I thought that I would share a fun site with all of you grandmothers out there who have set a New Year’s resolution to increase your technological skills. (You HAVE set a goal to improve your tech skills, now haven’t you?)  This site is a great one for grandmas — it will help us as we brag about our darling grandchildren.  The site is Picnik.com.

Picnik is an online photo editing program that you use in your browser.  You can fix red eyes, crop, rotate, sharpen,  and fix exposure and colors.  It’s like Photoshop — only cheaper.  As in free (with a catch that I’ll mention in a moment).  There are fun fonts, shapes, frames, effects, and stickers that you can add to your photos.

You can create scrapbook pages that you can print on your own printer or with their printing services.  You can have your creation printed on a mug, postcards, regular cards, calendars, a poster, and even wrapping paper.  Yes, wrapping paper!  I can see it now — a grandchild’s picture on the wrapping paper used to wrap his birthday present.  How fun is that?  You can even send it to Flickr or Facebook (which works slick as a whistle).

Here are a couple of pages I created.  (Be sure to click on them so you can see them in their full sized glory.)

Aren’t they the cutest kiddos ever?

Print up pictures for your wallet, your office, your fridge, to hang on your walls, to pass out to the random man on the street (who, I’m sure, would be absolutely thrilled to get a picture of your grandchildren).

Wouldn’t it be fun to print some of your pictures as postcards then send them to your grandchildren?  I think they would enjoy getting a postcard from grandma with their picture on it — especially if grandma lived far away or was traveling to tropical climes (like I will hopefully be in a few weeks) and sent a postcard during her travels.

So what are you waiting for?  Skedaddle on over there this very minute and have yourself a look see.

Oh, whoops.  Come on back here.  I forgot to talk about this free business.  Ever heard of the saying ‘Nothing in life is free’?  Well, that is only partially true.  Picnik is free.  But, if you fall head over heels in love with it and you want more options, you gotta pay.  Which, I guess, is only fair.  You can pay $4.95 a month, $19.95 for six months or $24.95 for a year.   (You can see that paying for a year is much, much cheaper than by the month.  And I’m all about being cheap.  Just ask my kids . . .)

So there you go.   NOW, you can head over to Picnik.com.  With my blessing.

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