1. Photo Editing :: picnik | http://www.picnik.com
An online photo editor that allows you edit images from your computer and online
using only your web browser.
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★ Goals
• Open a photo on your computer in picnik
• Apply basic photo edits and add some text to a photo
• Save a photo to the local computer
• Familiarity with the ways picnik can save to and from popular online sites
• Familiarity with picnik browser add-ons that allow direct editing of images and screenshots of web
pages
★ Editing a Photo
➡ Open
http://www.picnik.com .
You will be greeted with
this screen. Click on Get
started now!
➡ You will now
see the Home
screen. To imme-
diately start using
picnik, click on
one on the four
sample photos
located in the
bottom, right
hand corner. This
will immediately
open the photo in
the Edit tab.

2. ➡ The Edit tab
allows you to ad-
just all kinds of
properties of your
photo. Play around
with some of the
tools listed, such
as Auto-fix, Crop,
and Colors. Once
you have finished,
click on the Cre-
ate tab.
➡ The Create tab
allows you to add
Text, Shapes,
Frames, and vari-
ous Effects to your
photos. With the
free version, most
of these are un-
available, although
you can add some
worthwhile basics,
such as making a
picture black and
white, as well as
adding text labels,
thought bubbles,
and a couple of basic frames.

3. ★ Saving a Photo and Opening a New Photo
➡ With your demo photo still open, click on Save & Share. Save to Computer is the de-
fault option and it allows you to name the file, set its size, and file format. The default set-
tings work really well for
most photos.
➡ There are convenient one-
click methods to share and
send out photos; most re-
quire an account at another
website (Flickr Slideshow,
Email to Website, all under
the More menu). Email
Photo and Print Photo do
not require accounts.
➡ Click on the Photos tab at the top of the screen. You will be greeted with this screen. The
default way to locate an image for editing is to upload it from your computer. Click on Get
Photo to browse your computer’s hard drive and select an image just as if you were opening
a file in any other program.

4. DEMO :: Many people keep their images online. If you do, a free picnik account allows you
to link to photo sharing sites (input your login and password for the other site once). Once
that’s done, you can browse and edit your photos even more easily than you can those on
your own computer.
➡ If you expand the browser window, you will see additional options. If you click on Get
from Web Site, you can input any web site URL or the URL for an image on a web site, and
edit it. The Yahoo Search allows you search for images using Yahoo. Flickr Search isn’t
working yet, but soon you can search Flickr photos. If you have a webcam, you can allow
picnik to control the webcam and directly import webcam photos into picnik.