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Picnik Website trip to the world of photo editing

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Make a collage

Edit photo

Interface of the website

About Picnik

Make a fancy collage

Make a show

Make a keepsake

Share your picture

Quiz

About Picnik

What is Picnik

• Picnik is a website that allows you to edit photos either by using basic tasks such as cropping and resizing or advanced tools.

• It was founded in 2005 by Mike, Jonathan and Drrain

• It launched in September 2007.

• It attracts more than 10 million visitors per month.

Users

There are 3 different types of users:• Unregistered users: they use Picnik for free without

registration.

• Registered users: they have an account so they can store uploaded photo and video, and founded any time.

• Pro Users:  they pay to register and they can access to all functions on the website. They have to pay 25$ per month.

* Now the website no longer able to register because they will join Google tools soon. It will be closed on April 19, 2012.

CategoriesThere are 5 categories that are available on

the library:

• Edit photo: edit you photo quickly, easily wherever they are.

• Make a collage: mix all you photos together to create beautiful college.

• Make fancy college: Turn you photos into a scrapbook, greeting card and more.

• Make a show: build photo slideshows and widgets for you family, friends and the world

• Make a keepsake: give your photos life with printed cards, canvases and more.

Upload photo

You can upload you photos from 8 different websites:

Picasa Web Albums Flickr Facebook MySpace Yahoo! Mail Photobucket Webs Webshots

Advan-tages of the

website

• It is online which mean you can use it from any machine, no need to install a program

• Most of the tools are free and you can use it without paying or registration

• Everyone, every age can use it easily

• You can upload you picture from different social network websites

• You can order a keepsake from the website

Disadvantages of the website

Some of the tools are not free, so you shell registrant first and pay amount of money per month

It is online tool which require internet to use it , so without network connection you can not use it

It does not support Arabic language or text

If you want to cut the picture you have one choice only rather than other editing programs.

Interface of the website

How to move to the home page (interface of the website)

You can upload a photo from your computer

OR

Choose a photo that is available on the website.

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There are 5 different categories.

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Edit photo

How to ( Edit photo)

When you click on upload a photo you will be able to choose any picture from your computer to edit it. After that you will be transferred to another page

You can edit by using basic edit tools

OR Choose between many other advanced tools

Many and different lighting tools are available free to edit your photo . ( Featured – Effects Advanced)

You can easily add text or frame to your picture (Text – Frames)

also add stickers and clipart or backgrounds that are related to specific season to your photo. (Stickers - Seasonal )

Add effects to the face such as red eyes, teeth whitening and blusher. (Touch-up)

Advanced tools

Make a collage

How to (Make Collage)

As you can see here you can choose how many picture you want to add

You can play with the shape or the space or the color of the background that is between each picture

Just upload the picture and drag it to the place that you want to put on it.

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Make a Fancy Collage

How to ( Make a Fancy Collage)

Many templates appear and under each one there are many options

Upload your picture from any where you want ( Flicker , facebook Yahoo mall ….)

You can add text ,edit the whole picture

save & share it Or print it.

Just drag the

picture

Make a show

How to Make a show

1Upload a picture

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Drag the picture to her

3Choose a template for the video

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Choose a title for your show

Make a keepsake

What is Keepsake

• User can upload and print the picture they edit it easily.

• Or design and order their own keepsake from Picnik. It consists of cups, frames, post cards, greeting cards, posters, mini books, books and calendars etc.

How to make a Keepsake

First you should upload a picture

Then choose the size of the picture and click on Print photo

As you can see you can print your picture on many things and they will deliver it to your home

Share your picture

You can share your picture via many websites and programs:

• Emil• Twitter• Facebook• Flicker• Photobucket • Picasa Web Albums

General information

Send to Email

Put your email address

Choose and write the email addresses

Click on Email Photo

Share via many websites

• Twitter – Facebook – Flicker – Photobucket- Picasa Web Albums

• You can share your picture through these websites by following the same process Asks you for

username and password

click and see the video

Finally, click on save photo to save it to the website.

Quiz

You can choose one of these quizzes and answer the questions

• http://www.vocabtest.com/reverseDefinitions.php?tid=116202

• http://www.vocabtest.com/vocabuzz/?tid=116202

• http://www.vocabtest.com/definitions.php?tid=116202

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