PICMONKEY PHOTO EDITOR

Kayla maxwell

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.

Other Examples

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.