1. PICMONKEY PHOTO EDITOR Kayla maxwell

2. 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.”

3. 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!

4. Target Audience  Target Audience is definitely a younger audience  Great design and sense of humor, as well

5. 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!

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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.

9. Other Examples

10. 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

11. “Yesterday’s Future…Today”  http://blog.picmonkey.com/2014/03/31/all-new- crazy-goodness-seriously-yes/ 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.