Fixing+basic+mistakes+and+more

I have used Photoshop CS, Gimp, and PaintNet in the past. For ease of use and simplicity, I mostly use [|Paint.Net]. For several years I was a journalism advisor and this is one of my previous touch-ups using Photoshop to fix one of my mom's few childhood photos: I only posted the photo above to show how much more editing can be done in Photoshop versus the program I used for this photo editing experience -- [|Picnik.com].
 * [[image:http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1324/1351936839_cda619c68f_o.jpg caption="Photoshop editing"]] ||

Picnik has all the basic editing features for most users -- cropping, red-eye fix, color adjustment, etc. I like that it is integrated with [|Flickr] and can pull photos from and send them to your Flickr account. The user interface for Picnik is a thousand time less complicated than Photoshop or Gimp.

These are some of the effects I used on Picnik: Picnik does not allow you to add text or do things in layers like the more powerful stand-alone programs. These are features I hope get added to the service as it grows. I especially hope they get the [|"cartoon" effect]. However, for basic rotating, resizing, and fixing, you cannot tell a difference in speed between Picnik and stand-alone programs. Picnik offers basic editing and some special effects for free and plans to charge for more advance features in the future. Currently, everything is free during their beta period.
 * [[image:http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1329/1351899519_1b74b3d027_o.jpg caption="Original photo resized and rotated in Picnik"]] || [[image:http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1022/1352516724_d7070438a3_o.jpg caption="After levels and color adjustment in Picnik"]] ||
 * [[image:http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1179/1352680170_4ca7c9af72_o.jpg caption="Original photo resized and rotated in Picnik"]] || [[image:http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1101/1352813510_824fe25e57_o.jpg caption="HDR-ish effect added in Picnik"]] ||

On to Teaching and Learning....