In today’s episode Franziska is sharing one of her favourite secret little weapons (I guess it’s not so secret anymore now!).
Learn how to make your images stand out in less than three minutes! With this fabulous software you can easily add text, speech bubbles, frames, icons and anything else your heart desires to your image to make it more noticeable on your social media sites, website and marketing materials.
So what is this secret little tool? It’s called Pic Monkey and it’s absolutely free!
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Franziska Iseli Hall: Hi there. Today I‘m alone. I‘m not really sure where Christo is, but he‘s probably on the beach, surfing or something. But what I thought I would do for this week‘s tip, I want to show you a really cool tool that we‘ve been using here at Basic Bananas and our members are loving it as well.
You know when you take a photo, and you want to put text on it or you maybe put a speech bubble over it, or you want to do something really cool with it, maybe put a frame around it and you‘re not a designer. You don‘t know how to use Photoshop, there is a really, really cool tool that you can use that will make it really easy. I‘ve been using it. Our team members have been using it and our members have been using it, too. So I thought this would be a real useful little quick minute lesson for you to use this tool yourself… So let‘s go and have a look. I‘m going to show you on my screen.
Okay, so now let‘s look at this secret little weapon that we can use to edit photos and to put text all over it, to create a frame around it and to do all sort of funky stuff. So what you need to do is go to pinkmonkey.com and this is a free service, it‘s a free website. You can pay if you want more features. But really the basic free version is really, really, good. So go to pinkmonkey.com.
The first thing you need to do is so easy. You need to just click on edit a photo, so click on edit the photo. Then let‘s see if I have a photo in my desktop… Go to desktop and find a photo. Pick…There we go, and let it upload.. Oh, this is a funny one. This is Christo here so we have Christo in this lesson anyway. This is Christo in a lot of our workshops; so once the photo is uploaded, you can now choose to do different things. You can just click through the menu on the left here. If you want to crop it, hit crop and you can say, okay, I want to just crop out this area. I only want this part here. Hit apply.
I might want to add a frame. So down here on the left again, frames, go to add a frame. So let‘s pick this one here, Museum, so it added the frame here. I can choose how thick I want the frame to be. So I can choose that. I can even choose the color. Let‘s go with an orange frame maybe. It‘s not very lovely but it does… I can show you how this stuff works. Apply it.
Now let‘s put a speech bubble or anything else on top of this image. So let‘s go to these little icons here… Maybe a love heart. Let‘s click on the love hearts, let‘s grab one of these. I want this love heart. Ooops, I grabbed two. Okay, great. I‘m going to put a love heart here because he‘s so gorgeous. Let‘s put two here, right? He‘s just such a gorgeous guy. Let‘s put these two love hearts there.
And how about some text? I‘m going to put some text on top. The “P” here, that‘s where I select the text. Add text. Great, okay. There it is. I‘m going to put text in this love heart maybe. This is the text box here, you can just scroll around, put “I Rock” in there… I rock. Great.
Okay. So that‘s it… It looks okay. I‘ve got a frame, I‘ve cropped it, I‘ve got some love hearts. I‘m sure we can turn those love hearts around a bit like that so they are not straight. Let‘s do the same here. And voila! We‘ve got easy software to use to edit your images and add some funny things to your images.
Now where can you use those images? You can use them on social media if you want to send some to some of your friends. You might be able to add some funny stuff on there. So, you can really use them for anything and it‘s a little bit of fun. So have a go and enjoy doodling around with this software. The secret little weapon, pinkmonkey.com. Enjoy. Make sure you show us your images that you have created, and if you liked this video, please make sure that you share it on your social media pages and share the love for us. I‘m sure your friends will be excited to know about the secret tool. See you next time.