My Latest Obsession: Picnik.com

I want to start off by saying that I usually don't take the time to write about the positive experiences I've had with products and/or companies. I liken myself to be more of a "bitch and moan" type of person, and therefore I take great pride in composing seething, anger fueled rants about the poor experiences and shitty customer service I've encountered in my travels. God helpeth thee peon who doth been subjecteth to the wrath of my angry email to management, because hell hath no fury like a woman scorned by a Panera Turkey Bacon Bravo sandwich suspiciously devoid of bacon.

With that said, I sometimes feel as though my "positive" reviews come across like bad advertisements. They mine as well shout to my audience "RE:RE:FW:RE: increase your penis size!". Simply put, I'm just not good at it. Even still, I took the time to write a positive review today because I honestly feel that I would be doing an injustice to the E-Community if I didn't clue you in to my latest obsession: www.picnik.com. Folks, get ready to digitally increase your penis size.

All of my digital photo taking, facebook album creating, adult life, I've been on the hunt for a user friendly, yet comprehensive photo editing site. I'm pretty amateur with photo editing, though I consider myself to be pretty well versed in the art of cropping, and lord knows I can remove red eye with the best of them. But let's face it - we've all had pictures ruined by the occasional outbreak of adult onset acne, or teeth that were less than pearly white. I really don't have the time or the patience to learn photoshop techniques like applying vector masks or layers to fix my photos, and I'd much prefer to click a button that simply says "fix blemish" or "whiten teeth". It's so simple, yet so illusive. Til now, I'm embarrassed to say that I've been relegated to removing zits from my photos with Paint.

Well folks, I stand before you today, elated to announce that the geniuses (geniusi?) over at Picnik have finally answered my prayers. Their website takes the need for a graphic design background out of the equation and makes photo editing a snap. You can enhance your pictures with user friendly tools like eye brighten, teeth whiten, etc. You can even add spray tans, and highlights if you feel so inclined. My favorite part of all?- You can pull your photos right from Facebook (or MySpace, Picasa, Flikr, etc.) edit them, and then upload them right back to where they were. Here's an example of a picture that I played around with last night:

Matt and I with our natural, god given, stunning good looks.

Same pic, just way over-edited becuase I tried every single touch up feature the site offers

  And finally... Matt and I as zombie vampires. Because I got bored and tried to turn him into Edward.

Within five minutes of playing around on the website I was hooked. They reel you in by allowing you to play with all the features, including the more advanced "premium membership features" as part of the site, but the only thing is that you can't save the pictures you've edited with premium features until you join and pay for the premium membership. Which I did. Immediately. The way I see it, the yearly membership is only like $25 a year, which breaks down to $2.08 a month. $2.08 a month is a lot cheaper than the $19.99 a month I'm currently paying for my gym membership. And who needs a gym membership when I have thigh slimming capabilities via Picnik?

Many, many thanks Picnik. I look forward to many years of deceiving all my Facebook friends with my digitally enhanced photos.

P.S. I'm not being paid for this, I just truly love the website. Come on, my blog averages like 8 hits a day. Get with it now, be serious.