IMAGE MANIPULATION - PICKI

Mediarama (n.d.) explains “Picnik is photo editing awesomeness, online, in your browser. It's the easiest way on the Web to fix underexposed photos, remove red-eye, or apply effects to your photos.” Photos in picink can simply be link to or open up from my space, flickr, facebook, Webs, Web shots, photobucket and picasa. The features on Picnik are endless: edited a photo; add extras to the photo under the create tab for example stickers, texts, frames, sandbox, and touch up; students can also create collages or fancy collages for example: scrapbooks, cards etc.

My Children1 Originally uploaded by kristenpinno

I uploaded the same photo I use in flickr and edited my photo by using the features: rotate and crop. There are many other edit features as well: auto-fix, resize, exposure, colours, sharpen and red-eye. From this picture it can be seen how effective Picnik is to edit a photo.

Picnik can be incorporate into the higher order and creative thinking/learning environment by the means of:

• creating special images to go along with writing projects or poems
• editing photos for technology projects (like iMovie)
• doing sequencing assignments with transformed pictures
• practicing adding or using different effects to images
• using images students create in class newsletter or wiki or blogs or displaying around the learning environment (teachweb2, 2009).