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"Not many people seemed to care when FotoFlexor made its entire set of image-editing tools available online for free, but maybe Picnik's announcement will make a few waves?  Picnik is setting all of its features free as well, just weeks after FotoFlexor's announcement.  So if you don't mind ads, and you like Picnik's tools, you should be very happy at the news, indeed.  For those of you that don't like ads, you can still purchase the Picnik software for $24.95 per year, in order to enjoy an ad-free experience.  \nWith Adobe PhotoShop pretty much lording over the professional image software arena, the battle for online editing has become rather parallel to the fight we've seen for document creation against Microsoft Office.  Adobe has indeed fought back, with tools like Photoshop Express, and AIR has been a primary way in which the company is hoping to make a large and all-encompassing bridge for the web-based and desktop community of applications.  \nThis is particularly important as web-based image-editing tools are being continuously integrated into third-party services, as we've seen with Flickr and Picnik.  Adobe has been rather active in this space as well, especially  in the image- and video-editing arena.  See here for more pricing details on Picnik's new offering."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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