![]() ![]() Geeks on Tour is a membership website with hundreds of Tutorial Videos on topics of interest to travelers, such as managing digital photos with Picasa, Route-Planning with Streets and Trips, and sharing your travels with a website using Blogger or with friends on Facebook. Try it – you’ll like it! This tip brought to you by Geeks on Tour And, ‘Teeth whitener’ may be gone, but you can accomplish the same thing with ‘Face Paint’ using the white color and a high level of transparency. But, other things, like ‘Wrinkle removal’ have just changed names … it’s ‘airbrush’ now. ![]() For example, I know a lot of people liked the special redeye removal for furry friends – I can’t find that feature anymore. It doesn’t have all the features that Picnik had. (5/17/12 note: I just downloaded the latest update to Picasa and the button now correctly reads “Edit in Creative Kit” – that’s build 136.02) The surprising thing is that the Picasa desktop software still has an Edit in Picnik button – and it works! It sure looks exactly like Creative Kit to me (the 3 stars is the logo for creative kit), but all the labels still read ‘Picnik.’ So, if you have resisted upgrading to Picasa 3.9 because you didn’t want your ‘Edit in Picnik’ button to go away – fear not! It is still there, and it works better (faster) than ever. ![]() They’ve reorganized it, streamlined it, and made it faster. And, if you use Picasa Web Albums, or Google+ to share your photos online you have the online editing features called ‘Creative Kit.’ Creative Kit is Google’s reincarnation of Picnik – for Google photo products. Picnik is now Creative Kitīut wait … reports of Picnik’s death may have been greatly exaggerated! Have you noticed the extra 2 tabs of effects in Picasa 3.9? Most of those features were taken from Picnik. No more could you enjoy the special tools it brought to the table like framing your pictures or adding ‘stickers’ (little clip art) or wrinkle removal, or shine-be-gone. Last month it was announced that Picnik – the online photo editing software that Google bought in 2010 – was closed. ![]()
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