Picnik offers premium image editing features for free

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Picnik offers premium image editing features for free

by Brad Linder Feb 27th 2008

Online image editor Picnik has always offered two tiers of service. Free users could access most of the popular image editing tools, while paid subscribers got a few extra bells and whistles and access to early beta features. But up until this week, there were no ads on the site whether you paid for an annual subscription or not.

Yesterday, Picnik decided to take all of the editing tools that had been available only to Premium members and offer them for free. This makes Picnik one of the most advanced free photo editors around, and puts the company in a good position to compete with FotoFlexer and the upcoming Adobe Photoshop Express.

But Picnik isn't getting rid of paid memberships altogether. You an still shell out $25 per year to get early access to new features, the ability to edit in a full screen mode, and an ad-free interface.

[via Mashable]

Tags: advertising, fotoflexer, image-editing, photoshop-express, picnik

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Amanda said 9:56PM on 2-27-2008

Does anyone know if these new free features will be available via their partnership with flickr? I just tried and it said I need to upgrade to use the features.

Joe said 5:15PM on 2-28-2008

I sent Flickr an email asking them about that, they've yet to reply.

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