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As you probably know, you can download and add extensions to your browser to tweak and manipulate it into a piece of software that you and you alone love and adore. I have geeked my Firefox into something that Dr. Frankenstein himself would be proud to use. Honestly, I think this browser could get up and do the dishes at this point if I asked it.

However, recently I found a new extension that I fell in love with so deeply that I considered proposing marriage. My Mister was not so thrilled, but what can a geeky girl do?

Here is the situation. We live in a geek house. Between the two of us and three floors of house, we have approximately eleventy dozen computers. No lie. Mister is a geek extraordinaire and is employed as a super mega geek by an extremely famous website and you have seen my love for computer freakiness.

Well, with the eleventy dozen computers spread through on three floors, we have various towers and laptops in various states of repairs with various programs loaded onto each one. The problem I face is that I am a very (did I mention very) graphic intense user. I do a lot of graphic design work. I need my PhotoShop everywhere I go. But I do not have PhotoShop available on every machine we have.

Thus enters the dawn of Picnik.

Picnik is an online photo editor that has so many of the tasks that you can do in PhotoShop without the PhotoShop cost. Amazing. Just amazing.

From the Picnik website description is this laundry list:

Fix your photos in just one click
Use advanced controls to fine-tune your results
Crop, resize, and rotate in real-time
Tons of special effects, from artsy to fun
Astoundingly fast, right in your browser
Awesome fonts and top-quality type tool
Basketfulls of shapes from hand-picked designers
Works on Mac, Windows, and Linux
No download required, nothing to install

This is literally just a browser extension, so when you find a photo you want to work with, you can access it by a simple right click menu. That is to say, right click on the photo and in your right click menu, there is the choice to work on the photo in Picnik. Does it get any easier than that?

Now if you want some super duper effects that you can get regularly in PhotoShop, you do have to upgrade to the $25/year option, but you have to put in 4 years before you get to the price of the PhotoShop Effects. And I can guarantee you that the next great photo editing software will be out long before four years is up. So for now, Picnik has my vote. And I have installed it on all of our machines. How is that for vote enough?

via Picnik

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