What is the best replacement for Picnik?
Many of us use Picnik every day to edit our photographs and it was upsetting to receive the notice that Picnik will close in April.
Brad Andersohn, Outreach Manager at Zillow and ActiveRain frequent blogger, has provided a stream of suggested alternatives to Picnik. In this post, Brad suggests that we take a look at iPiccy.com.
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Photograph by Roy Kelley using a Canon PowerShot G11 camera.
Roy and Dolores Kelley Photographs
In a frantic scramble last week to find a replacement for the Picnik.com closure on April 19th, I had written a post featuring 7 different FREE photo and graphic editing sites.
However, some many of my online friends were hoping to actually find a replacement editor that was similar or at least closer to the same look and feel of Picnik’s site. Is there such a site?
Well here it is! iPiccy.com is the closest you’re going to find to Picnik.com. The look and feel are more similar than any other site I’ve seen. iPiccy might actually be Picnik’s twin brother. Once you explore the site, you’ll see what I mean. iPiccy is 100% free, no registration required, and offers many of the same features and benefits that Picnik does and more.
Grabbing any image or photo is easy. Just click the appropriate button and GO! The editing options are endless and the ability to create some really cool customized graphics and images will be limited only by your creativity and of course your time and schedule. The workspace on iPiccy will be easy to navigate, especially for Picnik users, and will feel just like your old Picnik stomping grounds.
There are multiple effects with single click options at your fingertips. These will make your photos and images really “POP” and if you use a combination of the wide variety of tools and options available, the possibilities will be endless.
In literally minutes, you’ll be able to adjust your contrast, auto-correct colors, customize images, fix blemishes, remove red-eye, lighten and darken graphics, and even add text overlays, reflections, shadows and more. Having the ability to utilize some really cool effects without being a graphics designer makes iPiccy one of my TOP CHOICE recommendations and a great replacement for Picnik.
Here’s what we just put together for our Valentine show promotion:
We added a border,
created a matting,
went with a sepia effect,
added a thick pencil sketching,
made it black and white,
re-sized it keeping constraints,
added a drop shadow border,
dropped some text at the bottom and saved to the desktop.
We then emailed it as a .jpg attachment to the event promoter.
This all took about 3 minutes from beginning to end.Check out iPiccy.com and compare it to Picnik. If you’ve never used Picnik.com, then you’ll have discovered a very cool free online photo and image editing site that you’re going to enjoy. If you have used Picnik, and feel as though you’ll be losing a best friend come April, I can promise that iPiccy will make the hurt a whole lot less. In fact, I think some of you will like iPiccy better than Picnik. Happy creating, enjoy~
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Good Afternoon Roy, Thank you for the heads up and great tips with my photos, i will be checking it out. Have a great Day
Roy - What a great post to re-blog! I use picnik almost daily and have been dreading having to look for something else, I'll have to check this out.
Roy- GREAT re-blog. I was wondering about alternatives to picnik! I'll go to Brad's blog and thank him as well for this great information that I've been waiting for.
Thanks for your comments. It appears that iPiccy.com allows uploading of only one picture at a time for editing as compared to 100 pictures allowed by Picnik. For me, that is a limitation that I would not prefer to have for photo editing.
Let me know if you can see how to upload multiple photographs.
Roy, Thanks for this great re-blog by Brad, I will have to check it out. And thanks for those links to your photos.
Gloria
Good morning Roy.
Thank you for sharing.
I was away for a while...
Have a nice day.
Good Wednesday morning. Thanks for stopping by.
Joshua: We have missed you on ActiveRain.
Have a great week.