Establishment of PicMonkey
PicMonkey was made under creators of an older photo editing service called Picnik.
Google bought Picnik, Picnik was shut down in 2012 Creators from Picnik created PicMonkey immediately
after in 2012 Google bought PicMonkey Partner in crime: Flickr PC Magazine named it Top 100 websites of 2013 Found on Google’s list of online photo editing
services:“What are some recommended photo editing sites?If you’re looking for a different photo editing site, try the Creative Kit in Google+, PicMonkey, or Aviary.”
Cost efficient?
PicMonkey is actually a FREE editing service, unless…
Unless you want premium, which is 5 dollars more a month
Premium offers effects that are similar to using Photoshop.
No additional software is require, just the web..saving you money!
Target Audience
Target Audience is definitely a younger audience
Great design and sense of humor, as well
Editing Features
Basic edits: Crop, resize, rotate, color tweaking, sharpening, auto adjust.
Effects, overlays, borders Immediately save your work Easy navigation to find effects Premium gives you more options such as extra
effects, ability to watermark photos, more collage features, more font options, more enhancements (nip tuck, teeth whiten, wrinkle remover, eye bright, etc.)
Free trial of premium for 1 week…I got hooked!
How to: Enhance the photo
Go to picmonkey.com Click the “edit” tab at top of browser Upload your image to pic monkey Locate various tools on left side of photo Decide how you want to edit your photo
Make a Goal and Go
Think of 5 words you want to convey Start using the tools on the left hand
side of screen Crop, exposure, colors, sharpen, and
more Demonstrations
Sample Photo: Before and After
Effects used:SharpenClarity Contrast
Eye BrightenDodgeCrop
These are the various tools I used to edit this image. Play around with all of the various tools to edit your image! Then find what you like. Practice makes perfect.
Complete your project!
Print out photo Give to fellow classmate Choose first 5 words the image depicts Critique the photos Hopefully you made your goal
“Yesterday’s Future…Today”
http://blog.picmonkey.com/2014/03/31/all-new-crazy-goodness-seriously-yes/
This video shows how PicMonkey’s effects are created
SO NEAT. Not just image coding, but the effects
are extracted from 35mm camera. One blur effect on the site created by
throwing camera off of a train, extracting the data.