Going on a Picnik - but bring your camera...

Exploring Picnik - a fabulous user-friendly photo editing website. For a computer-challenged person, such as myself, Picnik made editing photos fun because of its ease and appeal to people who may find editing photos a chore, or a waste of time. You can edit any photo for free, and make traditional or auto changes, or go as far as removing blemishes and even adding makeup or touch ups to the faces in the photo! Or you can add fun stickers or phrases to the photos to spice them up...

Check out my photo from Positano, Italy. I tweaked it only slightly by first cropping it and then changing the colors to bring out the vibrance of the blues and greens. I also enhanced to photo to darken and lighten the most important aspects featured.

As a teaching tool this can be fun to take photos of students interacting within the classroom, working on projects or taking photos of final projects. Compiling a photo album of student photos can be a great way to create a "classroom yearbook", a nice piece of memorabilia for the students - you can enhance or create silly, fun additions to the photos using Picnik. You can also use this sight in conjunction with your students, actually having them edit photos and integrating it into the topic you are working on for example if you are taking photos of completed science projects- have students edit photos as a fun way to end the lesson and then print them and hang them up in the classroom or hallway on a bulletin board to share the fun with other schoolmates!

Enjoy...