Edit, convert and share photos online in your web browser with picnik

picnik provides a very intuitive and easy to use web interface to edit, convert images online.
In order to accomplish online editing of your photos, you need to create an account in picnik.
Once you are done with creating your account in picnik, you are privileged to edit, convert and share your photos online.


picnik allows you to upload and edit photos from different sources

• You can upload the photo from your computer for editing,
• You can edit your photos in flickr, picasa web albums, facebook, photobucket by integrating them with picnik.
• You can edit your photos by fetching directly from a url.
• You can fetch photos from yahoo and flickr search results.
• You can also directly get the photos from your WebCam.

The basic photo editing utilities allowed in picnik are

• Auto-fix of the photos online.
• Rotating the photos online.
• Croping your photos online.
• Resizing the photos online.
• Changing the exposure of your photos online.
• Changing the color levels of your photos online.
• Sharpening your photos online.
• Also it allows online correction of Red-Eye in the photos

picnik can also be used as an online image converter apart from editing photos.
You can convert your images to .jpg, .png, .gif, .tiff, .bmp and .pdf formats.
Thus this can also be used as online photo to pdf converter.
In order to use picnik, it needs you to have flash player 9 enabled in your web browser.

Enjoy online photo editing in your web browser without Photoshop and Gimp.

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Photoshop tutorials and templates collection

Here is a good news for photoshop lovers. EyesOnDesign.net has a very good collection of free tutorials on photoshop graphics and image works. You need not be an expert in photoshop, they have explained the tutorials very well such that a even a graphics newbie can understand them.

Their collection includes:

• Creating effects on portraits
• 4 ways to convert color pictures to gray scale and b&w.
• Create awesome matrix text effects.
• On making interfaces.
• On chrome buttons
• On slicing images
• On making cartoon eyes.
• Making bubble gum text
• Creating your own professional button bar

Apart from tutorials they also provide .psd (psd files) for free download. Be a photoshop master with EyesOnDesign.net

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