New editing program touches up Flickr
 

*Source: Yahoo (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071205/...a.YXcj tBAF)*
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SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. is touching up its popular online photo-sharing service, Flickr, with free editing tools aimed at the growing number of shutterbugs who want to doctor their digital pictures.

The editing software, expected to be introduced late Tuesday in a partnership with Picnik Inc., represents Yahoo's latest attempt to broaden Flickr's appeal as the Sunnyvale-based company closes its older Yahoo Photos service.

"We think this is going to be very attractive to mainstream users," said Kakul Srivastava, Flickr's senior director of product management.

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