Weekly Post - a little bit of everything

What?
Because our teacher was out sick last week, she taught us about Picasa this week. However, I already explored Picasa and blogged about it so this post will be about the different photo editors I use - Picasa, Picnik, iPhoto, and PhotoShop.

So What?
There is another online picture editing program that I wanted to blog about. It's www.picnik.com. I love Picnik because it has a lot more fun effects than Picasa, but Picasa is definitely better in some ways. The free portion of Picnik.com is fun to use, but you have to subscribe to the premium version to have access to ALL it's wonderful features. Also, on Picnik, you can only upload and work on one picture at a time whereas in Picasa all of your pictures can be saved in the program to be used at a moment's notice.

Picnik allows you to edit your pictures in more extravagant ways, which is fun, but I don't necessarily think you would want to edit your pictures to the extreme for everyday classroom use. It definitely wouldn't be efficient to use Picnik for a whole batch of photos either since you can only upload one at a time - it would take way too long.

Now What?
I can see the advantages of Picasa and Picnik, but for me, I will stick to iPhoto for now - photoshop when my work gets more extensive. I think it's most important to know all your available resources so you know which ones to use in different situations. If I needed to do a certain photo edit on an entire batch of pictures I would use Adobe Bridge. If I wanted a quick fun edit on a few pictures I would use Picnik. If I wanted to share entire albums I would use Picasa and if I wanted to do everyday minor edits (on my own computer) I would stick to iPhoto.

Lucky for me, I'm more knowledgeable about photo editing than the average teacher because I have studied photography. I can see myself using all of these different programs in my teaching. I am glad there are free online photo editors like Picasa and Picnik because keeping updated with Adobe programs gets expensive - especially when I won't be able to buy student editions anymore.

Video
Since I've already watched and blogged about all the videos I chose found one of my own
This video is a tour of iPhoto '09.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl8OZXh52RE

I'm not really familiar with iPhoto '09, I'm still in the '06 version, which is when I bought my Mac. After watching this video it is now on my wishlist - along with many other Apple products. One thing I thought was pretty awesome about Picasa is it's face recognition tool. Now iPhoto has the same kind of tool. I'm pretty jazzed. It also has more organizing features, which I really like because I have a lot of pictures between my photography and normal snapshots. For now I will stick to what I have and when I become rich I will blow my money on every Apple product out there.