As promised, Picnik.com is now available in eight languages. We’ve got 繁體中文, Deutsch, Español, Français, 한글, Italiano, Português, and as always, English.
To switch languages (or to admire all our hard work), click on the itty globe at the top of the Picnik window, pick the language you want, and voilà, it switches!
The Flickr/Picnik integration that everyone’s been eagerly waiting for is here! Now every Flickr member will see an 
button on their photo pages. Click that, and Picnik appears right inside Flickr!
Both Picnik and Flickr teams have been tirelessly toiling to make this the best integration ever. Now, all Flickr members get seamless access to the editing power of Picnik without ever leaving Flickr, and Picnik users can edit their photo, get creative with it, and share it with the entire Flickr community, all in one place.
And as an added bonus, we’re launching Picnik for international users! That’s right, citizens of the world, the Flickr version of Picnik has been translated into seven languages, which will spread to the rest of Picnik.com as fast as we can program it in: Traditional Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Korean, Italian, and Portuguese, just like Flickr!
All of us on Team Picnik want to thank everyone on Team Flickr - George, Simon, Jude, Heather and John - for the hard work, the coding, the camaraderie, the conversation, the hospitality, and the late-night IM-ing that made these past few weeks possible. It’s been crazy, it’s been fun, we’re all really proud of how it’s come together, and we’re so excited we’re downright giddy. And now we’re going to get some sleep.
Happy Flickniking!
I’m afraid I have to report some strange happenings over at Picnik World Headquarters. Mike, for instance, keeps mumbling to himself about “Braaaaains!” and, frankly, looks a bit..off. Take a look below and judge for yourselves. Jonathan has, for some reason, covered the windows with black velvet and keeps staring at Darrin’s neck. Speaking of whom, Darrin seems quite a bit furrier than usual, though he claims it’s because of his new kittens. A likely story.
But enough about that. Picnik’s gone spooky!
Halloween Fonts! For a limited time only, we’ve got eight of the spookiest, creepiest fonts around. Now you, too, can spell your name in skeletons.
Halloween Shapes! Add everything from jack-o-lanterns to ghosts to witches, or even disguise yourself with our twenty limited edition Halloween shapes.
Halloween Effects! Feeling a bit animated? Get reanimated with Zombify, then add a little color to that ghoulish face with Blood Stains. Find these under the Touch-Up category.
And no trickery here: the above zombification was created entirely using Picnik’s free tools.
From everyone here at Picnik World Headquarters, Happy Halloween and happy Picniking!
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.
We receive many requests asking how to produce this or that effect with Picnik. Today a guest user asked how to change a subject’s eye color. They didn’t leave an email address so I’ll post the reply here and maybe they’ll read it. In any case I’m sure this technique is new to many of you.
Before…
After!
Yup, it’s true. Picnik has teamed up with Flickr to bring photo editing awesomeness to all Flickr users.
Both companies are working very hard to make this the tightest, smoothest integration possible. Whether you’re a Flickrite, Picniker, or both, you’ll feel right at home. We’re absolutely thrilled. And we think Flickr users will be, too.
We’ll post more as our collaboration with the Flickr team moves forward.
All of us are very heads-down this week on a wide variety of new things for Picnik. For example (and in no particular order) Steve’s working on a couple very cool new effects that he demo’d for us the other day. Plus he continues to improve and streamline the experience of editing photos from one of our many cool partners like Facebook, Flickr, Picasa and Photoworks. Some new partners coming soon!
Mike is deep in the banking part of the e-commerce industry this week. He is building the back end support for the subscription system… making it a solid experience so our Premium users can continue Picniking without a hitch.
Brian is working on very related stuff building and integrating the front-end aspects of the subscription system. But also (spoiler alerts!) he is adding new fonts and shapes! What I’ve seen over his shoulder is WAY cool… carrying some momentum from early design work Peter had laid out.
Jonathan and Monica have been connecting us with tons of reviews and write-ups… even a little TV action! I’ll get a list together in the next few days for you to check out.
I won’t run down everyone today, you can see what I’m up to… especially if you’ve sent feedback lately. 
BTW – did you know you can add Picnik as a Facebook application? Do a search for “Picnik” on facebook, or just click this link.
Shouts to our Flickr and Facebook user groups!
- Picnik de Fotos… Hola!
- *picnik addicts * BFF!
Since our v1.0 release we’ve seen a lot of new traffic on the site. People are really getting into the new text, shapes and effects. But yesterday was especially cool, we had a record amount of traffic! And get this — we had more users from Canada yesterday then from the US! I’d like to believe the record traffic is because of our resident Canadian (Steve) and his influence over his native country and vast family connections but the 3-day Canadian Thanksgiving weekend might have had something to do with it.
Happy Day-After Thanksgiving, Canada!
I’d also like to introduce the newest member of the Picnik Team: Charlie Whiton. With all of the new features and constant stream of feedback email, we’re really happy to have Charlie on board. Charlie comes to Picnik with lots of experience working with large online applications (like Expedia), online games and other consumer applications. There are some of the big features coming soon and we’re delighted to have someone focused on quality. Charlie is also on top of feedback and forums, so you’ll probably be reading something from Charlie soon. Welcome Charlie!
-mike
P.S. We’re running a little behind here at Picnik. The week-long Picnik Premium preview has been extended another week. Enjoy!
Picnik has officially launched! We’re proudly taking our beta banner down and throwing it on the ceremonial bonfire. We’re also introducing our Premium Feature Stream which will be available for the super-affordable price of $24.95 for a whole year. This gets you get complete access to special edit tools, effects, shapes, fonts, with a whole bunch more just around the corner. To celebrate, Picnik Premium is free and open for everyone to preview this week! There’s also a ton of new features, so here’s what’s new:
Photobucket Support: Our mission of connecting Picnik to anywhere your photos might be continues and today we add Photobucket to the list of major photo sharing sites like Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, and Facebook, which you can get photos from or save your photos to!
Effect Painting: Many of you have asked to apply an effect to precise areas of a photo. Now you can with Effect Painting! Choose a Black and White, Sepia, Boost, Soften, Tint, or Pixelate effect and click the new Paint Brush button. You can brush in the original through the effect or check the Reverse effect box to do it backwards: just paint in the effect where you want it.
New Effects: Lots of these! There’s Holga-ish, Night Vision, CinemaScope, Invert, Cross Process, Focal Pixelate, Pencil Sketch, and Pixelate, all under the newly organized Effects section in Create. In fact, the whole Create section has been reorganized, with three new sections…
Shape Tool: Add shapes, symbols, speech bubbles, hearts, arrows, paw prints and the odd spaceship to your photo. You can choose your color, spin it around, and make it as big as you want to shape up that shot!
Touch-Ups Tool: Whiten teeth or remove blemishes with these tools. Put your best face forward!
New Frames: We’ve moved Frames to their own section, and have added Museum Matte and Polaroid to the ranks of Border, Rounded Edges, and Drop Shadow.
Stay tuned as we open the floodgates on our Picnik Premium Feature Stream!
We’d also like to thank all our early users, beta testers, emailers, bug reporters, criticism senders, fan mailers, Facebook hordes, and word-spreaders who have helped us get to this point. You’re the best a company like ours could have hoped for, and we’re looking forward to continuing to provide you with the very best photo editor out there.
Summer may be waning, but we’re churning out the new releases like a steam-powered printing press. Here’s what’s new:
Type has landed! By far the feature you’ve requested the most, Type has at last been added to our Create tools. You can find it next to Special Effects, and LOL to your heart’s content. Or you can say serious, meaningful things too. Check back for an ever-evolving type tool as we tirelessly strive for typographic perfection.
Facebook Friends Photo browsing. Now you can browse not only your own photos but all your friends’ as well, including photos other people have taken, tagged with your friends’ names. In the Photos tab, under Facebook, click the Facebooker dropdown menu. Your friends’ worlds are at your fingertips!
Facebook Post to My Newsfeed. Quick shortcut to push any photo (yours or your friends’) right to your Newsfeed. In Picnik, either click the new checkbox while saving a photo, or click the little gear menu beneath the thumbnail while browsing under the Photos tab. Your world is at your friends’ fingertips!
Facebook one-click photo editing. If you have Picnik installed in your Facebook account (click here if you don’t!), you’ll now be able to edit your own and your friends’ profile pics in just one click! You’ll also notice new edit links inside your Picnik Profile box that will let you pull those pics straight into Picnik.
The wheels are turning fast here at Picnik World Headquarters, so keep checking back for more thrilling updates!
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