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Free Online Photo Editor & Free Online Photo Retouching – Digital Image Manipulation with Picnik

By N2H

Picnik offers a free online photo editing & free photo retouching & photo manipulation software.

You can open up photos from your website, blog or from social networks like Flickr, Picasa Album, Facebook or Myspace for online retouching & online editing .

Picnik has easy ways on the Web to fix underexposed photos , remove red-eye, or apply effects to your photos.

The Free version of Picnik gives you dozens of fonts, shapes, frames, all the effects and the touch-up tools . Plus, all the Edit tools, the ability to undo everything you’ve ever done to your picture, and it remembers the history of the past five pictures you worked on!

You can open up any image either from the web, your computer or from any of you accounts on Flickr, Myspace, Facebook or Picasa Album . Once done, you can save the new image.

Below, I opened up one image from my one of my online gallery & desaturated the image to create a monochrome . I also tried to create a sepia with the preset & the sepia print looked beautiful.

Picnik has a large number creative photo options in the Create section. There are built in Preset photo setting like Sepia, Tint, Nightshot, Duo-tones & Cross Processing . Experienced photographers who use Adobe Photoshop would know how long it takes to get an exact tone from Sepia or Duo Toning.

For amateurs & intermediate photographers, these presets give plenty of options for creative coloring & photo retouching .

With a premium account on Picnik you get ALL the effects, frames, fonts, shapes , plus NEW advanced editing tools like Curves and Levels , which have all the power found in expensive software packages like Adobe Photoshop or Corel Draw but with one-click defaults

You also get Priority Help Support, new feature previews, professional FontShop fonts and other exclusive content, the ability to access all your favorite photo sites at the same time to use Picnik to transfer photos between them & unlimited Photo History.