How to Add an Online Image Editor to Your Website

Umar — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:13:49 +0000

If you have a website which works with images (for example, lets users upload images or share images on your website to their social media networking accounts) then it would be a great idea to provide your site visitors with the option to edit images online. If a person wants to set his profile picture on your site, he can upload the original photo and then edit it in the online editor (available on your site) then put up the resultant image as the picture. Similarly if you have a funny picture up on your site which users can share on Facebook, enabling them to edit it online makes things more convenient in case they want to crop the image.

You do not need to do anything extremely fancy with you site’s code to add an online image editor on your website; all you need is Picmeleo.

Picmeleo is a free online photo editor that any third-party developers can integrate to their website. To use the service, click on the blue SIGN UP BUTTON on the homepage and create an account by entering yours and your website’s details.

After signing into your account, you can obtain the code for the editor; all you will need to now is embed this code into your site and you will have given your site visitors an online image editor.

You can also preview the editor before actually pasting the code on your blog. The loading process may take a little whole so give it some time. Here’s how it looks

Some of the tools this editor contains are Crop, Scale, Rotate, Auto-fix, and Filters. If you do not want your users to be able to extensively edit the image on your site, you can choose to exclude some tools which Picmeleo offers in its editor. This is a unique feature of this online image editor.

Overall the easy integration of Picmeleo into your website is what makes it so special. Give it a try on your website, and in the comments let me know how your experience with it went.

Screen Capture Complete Web Pages With Picknik Firefox Add-on

Tony Williams — Sat, 26 May 2007 09:02:59 +0000

This tip is great for people who want to use create thumbnails of their website, or have to use screen captures in documents or presentations.

One of the annoying problems with the Screen Capture function on PCs is it only captures what is visible on the screen. This is ok most of the time, but sometimes you want to Screen Capture a whole webpage that may be a few screens long. Well now you can capture an entire webpage using the new Picnik Firefox Add-on.

With the Picnik Firefox Add-on you can capture the entire visible portion of a webpage or the entire webpage, regardless of how long it is. Once the image is captured you can then use the Picnik image editor to make additional tweaks.

Yet another great reason to switch to Firefox if you are an Internet Explorer user…..

Thanks to Amit for the great find.

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How to Add an Online Image Editor to Your Website

Screen Capture Complete Web Pages With Picknik Firefox Add-on