The timing couldn’t be better. Yesterday, I talked about Flickr, and one of the few things missing from Flickr is photo editing. You can use the resizing features, but that takes a little more know-how, and it’s only default sizes.

Margie over at EcologicalHope.org emailed me this morning about a problem she was having, which turned out to be related to her posting images that were just too big. So I went digging in my Ma.gnolia archives to find the online photo editors I’ve been collecting, snipshot.com being one of my favorites. Then I see SnipShot profiled on Craftzine today, and well, I decided that it was fate telling me to share this fabulous resource with others.

One of the biggest problems people have when they first start their own website or blog is photos and images. It’s an entirely different tool set for people. Understanding the formats and optimal physical and file sizes for images can be more complicated than I usually expect, and frankly most photo editing software is ridiculously complex for civilians! That’s where handy tools like SnipShot come in. I recommend it to my social media coaching clients and to my clients at CDG. It’s really one of the easiest ways to edit your photos for online use, and let me stress this — it’s for online use — not print.

I love that it now has a Firefox plugin and works with Flickr. That just makes it even better and easier to use. Seamless integration between different services is a hallmark of Web 2.0 — give a little and get a little.

[tags]web 2.0, services, applications, tools, photos, photo editing, online, blogging, social media[/tags]