Picnik Lets You Edit Photos From A Browser
Sometimes you don’t need the Photoshop powerhouse for basic brightness or contrast editing.
I discovered this very useful tool for editing your pictures online from a browser. The web 2.0 site is called Picnik and like most web 2 stuff it’s in beta. What makes this application interesting is the tie in to your Flickr account. You can allow Picnik access to your Flickr account and do all your editing online.
The program is like a scooter to Photoshop’s Cadillac features wise but all the basics like contrast, brightness, histogram editing, crop, sharpen and red eye removal are there. There’s also about 14 filters and several special effects. It seems Picnik can add more as the product developes further.
Picnik certainly seems like an ideal setup with Flickr for travellers. Many photos end up being viewed online anyways so why bother with a desktop program for basic editng only to transfer the images again?
No doubt Adobe sees photo editing evolving to an online service. There are rumors of a partial online component in a future Photoshop version. That would get rid of pirated software and allow Adobe to continue charging money for application use. They would no longer need…
Read Full ArticleBlurb, the Cafe Press of On Demand Book Publishing
Blurb is an online on demand book publishing service. You download their free Blurb BookSmart software to organize to layout your photos and text content for your personal book.
A number of predefined templates gives you a quick jumpstart to creating a cook book, poetry book, blog book plus baby book, dog book and cat book premade styles.
The Blurb book making software is available for both PC and Mac and allows you to customize your photos, add design effects and enter your text.
The finished books on the Blurb site look high quality and professionally printed but come only in 10x8 portrait or 8x10 landscape format.
The printed books are on heavyweight, archival paper stock ideal for photos and text come in bound hardcover with a custom dust jacket. Blurb plans on including softcover binding in the future.
The book prices are reasonably priced at around $29.95-$37.95 US for hardcover books 20-120 pages. The Blurb book service is only available in Canada and the USA at the moment. Quantity discounts on orders of 25+; custom quotes on 400+. Books are expandable up to 440 pages and no limit on number and size of photos.
Blurb even lets you sell…
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