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#91 You Oughta Be in Pictures: Fun with Photos

I used a pic of Beau (who else?) into both fotoflexer and BeFunky where I cartoonized both. By far, I like the result from BeFunky which was much more colorful and cartoon-like. Fotoflexer's cartoon was mostly gray, and I didn't particularly like the end result. It was really drab compared to BeFunky. I also placed her in a little kid's lion suit using FaceInHole. How cute! I posted my own FaceInHole as the Cowardly Lion from Wizard of Oz in front of this post, and I will post Beau's lion impression after. I am truly amazed by all the options out there.

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#90 YOU OUGHTA BE IN PICTURES: SHARING PHOTOS

I was amazed by the number of photosharing websites. I have used Flickr, but really liked the review and features of Photobucket. I think I will definitely be a Photobucket convert and will be looking into that a lot more than I ever did with Flickr. My biggest concern with photosharing is privacy. I like to control who sees my photos. Copyright options also interest me as I have several pictures for which I would like to be solely credited. Photobucket has the most features offered, and the ones it does not include don't interest me that much although I do wish it had photo licensing. That is the only downside I see for my using Photobucket. Features I prefer would be safe filter, batch photo uploading, printing services and copyright options.

#89 YOU OUGHTA BE IN PICTURES: BASIC PHOTO EDITING

After trying Picnik, Photoshop and Fotoflexer, I found that I really didn't like Photoshop all that well. It was not nearly as user friendly or intuitive. For practical purposes, I prefer Picnik, and for more whimsical photos, Fotoflex. I really enjoyed dressing Beau's picture up with the flower frame. We lost her to cancer at the tender age of 4, and this is one of my favorite photos of her. I sharpened the image, further sharpened up her face and then blurred out the rest of her. I cropped this from a picture where I removed the view of a cluttered desk and computer screen.

The editing feaures that I would use for the most part are the practical ones...cropping, auto-fix and resizing though it is nice to know that there are so many more options out there than I knew about. I really, really like what I was able to do with this photo of Beau.