Experimenting with a technique recommended by @Iluniau on how to transfer your favorite Picnik textures to Picmonkey by transferring an arrow on to the Delaware Water Gap Bridge. It worked! And therefore has become my arrow shot for the day.
@eudora Thanks Diane! @lisjam1 Thanks Lisabell! @karenann Thank you Karenann! @kerristephens Thank you Kerri! @annbo Thank you Ann! I appreciate your stopping by! @mrssmith Thank you Carla! @alia_801 Thanks Alia! @annaluceya Thank you Anna! I try not to rely on them but I do have so much fun playing around with them when I do use them! @kimmistephens Thanks Kimmi! @summerfield Thanks Vikki! Processing for me is always a great experiment. I try a little of this and a little of that and hope it looks alright! I'm trying to remember what I did with this besides putting the texture on the shot and I can't remember now! lol
@bruni Thanks Bruni- the textures are listed under Effects. There is a tab that says texture. There are quite a few there. There are also specialty textures under the Seasonal menu in "Final Shuttle Launch" (space) and "Pirates" (sand, maps, and more). @deniseinindy Thanks Denise! Picmonkey was started by some of the folks who put Picnik together so it's very similar and easy to use. They've been steadily adding "new" features to it and many are like the ones that are in Picnik. But some are also brand new- never have been on Picnik. I like it.
@bkbinthecity Thank you Brian! @pandorasecho Thanks Dixie! I really just play around with it until I get something I like most of the time. @sangwann Thanks Dione! @inertie Thanks Inertia! @cimes1 Thank you and thank you! Carole! @bruni Have fun! @peterdegraaff whoa- muralism! Cool word! Thanks Peter!
@olivetreeann Hi Ann. I found the texture in picnik and the one in the seasonal menu. now comes the part I don't understand and I hate to bother you but as you know in a few days picnik is closing and I like to get this over to ipiggy...my question is how do you get a blank page loaded to picnik and how do you copy the textures to the page?? to get into picnik I guess you have to upload a picture and then what? or do you have to go to paint to get the blank page and somehow get it loaded into picnik. questions quentions... I'm no good at these things and Hans would do it for me but he tried and can't figure it out either..would you be willing to spend a few minutes explaning it to us..I would appreciate so much. thanks Ann.
@bruni It's no trouble Bruni! Here's how it was first posted: open a new paint folder and save it as a jpg (that is save the blank page as if it's a picture). Then upload the blank jpg to Picnik, choose your texture and apply. Then save the texture as if it is a completed picture in your computer (or however you save your photos). When in Picmonkey you can choose to upload your own texture. In my bridge shot here I'd saved the arrow texture from Picnik. I uploaded the bridge shot, did my sharpening and saturation adjustments and then went into the texture menu and selected "Your Own", the menu will then prompt you to browse for your texture in your photos. Choose the one you've saved from Picnik and click on "upload my texture" You can then adjust the blend mode if you want to. When you've got the picture looking the way you want it to, then click on "apply". You can then add a frame or do other editing before you save the final picture.
I was not able to open a new paint folder and save it as a jpg in my computer. So what I did was I went into the program that allows me to scan pictures. I then put a blank piece of white paper on the scanner and scanned that. I shrunk the size to a 4x6 photo and then saved it as a jpg. Then I uploaded the blank scan to Picnik as if it was a photo and went in to Texture, choose one to apply, applied it and then saved it as if it was a picture. And so on.
I hope that makes sense! It's a bit wordy, but the main thing that you want to do is have a blank for a picture that you can apply the texture to so that you can save into your computer. Now that I've got a bunch of them, I'm probably going to dump them onto a CD and only upload them when I want to use them. I can't see having 20 textures taking up all that space! Hope that helps!
@olivetreeann Oh wow..Thank you so much...if I ever can do something for you just let me know..will keep this till tomorrow and then read it..I'm a little to tired right now and like to read it together with Hans..he's not in at the moment..so thank you again that was so aweful nice of you..thanks thanks thanks.
@prttblues Thanks Bev! The bulk of this editing was done in Picmonkey (the heir apparent to Picnik) but the arrow was a texture from Picnik. If you look up at that big long response to Bruni a few posts above I walk through the whole process on how to get a texture from Picnik on to a photo in Picmonkey. I did not figure this out myself but picked up the technique from @Iluniau on a discussion thread she posted. The only I don't really remember is how I got the reddish tint on this. I'm not sure I inverted it after the texture was applied, or before, or if the coloring is the result of the texture being applied. But that's usually how my editing goes. I have a feeling I want from the way the picture looks and I fiddle around with the different effects until I get it. It's rare when I have something specific in mind!
@olivetreeann Thanks... Just curious is all... I probably won't try it... I'm just plain basic me with my night skies and light pics and the occasional scenic shot or animal thrown in for good measure.
@lisjam1 Thanks Lisabell!
@karenann Thank you Karenann!
@kerristephens Thank you Kerri!
@annbo Thank you Ann! I appreciate your stopping by!
@mrssmith Thank you Carla!
@alia_801 Thanks Alia!
@annaluceya Thank you Anna! I try not to rely on them but I do have so much fun playing around with them when I do use them!
@kimmistephens Thanks Kimmi!
@summerfield Thanks Vikki! Processing for me is always a great experiment. I try a little of this and a little of that and hope it looks alright! I'm trying to remember what I did with this besides putting the texture on the shot and I can't remember now! lol
@deniseinindy Thanks Denise! Picmonkey was started by some of the folks who put Picnik together so it's very similar and easy to use. They've been steadily adding "new" features to it and many are like the ones that are in Picnik. But some are also brand new- never have been on Picnik. I like it.
@pandorasecho Thanks Dixie! I really just play around with it until I get something I like most of the time.
@sangwann Thanks Dione!
@inertie Thanks Inertia!
@cimes1 Thank you and thank you! Carole!
@bruni Have fun!
@peterdegraaff whoa- muralism! Cool word! Thanks Peter!
I was not able to open a new paint folder and save it as a jpg in my computer. So what I did was I went into the program that allows me to scan pictures. I then put a blank piece of white paper on the scanner and scanned that. I shrunk the size to a 4x6 photo and then saved it as a jpg. Then I uploaded the blank scan to Picnik as if it was a photo and went in to Texture, choose one to apply, applied it and then saved it as if it was a picture. And so on.
I hope that makes sense! It's a bit wordy, but the main thing that you want to do is have a blank for a picture that you can apply the texture to so that you can save into your computer. Now that I've got a bunch of them, I'm probably going to dump them onto a CD and only upload them when I want to use them. I can't see having 20 textures taking up all that space! Hope that helps!
@crickle1969 thanks Chrystal!