Today my Plurk friends told me about a new online photo editor called Ribbet! Last year, when Picnik integrated with Google (closed), a bunch of us (former Picnik addicts) went to Picmonkey. I liked Picmonkey a lot, I even signed up or a whole year of premium service. However, it lacked one really important feature that Picnik had, which is the ability to upload directly to Flickr, instead of having to save the image first to hard drive, then re-upload to Flickr.
I took Ribbet for a test drive today, and I’m already a fan. It has everything that Picnik had, and more! It is Picnik 2.0! All the premium features are FREE now (that may change soon), but I would happily splurge on the upgrades just cos I love online photo editors for simple blogging edits instead of always relying on Photoshop.
Are you using any online photo editors? If so, which one?
I’m famous with PhotoFunia! My first post about PhotoFunia still get tons of hits, even two years later. I guess people are really into PhotoFunia! My favorite PhotoFunia picture from two years ago:
Happy Saturday! The Tara Jumpsuit from The Secret Store is an instant favorite of mine. I love long pants, and there’s not enough of it in SL. Even if it’s a jumpsuit, it’s still long pants! This jumpsuit is available in a variety of colors and patterns.
What I’m Wearing:
Truth Hair – AveryElena
Izzie’s – Miami Neon Glasses (White, rainbow lenses)
The Secret Store – Tara Jumpsuit (Stripes)
Ingenue – April Flats (Pearl)
Friday released four new hairstyles this week, and it’s pretty exciting for me. I just LOVE new hair – especially cos I feel that the Friday Blonde texture is really bright & happy. Friday hairstyles are pretty stiff, and would totally benefit from having a few flexi prims added to it – but the overall styles & texture is great. I like that they’ve added scripting to the hair accessories so I can easily select Pink from the menu without having to manually tint it myself.
Do you like my facial expression? LOL! It took me a couple of minutes to get just the right look and also make sure the eyes line up well with my prim lashes. Emotes are SO much fun, but such a pain when the prim lashes cannot move with it.
If you like my BabyDoll top, check out Nymphetamine Boutique! This is the Vivy BabyDoll top in White, part of the Vivy White Wedding Dress, and the BabyDoll should be worn as lingerie (with matching panties) but I’m wearing some jean shorts with it since I think it can be worn as a casual top, too.
Hey, Linden Labs! I know you’re working hard on two different projects right now, and that’s great. I also know you’ve mentioned being forced to do so because if you didn’t, someone else would replace the virtual worlds you’ve worked hard to build up. Right?
It’s 2017. Here are your rivals. There’s more than one:
I remembered to go visit Argrace after wearing one of their hairstyles yesterday. This brand does not release very often, but all of their products are pretty awesome. This new Open Shirt is so adorable, I had to grab it in Smoke Blue and made an outfit around it.
The Open Shirt comes with sculpted attachments, and two different shirt options (with undershirt layered underneath) or without (so sexy!).
You can probably style this shirt so many ways, but I chose to wear dark denim jeans, and matching green shoes (to match the undershirt).
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Say hello to my new cats, Hamlet and Ophelia! My friend has a kitty supply store, and it is so posh and awesome.
Visit KittyDream if you’re looking for cats, beds, and more.
These are the teacup size, look how small and cute! As small as an SL shoe.
What I’m Wearing:
Argrace – Military Cap “Loose Chignon” Platinum
Argrace – Open Shirt (Smoke Blue)
Mon Tissu – Lou Lou Denim (Dark)
Caroline’s Jewelry – Flower Petal Green Earrings
G-Field – Open Boots “Vilda” Olive
Admiral Spicy – Love Music Necklace
The Avatar Welcome Pack is now available in the library and is free for all residents. To use it, copy the entire pack from the library into your inventory. I decided to challenge myself by dressing from head to toe in free items. Additionally, SeraPlus, the newly released gift pack from Seraphim, is also available. However, this gift pack is for paid residents only, meaning you need to be a Plus, Premium, or Premium Plus member to access it. I chose to mix and match items from both of these packs to create my version of Gogo Lite. Given the limitations of this mesh head and body, I think I did fairly well.
Almost immediately, I noticed that because I was using the lite Avalon head, I lack a HUD to control various features – can’t change lashes, expressions, HD makeups, etc. Furthermore, some of the shape sliders for facial adjustments are disabled. While I could edit about 90% of the features, one slider I really wanted to use, the chin depth slider, was unfortunately unavailable.
UPDATE: You can edit the chin slider and all of the sliders if you wear ANY BODY that is not Legacy Lite. I was able to edit the Avalon Lite head when I’m wearing the Maitreya LaraX body.
This is my first time wearing Legacy, so I can’t provide an informed opinion about it. Since it was free, I took the opportunity. However, I spent quite some time searching for a long sleeve alpha to cover my elbows, which were poking through the top; this was not included in Riot’s package. I assume the SeraPlus gift is aimed at residents with the full Legacy body, but if you search for it, you can likely find a free alpha to hide the arms. I also added a random shorts alpha to maintain modesty, as there were instances where private areas peeked through in various poses.
As for the Avatar Welcome Pack, while they stated that HUDs were omitted to simplify things for new residents, I believe HUDs are crucial for learning. It would have been beneficial to include at least some HUDs or controls. Though I find the free body and head adequate, the inability to hide certain body parts is a significant limitation. To top it off, I noticed I don’t have any fingernails, and the nails on the body skin I’m wearing is a hot mess on the Legacy lite body.
Overall, whether you’re a new resident or an experienced player looking spruce up your avatar, the Avatar Welcome Pack provides lots of items to get you started. If you prefer not to spend any money at all, I recommend checking out FabFree for all the latest freebie offerings.
You should look into photoshop actions if you haven’t already. A lot of them you just press one button and it does all the work for you by a single click of the button. It’s pretty neat.
It’s really easy! You literally press the play button in the actions tab and it does all the work. And yes it is paid for some of the nicer actions, you get a lot of them, but you can find free ones too!
hi, thanks for the tip! i just few weeks ago found Pixlr Express, http://pixlr.com/express/ which for me is perfect. and it is totally free and very easy and fast to use.
Has it clone tool? Sometimes it is a bit of clipping, or those pesky grid lines… What viewer do you use now? If you say the official viewer, how do you manage? Do you use a customized skin? I think the official viewer feels so clumsy compared to Firestorm. I don’t find most of the handy photo tools in it.
And I registered so I can get all the exstras for free a limited time… *facepalms*. I guess it is too early in the morning for my brain. Thank you so much, I really, really missed Picnik!
Hi, great post. I will be looking into that. I currently use Corel Photo XI (old PSP) and am a PS newb. I find alot of things are easier to do on Corel Photo, tho I adore the Liquify option in PS. I got a new puter and all my proggy plugins are on my laptop and Im looking for some good effects. Thank so much for posting this
It hasn’t got layering, and that’s what I need most of all for my photos. I liked PicMonkey when it was free, but I stopped using it when they started charging for it.
Google Picasa will do most of the things PicMonkey does, and for free. For everything else, Photoshop!
You should look into photoshop actions if you haven’t already. A lot of them you just press one button and it does all the work for you by a single click of the button. It’s pretty neat.
http://paintthemoon.net/
I’m kind of a ps newb. I know just enough to make my ads & site banner, lol. Is this site paid?
It’s really easy! You literally press the play button in the actions tab and it does all the work. And yes it is paid for some of the nicer actions, you get a lot of them, but you can find free ones too!
hi, thanks for the tip! i just few weeks ago found Pixlr Express, http://pixlr.com/express/ which for me is perfect. and it is totally free and very easy and fast to use.
I’ve been using Ribbet for a couple of weeks now and I love it, it’s basically the same as Picnik was, which I was a really big fan of!
hey, yes ist very similar to Picnic, but i really miss the nicelooking templates that they had…
Has it clone tool? Sometimes it is a bit of clipping, or those pesky grid lines… What viewer do you use now? If you say the official viewer, how do you manage? Do you use a customized skin? I think the official viewer feels so clumsy compared to Firestorm. I don’t find most of the handy photo tools in it.
NVM, I looked it up myself. I see it is in premium, means you have to pay for clone tool.
And I registered so I can get all the exstras for free a limited time… *facepalms*. I guess it is too early in the morning for my brain. Thank you so much, I really, really missed Picnik!
No, thanks. Photoshop’s got it all. 😀
Hi, great post. I will be looking into that. I currently use Corel Photo XI (old PSP) and am a PS newb. I find alot of things are easier to do on Corel Photo, tho I adore the Liquify option in PS. I got a new puter and all my proggy plugins are on my laptop and Im looking for some good effects. Thank so much for posting this
Thank you for letting me know about this site. I think it’s awesome. I’ve already reworked a new SL profile photo using it!
Thanks a lot for that info! I was big fan of Picnik. Now I use mostly Ipiccy or PhotoScape, but I’m really looking forward to test Ribbet.
Hi, thanks for this site… Juicy i’ve one question for you: what you use for doing your skin and dress so luminose? I love it <3
Just a nice and bright Windlight setting, I don’t really do anything special.
It hasn’t got layering, and that’s what I need most of all for my photos. I liked PicMonkey when it was free, but I stopped using it when they started charging for it.
Google Picasa will do most of the things PicMonkey does, and for free. For everything else, Photoshop!
Hi Veronika, You can use Ribbet for layering as long as you’re registered: http://blog.ribbet.com/?topic=photo-basket
You can also delete from layers (mask) using the eraser tool: http://blog.ribbet.com/?topic=eraser-tool