Sifting through our linkage over the weekend, we found some really excellent video tours of Picnik of all the editing tools and more exciting special effects from a Second Life perspective. First, a one-minute quick tour from Torley Linden:

And then a longer, 12-minute tour:

Featured quote from the video: “Makes you feel really good and makes you want to invest in their product!”

We couldn’t have said it better ourselves! Thanks, Torley! And on the blog:

I freshly upgraded to a Picnik Premium account. This US$25 investment was a no-brainer, considering how many right things they’ve got going for them. For one, their website design is exemplary, consistently-themed (grass & skies!), and helps you learn more about — and use! — the product without wasting time. From their uncanny ability to make forms simple and even (gasp!) enjoyable to fill out to how clear they communicate Picnik’s benefits, it’s a winner all-’round.

Picnik itself is fantastic: totally integrates with Flickr (altho you can upload images from your hard drive and other sources too), the effects enable you to get stunning results in just a few clicks, and it’s severely smile-inducing.

Emphases his. Thanks, Torley!

Then there’s “Picnik, A photo editor for the rest of us” from Marcie Vargas, who says,

I love Picnik. I can’t put it any simpler than that. Picnik is a photo editing program that works in your browser— PC or Mac. The interface is ridiculously easy to use, the options are fun and plentiful, but most importantly, your picture will look good.

I have long hesitated to really use much photo editing… I don’t want to read a manual or a take a class just to tweak pictures I take as a hobby. Other programs seem too simple for my needs, and the results never quite satisfy me.

That’s just the sort of thing we here at Picnik love to hear. Photo editing should be fun (”play”, even, as Torley calls it). And unless you’re that small percentage of the population who is a very specific type of person needing to do very specific types of things, there’s no reason a photo editor has to be complicated and hard to use, or unable to make everyone’s photos awesome.

Meanwhile, we’re happy to see we weren’t the only ones biking into work last month!

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