How to edit a picture in Picasa Web Albums or Google+ Photos

<b>This article is about how to edit pictures in Picasa web albums, and how to use Picasa-destop to edit pictures in your Google+ Photos.</b> <br /><br /><br /><div style="clear: both;"></div><a name="more"></a><h2>Picasa-web-albums vs Google+ Photos</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrX6miItsfdFl1mHOMLuten65R0EsUJJufCiFBFD8qj18tzpVgZAfHTUCuH7ngbcdTYWkeXtl60L0RxSdYwr-ImYJrGnEuxmf4_T9LXRg-u1OtPvSSFs_EEYSrfDEv-E-fu9gInLUW47k/s1600/how-to-change-photos-picasa-web-albums.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrX6miItsfdFl1mHOMLuten65R0EsUJJufCiFBFD8qj18tzpVgZAfHTUCuH7ngbcdTYWkeXtl60L0RxSdYwr-ImYJrGnEuxmf4_T9LXRg-u1OtPvSSFs_EEYSrfDEv-E-fu9gInLUW47k/s320/how-to-change-photos-picasa-web-albums.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Picasa-web-albums is a on-line photo storage and management tool, now owned by Google.   It is the on-line version of Picasa, a desktop-tool.   (Learn more about PWA and Picasa <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-is-picasa-very-basic-introduction.html">here</a>.).<br /><br />Google would ideally  like everyone to use Google+ Photos. <br /><br />But there are many people who store pictures in albums that are not associated with their personal Google+ accounts:  these may be for businesses, schools, clubs, etc. <br /><br />So it is likely PWA will continue to exist for a good while yet.   And I am sure that Google appreciate this:  they have made a number of changes to Picasa-web-albums to make it work better both with Google+ and without it.<br /><br /><br /><h2>Options for editing pictures that are are uploaded to Google</h2><ul><li>If you have a Google+ account, then there are two ways of editing photos that you have loaded to Google (it doesn't matter whether you loaded them using Picasa-web or Google+Photos).   <br /><br />Both of these options are described below.   Using the Google+ editor (option 1) doesn't need any software installed on your PC.   But it's very slow to load, offers you less control, and is currently missing some key features - and it only works if you are using Chrome as your web-browser, not Firefox or Internet Explorer.</li></ul><ul><li>If you don't have a Google+ account, then Google / Blogger only provides only one way to edit photos that you have loaded to it (apart from downloading the photo, editing it on your PC and re-uploading it - which changes the URL you need to use to link to the photo).   This is Option 2 below.</li></ul><br /><h3>Option 1: Using Google + edit a picture in Picasa-web-albums</h3>Log in to <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/" target="_blank">Picasa-web-albums</a>, using your Google+ account.   <br />(See <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2013/07/start-picasa-web-without-redirection-to-googlePlus-photos.html">here</a> for what do to if you are automatically re-directed from PWA to Google + Photos)<br /><br /><br />Navigate to the photo that you want to edit.   <br />(Make sure you're looking just at that photo, not at the album it is in - this can be confusing in cases when the photo is also the album cover.)<br /><br />Choose <b>Edit in Google+</b> from the <b>Actions</b> drop-down menu.<br /><br />This opens a new window or tab.<br /><br />If you are not signed in with your Google + account, you will be invited to join.<br /><br />If necessary, sign-up for Google+, or sign in with the correct account, and start again.<br /><br />Now, you will be looking at the photo in the Google+ Photos picture view.   From here you can do simple edits:<br /><ul><li>Crop the photo</li><li>Tag people</li><li>Rotate the photo</li></ul>as well as using the other Google+ Photos features (share, slideshow, delete, zoom)<br /><br />To do more changes, choose <b>Edit</b> (yes, you need to choose it a 2nd time) from the top menu.<br /><br />If you are not using Google Chrome, then you will get a message saying that the Google+ photo editor only works with Chrome, and giving you a link to download it.    <b>If necessary, switch to Chrome</b> and start again.<br /><br /><b>Wait </b>while the photo editing tools are loaded  (this does take a while, perhaps even a minute or two).<br /><br />Once loading is finished, the current Google + Photo editor functions are available from the right-hand bar, like this:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbCSYvaYPxtvJGGY3jsJ42lX9G-WXsLkFJFE-ba2Oo9uBiEjrPnE6_vEpUCifmzQeqAEYJCE_PjoE0RGzYWuMm_PzE9056ybPzAQUjfAvi5WS1Gh5lPUq7rC75bOrOGE0r2UMAnDwcxBQ/s1600/google-plus-photos-editing-options-right-hand-toolbar-black-background.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbCSYvaYPxtvJGGY3jsJ42lX9G-WXsLkFJFE-ba2Oo9uBiEjrPnE6_vEpUCifmzQeqAEYJCE_PjoE0RGzYWuMm_PzE9056ybPzAQUjfAvi5WS1Gh5lPUq7rC75bOrOGE0r2UMAnDwcxBQ/s640/google-plus-photos-editing-options-right-hand-toolbar-black-background.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />At the moment these are:<br /><ul><li>Tune (brightness, contrast, saturation, shadows, warmth)</li><li>Selective Adjustment (lets you specific areas for other options to be applied to)</li><li>Details (sharpness and structure)</li><li>Crop and Rotate</li></ul><ul><li>Black and white</li><li>Centre focus (adjust brightness and blur around the centre)</li><li>Drama</li><li>Frames</li><li>Tilt-shift</li><li>Vintage</li><li>Retrolux.</li></ul><br />When you  are happy with your photo, <b>click the Finished Editing tick box</b> at the bottom of the right-hand bar, and the changes will be saved (this may take a few moments).<br /><br />You are <b>left in the open Google+ Photos tab or window, </b>not returned to Picasa-web-albums.   When you go back to Picasa-web-albums and refresh the page (F5), the changes that you made in Google+ photos will be shown.<br /><br /><br /><h3>Option 2:   How to use Picasa-desktop edit a picture in Picasa-web-albums</h3><i>This option only works if you have Picasa desktop software installed on your computer.</i><br /><br />Log in to <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/" target="_blank">Picasa-web-albums</a>, using your Google account.<br /><br />Navigate to the photo that you want to edit.   (Make sure you're looking just at that photo, not at the album it is in - this can be confusing in cases when the photo is also the album cover.)<br /><br />Choose <b>Edit in Picasa</b> from the <b>Actions</b> drop-down menu.<br /><div><br /></div><div>A pop-up window will tell you that your web browser wants to open another program (ie Picasa-desktop) to do the editing.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div><i>(The exact text is something like:   "External Protocol Request:  [your web browser] needs to launch an external application to handle picasa: links.   The link requested is ... The following application will be launched if you accept this request   c:\Program Files\Google\Picasa\Picasa3.exe ... If you did not initiate this request, it may represent an attempted attack on your system.   Unless you took an explicit action to initiate this request, you should press Do Nothing.")</i><br /><br />Choose <b>Launch Application</b>.</div><br />Picasa will load on your computer, and you will be asked to confirm that you do want to edit the selected picture.   Choose <b>Edit Image</b>.<br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div>A copy of the picture that you want to edit is opened in the desktop-Picasa editing tools window.</div><br />From here you have access to all Picasa's standard photo editing tools (including the text tool for <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/10/tools-for-applying-copyright-protection.html">adding watermarks</a>).<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>The photo you are working in is <b>a copy taken from your Picasa-web-albums</b>, it is not the same as the copy of the picture which may already be on your computer.   It is stored in a directory of your Picasa-installation called <b>"Online Edits"</b>, not in your main My Pictures directory.   So if you choose a function like "Back to Library" you are taken to the Online Edits folder inside Picasa-desktop.<br /><br />From here you can <b>use all of Picasa-desktop's editing features</b>, including straightening, red-eye reduction, text-editing, re-setting the neutral colour.    The only exception is the <b>Edit in Creative Kit</b> option:  this is still one of the options in Picasa-desktop, but if you use it, it takes a long time to load and then eventually says "Error connecting to Creative Kit... error 500" - and explains that Creative Kit has now been <b>discontinued</b>.<br /><br />When you are finished editing, to put the edited photo back into the same Picasa-web-album that it came from, with the same file name and URL:<br /><ul><li>Make sure that you are logged in from Picasa-desktop to the same Google account that you were using initially.   <br />(Picasa-desktop remembers your sign-in details from the last time you used it - if it's different from what you need, just choose sign-out from the top-right corner, and then sign in to the correct account when asked.)     <br /></li><li>EITHER:</li></ul><ul><li>Choose <b>Share on Google+</b>    (if you are using a Google + account)</li><li>In the sharing-details window that opens, <b>change the Album-name</b> from Online Edits to  the album that the photo came from originally and choose <b>Upload</b><br /><br />OR</li><li>Return to the Online Edits <b>folder / library</b></li><li>Save the changes using the <b>Save icon</b></li><li>Choose <b>Enable Synch</b> from the Sharing drop down.</li><li>Wait for the changed photo to upload.<br /><br />(I think Google have some work to do here - you can only control synching for the whole album, not for individual photos.   I expect this to be improved in the future.)</li></ul><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEmpLN7mk2MZQa2fHIS4PTzreyEpCl1caDhoEg2z0AvU53uSAe-jVXdOgFQyaHXhbnurrjT0DgaP1aVFMDqBw74jokKEVL-K3anhTAq82CBY4Xh7c1HBoCZ_RTRHJ2yk4dyGI49TG7-Vk/s1600/turn-on-synchronising-online-edits-folder-picasa-desktop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEmpLN7mk2MZQa2fHIS4PTzreyEpCl1caDhoEg2z0AvU53uSAe-jVXdOgFQyaHXhbnurrjT0DgaP1aVFMDqBw74jokKEVL-K3anhTAq82CBY4Xh7c1HBoCZ_RTRHJ2yk4dyGI49TG7-Vk/s640/turn-on-synchronising-online-edits-folder-picasa-desktop.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><b>Job Done:  </b>your Picasa-desktop-edited photo appears back in your online Picasa-web-albums with the changes that you just made, and any existing links to it (eg from your blog posts) will show the changed version of the picture.   And you can put the edited picture <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/01/inserting-picture-into-blog-post.html">into your blog posts</a> or other websites in the usual way.<br /><br /><br /><hr /><h2>Related Articles</h2><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-is-picasa-very-basic-introduction.html">Introducing Picasa and Picasa-web-albums:   an overview</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2013/07/start-picasa-web-without-redirection-to-googlePlus-photos.html">Stop automatic redirection to Google+ Photos</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/01/inserting-picture-into-blog-post.html">How to put a picture into a blog-post</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/10/tools-for-applying-copyright-protection.html">Tools for applying copyright protection to your blog</a>

How to edit a picture in Picasa Web Albums or Google+ Photos

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What is Creative-Kit, and how to use it

<b>This article describes Creative Kit, which was a photo-editing tool for enhancing pictures in your Picasa-web and Google+ albums.<br /></b><br /><br /><div style="clear: both;"></div><a name="more"></a><h2>A little history: Picasa, Picnik and Creative Kit</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJTDQTUUElwmqHeFhI15kR49Wwa87AMeU1cpbto0hwPBBa9GUq3445QXxloIl09Ih5bdCMtqA7D45ki7YOSSc6vEuHEYvEggqgznO7McNF4ac0PxeeSAdPyC0Tm8SkQfwDH-skfA_y2sot/s586/creative-kit-advanced-picture-editor-google-plus-and-picasa.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJTDQTUUElwmqHeFhI15kR49Wwa87AMeU1cpbto0hwPBBa9GUq3445QXxloIl09Ih5bdCMtqA7D45ki7YOSSc6vEuHEYvEggqgznO7McNF4ac0PxeeSAdPyC0Tm8SkQfwDH-skfA_y2sot/s320/creative-kit-advanced-picture-editor-google-plus-and-picasa.png" width="320" /></a></div>In 2002, a company called Lifescape created a program called Picasa, which people could use to manage photos on their PC. <br /><br />Google purchased this in 2004 and then integrated it with web-storage, linked to a person's Google account, to make Picasa-web-albums: see <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-is-picasa-very-basic-introduction.html">Understanding Picasa and Picasa-web-albums</a> for more information about how they work together with Blogger.<br /><br />Picasa has some photo-editing functions (cropping, red-eye removal, sharpening, lightening, making collages, etc).  Useful, far easier to use than Photoshop - but without features that some people wanted. So in 2010, Google integrated a photo-editing tool from Picnik, a small company that was offering a subscription-based photo hosting and editing service.<br /><br />Picnik's editor did some cooler things than Picasa, (applying visual effects, watermarks, etc).   The tool  had some serious fans, and a quirky culture which saw them show messages like "packing the lunch" "watching the flowers", "chasing butterflys" while Picnik was loading.  The type of messages that are funny the first few times, but quickly get tedious. And people using Picnik via Piscasa-web-albums often found that it was very slow.<br /><br />In 2012:<br /><ul><li>Picnik announced that they were closing down their separate photo hosting service, and moving the product to Google+. </li></ul><ul><li>Google's announced that they were were closing Picnik, and using Picnik's engineers to “continue creating photo-editing magic across Google products."   (ref:  <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.ie/2012/01/renewing-old-resolutions-for-new-year.html" target="_blank">closure announcement</a>).</li></ul><br />Today, <a href="http://www.picnik.com/" target="_blank">the original Picnik</a> photo-hosting-and-editing service is most definitely closed.<br /><br />The Picnik photo editor has been either replaced with or re-badged as "Creative Kit", and is available through Google+.  They may have intended to make it available through Picasa-web-albums too - but <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2012/10/creative-kit-photo-editor-works-in.html">as I noted in previously</a>, this feature isn't working. Possibly this is about selling additional storage space:   Picasa-web-albums are available to any Google account, while Google+ Photos is only available to named individuals.   So each person can have lots of Google / Picasa accounts (with free storage on each one), but only one account Google+ account.<br /><br /><br /><h2>How to access Creative Kit</h2>To start creative Kit, so you can edit a photo with it:<br /><ul><li>Go to <a href="http://www.plus.google.com/" target="_blank">Google+</a>, and <b>log in</b> to your Google account that has Google-Plus enabled.</li><li> Go to your <b>Photos</b> page (which may be on the left-sidebar, or under the More tab on the left sidebar if your screen is small)<br /></li><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ1sxStvuyjo5hyr1BGsV8Dea9eo6YXv53DFRW3pu9fNW6rvg6PD0slSh3kZKC_u9ubPFSnpKeFVRirYP9gEYySLczPRLfVYMvhcwwpS4VPHIDvqU9Sc9mjsEBXIe5m0XO1con4plzuPNl/s626/start-photos-module-in-google-plus.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ1sxStvuyjo5hyr1BGsV8Dea9eo6YXv53DFRW3pu9fNW6rvg6PD0slSh3kZKC_u9ubPFSnpKeFVRirYP9gEYySLczPRLfVYMvhcwwpS4VPHIDvqU9Sc9mjsEBXIe5m0XO1con4plzuPNl/s640/start-photos-module-in-google-plus.png" width="640" /></a><li>Go into an album, and <b>open the photo</b> you want to edit.</li><li>On the menu at the top of the screen, click the <b>Edit</b> button. </li></ul><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgei-J2Lml4FwgCiFUPXmKLZNULczVFbbK96ECheMciP3pDD15XB7BujHidv87q88jV2_cuqn6ADMSVKoMxexU4eXKgC28rlD5JgxNMeSMjB3t6IYQnZJH1-2sR1otTaGWQyikGo_Z90b4S/s505/how-to-edit-a-photo-in-creative-kit-formerly-picnik.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgei-J2Lml4FwgCiFUPXmKLZNULczVFbbK96ECheMciP3pDD15XB7BujHidv87q88jV2_cuqn6ADMSVKoMxexU4eXKgC28rlD5JgxNMeSMjB3t6IYQnZJH1-2sR1otTaGWQyikGo_Z90b4S/s640/how-to-edit-a-photo-in-creative-kit-formerly-picnik.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br />This opens the photo inside a window with photo-editing tools. The screen just looks like another set of options within Google-Plus, but actually you are now inside Creative Kit, and you can use it to edit your photo.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvYsPl29cBXoZVkxB0q0NA0ZZsnENGVPSsZqJJOoS4zj0aCc37J1ArzoAmONO1Fr8s2lGHl-wprZI1H6Mt0PN9KyPZiLpqfFVWSAF13-_dU8y_N-oatHOV7K6cbV2ExZByKPNVF6U1g30k/s625/photo-editing-control-interface-creative-kit.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvYsPl29cBXoZVkxB0q0NA0ZZsnENGVPSsZqJJOoS4zj0aCc37J1ArzoAmONO1Fr8s2lGHl-wprZI1H6Mt0PN9KyPZiLpqfFVWSAF13-_dU8y_N-oatHOV7K6cbV2ExZByKPNVF6U1g30k/s640/photo-editing-control-interface-creative-kit.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br />When you are finished editing, choose the Save button from the top-left hand side. This give you an option to apply your changes to the current file, or to save a new copy of the file.<br /><ul><li>If you choose <b>Replace</b> then any places (eg blog-posts) that link to the existing photo will now link to the edited photo. </li></ul><ul><li>If you choose <b>Save a new copy</b> then your existing file is not changed and a new copy of the file will be made in the same folder as the existing one but with a slightly different name. </li></ul><br />If you <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/01/inserting-picture-into-blog-post.html">upload pictures into your blog-posts inside Blogger</a>, then the picture files are stored in Picasa-web-albums LINK. If you have Google+ enabled for your account, then you can access these photos directly through either Picasa-web-albums or through Google+, even if you have not linked your blog and your Google+ profile. So you can use the Creative-kit method of editing these pictures, even if you didn't load them via Google+.<br /><br /><br /><h2>What features are available in Creative Kit</h2>At one point Picnik used a "fremium" approach: Basic features were free for everyone to use for free, while people needed to sign up and pay a subscription to use the Premium ones. This has changed, though,and now features are are all free.<br /><br />At the time of writing, the features include:<br /><br /><h3>Basics</h3><ul><li>Black and White</li><li>Bocal B&W</li><li>Boost</li><li>Soften</li></ul><h3>Camera</h3><ul><li>Lomo-ish</li><li>Holga-ish</li><li>HRD-ish</li><li>CinemaScope</li><li>Orton-ish</li><li>1960s</li></ul><br /><h3>Colours</h3><ul><li>Tint</li><li>Vibrance</li><li>Duo-Tone</li><li>Heat Map 2.0</li><li>Cross-Process</li></ul><br /><h3>Touchup</h3><ul><li>Blemish Fix</li><li>Shine-be-Gone</li><li>Airbrush</li><li>Sunless Tan</li></ul><br /><h3>Google Plus Exclusives</h3><ul><li>Daguerreotype</li><li>Reala 400</li><li>Green Fade</li><li>Magenta Fade</li><li>Polaroid* Plus</li><li>Sun Aged</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>Troubleshooting / Where to get help</h2>Creative Kit uses Adobe Flash Player. If Creative Kit doesn't work inside Google+, try installing a newer version of Flash Player.<br /><br />If that doesn't help, try:<br /><ul><li>Clearing your cache </li></ul><ul><li>Clearing Flash shared objects<br />These are data files are created by the Creative Kit on your computer, like cookies.  To clear them, go to Abobe's Flash Player help web site. <br />The Settings Manager that you see is not just an image; it's the actual Flash Player Settings Manager. Scroll through the list of sites and select www.picnik.com and www.gstatic.com. <br /><br />Click the Delete Website button for each, and confirm the deletion.<br /><br />Open the Global Storage Settings Panel. Check both of the following boxes: <br />- Allow third-party Flash content to store data on your computer.<br />- Store common Flash components to reduce download times.<br /><br />Once you've cleared your local shared objects, clear your browser cache again.<br /></li></ul><ul><li>Using a different browser, eg Chrome or Firefox. </li></ul><ul><li>Disabling ad-blocker or flash-blocking extensions </li></ul><br />For more assistance, there is a Creative Kit help-centre in Google:<br /><a href="https://plus.google.com/100432630524345907101#100432630524345907101/posts" target="_blank">https://plus.google.com/100432630524345907101#100432630524345907101/posts</a><br /><br /><br /><h2>Is Creative Kit just Picnik with a new name?</h2>Most probably: the controls and features are very similar, and the press-releases seem to tie up. There is one screen that names both while the photo-editor is loading in <b>Google+>Pictures</b>. <br /><br />But on the other hand there's no official confirmation either, and there are some product differences. It's possible that Google's engineers were simply inspired by the former Picnik colleagues to create similar controls, and that the underlying photo-editing tool is different. Who knows.<br /><br />What we do know is that many of the much-loved Picnik features are available in Creative-Kit, provided you're willing to load your photos to a Google+ account.<br /><br /><br /><h2>TL;DR</h2>You can edit a photo in Creative Kit by uploading it to your Google+ account, then choosing the Edit button when you are viewing it.<br /><br />This may be the same Picnik photo editor that was available in Picasa-web-albums until 2012. Or it may not. Either way it lets you crop, re-colour, apply lots of filters etc for free.<br /><br />Don't want to put your photos into Google+? Bad luck, there's no other way to use Creative Kit / Picnik on them at the moment. Find another on-line editor instead.<br /><br /><br /><h2>Update</h2><div>In mid 2013, Google Plus replaced CreateKit with a new photo editor (which only works on computers running the Chrome web-browser).    <b>Therefore it is no longer possible to use Creative Kit. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>Picasa-web-albums still has  a link to Creative Kit.   But this does not work, and PWA now has other options for <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2013/09/edit-a-picture-in-picasa-web-albums-or-google-plus-photos.html">editing pictures that have been uploaded to it</a> via Blogger or otherwise.</div><div><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><hr /><h2>Related Articles</h2><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2012/10/creative-kit-photo-editor-works-in.html">Creative-kit works with pictures accessed through Google+, but not Picasa-web-albums</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/01/inserting-picture-into-blog-post.html">Adding a picture to a blog post</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-is-picasa-very-basic-introduction.html">Introducing Picasa vs Picasa-web-albums</a>

What is Creative-Kit, and how to use it

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

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