bad or good news for photoshoppers Options

[oldaccount]

Found a site on the internet--http://www.picnik.com/

Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames.
It's fast, easy, and fun.

For photoshop and paint shop pro users, is it a good thing or a bad thing? You really had a hard time studying and learning the techniques for editing programs like photoshop and paint shop pro that you need tutorials to do it (i'd like to thank createblog for this one. ) but now, now that we have picnik, it is sort of "unfair" to see a program that just "gives away" the same effects you could get in photoshop in just one click away. I mean, for me, having the ability to edit stuff in photoshop awes alot of my schoolmates which makes me happy because it sort of gives me a uniqueness. But now, there's this site which gives the same effect in a much more easier way that enables more people to do edited photos, and where is the uniqueness in that? On the brighter side though, you do get to edit stuff in a more faster way.
So there, I'd like to know your opinion about this site and I'd like to know if it really is a good or bad thing for photoshop and paint shop pro users.

This post has been edited by superstitious: Mar 29 2008, 11:06 AM

Reason for edit: Added "neither" as a poll choice - Rebs

[Gigi]

It's a neither. A non-issue. There will always be things on the internet that can provide similar effects as professional programs, and I stress the word "similar". Actually, I should say "limited". Photoshop is SO MUCH MORE than some filters, fonts, shapes, etc...there is an absolutely unlimited amount of stuff you can do with it. Unlimited. It's a professional-level program that you just can't duplicate. I mean, I'd like to see Picnik have a pen tool.

Anyway, Picnik is aimed towards people who like to edit their photos, while Photoshop can be used to edit photos and create art. Picnik will never reach its level, but if it does, Photoshop and any equivalent programs will be improved also.

I do like the Facebook application for it, though, and I think it's a great way for people that can't afford Photoshop to go ahead and edit their photos. Although there are plenty of photo-editing freeware out to download nowadays so Picnik isn't entirely necessary.

[superstitious]

It's a neither. A non-issue. There will always be things on the internet that can provide similar effects as professional programs, and I stress the word "similar". Actually, I should say "limited". Photoshop is SO MUCH MORE than some filters, fonts, shapes, etc...there is an absolutely unlimited amount of stuff you can do with it. Unlimited. It's a professional-level program that you just can't duplicate. I mean, I'd like to see Picnik have a pen tool.

Anyway, Picnik is aimed towards people who like to edit their photos, while Photoshop can be used to edit photos and create art. Picnik will never reach its level, but if it does, Photoshop and any equivalent programs will be improved also.

I do like the Facebook application for it, though, and I think it's a great way for people that can't afford Photoshop to go ahead and edit their photos. Although there are plenty of photo-editing freeware out to download nowadays so Picnik isn't entirely necessary.

There's just no way I could respond more articulately than Gigi has. (I echo it all)