Thursday, August 08, 2013

I Learned Something New Today



I learn so much from other bloggers. Like creating a color palette on photos. Jen of Muddy Boot Dreams created some beautiful palettes from her photos and gave a link to a tutorial on how to do it in PicMonkey. In the above example, I created the color swatches on top of the photo. They are not as visible as in the image below, where I created a strip underneath the photo.

I've been thinking of enlarging this photo for our bedroom, but wondered if the colors would go with what I already have there. I thought there might be too much green. But I see that it will go perfectly. 

My mind is whirling with possibilities. Do you use PicMonkey? This was my first visit there - I've stuck with Picasa and Photoscape thus far. Another tool to add to my editing file. Have you learned anything interesting from the blogging community recently? 

14 comments:

  1. I'm always learning - but not necessarily applying what I learn. It's always a case of 'when I have a moment'. I have an idea that this moment will come after April 1, 2014!

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  2. Your images are stunning, I do use Picmonkey but haven't come across this technique before. It would be good to use as inspiration when scrapbooking.

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  3. I love PicMonkey, but had no idea that this was possible. How fantastic...I am always thinking that an entire room could be built around a well loved photo and this would make it so much easier! Thank you for sharing what you know!

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  4. I use PicMonkey, and once upon a time I knew of a site (learned, yes, from another blogger) for making colour palettes from photos -- I've lost track of that site, though, and I had no idea PicMonkey could do the same. Thanks for passing on the news!

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  5. Well I learned about color palletes from you today. :-) That is very interesting - and even though I've used Picmonkey a LOT I've not tried it before - this is going to be fun.

    I often learn and interesting fact about different countries - and I love learning about culture and peoples language usage. Blogland is super great.

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  6. Not a day goes by that I am not amazed or learn something new. Great snaps as usual.

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  7. Love PicMonkey which I've used since its inception. This is a new fun perk, haven't seen it before but went there today and gave it a go - lotta fun!
    If only there were more hours in a day to play...............................

    I love that photo you took - it would be perfect in the bedroom, very relaxing and peaceful.

    Hugs - Mary

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  8. Now I am tempted. I try to keep it simple, but I could see where this would be fun. Both of your photos are just gorgeous!

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  9. I usually use Pixlr.com/express to make collages -- and the advanced version for color palettes. I didn't realize PicMonkey did those. Guess I just learned something. Thanks!

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  10. Well, that looks really interesting! Thanks for sharing! Love those Hydrangea blossoms!

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  11. You definitely should frame this pic. And yes I've used picmonkey since its beginning and ipiccy too. Never saw the color palette before but it looks interesting! It's always a pleasure to visit your blog--for both the visual and the words!

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  12. I use Picmonkey all the time to put in my watermark but I didn't realise they did the colour palettes. I will take a look as sometimes I get stuck on the house decorating!! xx

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  13. I must check out Jen's post on this. I think it's a fun idea. I do use PicMonkey a fair amount. It's similar to Picassa but has more options. I love the lake photo.

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  14. That's a neat way of doing those color cards! Thanks for the tip!

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