Friday Tech Tip; (Murray Avenue Edition): Web-based Image Editing with picnik.com

Have kids working on a project where they need to not just use an image, but modify it in some way? 

Want them to develop a storyboard or comic strip?  Design a poster or brochure?  Craft a cover for a report? 

Photoshop is great, but expensive and memory intensive, and it’s not installed on every machine.  What to do?  Oh, what to do?

Have a picnik!    

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Here's the original image:



‘Seashell snail’ Photo courtesy of Cremo
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cremo/526121622/sizes/s/in/photostream/(Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike(Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/



...and here's some of picnik's tools in action:

Crop

Pixelate

Get goofy

Adjust colors



Add text and word bubbles
(All Images based on ‘Seashell snail’, courtesy of Cremo)



 Enjoy!