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| Type of business | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
Type of site | Image editing service |
| Available in | English,Spanish,German,Italian and 12 others |
| Founded | 2005 inSeattle, Washington |
| Dissolved | April 19, 2013 |
| Headquarters | Seattle, Washington, United States |
| Key people | Jonathan Sposato, CEO Darrin Massena, CTO and Co-founder Mike Harrington, Co-founder |
| Industry | Internet,computer software |
| Parent | |
| URL | www |
| Current status | Fully closed[1] |
Picnik was an onlinephoto editing service which was acquired byGoogle in 2010.[2] It was headquartered inDowntownSeattle, 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 fromFacebook,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 lessfeature-rich version of Picnik built into Flickr as a default photo editor.They had also signed up to do photo editing with free website creatorWebs. Picnik was acquired byGoogle 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 toGoogle+.[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 calledPicMonkey in the beginning of 2012.[10]
