Making Digital Photo Collages with PicMonkey

Description

Making eye-catching digital photo collages with colorful images and words is the best way to enliven your visual presentation!

Until recently, this required expensive software—and lots of patience—to edit your photos and create grids or banners with type and customized graphics. Now, user-friendly PicMonkey, a free and low cost online software program, makes creating photo collages easy and fun.

Join photographer Gale Zucker as she walks you through using a powerful set of tools to create collages that will jump off the screen—or print up brilliantly. The software enables you to put your photos into groupings, from a simple diptych to sophisticated layouts with multiple images, textures, and words.

The web seminar will be a live demo as Gale uses PicMonkey to create a series of digital photo collages from start to finish. She will explain each step, and show you the ways you can customize your images to create a signature look. Gale will show you how to select photos that work well together, and move on to assembling photographs for Facebook banners, websites, promotional pages, Pinterest, and collages that include text and color graphics. You’ll also learn how to create collages suitable for printing as postcards for your craft or holiday mailings.

With this webinar, you’ll learn:

• Choosing which photos to put together in a collage
• How to use PicMonkey’s online collage tools to assemble collages
• Adding text, textures, and graphics to collages
• Customizing the collage templates to suit your photos and needs
• Designing collages for specific social media, such as Pinterest or Ravelry

About Gale Zucker:

Gale Zucker is a commercial and editorial photographer who happens to be a knitter and crafter. She calls upon her two-plus decades of professional photography experience for companies and magazines to solve any problem—technical or visual—that comes up.

She is the coauthor/photographer of Craft Activism and Shear Spirit, and the photographer for knitting books including Wear With All, Mason-Dixon Knitting, and for yarn companies including Berocco, Green Mountain Spinnery, and Zen Yarn Garden, as well as many indie designers. Gale teaches Photography for Knitters & Crafters workshops around the US, and has three on-demand web seminars available from Interweave.