News!! What Is Creative-Kit, As Well As How To Piece Of Job It

This article describes Creative Kit, which was a photo-editing tool for enhancing pictures inwards your Picasa-web in addition to Google+ albums.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 niggling history: Picasa, Picnik in addition to Creative Kit

In 2002, a companionship called Lifescape created a programme called Picasa, which people could exercise to care photos on their PC.

Google purchased this inwards 2004 in addition to and then integrated it alongside web-storage, linked to a person's Google account, to brand Picasa-web-albums: come across Understanding Picasa in addition to Picasa-web-albums for to a greater extent than information virtually how they piece of occupation together alongside Blogger.

Picasa has around photo-editing functions (cropping, red-eye removal, sharpening, lightening, making collages, etc).  Useful, far easier to exercise than Photoshop - but without features that around people wanted. So inwards 2010, Google integrated a photo-editing tool from Picnik, a small-scale companionship that was offering a subscription-based photograph hosting in addition to editing service.

Picnik's editor did around cooler things than Picasa, (applying visual effects, watermarks, etc).   The tool  had around serious fans, in addition to a quirky civilisation which saw them present messages similar "packing the lunch" "watching the flowers", "chasing butterflys" land Picnik was loading.  The type of messages that are funny the commencement few times, but speedily larn tedious. And people using Picnik via Piscasa-web-albums oftentimes constitute that it was real slow.

In 2012:

• Picnik announced that they were closing downwards their dissever photograph hosting service, in addition to moving the production to Google+.

• Google's announced that they were were closing Picnik, in addition to using Picnik's engineers to “continue creating photo-editing magic across Google products."   (ref:  closure announcement).

Today, the master copy Picnik photo-hosting-and-editing service is most definitely closed.

The Picnik photograph editor has been either replaced alongside or re-badged every bit "Creative Kit", in addition to is available through Google+.  They may accept intended to larn far available through Picasa-web-albums likewise - but as I noted inwards previously, this characteristic isn't working. Possibly this is virtually selling additional storage space:   Picasa-web-albums are available to whatever Google account, land Google+ Photos is alone available to named individuals.   So each somebody tin accept lots of Google / Picasa accounts (with complimentary storage on each one), but alone i trouble concern human relationship Google+ account.

How to access Creative Kit

To start creative Kit, hence you lot tin edit a photograph alongside it:

• Go to Google+, in addition to log in to your Google trouble concern human relationship that has Google-Plus enabled.
• Go to your Photos page (which may last on the left-sidebar, or nether the More tab on the left sidebar if your covert is small)
  

• Go into an album, in addition to open the photo you lot desire to edit.
• On the carte at the elevation of the screen, click the Edit button.

This opens the photograph within a window alongside photo-editing tools. The covert exactly looks similar around other ready of options within Google-Plus, but genuinely you lot are directly within Creative Kit, in addition to you lot tin exercise it to edit your photo.

When you lot are finished editing, conduct the Save push from the top-left manus side. This laissez passer on you lot an selection to apply your changes to the electrical flow file, or to salve a novel re-create of the file.

• If you lot conduct Replace in addition to then whatever places (eg blog-posts) that link to the existing photograph volition directly link to the edited photo.

• If you lot conduct Save a novel copy in addition to then your existing file is non changed in addition to a novel re-create of the file volition last made inwards the same folder every bit the existing i but alongside a slightly dissimilar name.

If you lot upload pictures into your blog-posts within Blogger, in addition to then the pic files are stored inwards Picasa-web-albums LINK. If you lot accept Google+ enabled for your account, in addition to then you lot tin access these photos straight through either Picasa-web-albums or through Google+, fifty-fifty if you lot accept non linked your weblog in addition to your Google+ profile. So you lot tin exercise the Creative-kit method of editing these pictures, fifty-fifty if you lot didn't charge them via Google+.

What features are available inwards Creative Kit

At i signal Picnik used a "fremium" approach: Basic features were complimentary for everyone to exercise for free, land people needed to sign upwards in addition to pay a subscription to exercise the Premium ones. This has changed, though,and directly features are are all free.

At the fourth dimension of writing, the features include:

Basics

• Black in addition to White
• Bocal B&W
• Boost
• Soften

Camera

• Lomo-ish
• Holga-ish
• HRD-ish
• CinemaScope
• Orton-ish
• 1960s

Colours

• Tint
• Vibrance
• Duo-Tone
• Heat Map 2.0
• Cross-Process

Touchup

• Blemish Fix
• Shine-be-Gone
• Airbrush
• Sunless Tan

Google Plus Exclusives

• Daguerreotype
• Reala 400
• Green Fade
• Magenta Fade
• Polaroid* Plus
• Sun Aged

Troubleshooting / Where to larn help

Creative Kit uses Adobe Flash Player. If Creative Kit doesn't piece of occupation within Google+, campaign installing a newer version of Flash Player.

If that doesn't help, try:

• Clearing your cache

• Clearing Flash shared objects
  These are information files are created yesteryear the Creative Kit on your computer, similar cookies.  To clear them, larn to Abobe's Flash Player aid spider web site.
  The Settings Manager that you lot come across is non exactly an image; it's the actual Flash Player Settings Manager. Scroll through the listing of sites in addition to select www.picnik.com in addition to www.gstatic.com.
  
  Click the Delete Website push for each, in addition to confirm the deletion.
  
  Open the Global Storage Settings Panel. Check both of the next boxes:
  - Allow third-party Flash content to store information on your computer.
  - Store common Flash components to trim down download times.
  
  Once you've cleared your local shared objects, clear your browser cache again.
  

• Using a dissimilar browser, eg Chrome or Firefox.

• Disabling ad-blocker or flash-blocking extensions

For to a greater extent than assistance, at that spot is a Creative Kit help-centre inwards Google:
https://plus.google.com/100432630524345907101#100432630524345907101/posts

Is Creative Kit exactly Picnik alongside a novel name?

Most probably: the controls in addition to features are real similar, in addition to the press-releases seem to necktie up. There is i covert that names both land the photo-editor is loading inwards Google+>Pictures.

But on the other manus there's no official confirmation either, in addition to at that spot are around production differences. It's possible that Google's engineers were but inspired yesteryear the old Picnik colleagues to exercise similar controls, in addition to that the underlying photo-editing tool is different. Who knows.

What nosotros exercise know is that many of the much-loved Picnik features are available inwards Creative-Kit, provided you're willing to charge your photos to a Google+ account.

TL;DR

You tin edit a photograph inwards Creative Kit yesteryear uploading it to your Google+ account, in addition to then choosing the Edit push when you lot are viewing it.

This may last the same Picnik photograph editor that was available inwards Picasa-web-albums until 2012. Or it may not. Either agency it lets you lot crop, re-colour, apply lots of filters etc for free.

Don't desire to pose your photos into Google+? Bad luck, there's no other agency to exercise Creative Kit / Picnik on them at the moment. Find around other on-line editor instead.

Update

In mid 2013, Google Plus replaced CreateKit alongside a novel photograph editor (which alone industrial plant on computers running the Chrome web-browser).    Therefore it is no longer possible to exercise Creative Kit. 

Picasa-web-albums however has  a link to Creative Kit.   But this does non work, in addition to PWA directly has other options for editing pictures that accept been uploaded to it via Blogger or otherwise.

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