Google has decided to close down Picnik || Premium features of PICNIK are free till 19th April 2012

Although heading of this notification says - 'Picnik will be closing' , but I liked the part through which some of the premium tools are free and can be tried till 19th April 2012. After that Picnik will be discontinued by Google for more priority businesses. Slowly online Photo Editing, Sharing portals are being closed by major companies and it seems revenue is not significant to focus on these business lines. But how does it impact Photographers? Will such changes increse the market for Desktop Photo Editing software, which always offer more power? Let's see how this game changes the Photo editing software market.

I am fan of Picnik editing these days

Recently I have started working on Picnik editing tools which are integrated with Flickr. I am really enjoying easy and wonderful editing.

Picnik has many free tools available and for some tools we need to have premium membership which is very reasonable. Picnic Premium membership is for $3 per month.

Here is one sample image I have edited in Picnic. I didn't share original because that was not worth viewing :)

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Originally uploaded by Ripple S M

I liked following free tools on Picnic:


- Sharpness control
- Color &
- Fade effect with wonderful controls and results
- Frames
- Curves & some other advanced tools