Less-Wordy Wednesday: Oh PicMonkey, You Marvelous Time-Suck, You!

Today we have an ode to PicMonkey, inspired by Taryn and her recent post on Tail of Two Cardis. I have to start out by saying a lot of the things I've done below can be done using the free version of PicMonkey, but I subscribed (because it's pretty cheap - I paid for 1 year so it works out to like $2.75/month - and because I love it so).

There are some fun things you can do with PicMonkey, like add captions, thought bubbles and/or frames to pics:

You can make a recent pic look all ol'-timey:

You can turn yourself and your hubs into the witch and zombie that you go through most days as: (my poor little zombie - he's a chronic insomniac! My excuse is low blood sugar. Sometimes I just really need a slice of cheese or a cookie.)

 You can turn a pic into B&W and then color one part:

You can take a perfectly nice photo of yourself, and Day-of-the-Dead-ify it! How fun is that?? (I can't wait for Halloween now!) [Parts of this are freely available, parts are subscription only - same with the witch/zombie stuff above.]

Or you can take a bad pic of yourself (but a cute one of the dog) and fade your face out so the focus is on the cute dog:

You can take a pic of your dog at the beach and turn it into Frosty the Dog: (I wish those little stick arms showed up better...)

 
Thanks to Sugar the Golden Retriever and this helpful post, you can easily add a watermark to your photos (as you can see, I'm too lazy to add it to all of them):

And you can make all manner of fun collages:

Rita & her friends!

There are a few things I wish were better. Like... The color I like to use for frames (that hot magenta similar to my blog theme) is easy to select from a grid, but if you want the text in the same color, it's guess-work. You have to use your mouse on a sort of "sliding scale" to find the closest thing. There are a few other minor things, but mostly it's a lot of fun. And I also enjoy that when you save your photos, it gives you a choice of saving them in various "good," "better" and "best" sizes - only they call them "Roger," "Pierce," and "Sean." I enjoy a company with a sense of humor. 

Have you played with PicMonkey? Or do you have another photo site/program you like to mess with?

In Other Wee News...
I updated my web site. All by my little self. I even managed to add a "subscribe via email" link for folks who want to know about new releases, sales, and that sort of thing. If you sign up, I promise I won't spam you.

Sorry I was a little wordy again. But not too bad, right??