Picnik Replacement

WinsomeWorks · March 20, 2012

athos wrote: »

actually saying there are no awesome camera apps for Android is very wrong. Lightbox is a very awesome android camera app. So is PicSayPro. Vignette is not bad either.

for smugmug on my HTC Rezound the official app is pretty average. Smugfolio HD is far better, and it is recognized in the reviews on both. If a third party app developer can do better on Android for your official gallery management app, maybe you just need a better Android developer

really wanting this camera app on Android. wouldn't it make it easier if you only develop this for Gingerbread or higher phones?

definitely must be easier on the iPhone, but it should be. you are stuck with one size little 3.5"screen, one OS that limits you in many ways if you don't wish to be. it's great for many people, but life would be too easy if everything was exactly the same. i know a lot of people that can never go back to a 3.5" screen after using 4.3" android phones. and a lot of other things that are better for more tech savvy people.

Completely agreed. I've got several great Android apps (using a Thunderbolt) & can do all kinds of stuff even just with the most basic camera that was pre-installed on the phone. Besides, as noted, the awesome screen offers so many more opportunities to actually see what you're doing! I can hardly bear to look at photos on those tiny iPhone screens. Here's what bugs me though: I've been waiting for even the most basic photo adjustments (which were promised long ago) right here on SmugMug sans phone, for years. As much as I adore SmugMug, I cannot fathom why we still have no basic lightening/darkening edit, no warm/cool edit, & really none of the most basic edits that are simply "a given" everywhere else. Yet we now have new phone toys. Please, Smug, put on-site edits high on your list!! This is currently an extra-huge concern since PicNik will no longer exist as of sometime in April. Here on Smug, "Auto" almost always adds contrast to a photo that already has too much contrast & therefore will not lighten a contrasty photo. "Tanning" has been useless for several yrs., adding an ugly greenish cast, where it used to add a warm yellow cast. I wonder if anyone uses it? And other than Auto & Tanning, there's nothing to adjust lighting or change the color balance....we're basically in the dark ages here. Priorities! :scratch

Andy · March 20, 2012

WinsomeWorks wrote: »

Please, Smug, put on-site edits high on your list!! This is currently an extra-huge concern since PicNik will no longer exist as of sometime in Apri

we're working on a replacement, Anna Lisa.

WinsomeWorks · March 21, 2012

Andy wrote: »

we're working on a replacement, Anna Lisa.

A replacement for PicNik is fine, but what is needed 1000 times more are fast & bulk tools right here on Smug. I used PicNik because of the lack of editing functionality here, but it was a very slow option, even after the speed-up awhile back. What's more, it shrunk the files. The only thing optimal about it was that it did what we couldn't do here. What I'm saying is, it makes no sense to spend time making more phone apps when there are plenty available, while even the most basic editing such as lightening & darkening are not even available right here on large-screen SmugMug. That was supposedly priority about 4 yrs. ago!! It just rots that I can upload a whole gallery on the go & see it from computers all 'round the world, but cannot do basic lighting edits on them until I'm home where my only allowed copy of PS is! Feels rather stone age, when set alongside everything else we can do. Who really wants editing that involves uploading to an off-site space (like PicNik), shrinking files, & downloading back to Smug again ( & moving dups around)?

Andy · March 21, 2012

WinsomeWorks wrote: »

A replacement for PicNik is fine, but what is needed 1000 times more are fast & bulk tools right here on Smug. I used PicNik because of the lack of editing functionality here, but it was a very slow option, even after the speed-up awhile back. What's more, it shrunk the files. The only thing optimal about it was that it did what we couldn't do here. What I'm saying is, it makes no sense to spend time making more phone apps when there are plenty available, while even the most basic editing such as lightening & darkening are not even available right here on large-screen SmugMug. That was supposedly priority about 4 yrs. ago!! It just rots that I can upload a whole gallery on the go & see it from computers all 'round the world, but cannot do basic lighting edits on them until I'm home where my only allowed copy of PS is! Feels rather stone age, when set alongside everything else we can do. Who really wants editing that involves uploading to an off-site space (like PicNik), shrinking files, & downloading back to Smug again ( & moving dups around)?

Hi Anna Lisa, I'm sorry you're upset

We have different development teams on Camera Awesome and Picnik replacement. We'd much rather use some commercially available platform to do all this photo editing than try and re-engineer it on our own, there are lots of efficiencies to that. I'm sorry you only have Photoshop at home - did you know you can put it on two machines? I have PS on my Desktop and my Laptop - Lightroom, too. Oh, and don't forget, Anna Lisa, there's the free editor, Gimp

you don't have to upload files to our new editing service (or to Picnik). And the new service we're working with won't reduce your files as Picnik did. Stay tuned for more.

WinsomeWorks · March 21, 2012

Andy wrote: »

Hi Anna Lisa, I'm sorry you're upset We have different development teams on Camera Awesome and Picnik replacement. We'd much rather use some commercially available platform to do all this photo editing than try and re-engineer it on our own, there are lots of efficiencies to that. I'm sorry you only have Photoshop at home - did you know you can put it on two machines? I have PS on my Desktop and my Laptop - Lightroom, too. Oh, and don't forget, Anna Lisa, there's the free editor, Gimp

you don't have to upload files to our new editing service (or to Picnik). And the new service we're working with won't reduce your files as Picnik did. Stay tuned for more.

When I said you need to upload files to PicNik, I meant that they need(ed) to go from SmugMug to PicNik & back again... it's a pain, & can only be done one photo at a time! I understand the desire use an already available platform, but are there not any available platforms that can be integrated into a site, so that the process is seamless rather than cumbersome? There's nothing at all efficient about anything more than a click or two, & bulk lightening & darkening not being available right here on the site, There's not really an excuse when it's available on so many other dinkier sites. I mean.. what does everyone else do?? About PhotoShop-- been thru this a million times: When you have it through work, no, you can't have it on 2 machines at home. Don't have a laptop anyway, so Gimp is also not an option. If I'm away, I'm on hotel computers, etc. I just don't see why we have to re-invent the wheel... just use some simple light/dark tool like every other site has, sites way less sophisticated than SmugMug.

Andy · March 21, 2012

WinsomeWorks wrote: »

When I said you need to upload files to PicNik, I meant that they need(ed) to go from SmugMug to PicNik & back again... it's a pain, & can only be done one photo at a time! I understand the desire use an already available platform, but are there not any available platforms that can be integrated into a site, so that the process is seamless rather than cumbersome? There's nothing at all efficient about anything more than a click or two, & bulk lightening & darkening not being available right here on the site, There's not really an excuse when it's available on so many other dinkier sites. I mean.. what does everyone else do?? About PhotoShop-- been thru this a million times: When you have it through work, no, you can't have it on 2 machines at home. Don't have a laptop anyway, so Gimp is also not an option. If I'm away, I'm on hotel computers, etc. I just don't see why we have to re-invent the wheel... just use some simple light/dark tool like every other site has, sites way less sophisticated than SmugMug.

Thanks for posting, Anna Lisa! We'll have a very cool replacement, promise

Picnik Replacement

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