The Basics of Picmonkey

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This is a tutorial on using Picmonkeyl, created for beginners. You will see on this tutorial how to edit photos creatively and beautifully.

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  • HOW TO USE PICMONKEY

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  • What is Picmonkey?

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  • Picmonkey is a free online photo

    editor that you can

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  • use to create custom graphics for

    your blog

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  • or social media channels.

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  • It is totally web-based, no need

    to download

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  • or install it on your computer.

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  • To access Picmonkey, open a

    browser.

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  • For this presentation, we will use

    Mozilla Firefox browser.

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  • Type in www.picmonkey.com

    here.

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  • Press Enter key.

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  • This page will come up.

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  • You can choose to Edit a photo,

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  • Touch up a photo,

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  • Create your own photo design,

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  • and Create your own photo

    collage.

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  • Lets try to edit a photo. Click here.

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  • This screen will appear.

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  • Locate the photo that you want

    to edit.

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  • In this presentation, well get the photo from Pictures folder.

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  • Double click the photo that you

    want to edit.

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  • The picture will now appear here.

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  • On the leftmost side, you will see

    these icons.

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  • The first icon is for the Basic Edits.

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  • Basic Edits include Cropping,

    Color Change, Rotation,

    Changing Exposure,

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  • Sharpening and Resizing.

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  • It will depend on your choice on

    how

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  • would you want to edit your

    photo.

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  • My sample photo is dark.

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  • Lets change the brightness from Exposure. Click here.

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  • Adjust the brightness from here.

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  • Adjust the highlights from here.

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  • Click Apply.

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  • Now, the picture is clearer.

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  • Lets adjust the color a little bit. Click here.

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  • Adjust the saturation here.

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  • Adjust the temperature here.

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  • Click Apply.

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  • Now, lets sharpen the photo. Click here.

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  • Adjust the clarity here. Lets make it a 100%.

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  • Click Apply.

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  • The next editing tab is the Effects.

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  • It contains the following

    categories.

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  • You can click each category to choose

    the best effect

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  • that you can apply for your

    photo.

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  • Do note that those with crown

    icons are paid features.

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  • They call it Royale Feature.

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  • The next editing tab is the Touch

    Up.

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  • It is used to clearly touch up /

    edit peoples photos.

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  • It has the following categories.

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  • Click on each category

    accordingly based on your need.

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  • Next editing tab is the Text.

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  • Choose the font category that

    you like from here.

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  • For this presentation, we will

    choose Sans Serif.

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  • Then Choose Didact Gothic.

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  • Click Add Text.

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  • This will appear on your screen.

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  • Type your text here.

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  • Use this box to edit the text.

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  • Do not forget to highlight the text

    before editing.

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  • You may drag the text box to

    your desired spot.

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  • Heres how the photo looks like now.

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  • The next editing tab is Overlays.

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  • It has six interesting categories to

    choose from.

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  • You can click Your own if you want to insert

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  • your own logo, for instance, a

    company logo.

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  • For our sample photo, we will use

    banners. Click Scrapbooky.

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  • Click Banners.

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  • Lets choose this type of Banner. Click on it.

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  • This will appear.

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  • Drag your banner to the spot

    where your text is.

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  • Change the color of the banner

    from here.

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  • Adjust the fading color until the

    text is seen.

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  • Change the blend mode to

    Hardlight.

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  • Right click on the banner.

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  • Choose Send to Back.

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  • Now the picture looks like this.

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  • If you want to add the same

    banner

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  • to the same picture, right click on

    the banner

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  • Select Duplicate Overlay

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  • This is now the duplicate overlay.

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  • If you prefer not to use it

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  • you may delete it.

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  • The next editing tab is called

    Frames.

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  • There are a lot of good frames to

    choose from.

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  • Scroll down to see the rest of the

    frame types.

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  • For this presentation, we will

    choose Simple Edge. Click here.

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  • Lets change the color here.

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  • Change the outer color thickness

    here.

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  • The inner color here.

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  • Change the thickness of the inner

    color here.

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  • Lets put in a corner radius from here.

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  • We already have a caption,

    therefore

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  • there is no need for caption

    space.

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  • Click Apply.

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  • The next editing tab is called

    Textures.

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  • There are a lot of good textures

    to choose from.

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  • Scroll down to see the whole list.

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  • Textures are usually used to

    design a white blank page.

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  • The last editing tab is called

    Themes.

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  • Scroll down here to see all

    available themes.

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  • There is no texture and theme

    applicable to our photo,

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  • therefore we wont apply it.

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  • Heres our final edited photo.

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  • Be sure to save it on your

    computer. Click here.

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  • This window will appear. Click

    here.

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  • Save it to your desired location.

    Click here.

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  • THE END

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  • Photography for me is not looking, its feeling. If you cant feel what youre looking at, then

    youre never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.

    Don McCullin

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