Picnik is all about giving photo editing superpowers to regular people. Now, with the official release of the Picnik-in-a-Box API, we’re giving software superpowers to regular websites. In just a few hours, any website can integrate the Picnik experience right into its pages. Check out the demos, flip through the tutorials, and then join the hundreds of developers who are taking their sites to new heights with Picnik!

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Our Christmas shapes and fonts were a staggering success. But now, it’s time for Picnik to doff that heavy winter gear, and slip into something a little more comfortable.

We’ve just added a bevy of new Valentine’s Day shapes, from lipstick-smothered kisses to candy hearts to chilled champagne, and fonts from cute and curly to romantic and elegant. Sure, Hello Kitty Valentine’s cards are totally awesome, but they’re not terribly unique. Now you, that special someone, or that special four-legged someone can be the star of the card.

In this world, there are photo editors, and then there are photo editors, and some photographers only use a photo editor that has Curves. Now those photographers can use Picnik.

What are Curves? They’re complicated, fiddly things that professionals, purists, and hardcore hobbyists like to use, because they give you complete control over the colors and exposure of your photograph and limitless creative variations. Our curves, which have all the functionality, individual channel adjustments, and amusing maths a pro would expect, also have lots of great presets, and are so non-fiddly that even a normal person can have fun with it and get great results.

As with all our features, Curves works in real time, which, we really should point out, is pretty darned special. And our presets, like Daguerreotype, Ambrotype, and Velvia, are all hand-crafted and Picnik-tested to be pitch-perfect and still adjustable. Curves can be found under a new Advanced heading at the end of the Effects section.

Check it out, and we look forward to hearing what you think!