Have you heard about iPiccy? This photo editing site is a great deal like Picnik, with many of the same features. It’s very user-friendly. It’s in the Beta stage, which simply means it’s still in the testing stage. Let me show you what I did with it yesterday.
Here’s what the site looks like:
By the way, I made that sign using the Painter feature. It’s pretty nifty. How about this one?
You can see Editor, Effects, Text, Retouch and Painter at the top of the window and each one of these has all sorts of individual features that show up on the left side of the screen. The usual things are there, as well as some others that I haven’t fully investigated. The Rotate and Flip tool is like Picnik’s in that you can straighten an image. I use that a great deal on Picnik, especially when I discover that the picture I took is slightly crooked. I haven’t found it anywhere else but on iPiccy.
iPiccy’s fonts are interesting and, for the most part, different than Picnik’s. Variety is the spice of life.
Okay, let’s look at some photos:
I grabbed this one out of my photo library. I played around with it in iPiccy and came up with this:
I played with saturation and something called ‘Bloom’ in the Effects. Just for fun, I added a Drop Shadow Frame. I added a watermark using this pretty text, which is called Quilline Script. I rather like it.
Here’s the same photo edited with Engrave Photo:
Next up is a photo of Ms. Scout:
She’s a photogenic little cutie, isn’t she?
I did the usual: resized the photo, cropped it and used the Cross Process effect, which I love. What’s nice about these effects is that you can control how much or how little of the effect you want. I just wanted a touch of it.
Now, here’s the neat thing: many of these sites are actively soliciting suggestions from all of us. So I sent an email to iPiccy suggesting they think of adding a collage feature because so many bloggers use Picnik’s collage feature to make banners and headers and all sorts of things. Almost immediately – on a Saturday – I received an email from a gentleman at iPiccy. He told me they are working on a collage feature as well as a layering feature right now and they should be adding them in about a week or so! This is great news for those of us who are searching for a way to make collages. I have no idea what this feature will be like or how similar or different it will be to Picnik’s but I sure am looking forward to exploring it. By the way, iPiccy has a Facebook page and they post about all their updates there.
There’s hope, fellow bloggers! There a lot of photo editing sites out there and I’m sure many of them are preparing to jump into the space vacated by Picnik. Every one of them is slightly different. Some are more like Photoshop Elements. Others are more like Picnik. They all want our suggestions.
In other news, the winner of the 3 Prime Suspect mysteries is Susy of The Feathered Nest! Susy, I’m sending an email your way. I need your address to forward to TLC Book Tours.
Have a great Sunday.
The pictures look great.
Pretty doggie. I hope you are having a good week-end.
Claudia,
Thank you so much for sharing this site with us! I am so new to blogging but am aware that I need to maximize the visual appeal to my blog by making my photographs the best that they can be. You’re a sweetheart for sharing these valuable tips!
Have a beautiful Sunday!
How wonderful to have some more choices in photo editing sites. Way to go Claudia.
I love the pink showing through Scouts ears….so adorable.
Jen @ Muddy Boot Dreams
I played around a little with it this morning. It’s easy to use.
Good to know, Claudia.
Thanks,
S
xo
Hi Claudia, really pleased to hear iPiccy is working on collage for their package. I am keeping an eye out for PicMonkey too (not yet available) as they are working on that too. Love the effects you got today. On Pinterest I deleted all pictures that were not my originals. Too much nasty rumours right now about copyright/suing. My sisters blog was attacked by malware and she is just so sad. I had to remove all references to her blog from mine because any reference to her’s from mine gave my visitors a big screen ‘don’t go there’ type of message too. I suspect she hadn’t backed up her blog and it is huge and contains the history of building her house.
Joy
I have never used any of these sites. I need to get my butt in gear and really learn some of these tools that are available to us. Thanks for the info. xo Diana
Thanks so much for the overview, Claudia. I’ll have to play with this site, especially if it’s going to have a collage-maker.
I love the script font you used on the photos!
-Karen
You know what Claudia?
Leave it to you to find another website! That’s fantastic. I was really sad that picnik is leaving. I use it so much… MUCH!
Thank You, you made my day :)
Have a great Sunday.
xxx Liz
PS. how’s your shop doing?
Thanks for the tip Claudia! I’m off to pay that site a visit. Give that sweet Scout some rubbies from me. What a photogenic sweetie she is! Have a great Sunday.
Big Hugs,
Susan and Bentley
Good to know. Thanks!
Awesome Claudia! Great news~so good of you to be direct and proactive.
Crap … there goes dinner ; )
Seriously … THANK YOU!!!
You’re the best Claudia … I’ve already played around at this site and I like it!! Just posted some photos I edited ; )
Love your pics AND tips!!
xo
Jill
Great post Claudia! I surely will miss Picnik. Do love iPiccy and there is another one called Pixlr but I find it a bit more difficult to use only cause I haven’t used it a lot as of yet. Glad to hear they are adding collage!
xo
Gonna go try it right now.
Sounds good to me! I’m going there now to check it out! Thank you!! We bloggers need a good photo editing site for sure! Hugs, Linda
It’s so similar, it’s almost the same. Very easy to use but also incompatible with Chrome. Thanks for sharing the news about it!
Great tips – thank you! Found you via Gypsy Brocante.
xo Cathy
I used Cross Process all the time and miss it. This is good news. I am liking Photoscape but realize you have a MAC. Wish I had one too:-0
Have never tried that site; my photos need all the help they can get! Love the photo of Miss Scout!
Wow…can’t wait to check it out!!!! Thanks for the heads up! Looks like you had some fun with it already!!
Thanks for the info, Claudia! I love have new sites to play with!
I love to hear what other bloggers are doing to create such beautiful blogs. I am still learning and appreciate any advice that others share. Thank you so much, Claudia, for sharing this. xoxo Kim
Thanks so much, Claudia for sharing this site. I have not had time to explore other sites besides Picnik yet and this is really helpful. I will definitely check them out.
aura
I played with this program this weekend! I thought it was the closest I’ve seen to Picnik. I like all of the features and it was easy to use! ♥
You did a wonderful job on the photo’s and THANKS for the info on this web site. I’m looking forward to seeing if we can do our headers with it. Have fun playing with your photo’s!
Maura :)
Hi sweet Claudia! Thank you so much for finding this website, I LOVE IT!! I played with a photo of our granddaughter, Clara and was so impressed with all I could do!!! I hope you are doing wonderful….thank you again! hugs and love, Dawn
Thank you so much, Claudia, for the link to iPiccy! I’m so glad to hear that there will be more competition for Google+. I will mess around with this site and see if I can get the effects that I want. Bless you! :-) Jennifer