Yesterday I came across this little app whilst rolling around the Google Code Blogspot.
A new Web 2 app that makes online photo editing possible. The app uses the Picasa Web Albums Data API and looked pretty cool to me, so being the inquisitive type I went ahead and created an account at Picnik.com.
Starting the Picnik app took a little time, but heh there was some Web 2 magic happening in the background somewhere. Once logged in, I was welcomed by a similar clean and straightforward layout as the home page, the only difference was that the page was flash not html. The instructions on how to allow Picnik to access my Picassa account and to start editing my images were clear, and I started at this point to wonder whether this was all too good to be true.
I shouldn't have been worried though! The process of editing my photos was easy, the app performed flawlessly, and at the end of the editing process I was offered the option to save my edited photo back to Picassa or to save and delete the original.
I choose to save the edited photos back to Picassa and to delete the original image. The app seemed to save the image ok and overwrite the other but on inspection at Picassa, I noticed that my crops were visible in the thumnail preview window but the originals had remained the same, I am sure this is just an oversight on behalf of the developer and will soon be fixed (I will keep you posted on this one).
All in all, Picnik is a great app and does exactly what it says it will do and at times it's hard to believe all this is happening online in real time.
A quick edit of a glowing candle
The original unedited version
