Your photos just got rad. Part II.

If you take pictures and spend any time on the internet, I'm sure you are aware of Picmonkey.  If not, let me turn you on to a fantastic photo editing program that is entirely web-based and easy to use and free.  Well, let me specify, currently all the features on Picmonkey are free, but there are several "royale" features, marked with a crown, that will be part of the paid service down the road.

I originally posted about Picmonkey here and since then the team has been hard at work adding lots of other effects and features to make your photos rad.  I'm back to show you another round of features that I love.  Today we're going to focus on frames and overlays.

This is the original photo, untouched.  And too "hot" in color.

Here is a brand new feature and possibly my most favorite to-date.  White balance in photos is a huge deal and there are not many ways to fix lighting issues that don't involve Photoshop.  Enter Neutral Picker.  Just click the button, then put your cursor over a gray or white part of the photo and the rest of the colors are adjusted accordingly.  Check out the difference between the original and the white balanced photo.  Much better, right?  The Auto Adjust button right above it did not produce the same result and never does in Photoshop, either.

For you Instagram fans, you can get a film edge frame on your photos and there are six different options to choose from, so it doesn't have to be the same as everyone else's. 

This is the Daguerreotype Frame, which adds an old-timey sepia look to the photo.  Did you know, daguerreotype was the first commercially successful photographic process, invented in France?  Now you know.

From the Textures section is this Weave overlay.  Burlap is popular in crafts right now, so this adds a burlap feel to photos.  Kind of interesting, but maybe not as good for live subjects?  Thoughts?

Okay, here is an overlay and text example together.  There is a HUGE overlays (read: stickers) section and on top of that is a feature that allows you to upload your own overlay, so I could have pasted a recipe card or other image from my computer somewhere on this photo.  I can think of several situations recently that I've wanted to be able to put an image I already had on top of an image I was editing.

 Here's more text on top of two overlays: the wrinkled paper and pushpin are two separate items.

There are many other features to show you and I do plan to do a couple more posts to show you more favorites.  In the meantime, I would recommend that you upload a photo and spend some time playing around with Picmonkey and see what you come up with, there's a lot to discover.