You Oughta Be in Pictures: Fun with Photos

Not overly impressed with Befunky. Tried several different effects. Most didn't do anything for me. A lot of the options were just scary. Two I did kind of like were the Motioncolor and the Watercolor.

At least I still could recognize myself.

I also tried the popart on BigHugeLabs and FotoFlexer. Kind of fun. Liked FotoFlexer better, not so distorted.

A couple of them will let you remove or smooth out wrinkles. Kind of nice. They all have some different features, but most of them are just not what I want to deal with.

A simple drawing effect. Just a kind of highlight from FotoFlexer.

Then there are the put your face in the picture. Again, maybe funny occasionally, but not my thing. These may be funny with a group of friends or for a special occassion. My main thing with pictures is to just be able to post them or email them.

You Oughta Be in Pictures: Sharing Photos

I enjoyed the TopTenReviews video and their website. They had several reviews that I checked out.

I have been using flickr for several years. I use the pro version of the site because I wanted to do more with my pictures. Photobucket seems to be quite similar. I have downloaded and occassionally used Picasa. It is an easy way to find and look at all the pictures you have on your pc.

I also use Facebook, though I keep forgetting to upload pictures. Sometimes it seems like there is a lot to do to have everyone be able to see your pictures. You upload to flickr and then you have to upload to Facebook. I haven't done much with sharing pictures on Facebook. This may be something I will look into more.

I like the ability to choose who sees my pictures. I do not share them across the web with few exceptions.

You Oughta Be In Pictures: Basic Photo Editing

I've been using Picnik since the first iHCPL training. It's one I really enjoy and find easy to use.

For this exercise, I'm trying Photoshop first to compare it. I did like the speech bubbles and it was easy to crop and add the speech.

This is from FotoFlexer. I liked some of the features. Didn't like the way it made me add text.

This is from Picnik. It doesn't have some of the special features I saw in Photoshop, but I mostly just crop and resize in Picnik.

I mostly use the online photo editing sites to crop and resize pictures before putting them on Flickr. I might occassionaly use some of the special features if I was going to use the pictures for scrapbooking or for something fun. I might try Photoshop just to get a feel for the program.