Do You Know These Simple Picnik on Flickr Photo Editing Tips?
January 14, 2008 – 7:02 pmFlickr is the one of the coolest place to show and share your photos online. Picnik meanwhile, is the best place to edit, improve and embellish photos online. When these two tools merge, cool things happen!
I’ve tested Picnik from my Flickr account and believe me, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to use it! Here are some cool “Picnik on Flickr” photo editing tips that I’ve gathered.
1- Go “Full screen” mode to view your photos better.
2- Straighten your crooked pictures. (Edit -> Rotate -> Straighten).
3- Create avatars e.g. Flickr, Blogger, MySpace etc. from your photos (Edit -> Crop -> Crop Combo Box).
4- Darken your photos for a cool effect with manual exposure control. (Edit -> Exposure -> move “Exposure” slider to the left).
5- Check and modify a photo’s histogram to determine the best exposure. (Edit -> Exposure-> Advanced)
6- Use “Neutral Picker” to precisely remove unwanted color casts. (Edit -> Colors -> Neutral Picker)
7- Transform colored photos to black and white. (Create -> Effects -> Basic -> Black and White)
8- Use cool, bombastic fonts to add text to your photos. (Create -> Text -> Basic Fonts)
9- Use faded shapes to watermark photos. (Create -> Shapes -> move “Fade” slider to the right)
10- Use faded texts to watermark photos. (Create -> Text -> move “Fade” slider to the right)
11- Editing mistakes? Take a photo to its original state with “Undo”. In Picnik, there is no limit to how many times you can undo.
12- Edit Flickr photos within the original Picnik.com website for more editing options. (Picnik -> Open in Picnik.com)
Any other tips that you know that I am not aware of? Why not share it here by leaving a comment or two? 
Tags: flickr, picnik, photo editing, online photo editor, photo editing tips
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7 Responses to “Do You Know These Simple Picnik on Flickr Photo Editing Tips?”
Great tips buddy! I just recently started using the Picnik options in Flickr and it is great to have a nice list of things you can do with it. Stumbled!
By K-IntheHouse on Jan 14, 2008
@K: Thanks for the stumble man!
By Syahid A. on Jan 16, 2008
Some people colour there eyes… do u know how they do it ?
By Serea on Aug 12, 2008
@Serea: Maybe a simple fill will do. I know Adobe Photoshop can do this.
By Syahid A. on Aug 13, 2008
U know, I have considered switching from Photoshop to Picnik. Have seen some really impressive work done with it. I’m not fully convinced yet, but if they strengthen the app, i might really ditch CS.
Thank U for these tips and tricks
By Zaba on Nov 20, 2008
they should make this into a downloadable programme!! its awesome.. screw photoshop!
By PinkBunny on Feb 1, 2009