Picnik Premium Launches!
The Picnik Premium Preview is at an end. Starting today, Premium features will only be available to Premium subscribers, for the low, low price of $24.95 per year. As always, the basic Picnik experience, complete with the best photo editor you can find anywhere, is absolutely free for everyone.
Fonts! Our new Font tool has been a smash hit, but one thing we’ve been hearing in spades is, “More fonts!” We had 6 fonts, so we added one or two here and there and now we have 70. Just a handful, really. The original six are still available for free for everyone.
Shapes! We also bulked up our collection of 23 shapes with a nicely weighty 154 Premium shapes. Everything from cute little baby bunnies to punk rock splats. And of course a tasty selection of basic shapes has been set aside for everyone to use.
Effects! An update wouldn’t be complete without new effects. Posterize, which we’re really quite proud of, and Film Grain, which is a dead simple way to add some nice texture to any photo.
New photo service!
Webshots has joined the ranks of Flickr, Picasa, Facebook, and Photobucket to which you can connect via Picnik.
October 23rd, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Congrats! What are the chances that you’ll also support SmugMug?
October 23rd, 2007 at 11:37 pm
WTF? I try and give you money and the Billing Address field only lists United States and Canada? There are other countries in the world, you know!
Seriously, if there’s a reason it’s not worldwide yet, that’s fine, but say so on the site and explain why.
October 24th, 2007 at 11:20 am
Thanks for note Nathan. We’re scrambling to enable worldwide payments as I write this and expect to have it live within a week. You’re right, we should have made this clear on the site and on the billing page. Whoops!
October 24th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
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October 25th, 2007 at 4:14 am
Awesome edit Flickr photos with Picnik…
Flickr users will be able soon to edit photos more extensively than just rotate and crop, using the Flash based online photo editor. The deal has been signed and Picnik tools will be integrated via an iframe within next few months. I should say that c…
October 27th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
I’m very upset about the fact that Picnik isn’t free anymore.
It WAS the best free online photo editor.
I’m sure something free and identical or better will be created.
October 31st, 2007 at 11:41 pm
No consideration for those of us who were Alpha/Beta testers and promoters? Just go ahead and drop that “premium” tag over the features I’ve used in the past and during the one free week trial and I’ll continue to sing your praises…
November 9th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
You have simply the most elegant, robuts, easy-to-use interface of any online photo editor in the market. From posterize to ‘goify,’ the sky’s the limit in terms of creativity. And I love the funky fonts.
When a user combines the various tricks and effects, anything’s possible. Thanks again for such an amazing technology!
Best regards,
Dave
August 5th, 2008 at 5:54 am
pow esse site é muiiitooo legal..me divirtoo muiito.
November 5th, 2008 at 11:38 am
I am a premium member but it almost doesn’t seem as worth it as I thought. Yeah, there’s a couple more fonts, a few more effects, and its a little more convenient. But it doesn’t seem like there’s enough fonts, effects, and such for the premium members. It just seems like we pay more but the things that we get aren’t as cool as we thought. There’s only a few extra fonts for us and half of them are so basic, they’re boring. The ‘advanced” tab also isn’t that appealing to me. There’s only two options and they just aren’t that appealing. Also, I think there should be some more artsy shapes added…I really like the dripping star, the cluster of squares, and the cluster of circles, but I would love to see some more shapes like that… maybe some different splatters and edgy shapes. Other than that, I love picnik! Oh and is there any way to crop in other ways other than just making the picture square or a rectangle? I would really like to see an option to cut peices out of the picture and select them, move them, copy them…things like that…it would be cool to use for layering picture if you didnt have to have a whole picture added, just maybe a detail of another picture.
December 7th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
This is a great blog!