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Google snaps up online photo editor

Posted by Antony Theobald on Tuesday 02 March 2010 at 11:04am
Tags: image editing | photo sharing | photography

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Google has acquired Picnik an online photo editing site.

Cozumel street (Lomo-ish). Photo by Sandy Redding on Flickr
Photo edited using Picnik by Sandy Redding on Flickr. Used under a Creative Commons licence

Picnik is a web-based application that allows users to crop, resize and add effects to their images - all through their existing web browser without the need for additional software.

Picnik has also been available to users of Yahoo-owned photo sharing site Flickr for a couple of years - it will be interesting to see how Google and Yahoo get on with this new partnership. The official Google Blog announcement does not mention Yahoo, but states “we’d like to continue supporting all existing Picnik partners”.

Picnik is one of many options for editing photos - see our Image Editing Software for more information.

Online photo editing is likely to become more and more popular - there’s already an online version of Photoshop. Have you used Picnik, Photoshop.com or any other online image editors? Would you be tempted to in the future?

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Comment posted by zucchinirezepte on 02 March 2010 at 8:09pm

Until now I have never used online image editors for bigger stuff, but I think its a pretty good thing that they exist because in certain situations one might not have ones own computer at hand and such an online image editor would come in handy then…

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Comment posted by James Baker on 10 March 2010 at 8:46pm

I thought Google already owned Picasa which is what I use for my cropping, retouching etc An easy tool that you could just access from your browser would be good so I guess it’s time to check out Picknik.

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