more blog advice

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from Yesterday...

PRETTIFY


first is this: (goes hand in hand with 1 from yesterday) PICNIK.COM
Some reader left me a comment about using it (dear reader...whoever you are... i love you)...and I had never heard of it...but once I was over there..I never left.

A before:

                                                               and after


you can add borders

write words

and crop and see the black around the edges..one of my favorites....vignette!

 or you can totally play around with it....

and i'm sure it does a bunch of other stuff to that I don't even know about!

freaky....

anyways...I love it. try it out. Auto fix will become your new best friend!

Let me tell you what I do with a general picture.

I load it.

my orginal picture.

I push auto fix

(sometimes I don't like what auto fix does...so you can undo if you don't like it.)

after auto fix.

then I crop it.

(to get my little finger out of the way)

then I hit exposure to and lighten it up some more....

then I go to create and effects and then I hit booost...and whoa nelly it boosts it.

you just take that little slider back until you have what you like (sometimes I leave it like this..a little funky)

 FINISHED product:

a side by side

sounds like a lot of work...but it takes about 2 minutes...and once again..I only do this for the things I sell in my etsy shop and my finished product pictures...

P.S.
(I only use the free one...you can upgrade for cheap..but I have yet to find a reason!)


Now: I am going to show you how to use picnik to make stuff
like this:

Load a picture:
 (doesn't matter which one..

click on the exposure button on the top of the edit page and make both of the little tabs go to 100....this will turn you picture completely white. (now while you are still on edit..you can pick crop and crop it down to a rectangle or whatever side you want!)

then click create..

(I put a border around mine so you can see it....but you just click text and and start adding words...for different sizes and placement you will need to start a new text box

then you just click the save and share button

and then you can just put it in your blog as a picture (you can add a link with it like i did for my advertising button)

I made one..saved it...and continued editing and just changed the text..so the writing and colors all matched for a coehisve look

for the ouch...it's a sticker...I think it was in speech bubbles. then click text (the circle on top of your little text box lets you turn your image.

for awesome video step by step..check out i am momma hear me roar...she walks you through the basics and shows how to make your pictures look awesome!
GO HERE (you should see the clone one she does~! she does alot more fancy pancy ones than me!!!!!)





also if you have a etsy shop you can go to your etsy and FIND promote on the left hand side and click etsy mini. you can from there adjust your size and then get a code to add it to your blog.

(I was able to take these pictures using my snipping tool that comes with my computer) (which I just found about 2 weeks ago!)

and as I mentioned before....
733 blog has also been doing blog help.....she shows how to do A TON of STUFF!  I go over every week and somethings I had figured out (accidently) by myself and some things are things that I have ALWAYS wondered how people were doing it! (click HERE)

you can learn
How to number you comments
and creative comments title
seriously...she covers a ton of basics that make life easier...and then some of the harder things you've always wondered how to do!
she also does blog design if you just want to bite the bullet and pay someone!


You can click here to learn how to make a collage header like this one: (using picnik!!!)

I also found THIS that supposedly walks you through making your own signature....like the one you are about to see...