Team Picnik wants to congratulate Photobucket on the launch of their new Open API, and we’re thrilled to be right there with them as an official launch partner!

Now any developer can create an application to seamlessly bridge with Photobucket for simple, secure access to photo albums. For instance, all five billion, one hundred thirty four million, four hundred thirty thousand, one hundred thirty nine (and counting!) photos on the internet’s biggest photo storage site can be seamlessly accessed, made perfect with our editing tools, made awesome with our special effects, shapes, and text, plus put in customized frames, then saved them back to Photobucket without ever leaving Picnik.

We here at Picnik are always looking for easy and fun ways to make perfect photos and want to thank Photobucket for helping us bring that ease and fun to as many people as possible, and we wish all you Photobucket users out there happy Picniking!

Why settle for just having hilarious cats on your t-shirt\mug\canvas prints? Wouldn’t your awesome Picniked photo be so much better? We think so! Picnik has partnered-up with the clever QOOP (cue-oop!), allowing you to shoot your creation straight to QOOP and direct to your new mouse pad. You ask, “Dude, where and how?!?” Under the Save&Share tab you’ll see Print Photo… then all the cool QOOP options. Clicking one of their options (prints, postcards, key chains, disks, calendars, more, more) will deliver you to QOOP with your current open picture (and your Photo History… coming soon!).

Not one to rest on any single project at a time, we also decided to go international in a big way becoming PhotoBox.com’s new killer photo-editor. Completing their picture (sorry) with storage, sharing, publishing and lots of other photo-coolness. If you’re just about anywhere in Europe, you’ve got to have heard of these sharp guys: Photobox.fr in France, Photobox.de in Germany and Photobox.co.uk. Picnik runs in those languages too, but you already knew that. Finally, hold on to your hat\hut\chapeau\capello for their coming releases all across Europe!