Sunday, July 10, 2011

Be Funky

I tried out a new online photo editing tool tonight.  I remember taking a Photoshop course in the 1990s and being amazed at the effects you could create with the software.  BeFunky.com lets to stylize many of your own photos and it's free (with some "premium" features).  My 19 year old son takes a lot of amazing pictures so I used one of his to create artistic effects.

Original:
 Impressionist effect:
Pointillism effect:

You can upload photos from your hard drive, but also from photo sharing sites such as Flickr and Picassa.  I see this tool being useful in art classes, particularly because as students study an art style, they can better understand the style by applying it to their own photos.  However, it would enable students in other classes to express themselves creatively.  You can add text to your photos, then upload them directly to your Flickr or Facebook accounts.  I've posted this on my son's Facebook page, we'll see what he thinks!

5 comments:

Rev1mom said...

Your photos were really cool I will have to try it out.

How did you get your voki to show up on your blog?

Alison LeSueur said...

I would have to look again but I believe there is a icon to click on Voki that says "post to a blog". Hover your mouse over some the icons and see what they say. It might actually look like a "blogger" icon (orange B). Let me know if you can't see it and I'll take another look.

anita said...

I played around with Be Funky today. I framed some photos I had taken of some student library assistants that graduated this year. Then I copied it to my zip drive. I'm taking the pictures to Kinko's and make copies for the students. I like the things you can do with Be Funky.

Unknown said...

Beautiful job, Alison!

Alison LeSueur said...

Thanks Bonnie and thanks for commenting. Since school started, I'm a little behind on looking at the other blogs!