Photo editing in Creative Kit

Google has eliminated Picnik from its web services substituting it with Creative Kit which has been used it Google+ for some time now. It is not radically different from Picnik and offers some really useful tools that have been absent previously, particularly a resize tool.  


In order to edit a photo in Picasa click on "actions"/"edit in Creative Kit" in the menu above the photo. 

Creative Kit is devided into four menu options:

• Basic edits (crop, color correction, rotate, etc.)
• Effects (mostly artistic/aesthetic)
• Decorations (brush, icons, clipart, liquefy filter, etc.)
• Text (including a wide variety of fonts.

Creative Kit can be used for a variety of activities in the classroom ranging from teaching photo editing basics to creative and language activities.  Here are some ideas:

• Sending a postcard to a friend
• Labeling the objects in a picture
• Creating a comic/picture story
• Creating an advertisement