So, after lighting the candles & enjoying some latkes tonight, I decided to give the new Flickr / Picnik web-based photo editing a spin.
I didn’t give Picnik a complete runthrough, but what’s there looks good and (if you’ve spent time editing photos before) everything is reasonably intuitive. The red-eye correction tool is particularly nice – better than Picasa’s – and I think overall this is a great addition to the site.
One big drawback, though — they REALLY need to do something about the load time. It’s very, VERY long. That might be because everyone’s giving it a test drive tonight, but still … it’s painful. And then the wait is almost as long again when you save an edited photo back to your Flickr account.
I need to upload an unedited photo or two and put Picnik thought a more thorough test, but for quick fixes Picnik looks good. I definitely don’t regret having re-upped my Flickr Pro account.