Creative kit plus free#
The Premium version currently is free for a limited time. The basic tools are free, then there is a Premium version for more. Check ‘em out! The website looks a lot like the old Picnik / Creative Kit with effects, stickers, text, and many more features. Some of the Picnik folks have gone on to create the websites, and. The Creative Kit button began as a plugin to the Picnik photo editing website that Google bought a few years ago. And, you must be using the Chrome browser for this new edit tool to work.
Other than the ‘Selective Adjust’ which allows you to change exposure for selected areas of the picture, I don’t see anything that you can’t otherwise accomplish using Picasa3 on your computer. When you click it you get several photo improvement tools. If you have joined Google+, there is a new Edit button when you’re looking at a single photo. Picasa Tip: Adding Lipstick (using Creative Kit’s ‘FacePaint’ feature to add makeup).Picasa Tip: Merry Christmas Photo! (add clipart directly to your picture using Creative Kit).Picasa Tip: Speech Bubble on Your Pictures (put text into a speech bubble right on your picture – using Creative Kit).Now they don’t exist for Picasa/Google+ users at all! If you don’t know what Creative Kit was, here are some articles I wrote about the useful tools in Creative Kit that do not exist in Picasa3 proper. If you click on the button in Picasa to ‘Edit in Creative Kit’, today this is what you’ll see: Posted by Chris Guld at 11:41 am Tagged with: blur picture, Creative Kit, focal pixelation, picmonkey You can subscribe to our free e-newsletters, or become a paid member and be able to view all of the videos in the Learning Library. Geeks on Tour is a membership website with hundreds of Tutorial Videos on topics of interest to travelers, such as managing digital photos with Picasa, using Smartphones, Route-Planning with Streets and Trips, and sharing your travels with a website using Blogger or with friends on Facebook. Picmonkey allows you to edit pictures from your computer, Dropbox, Facebook, or Flickr This tip brought to you by Geeks on Tour Teeth whitening, suntan, arrows, speech bubbles, hearts, mustaches, and so much more. You might also want to know that all the features you knew and loved in Creative Kit are available in the online photo-editing website called Picmonkey. This feature can also be used to blur some text, just realize that you are limited to a circular area. You can repeat this process if you have multiple faces that need to be blurred. Edge Hardness refers to the outline of the circle, it’s better to have it soften so as to blend with the rest of the picture. The Radius slider controls the size of the circle. Then adjust the sliders until the pixelation is strong enough to make the face unrecognizable – that’s the Impact slider. You should notice that your mouse is a green crosshairs and wherever you click will set the focal point to that spot. Now, you need to set the focal point to a face. To do that, you click on the Reverse checkbox. What we want is to pixelate only a circle around a focal point. “Focal Pixelate” will pixelate the entire picture except a circle around a focal point. But … if you hold down the shift key, you will notice that “Pixelate” becomes “Focal Pixelate!” Who knew?! Then, there’s one last step. On the last tab of editing tools, you will see a Pixelate option. Is there a way to do that now with Picasa?Ī: You’re in luck! I have discovered a way to do this. When Picasa had the Creative Kit option, I would use the Focal Pixelate feature to make the faces unrecognizable. I love taking pictures while the people are with the horses, but I need to preserve their privacy before I show the pictures to anyone else. Q: I do therapy work with people and horses.