Online Photo Editing for Travellers
Don’t you have having to download your photos twice for displaying on the web?
You know what I mean. You take your photos, then you need to download them to your computer for editing, then download them again to a photo sharing/display service like Flickr.
Well, I’ve found a neat little online web 2.0 digital photo editing site called Picnik which can save you one time consuming downloading step.
Picnik is online photo editor that can grab your photos from Flickr, do some basic editing like contrast, brightness, red eye removal and cropping and resave it. Granted it’s no Photoshop, Picnik does not have the complex and exacting aircraft like control of the professional photographer tool. Often though, the regular shutterbug simply do not need all the bells and whistles plus the $700 price tag.
I usually find myself needing to fix the brightness, do a little sharpening or contrast and crop. That’s pretty much it and Picnik does the job plus it has about 14 filters and special effects.
Picnik should be a great time saver for travellers like me who use Flickr to store and display photos. Travelling light means keeping things simple and minimizing. If your laptop crashes on the road you no longer have to worry about finding a computer with a photo editor. Go to any internet cafe, download photos to Flickr and edit away in Picnik.
I am a big fan of online software services for travelling and this fills a hole on the road to smooth travelling.
Right now the software is in beta and is free to try so why not give it a shot?
Multiple Ways to Get Your Currency Converter
Currency Converters are all over the web. The most popular is the XE currency converter.
Of course if you have a My Yahoo homepage you can customize it by clicking on the “Add More Content” button at the top left corner of the page. Type in currency converter at the search box and simply add it to your home page.
Google has the same option on their Google customized homepages. Click “Add More to This Page” at the top left corner and type currency converter in the search box and you will see a slew of choices.
Then there are Google’s recently introduced Google Gadgets for any of your own web pages. Go to http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open and type currency converter into the search, then cut and paste the included Javascript onto your own web pages like I have done here.