We call it Release 15 and in addition to all the great under-the-covers stuff that Mike has been talking about we’ve included some fun and useful features.

Fullscreen button. We’ve had a fullscreen mode for awhile now but kept it cleverly concealed. We love using Picnik full screen and now that we’ve had time to apply the proper caveats (Flash disables the keyboard in fullscreen mode) we’re boosting its prominence.

UI refinements for when Picnik is sized small. We still have a little more work to do but our goal is for Picnik to be useable down to sizes ~640×480. There’s some amazing smarts behind this so Picnik takes advantage of as much or as little space as you give it.

Picnik Tools. You have to check these out. No matter what browser you use we’ve made it easy to import images from the web into Picnik. But if you’re using Firefox we have a special treat. The Firefox extension snapshots entire web pages and brings them into Picnik for editing! I’m snapshotting everything these days: cool sites to share with my friends, anything I want to blog about, even purchase receipts! Then they’re easy to mark up, crop down, gussy up with Picnik and save, email, print, whatever.

Tumblr, AOL, and ‘Other…’ added to Email to Web Site. If a site accepts emails, Picnik makes it easy to get your photos there.

Crop enhancements for creating avatars and wallpaper. Is your Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, Blogger, Google Talk, Xanga, or Last.fm icon getting stale? No more excuses now that Picnik makes it easy to create a new one.

3 new Special Effects: Heat Map, Duo-Tone, and Lomo. Two parts fun, one part functional. You decide which is which.

Enjoy!

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