So one of the webware products that I have gotten to use is called Picnik. It is a fairly simple photo editing program that opens up right in your browser. The webware features some of the basic things you would expect to see in any program of this nature, which include opening up a photo of your choice(what I really liked is that the photo you wished to edit didn't even have to be on your computer. Picnik gives you the option pick from a website, your web cam, and even let's you connect to your facebook or myspace to retrieve images from them!) You have the ability to then resize, crop and rotate your picture to your liking. Some of the more complex things you can do to your picture include adding fancy borders, text(with different effects) and it also allows you to put it through different filters. All in all I actually really liked this program. When I first saw it I thought it was just going to be like a crippled version of photoshop for the web. Yet once I used it I was that really wasn't the case. It's true that for a photo editing program it's not nearly as powerful as photoshop, but the thing is Picnik doesn't try to be photoshop. It's just a nifty little photo editor that allows you to quickly spruce up your photos with the option of adding some cool effects to them. What I liked the best about it was not the fact that whatever you can do in Picnik you can do in photoshop, but the fact that Picnik let's you get to the same comparable effects in a much easier manner. I took a picture the car that I just bought and cropped it, added a cool drop shadow effect along with some semi-transparent text and it only took me a few minutes to do. Photoshop in all honesty would have taken me much longer to get the same effect on a first time use. Picnik can be found at http://www.picnik.com/ Below are some screenshots of the webware along with the finished product. Click on any of the images to veiw them in full size.
I tried out this site and played with it. It does do enough for most photo editing, like you said and would do in a pinch. Thanks for the info.
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