You can choose different shades to create the vignettes, too, though I usually stick with black. Â The vignette feature gave it the darker edges. Â I find that the cross process works best when paired with a boost - so I boost it first and then cross process it. Â The Kodak moments of my childhood, rounded corners included.Īnd here are the same apples under the influence of a boost, Cross Process, and a Vignette. The rounded corners put me in mind of the old photos I have in my photo box from growing up. Â Another fun thing you can do is make use of “Frames.” Â My favorite of the frames is “Rounded Corners.” Â Love the rounded corners. Â I like it fine but it was a little on the cool side and I’m not crazy about the taped up cardboard box and that was what my eye was drawn to. Â No, it didn’t look like this in real life but this is certainly the feeling that it evoked.Ī few weeks ago we pressed cider. Â So first I made it square and then I boosted the color some and finally I used the “Soften” tool to make it dreamy. Â You can just crop it to get what you want of the photo or you can use different parameters, this one is square. Â Almost all the tools have sliders so you can customize the edit to your liking.Īnother thing you can do, what I did here, is to crop the photo. ![]() You can give it a lot for an over the top sort of color or you can give it just a little oomph. I went to Picnik and used the “Boost” tool. ![]() Â I’m not sure what I had my camera set on but whatever it was it didn’t do justice to the glory of the colors in front of me. Here is the original photo as I took it of some amazing fall foliage last week. Â All of the examples that follow you can use for free. Â Right now, you can also use some Halloween tools to ghoul-ify your pictures if you are into that sort of thing. Under “Create” you can choose from Effects, Text, Stickers, Touch-Up, Frames, and Advanced. Under the “Edit” section you have the option of choosing: Â You don’t have to use Flickr, though, you can go directly to Picnik. Usually, I load my pictures to Flickr and from there I can edit directly with Picnik. So far I have not, because Picnik is so simple. Â I have Photoshop Elements and I’m sure if I took the time I could figure out how to make good use of it. The beauty of Picnik, for me, is how easy it is to use. ![]() She will introduce you to one of her favorite photo editing tools, Picnik. Do you find editing photos intimidating? Diane Grenkow, who shares her story photo-by-photo at Mackville Road, is our guest today.
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