Photographs: virtually every blog or website needs them, and it has always amazed me how difficult some photo editing apps make it for me to get a properly proportioned image of exactly the dimensions I want, on the fly. If I have written my post and chosen a photo, the last thing I want is to fight to get the image for the post exactly as I want it.
Big Blog Tool covered an amazing way to easily add photos to your Wordpress blog with the Photodropper plugin, which lets you filter creative-commons-licensed photos from Flickr’s endless archive based on keywords you type in. It is a wonderful tool for adding images to your WP blog or website, especially if you don’t have a any of your own photographs that fit a particular blog post or article, but there are times when you have exactly the right photo of your own, and you simply want to add that.
Picnik is a photo editing tool that is handy for fine-tuning your photos so that they are exactly suited to whatever you will use them for, so its value and application is by no means limited to to Wordpress or any other blogging platform. There are many, many photo editors out there, but after trying a lot of them I came to the conclusion that ease of use was more important than the app being able to do 1000 things when I really only wanted it to do four or five things, quickly and easily. For me those things are:
Just take a look at the site. Getting started by uploading a photo is so simple, as is the tabbed navigation once you have done so. After you are finished editing you simply save the image to your computer, print them or share them.
Did I mention the standard version is free? Upgrading, which you can do for as little as $2.08/month, gives you a lot of interesting effects and other extras, but I think the simplicity of Picnik is where it really shines, and I haven’t felt the need to upgrade. If you haven’t found a blogging tool that makes it very easy to add photos to your blog or site, do check our Picnik.
