoshop, picnik

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jane said 8:22AM on 10-01-2007

Click http://flauntr.com/
flauntR is a nice tool for editing and styling photos online.

Beverly said 1:55PM on 10-08-2007

I love the way you can fix pics wit this

nittystone said 9:22PM on 11-24-2007

http://www.Webpictool.com is image editing software that is gaining its popularity by supporting 10 languages which includes English, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Arabic, Chinese and Japanese.

It is also the only software that has a border or photo frame option and there are 25 different designs for users to pick from. Besides that, users will find plenty of cool special effects that the other programs do not have. Webpictool user will get Faded Times, Newspaper Photo, Manga and the really cool illusion effects (emboss, frozen, faded red, childish green and bright orange)

Webpictool allows you to add a watermark to you final image. If you are not sure which tools to use, please kindly refer the help file with sample pictures of the effects. It also enables user to grab images from a computer or a website for editing.

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