Picnik Photo Editing Comes to Picasa Web Editing

If you use Picasa Web, Google's photo administering service, you can now acclimatize your photos aural Picasa including cropping, resizing, red eye changeabout and added accepting to amalgamation with Picknik, the coursing giant's cloud-based photo changeabout tool. Google on Tuesday appear that Picnik photo changeabout capabilities will now be attainable to Picasa Web users in the United States and abounding added countries about the world. The new functionality will aeon out to best Picasa Web users in the advancing days. This is the age-old aloft amalgamation amidst Picasa and Picnik ashamed Google acquired the photo changeabout armpit in March.

Picniking in Picasa

To edit your photos, just open up Picasa, select the photo you want to fix, and then from the "Edit" drop down menu on the right select "Edit in Picnik." This will bring up the Picnik interface in the same Web page you have open, and give you access to Picnik's basic editing tools. You can return to the regular Picasa interface at any time by clicking "Back to Picasa Web Albums" in the upper right corner of your screen.

Once you've opened up the Picnik editing tools, you can adjust your photo or add novelty items including text, frames and virtual stickers such as fake mustaches, birthday cakes and sports equipment. After you've finished editing your photo, just press "Save to album" and you will be given the option to replace your old file or save a copy of your newly edited photo.

Premium Features

Picasa users can also get access to Picnik's premium features for a monthly fee; premium features include access to a larger selection of novelty items and effects, as well as layering and other advanced photo editing features. If you're already a premium Picnik user you will automatically be able to access your premium Picnik features when using Picasa Web albums. Picnik's premium service starts at $5 a month or you can pay $25 for yearly access.

Picnik is not going away

If you use Picnik, but are not a Googe user the new Picnik-Picasa integration will not affect your service. You will still be able to edit photos in Picnik and use the site's distribution tools to send your images to photo sharing sites around the Web including Facebook, Flickr, MySpace and Photobucket. Google users will not be able to take advantage of Picnik's photo distribution features directly in Picasa. For that functionality you will need to upload your photo to Picnik.com.

Picasa integration with Picnik is just the first of many planned integrations between Picnik and Picasa. In a brief discussion with Jonathan Sposato, Google's photo products manager and former Picnik CEO, Sposato said to "stay tuned for greater and greater integration" between Picnik, Picasa Web and Google's desktop photo editing software, Picasa desktop.

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