Web 2.0 Adventure

picnik.com:  I totally played and had fun with this assignment, starting with some family pictures and adding lots of special effects.  Then, I took a picture of my sister’s house (that I want to sketch for a Christmas present) and worked to lighten the shadows so I can see more details.  I was really pleased with some of the details I ended up “discovering” with the new effects, but found the web site awkward to use on my laptop working wirelessly in the den with my family.  I think that the web site has lots of potential, both for fun and for the classroom, but probably not on my laptop.  I thought it was really exciting that all of this photo editing software was so readily available and all for free, though, and will probably “play” with it again!