"Official Announcement: Picnik is closing
posted by lisa Jan 20th, 2012
Since joining Google in 2010, we have been creating editing magic in Google products while continuing to keep Picnik awesome. But now we get to focus on even awesomer things. Picnik will be closing on April 19, 2012.
Your photos liberated
Amazing photos are created in Picnik so we have launched a new feature, Picnik Takeout, that easily downloads your photos to your desktop in convenient zip files. You may also elect to copy your photos to
Google+ where you can store and share your creations. You may request your photos at any time and use this handy tool as many times as you like until our closing date of April 19, 2012. Learn More.
Premium Refunds
To our primo Picnik Premium members, we’ll begin processing a full refund of your current membership fee within a week of this announcement. By “full” we mean the whole darn thing. Yep, this means even if you are on your very last day of an annual membership, we will refund you the entire $24.95. Just because we want to say thanks.
Now the Good News – Free Premium for ALL!
To express our gratitude for your support over the past 5 years, Picnik Premium is free for everyone! Use Picnik in all of its premium glory, for free, from now until our actual closing day. Touch-up, Textures, Advanced, and more are all free for you to use!
We have been incredibly proud of building a product that is used and beloved by so many of you. We continue to be amazed and humbled by the photos you create and we are immensely grateful for all of your support, creativity, and passion.
We are excited by the photo-editing fun we have already brought to Google products, like Google+, where you can find many of your favorite Picnik effects in Creative Kit. We encourage you to visit Google+ and give it a whirl.
Please visit the Help Hub for more information on our wind down. Check the Picnik blog for updated information on our April closure.
I'm happy premium features are free now! Will try them out straight away. :) Of course I'm sorry it's closing, but Google is cool, i'm sure they replacing it with something awesome.
Well crap, I jut puirchased the premium picnic a few weeks ago... So any suggestions on what i should purcahse now... Do any of you pros have a suggestion for an easy user friendly program for someone who is jsut learning the ropes?
:( Just logged on to Picnik and saw that.... SAD!!!!! Oh well, hopefully they come out with something even better, just as easy and not too much more expensive!
It's a real shame as even though I have PSE7 and GIMP I still love to use picnik as does my 8 year old son. I did wonder about picnik the other day when I saw on flickr about them not using them any more. Boooooo. :(
I've just had a brief experiment with fotofixer.com. It's an on-line facility and has a lot of the same facilities as PICNIK and also works in a very similar way.
It seemed to have trouble with large JPG files, but perhaps that's just me. I have no intention of moving to Google+, they have played a dirty trick on the users (IMHO) and I want no part in helping their dastardly plans.
@ellida@friesianfury --- Google will move them to Google+ no matter what petition goes around. I find it interesting they have opened up everything to everyone on Picnik. I bet they will pull in more people to Google+ as a result. Give them a taste and maybe they will follow. Hmmm .... It's a good idea to find alternatives for those who aren't biting.
Since I hear it was closing I am now using photo shop a lot more in preparation for when Picnik closes but I must admit I do like Be Funky more than I liked Picnik
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It seemed to have trouble with large JPG files, but perhaps that's just me. I have no intention of moving to Google+, they have played a dirty trick on the users (IMHO) and I want no part in helping their dastardly plans.