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 history: Picasa, Picnik and Creative Kit In 2002, a company called Lifescape created a program called Picasa, which people could use to manage photos on their PC. 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 Understanding Picasa and Picasa-web-albums for more information about how they work together with Blogger. 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. Picnik's editor did some cooler things than Picasa, (applying visual effects, water...