My blogging and event management needs for Mommy Bloggers Philippines has me needing a photo editor where I can easily and conveniently edit my images. PicMonkey has been my answer and being a Royale Member for over 2 years now it’s certainly been worth it.
Posters, invitation, banners and almost every kind of illustration you can think of can be done on PicMonkey.
What I like about PicMonkey is that it’s FREE to use and is easy and accessible. It’s pretty much a no-brainer using PicMonkey and you can do so many things especially on a Royale membership. However, a basic membership also gets you far but once you try the other premium tools and find that you have a need for it, the investment is well worth it. I have edited and touched up photos, and designed and created collages. The power of images on a blog is great and aside from the usual fixing up of an image you can watermark them to identify the images as just yours.
My need for PickMonkey is pretty basic but if you are looking for a photo editor that will give more editing options PicMonkey is quite capable. PicMonkey also provides free tutorials so if you’re trying to achieve a certain look they can lend you a hand with that.
Basic Edits
Most of the work I do on my images I do it here. I crop, resize and adjust the lighting here.
Touch Up
Touch up is a good way to fix those pictures if a face is too shiny or teeth aren’t as white as we’d like them to be. You can even remove blemishes and red-eye.
Overlays
Sometimes I need to create a poster or banner for an event and will need overlays.
Themes
They have wonderful theme packs for every occasion, from birthdays to Halloween to Christmas. In each theme pack you get all the editor options plus tailor made tools specific to your chosen theme.
Some examples of what I made from PicMonkey:
Poster for our Chirstmas Party
Flyer for our Photography Workshop
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When PS is not available this is my go to editor too! 🙂
I sometimes use PicMonkey for collage and watermarks 🙂
Heard the buzz about this app but never got a chance to check this but your poster and collage are great, will check this out. Thanks for the tip 🙂
Will definitely try this sometime. That explains the superb posters.
Thanks Lorly! 🙂
I know this is an old post. I wonder if you are still using PicMonkey now that most people are raving about Canva as well as Snappa. The former is incredibly popular today, but the latter seems to be more to my liking.
I have yet to try PicMonkey because I do not delve much into graphics, which is why there are free tools like it in the first place, right? It is supposed to make graphics design simpler for a variety of purposes.
Hi Robert,
Yes, this is an old post. PicMonkey has changed their game and made it a paid service. Canva is a popular photo editing site but PicMonkey has features that they can’t offer. Seriously considering going for their paid subscription.