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To create my picture I changed the color to Sepia and flipped my picture vertically. || Picnik has the same basic tools as Pixer does but also offers a lot more. You can add stickers, frames, text, and seasonal stuff to your photo. To create my picture with Picnik I added a border and changed the temperature, contrast, and sharpened it. || It took me a second to realize that if you are just playing around with the special effects, it will actually add that tool you are viewing to your orginal picture. If you do not like that tool, you must go and undo the tool used. You could also just as easily go back to the orginal picture. || Just as user friendly as Pixer but a bit more sophisticated. One feature that I loved more on Picnik was the fact that when you choose a tool, it would preview the picture with that tool. You could then apply it to the picture if you liked it or cancel it if you did not want to use it. I liked the layout of Picnik better. It was easy to navigate even with all the different tools. || Both of these online tools are very easy to use. However, I believe if I were to use one of these in my classroom, I would choos Pixer.us becuase it is less sophisticated than Picnik. I would use Picnik for my personal use. I like all the tools and effects Picnik has to offer and would enjoy transformin my pictures with this editor.
 * || Pixer.us || Picnik ||
 * Tool Selection || Pixer.us had the basic tools used to edit a photo. This included crop, rotate, flip, resize, brightness, color, saturation, blur, and special effects.
 * Interface || User friendly and not very sophisticated. A great online editor for beginners.
 * Speed || When applying tools to preview or to add to the orginal picture, Pixer.us had a slight delay. || Very fast when adding tools to pictures. Much faster than Pixer. ||
 * Export || Pixer had four different ways you could save your picture to your computer; JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP. || There were numerious ways to export/save your edited photo. Of coure you could save it to your desktop, but others included, facebook, myspace, flickr, photobucket, picasa, webshots, and webs. ||
 * Flash/HTML || Flash || Flash ||
 * Max. File Size || 30KB || No file size was specified. ||
 * Max. Resolution || 6000x6000 || No resolution was specified. ||
 * Cost || Free to all users. || The cost was free to users, however, there was a "premuim" sign-up which allowed you acces to more tools. I am not sure if this sign-up costs money or not. ||
 * Layers || No layers option on Pixer. || There was a layers option but you had to be a "premium" member to use this tool. ||
 * Effects || One of the effects button was not currently working when I was editing my photo. On the special effects button, you could apply, oil painting, 1850, jitter, pixellated, marbel, wood, clouds, textile, dirty, or rusty. || Picnik had a lot more effects tools than Pixer. You could change a specific area of the picture or the entire thing. You could also choose different camera types, colors, or just special effects to make the picture look funny. ||
 * Killer Features || My favorite feature on Pixer.us was the flip tool only because it makes my picture look funny. || My favorite feature that I used was the border feature. Although any of the special effects are fun to use. ||