Picnik

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Type	Subsidiary
Founded	Seattle, Washington, USA (2005)
Dissolved	December 25, 2012
Headquarters	United States
Key people	Jonathan Sposato, CEO Darrin Massena, CTO and Co-founder Mike Harrington, Co-founder
Industry	Internet, computer software
Parent	Google
Website	www.picnik.com
Alexa rank	1,401 (June 2012[update])[1]
Type of site	Image editing service
Available in	English, Spanish, German, Italian and 12 others
Current status	Viewable only. Not operational

Picnik was an online photo editing service which was acquired by Google in 2010. It was closed on April 19, 2012 and most of its most popular services were transferred to Google's social network website, Google+. It was headquartered in Downtown Seattle, Washington, United States.^[2]

The site allowed users to edit images, add styles to imported images and use basic editing tools such as cropping and resizing an image. Users could import photos natively from Facebook, Myspace, Picasa Web Albums, Flickr, Yahoo Image search, Google Plus and also offers 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.

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.^[3][4]

In January 2012, Picnik announced that it would be closing on April 19, 2012 and would be moving their tools to Google+. They provided a full refund to all Premium members and also provided free Premium service to everyone until April 19. In addition, they offered an option to download one's most recent five uploads and 20 saved photos (100 most recent uploads and all saved photos for Premium members) as a ZIP file ('Picnik Takeout'). Some people petitioned to stop the shut down, but failed.^[5] Picnik sent an email to all of their users on March 21, 2012 containing a list of frequently asked questions.^[6].

Picnik closed on April 19, 2012. Once Picnik closed, their service on other websites, such as Flickr and Facebook was disabled. More info & frequently asked questions on their closure can be found here: http://support.google.com/picnik

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External links[link]

	Seattle portal
	Companies portal

• Picnik
• The Story of Picnik Video