Picnik API Offers Photo Editing Tools for any Website
The web-based photo editing service Picnik has announced a new API to allow third party sites to use Picnik’s toolset. The new Picnik in a Box, as it’s known, makes it relatively easy to add a full-featured photo editor to your site, much like what Flickr recently released in conjunction with Picnik.
Now you can do the same. The new Picnik In A Box pulls in the complete Picnik UI and overlays it, lightbox-style, on top of your existing website. The result is an image editor where your users can tweak their photos without ever leaving your site.
Of course the integration is not quite as simple as the name might imply, there are half a dozen methods to call just to load an image for editing and then you’ll have to handle saving, closing and the the rest of the interaction.
Still, despite a little bit of effort involved in setting things up, Picnik’s API gives smaller sites a simple means to integrate a full-fledged image editor, something that was once only available to those sites with an army of programmers at their disposal.
To see what the API looks like in action, head over to the examples page and be sure to read through the documentation for more information of how to get started integrating Picnik into your site.
[via Mashable]
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