Refreshing Your Photos In Picmonkey

(This post is part of my Refresh Your Craft & Soul Blog Event – see the beginning HERE!)

Yesterday I shared a layout (on the Challenge to Use Teal, Orange and White) which used a photo with overlays from the Rhonna Designs App. It’s a really fun app to use if you have a smart phone! But if you don’t have a smart phone you can still add overlays to your photos, my favourite other way to do this is in Picmonkey.

I’ve talked about Picmonkey on here before, I’m not affiliated with them in any way, I just love to use it! I do subscribe to the paid service, which gives me more options for things I can do, but for this tutorial I used only free elements of the site.

Here’s a photo I’ve refreshed in Picmonkey:

Here’s how the photo started:

When you go to the Picmonkey site this is the landing screen. You have the option to ‘Edit’, ‘Touch Up’, ‘Design’ or ‘Collage’ – for today we want ‘Edit’. Click there and it will ask you to upload your photo.

Once your photo is uploaded the screen will be something like this:

I wanted to crop my photo first, so I clicked on ‘Crop’ in the left sidebar, and chose ‘Square’ from the drop down box. I could then drag and adjust the box on my photo so it cropped how I wanted, when ready you can click ‘Apply’:

Now click on the Butterfly icon in the left hand menu to take you to the overlays. There’s quite a selection!

I started with ‘Corners’ and chose this corner:

See the ‘Overlay’ small panel that has appeared? It means you can recolour, flip, fade, or delete your overlay! You can also adjust the size, and rotate it, using the handles on the image itself:

Now I added a flourish and changed it to grey:

You can place the overlays so some of it hangs off the edge of the photo. I dragged this flourish so you could only see half of it:

Keep adding overlays until you are happy! I added some from ‘Sparkle Stars’, ‘Nautical’, ‘Spirographs’, and ‘Garnishes’, recolouring, adjusting, and fading them until I was happy with it:

Then you can add text by clicking on the ‘Tt’ symbol from the left-hand menu. Choose the text you like then click ‘Add Text’, a box will appear for you to type in. I chose the font ‘Ecruyerdax’, and adjusted the colour and size of the text just like I did with the overlays:

Then you just click ‘Save’ to download it to your computer:

Cool huh?

Here’s another one I did in the Rhonna Designs App on my phone:

I love taking landscape shots but don’t always scrapbook them or use them any other way. Adding overlays is a fab way to turn them into something special – to scrapbook a quote or emotion, or to frame, or you could even just use them as a desktop background.

Be Inspired:

Add an overlay to a photo, either in a program like Picmonkey or by adding transparencies on top

Add a flourish or twirly corner to a project

Go out and take a landscape photo to inspire you

Do you have any landscape photos that need a little extra something to make them special?

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Jennifer x