Originally from Bainbridge Island, Ariel grew up in a log cabin and studied Sociology and Communications at the University of Washington. She has written up and down the Left Coast, crafting articles for San Francisco-based feminist zines and Amazon.com reviews and several things in between. She’s been on The Today Show, she works at Microsoft three days a week taking pictures of cool employees, and she has bright pink hair tips.

Since she’s mostly a casual photographer who does other things for a living, we thought she’d be a great choice for Featured Picniker, to showcase how great casual pictures can look with just one or two Picnik Effects. And because four of us in Team Picnik are getting married this summer (that is, two of us are getting married to another two of us), who better to feature than an offbeat bride?

Picnik: How did you first hear about Picnik, and when was that?
Ariel: Picnik was recommended to me by a friend last fall, but it wasn’t until it was integrated with my beloved Flickr that I really started playing with it.

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First order of business: PayPal! There’s been a growing chorus of requests from Picnikers, saying “If only you accepted payments through PayPal, I’d be a Premium customer today!” And who are we to say no?

So after a few weeks of playing in PayPal’s sandbox (yes, they really do have one! All us kids go there to learn how to trade play money for play goods & services) we’re all set. Everything is built, tested, the wiring’s been stuffed back in the case, and we’re all good to go.

Now, if you’re someone who values the security and convenience that PayPal offers, there’s now nothing keeping you from all Picnik has to offer.

Grahamish!	dany_xoxo!	gumybearz!

Meanwhile, a new month means a new contest, so start buffing up your typography skills because July’s theme is “Best Use of Text“!

If you have Syncplicity installed on your computer, you can right-click any document and choose the “edit in Picnik” option, and when you save after applying all the Picnik awesomeness you want to your photo, it saves to your computer and your Syncplicity to keep everything synced! Simply!

We’d like to thank Syncplicity for including us in their open platform, and we’d like to welcome Syncplicity to our merry band of API partners!

Picnik: How did you first hear about Picnik, and when was that?
Vinci: When I heard and have read that Flickr have partnered with Picnik to give them an editing function. I have been editing since then!

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There’s fireworks, noisemakers, maple leaves, flags and bunting and, as always, funny hats.