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I'm Siobhan Curran/Kisa Naumova, and this is my weblog. I tend to write about stuff like crossdressing, Macs, code, cats, wine and Second Life, but in general it's just an ongoing conversation about all sorts of stuff. If you'd like to know a little bit more about what this all is, I recommend starting on this page which has a little bit of info on who I am, and what I'm trying to do — or you could dive into my five years worth of archives if you like.

Otherwise, feel free to close this box and explore...

Curious Picnik

Alan Levine pointed me in the direction of a rather neat little browser-based photo editing app this morning: http://www.picnik.com/¹. I've never been one to explore such things before, preferring my usual Photoshop/iPhoto workflow, not wanting to add extra steps into the mix.

(The only New Thing™ I've been playing with much recently, is Skitch, which Jon kindly nudged my way)

But the promise of being able to link my account with Picnik to my Flickr account, tweak my photos, and save them back to Flickr was far too tempting not to try.

You might have seen the results at the top of yesterday's page — that M6 shot was a quick cameraphone-out-of-the-window grab while I was stuck in a traffic jam yesterday, and was terribly overexposed. So, using Picnik's auto-fix button (and a bit of obsessive fine-tuning) I was able to give it some depth, and crispen it up somewhat.

M6 before M6 after

Hurrah! :smile:

But, when I saved it back to Flickr, with the "replace original" checkbox ticked, although the new image appeared on the Flickr page, it didn't update like I expected it to on my blog. I had to go into the source and change the photo's URL.

Which seems rather peculiar to me. I'm pretty sure if I use the replace feature on Flickr, then it does use the same reference number. But perhaps not :unsure:

I suppose I should experiment to find out.

Anyway, Picnik FTW! At least for tweaking photos from my phone, that I haven't blogged yet²

¹ You've probably all seen that before haven't you? You know, I used to be quite up-to-date with my links, rather than the months-old sloopy-seconds link-whore I seem to have become.

² Which isn't often, come to think of it. I tend to send them all to the '2blog' email address by default.

if I use the replace feature on Flickr, then it does use the same reference number

it doesn't. I've fallen foul of this before when I've had to change details on band flyers etc.

Picnik's pretty cool. I was fiddling with it the other day.

Miss K

it doesn't

How poo. You would have thought that that was the whole point of the replace feature — that when you changed something, it would propagate to all the places you'd used that image :unsure:

Shitly Typeset

Flickr replace

Seems to me that generating a new ID, for a replaced image, then having to propagate it into all links (groups, comments, fave's, etc.) is a truly stoopid way of doing things — why make work for yourself? They've probably resorted to some kind of database smart-arsery that speeds up retrieval time, but gets screwed because a replaced image can't occupy the same physical disk space. :rolleyes:

Typeset

They deserve a bit of a break; it's tough when there's a door frame in the way. They'd have got a better result if someone had actually 'written' it (instead of just sticking down a transfer). My dad was a sign-writer, so I know a little of what I speak.

Alli' Cat'

It's a replacement door... be grateful that the rest of the logo was added. In this part of the world, doors are being, er, 'removed' and replaced faster than they can even be colourmatched , nevermind 'signed'...

Chrissy J.

I'm choosing not to feel insulted. :wink:

Becky

Hence my footnote. I knew I'd seen it somewhere before.

The really weird thing is I'd not used Picnik for ages until tonight, when I used it to tweak an old pic on my Flickr stream. I'd literally just finished doing it when I visited your site and read that!

Becky