It took a TechCrunch post to direct my attention to Picnik, an amazing online photo editor. Among other photo services, it already integrates very well with Flickr using the Flickr authentication API. You can retrieve from Flickr, edit in Picnik and save back to Flickr seamlessly. Apparently the Flickr user interface will get another button soon to make the editing process with Picnik even more easier.
My first thought was that I won’t need iPhoto anymore. Ever since I bought the DSLR I only use iPhoto to manage the snapshots I take with my smaller camera. If I’m going to upload directly from my smaller camera to Flickr and do rudimentary editing like cropping and basic color adjustments there in Picnik, which does an excellent job as I found out last weekend, I could skip iPhoto entirely. The Flickr-Picnik workflow should work at least as good as the workflow in iPhoto.
Technically no problem but there would still be this unpleasant feeling in my stomach region of giving the control over my images totally out of my hands. Stomach says no, so I rather stay some more time with the local iPhoto library as primary library and the Flickr account as secondary “fun” library.
However, Picnik will be a great addition to Flickr and I’m pretty looking forward to it!
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