Picnik

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Picnik
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Type of businessSubsidiary
Type of site
Image editing service
Available inEnglish, Spanish, German, Italian and 12 others
Founded2005 in Seattle, Washington
DissolvedApril 19, 2013
HeadquartersSeattle, Washington,
United States
Key peopleJonathan Sposato, CEO
Darrin Massena, CTO and Co-founder
Mike Harrington, Co-founder
IndustryInternet, computer software
ParentGoogle
URLwww.picnik.com
Current statusFully closed[1]

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Picnik was an online photo editing service which was acquired by Google in 2010.[2] It was headquartered in Downtown Seattle, Washington, United States.[3]

The site allowed users to edit images, add styles to imported images and use basic editing tools such as cropping and resizing an image.[4] Users could import photos natively from Facebook, Myspace, Picasa Web Albums, Flickr, Yahoo Image search, Google+ and also offered options to upload from a computer or to upload from a website. Many of Picnik's basic photo editing tools were free to use. Picnik Premium included additional photo editing features and was offered for a monthly, 6-month, or annual subscription cost.[5]

Picnik had a partnership with Flickr that included a less feature-rich version of Picnik built into Flickr as a default photo editor. They had also signed up to do photo editing with free website creator Webs. Picnik was acquired by Google on March 1, 2010.[6][7]

In January 2012, Picnik announced that it would be closing on April 19, 2013 and would be moving their tools to Google+.[citation needed] They provided a full refund to all Premium members and also provided free Premium service to everyone until April 19. Some people petitioned to stop the shut down, but failed.[8] Picnik sent an email to all of their users on March 21, 2012 containing a list of frequently asked questions.[9]

Picnik stopped allowing downloads of saved content and fully shut down on April 19, 2013. Two of Picnik's original engineers left Google to start a similar photo editor called PicMonkey in the beginning of 2012.[10]

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Picnik closure notice". Google. Archived from the original on July 19, 2017. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Caplan, Jeremy (March 5, 2010). "Google's Acquisition Binge: Why It Bought Picnik". TIME. Archived from the original on May 5, 2025. Retrieved April 11, 2025.
  3. ^ "About Us." Picnik. Retrieved on March 5, 2010. Script error: No such module "webarchive".
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Insanely easy photo editing with Picnik". Simple Scrapper. October 20, 2009. Retrieved April 11, 2025.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kennedy, John (March 2, 2010). "Google acquires photo-editing site Picnik - Life". Silicon Republic. Archived from the original on January 19, 2025. Retrieved April 11, 2025.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Axe, Brian (March 1, 2010). "Google welcomes Picnik". Google Blog. Archived from the original on September 27, 2021. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Google acquiring Web-based photo editor Picnik". CNET. Retrieved April 11, 2025.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Don't Close Picnik!". SignOn.org. Archived from the original on October 29, 2012. Retrieved August 27, 2012.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Picnik closure FAQ". Google Inc. Archived from the original on November 27, 2012. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
  10. ^ Cook, John. "With Picnik set to shut down, former Picnik engineers scratch itch with PicMonkey" Script error: No such module "webarchive"., GeekWire, Seattle, 16 April 2012.

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