Picnik is an online photo editor, similar to iPhoto, that allows you to do simple edits to photos from the your computer, your webcam, or the Internet. It is similar to Fauxto in that it allows you edit photos online, but the functions are more like iPhoto than Photoshop. For instance, unlike Fauxto, there’s no concept of layers. However, it does do what most of us want to do with photos: autofix, rotate, crop, change the exposure, change the colors, sharpen and remove red eye from photos.
Unlike any other online photo editors that I’ve seen, there are a number of ways to get photos up to Picnik. You can upload a photo from your computer, like any other service, but you can also get photos from Flickr, Yahoo Image Search, a website or your webcam. Because the site is built with Flash, it can access your webcam directly, and you can easily take a photo of yourself and edit it in just a few seconds. That’s pretty cool.
You can save the photos back to Flickr, your computer or your website. If you’ve got your website setup properly, you can actually email the photo back to the website, similar to what you could do with emailing photos from a cell phone.
This looks like an application to keep an eye on. The front end is done with Flex, and it appears that the backend is done using Python. This is also covered over on Mashable.
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