Piciik.com after April 19,2012 will be no more. This free photo editing program that has helped so many in ActiveRain to edit photos is closing it's doors.
There are a number of us that use other photo editing software but no one can argue that the many things that Picnik provided beyond simple photo editing was amazing. Picnik was loaded with special features that required virtually no learning curve nor the many hours of focus that would have otherwise been required to create the same effects.
In the announcement, Picnik owned by Google, is however providing many of the Picnik editing features through Google+. I just tried it and added the text copyright to an imported photo and it provided the same basics as did Picnik. In fact is works just like the old Picnik and is formatted to look similar.
There are some things missing, like slide shows, collages, frames and many of the special effects that Picnik provided but for basic editing like color and brightness enhancements, cropping, resizing, straitening, and adding text, it will still be available through Google +.
So do not despair, Google will be providing the basic Picnik type service through it's Google+, free of charge.
In the announcementt, Google launched a new feature called Picnik Takeout that will download any photos you have on the Picnik site to your computer in a zip file format. You can also copy them to Google+ where you can store and share them just like in Picnik. This tool will be available until the closing date of April 19th,2012.
For Premium Picnik Members, as a way of saying Thank You, Google will be processing a full refund of your current membership. They said even if you are on your very last day of annual membership, you will receive an entire refund of the $24.95 annual membership fee.
For everyone else, until the close date of April 19,2012, everyone will have access to all the services of the Premium account for free.
I for one will still miss this marvelous service that I relied since it's inception 5 years ago. All good things must come to an end but thankfully, the basics of Picnik will still be available to all of us at no charge and once we have switched our photo editing accessible through to Google +, for most things, we will hardly notice any change at all.
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