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: Sharpen Clarity Contrast Eye Brighten Dodge Crop 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”  crazy-goodness-seriously-yes/ 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.