Image sites like pikipimp lets you dress your photographs and add any "cool" glitter style graphics on top of it. Its clear they are attracting the Myspace crowd with their blingy text and animations. The user gallery shows pretty much the main audience of the site. Its scary seeing how many teens add cigarettes to their photos, but we’ll just focus on the app itself. First you upload an image. Then click and drag any elements on the side such as hats, chest hair, bikinis, headphones, glasses, and even scars. The app is nice enough to include rotation and effects for power users. I’m not too fond with its rotation engine. Instead of a full rotation, the element gets squashed within its "box" causing it to become disproportioned. Because of this, you’ll have to manipulate the box’s size to get back the aspect ratio you want. Clicking effects opens up a toolbar filled with all sorts of goodies. You can change the saturation, and color, or even motion blur on the fly. Each effect loads pretty fast and thats good for the savy hungry beast of Myspace users.

After you have finished amd saved your image, pikipimp adds a bar at the bottom advertising back to the site. I don’t like this at all and would rather pikipimp just use the link back to the site just as they do in their embed code. Its not so hard to photoshop the bar out of the picture but I guess the average myspace  user won’t know how to do it. Another gripe I have is that whenever you add animations, the image is set to gif and greatly reduces the quality of your picture. I know its something they can’t avoid given the limitations of .gif colors. However, I think in the future it would be nice for them to create an embeddable flash widget that hosts the image.

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