Users could import photos natively from Facebook, Myspace, Picasa Web Albums, Flickr, Yahoo Image search, Google+ and also offered options to upload from a computer or to upload from a website.

Picnik Premium included additional photo editing features and was offered for a monthly, 6-month, or annual subscription cost.

[4] Picnik sent an email to all of their users on March 21, 2012 containing a list of frequently asked questions.

[5] Picnik stopped allowing downloads of saved content and fully shut down on April 19, 2013.

Two of Picnik's original engineers left Google to start a similar photo editor called PicMonkey in the beginning of 2012.