How To Edit Your Ski Photos From Anywhere

So get this: you're in Whistler, Fernie, or another ski resort after a day of epic conditions.

You snapped some amazing pics throughout the day, and now you want to share them with your friends and family (they're so good, you just can't wait until you get home).

You head to the local internet cafe (or if you're lucky, maybe there's an internet connection in your ski resort accommodation). You upload your pics from your digital camera to the computer. (They look even better full screen). You narrow the plethora of choice down to your top 10 pictures.

Now, how do you share them with the world?

If you have your own blog or online photography community, you can just upload them to your site and email your friends and family to notify them of your content. Or you may want to email them directly, but this can cause problems if your photos are gigantic in size and overflow meager email accounts.

The other problem: you notice a couple pictures aren't quite as good as they could be. You think they could use some sharpening, a selective crop, and perhaps a touch of contrast.

Here's where Piknik comes in handy.

It's part of a new crop of photography websites that let you edit your photos right online, for free. I consider myself an amateur photography buff with a fair understanding of full-featured editing programs like Photoshop, and I have to say Piknik is really really cool for editing your pics on the road.

It's super fast, easy to use, and let's you import your photos from a variety of sources: your computer, another website, from your webcam, anywhere. And when you're done, you can export the image, crop it, compress it to fit easily on the web or in an email to your friends and family.

So check it out now! And if you want to check out a couple other similar websites, here's some further reading of services compared.