As you view your collection, you can use the – and + buttons above the scroll bar to enlarge the images. Or, roll over any of the thumbnails and click the button that says “View.”
Click View
Then you will be taken to a screen where you can view images one at a time, and order prints simply by clicking on the preferred size in the right hand margin.
Viewing images larger
With digital cameras, you likely end up snapping multiple pictures of the same scene to make sure you got the best shot…so you end up with a lot of similar pictures that can be hard to tell apart. If this single photo view isn’t big enough, click the “View Full Screen” button, and get a close look!
Orton-ish is a great Picnik effect that gives your photo a smooth and dreamy look. This effect mimics an effect named for Michael Orton…which involves a lot of over exposing, stepping up, overlaying and focus specifics. Basically, the result is a saturated glowyness. Click on Edit Photo in the enlarged photo page to use the Picnik editing tools and filters.
Setting to know: Bloom controls the glow, brightness the saturation and fade how much you want it to blend into your original photo. Looks good combined with the Focal Zoom effect too.
Roll over the image and click the View button to view it larger.
Click Edit Photo, just above the photo, to use the Picnik site tools.
When the photo loads, click the Crop button under the Edit tab.
Use your mouse to drag the corners or sides of the box to the desired crop. To rotate the crop zone from horizontal to vertical, for example, adjust the corners of the box in or up and the crop zone will automatically switch to vertical.
Cropping a photo
Tips:
The crop zone should match the print size you are ordering, so that more or less of the photo is cropped than desired. Use the dropdown menu to choose your print size and this will set the crop guides to match so that the photo will fill the paper and you won’t have white bars at the top or bottom.
Save a new copy! You may like to go back to your original at some point, so to be safe, save a new copy once you crop, or make other edits.
With the Pocket Pics iPhone app, you can now sync your collections to your iPhone or iPod Touch in a snap. Subscribe to your own photo feeds or keep up to date with friends and subscribe to theirs. Any time new pictures are added to the collections, they’ll automatically show up on the phone! Create an account, upload photos and create a feed to them on the Feeds page. Type the code in the app, and you’ll start to see your photos right away!
Demo video of the app in action:
Pocket Pics lets you:
Subscribe to online Pocket Pics-compatible photo feeds generated on this
View shared photos directly on the iPhone (or iPod Touch)
Keep track of which photos have been viewed and which are new
Share photo collections via email
Save photos to the phone’s library
This app is now available on the iTunes store or via the link from the Feeds page (sign in to see the Feeds page). Stay tuned for updates and more features for the Pocket Pics app!
View your photos larger, then click Edit Photo to go to Picnik. Under the Create/Effects tab, you’ll find this filter called Holga-ish. It turns your photo a contrasty black and white.
Photo as Original and with Picnik's Holga-ish Filter
But what is Holga? The ? button tells me: “Plastic cam quality without the plastic cam! Holga-ish mimics the wondrous Holga camera when using the sublime combination of black and white film and a red filter.”
Turns out, it’s a flawed 120mm toy camera from the 80s that makes kind of artsy vignetted photos, has a bit of a cult following today and also has caught on in the digital world too, with the use of lenses and also applied filters, in Photoshop and, here in Picnik.
Holga Sweethearts
For truer Holga look, I should have cropped the photo square first, then applied the filter. But with the text (font face is “Bleeding Cowboys”) (Yikes), and some sticker hearts…I think it came our pretty good!
