Now that the tryptophantic coma has worn off, it’s time to turn our thoughts to snow, holly and red suits belted in white. To help you winterize, Team Picnik is rolling out our Holiday Effects, Stickers, Frames, Fonts and Fancy Collages.

Add some festivities to the family holiday card with snowflakes, a candy cane, or a dreidel. Or spruce up your profile picture with a white beard and jolly red nose, some antlers, or a spring mistletoe.

We are tickled to bring you a holiday set chock-full of cheer, so be artistic, be silly or somewhere in between just make sure to be merry!

Good news, Picnikers! We’re rolling out for all our users a whole new section to manage your account information.

Now, at a glance, you can see your membership info. If you have a Premium account, you can see what length of membership you purchased and when your next billing cycle begins. You can also confirm that your credit card’s details are up to date, so your Premium membership never accidentally lapses. If you don’t have Premium, you can upgrade!

You can also use this page to easily manage your account’s password (remember, it’s a good idea to change all your passwords every once in a while), plus change your image quality settings, and even, if you really wanted to (and we hope you never would), delete your account (caution: this cannot be undone!).

We’ve been working hard to make this small but essential page more useful for all our users. You can find your My Account page if you’re logged into your account on the last section of the Home Tab, or at any time from the Help drop down at the top of the page.

Happy Picniking!

The coming two weeks are huge, Picnikers!

For those of us in the US, this is the 4th of July long weekend. To celebrate, we have every kind of stars and stripes for your photos: Bokeh Stars, Red White & Blue color effects, flags and fireworks stickers, and more! And don’t forget to put those photos in one of our Independence Day themed Fancy Collages.

Today is Canada Day! Canadians: Check out our collection of Canadian flags, bunting and that essential Maple Leaf in the Seasonal Stickers section!

And on July 14, the French celebrate Bastille Day. We’ve got everything French in the Seasonal Stickers section: Le drapeau de la France, la Tour Eiffel, du café, des baguettes, des croissants, and more!

So we’d like to wish everyone a joyous 4th of July, a carefree Canada Day, and a fabulous Fête Nationale. Happy Picniking!

It’s the women’s turn: The world championship for women’s national association football is happening in nine German cities between the 26th of June and the 17th of July.

If you’re a fan of one of the qualified teams (or if you’re just now choosing one), come to Picnik to dress your photos in your national colors. There are scarves, face paint, flags, and everything else you’d need to show your support for Australia, Brazil, Canada, Columbia, England, Equatorial Guinea, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, North Korea, Norway, Sweden, and the United States.

We have two new operationally ready features to announce, right in time for Memorial Day.

Heat Map 2.0 The original Heat Map Effect has been expanded and made even more awesome with five presets to choose from: Thermal (the original), Satellite, Combustion, Autotrophic, and Infrared. Each one designed to mimic the view you get from different thermographic or low light imaging devices.

Camo Face Paint Fade into your urban jungle (or desert, or woodland) with this new feature. Just paint the colors on, changing colors frequently to avoid detection. Unlike other face painting tools, you can switch colors without hitting Apply.

Plus! Commemorative Shapes of every kind are here for those of you who are celebrating Memorial Day next weekend: Yellow ribbons (in the Awareness Ribbons Stickers), BBQ Stickers, Flag overlays, Camouflage Frames, and anything else you need to pay tribute on this holiday.

We here at Picnik hope you all enjoy these tools and have a really lovely Memorial Day Weekend. Happy Picniking!

Travel season is nearly here! And in honor of National Travel & Tourism Week, we here at Picnik would like to extend a gentle reminder not to forget to pack your camera! Think of all those great vistas, silly signs and amazing people you see on your travels. You wouldn’t want to lose any of those moments, so leave the extra pair of shoes behind if you must but make room for that camera.

To help celebrate, and because sharing photos we’ve taken is one of our favorite things to do, too, we thought we’d show off some favorite travel photos from the Picnik team:

We hope that whether your coming adventures take you across oceans or close to home, you capture those memories you’ve created, and use Picnik to share them at their best with friends, family, and the world.

Happy Picniking and happy travels!

For a long time, even though the Picnik app was translated into 15 languages, Picnikers couldn’t write in characters other than Roman ones with the Text tool. This was because the amount of characters in all the world’s languages is so huge, that downloading that enormous amount of data would take forever, and you’d never get around to editing your photos!

But now, thanks to a bit of genius wizardry, Picnik’s crack team of engineers have come up with a clever way of accessing the international character set you already have downloaded on your computer with our new Global font. And that means that now you can write your greetings, LOLs, professions of undying friendship, song lyrics, and in many cases, even your own name, in all languages, no matter how it’s written!

Find Global at the top of the list of Basic Fonts in the Text Tool. It’s free for all our users, so enjoy!

Are there wedding bells in your future? Picnik has teamed up with several Google products to launch www.google.com/weddings where you will find a range of tools to make your wedding stylish and a cinch to plan.

Look picture perfect: Use Picnik’s range of photo-editing tools and quick fixes to look your best. Engagement photos for the local paper, portraits for the invitations, and all the pictures for your website can look as beautiful as the event.

Collage templates for every wedding: There are custom designed Fancy Collage templates for save the date cards, wedding invitations, and even table numbers, and perfect for your photos.

Share your joy: Make sure all your family and friends know your good news with a wedding website. With Google Sites, it’s simple. There’s an easily customizable template to match all the invitation styles on Picnik.

Stay organized: Keep your expenses straight, your vendors in line, and your warring aunts on opposite ends of the ballroom with Google Docs. There’s a template for organizing every aspect of your wedding.

Keep hold of your memories: Use Picasa Web Albums before your wedding to organize inspirational photos of cakes, dresses, or venues. Since they’ll always be online, they can be viewed by anyone, anywhere. And after the wedding, Picasa Web Albums can keep those photos safe from floods, fires, or stray moving boxes, while keeping them on hand for instant bragging.

And the best part is, all of this lives online. So whether you’re at home, at the office, or on the go at the tuxedo rental, you’ll have all your wedding plans at your fingertips. So you can get down the aisle with a picture perfect smile on your face.

And to make your smile even broader, we’re hosting a wedding sweepstakes to celebrate the launch of www.google.com/weddings! Couples can enter for a chance to win $25,000 towards your dream wedding (see Official Rules). Plus, renowned wedding planner Michelle Rago and her team will advise the winning couple on location, flowers, food and other design elements to create a day that is uniquely their own.

To get started, go to www.google.com/Weddings. For more ideas and help, try our Getting Started guide. Congratulations and happy planning!

It’s February: Time to make sure your loved ones know how you feel. We have a complete collection of romantic Valentine’s Stickers, affectionate fonts, and all sorts of Fancy Collages from sweet to sophisticated, and all perfect for your photos!

A snow storm the size of Australia was bearing down on the US this week and a cyclone the size of the US just passed through Australia, there’s trouble and unrest in many corners of the globe, so perhaps there’s never been a better time to tell people you love them. And since the mail is all screwed up due to the weather, what better way to say it than with Picnik?

Picnik is great for educators. Student profile cards, class photos, bulletin board announcements, lesson plans, and book reports all sparkle with Picnik’s photo-editing superpowers, Fancy Collages, Stickers and Text tools.

The Picnik Help Center has lots of ideas to get your classroom more creative, and the Picnik Forums have a place for educators like you to share their tips, tricks and questions. Do you have any favorite teachers in your life? Let them know!