Saving Picnik - An Email from Jorden Albright CEO of Saving Picnik - Google Don't Be The Ants in Our Picnik.

Karen, I do think all that you say is obvious. Most of us have read and informed ourselves. I am aware of the future plans of Google as are most of the readers of this post.

I am a person of passion and I do think it is worth a try. I see miracles happen everyday when hearts come together to make a difference. I believe in the magic of good intention and people coming together to make a difference. We had SOPA (Stop On-line Piracy Act, backed by the government) recently and Google and Wikipedia stood up. I will always have the good intention to believe that we can make a difference and to stand up. It is all about choices and we are entering a new time when we can make a difference.

I don't prefer the "Big Business" surrendering of my soul. Open source, collaboration and value driven products are the future.

Jorden, thanks for setting us straight here. It really does not matter....we all love Picnik and want to keep it around. I own Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and I use GIMP, Picasa, Aperture and I love Picnik the best. I can take a slightly off kilter photo of a house that I did not get quite straight and I can adjust that in 1 easy step. Mouse Click turn and done. That is pretty amazing. I can probably do all that in the afore mentioned apps but not in a mouse click AND CERTAINLY NOT FOR FREE. Thanks for your effort and thank you for the petition and giving us a voice. You might want to put some disclosure on the petition and Fan Page. It does appear that you are the CEO of Picnik. I am glad about it all and I still think that if we hit Google with major SEO which AR has the ability to do....well it is worth a try. I for one will be there! Thank you for coming on to clear things up.

Leslie, thanks for contributing here. It does appear that it is not what it appeared to be. We are an open forum and that gives great value to the discussion and the discourse. It gives us an opportunity to find the way. There is a community here within the RAIN that love and use the product. We rallied. Please forgive us for that. We should be more discerning when we engage in things. My Bad. It started back several days ago and here we are. We still love the product and we don't want it to go away. The petition is still valid and can produce SEO that could influence Google. Opinions differ and diversity is a celebration. I have gone back and notated the post.

Hello All, this has pretty well done me in. I've tried to take the afternoon off and just put out this quick little post about an application that I depend upon and truly love. I did not think it would be featured. I would so like to see it stay available. It seems that now this post is controversional. I apologize for not having researched it thoroughly. I responded to posts by others and to FB. I do that most every day. I did think this was an official effort by Picnik since the same verbage is on the site. The phrase "Google, don't be the ants in our Picnik" is all over the site.

Have a good evening and I'm still hoping that we do not lose the product. Only good intentions going on here.