A lot of people want to do basic photo editing but, don’t want to shell out $70 for Photoshop Elements and think that GIMP is too complicated. Plus, you need to buy and or install your software on each computer. Cloud computing comes to the rescue with Picnik which takes care of  simple image editing and can although it does not do everything Photoshop does, but for average users it should be fine.

Picnik has a simple UI and lets you edit pictures from either the web or from your hard drive. As far as features, it lets you zoom, rotate, crop, modify colors, sharpen and reduce red eye. You can also, get a premium account to further, the features and still starting at only, $2.08 a month. If Gimp is to complicated and Photoshop is too expensive for you then, try Picnik it may be worth your while.