Picnik being retired - Picasa saved ?

[mhenriday]

I am overjoyed to be able to report that my earlier prediction that Picasa would be dumped in favour of a Picnik cloud solution seems to have turned out to be entirely wrong, as evidenced by this Google blog, of which the relevant portion is the following :

Picnik: We acquired this online photo editor in 2010. We’re retiring the service on April 19, 2012 so the Picnik team can continue creating photo-editing magic across Google products. You can download a zip file of your creations through Picnik Takeout or copy them to Google+. As of now, the premium service is free to everyone. Premium members will receive a full refund in the coming weeks.

I hope I'm not being overly optimistic in interpreting the above to mean that the Picasa project will continue to live, at least for the short term (my guess is that the response to Picnik hasn't been overwhelming - in any event, not overwhelmingly positive). While we as Linux users are obviously not Google's first priority, let us pray that the coming iterations of Picasa won't require us to jump through quite so many hoops as the move from 3.8 to 3.9 has done !...

Henri

[Kook Loon Koh]

It is certainly a good news if Google dump Picnik and concentrate on Picasa and and hopefully have the latest version for Linux. I certainly will look forward to that! 

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