Gone are the days where you were hiring professionals or buying some softwares to do the photo editing job. Now here in 2008 the increase in social networking sites made file sharing very easy and helped most of the things to be done online. Nowadays most of the online tools are primarily written having social networking sites in the mind. Today we are going to discuss one such simple but very powerful online application for photo editing and sharing. The application is popularly known as picnik.

Picnik is a seattle based software firm which makes this job easier with the help of Flash. Yes,the site is completely developed in flash which makes the usability and look and feel very good. Everybody must be aware of online web applications that is used to cropping, resizing photos but what makes this picnik so special?? Here we go, Red-eye removal, Custom effects, fonts, custom shapes, advance editing features and enhancement of underexposed photos etc. The regular futures includes rotate, resize, crop, color, sharpness etc.

There are also premium photo editing facilities that includes more fonts, shapes, effects, customer service and you can upload all your photos simultaneously into flickr, facebook, Photobucket, Picasa Web Albums, and Webshots. Using picnik you can edit photos from your desktop or laptop’s hard-drive or you can pull any photo from any of the photo sharing sites and facebook. The potential problems of picnik can be the usability across all the browsers and you need to install the Flash 9 plugin to work with the application. You can get custom picnik plugins for your firefox browser. This firefox plugin will help you to select any picture from your browser to pull the same to your picnik editor for editing. Good doesnt it? Since from the start picnik has improved a lot in all the aspects. Definitely you can go ahead and it is indeed worth trying.