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Hey everybody it's Ileane from Basic Blog Tips. In this video I want to talk to you about
images and an application you can use with Google Chrome called PicMonkey. PicMonkey is
a neat little application that lets you touch up photos and make collages and do all kinds
editing, adding text to your videos and just go right over to The Chrome Store and upload
it and it will be an application on your browser but stay tuned because I'm also gonna show
you how to integrate it with Google Drive. Once you install the application you'll find
it on your desktop when you open up a blank tab. Now, it's a free application but you
can also pay to get the upgrades and the upgrades give you some additional functionality. But
we're just gonna take a look at the free version. So here you would just click to open or drag
a photo right there. Now when you open up the image, of course you'll have all your
basic functions just like you would with any other editing software. You can crop or you
can rotate. But I wanted to show you a couple of tricks that I use. I like to use this section
called frames. This is one of my favorites, its simple edge. But what I do is I normally
will get rid of the extra edge there. Then I'll turn the thickness to match the image.
So in this case Im going to make it white. But you notice you have the eye dropper tool there,
so you really can pick any color you want from within the image but I'm going to keep it
white. And what I like here is you can add a caption which makes the border at the bottom
of the image bigger. Then you can go into the text tool and pick your text and they
have lots of free fonts here. You'll notice anytime you see this little crown, that means
that its one of the paid tools. So you'll have to pay for those. But lets just use one
of the free ones. So you select the font then you pick add text then you can also change
the color. Ok this time lets use a nice purple color. And then you can align the text how
you want, center it. I choose this "Lets give them something to talk about". I know, I know,
I gotta work on my singing. But there's few other options here you can check out. You
can add some type of uh, emoticons. Theres just all kinds of things, you could spend
all day just looking through all the things that you can do with images. Then when you're
all done of course you just save your image and it gives you a choice of the quality that
you want to save it at and it lets you know what your dimensions are and the size of the
file that you're gonna be saving. So if you, they use the 007 thing here and if you want
Roger, Pierce or Sean quality of your images. Of course if you pick Sean you're gonna get
a much higher quality image. But let me do as promised and show you how to integrate
PicMonkey with Google Drive. So now lets just close this out. Now over in Google Drive I've
already uploaded that same image. And I have to give a shout out to the Google Gooru, he's
the one who taught me this little tip here. When you just choose the item that you want
to open, in this case your gonna do image, go over here to more and then "open with".
In this case we're gonna choose PicMonkey. Now when you make all of your edits to your
image, and you save it-lets just do something with colors here, change the temperature-
its going to save the image that you have in drive. So you don't have to download it
to your computer, it will be in google drive. Lets go back over to google drive and take
a look. See there's that alteration that I made of the color. This will also come in
handy because you're not altering your original image, you still have that on your computer.
But you're altering the one- Maybe you want to use this in a presentation, you're making
SlideShare presentations or you can use it for Google Docs, whatever you want to do its
in the cloud and you still have your original intact saved on your computer. So in order
to connect any applications with Goggle Drive you would just go over here to "open with"
and at the bottom it says "connect more apps". Then you will go through the apps that are
available for connection with Google drive and, you know, just look for PicMonkey. But
of course there's a bunch of other ones here that you can check out. One last option is
you just download this image directly from drive back onto your computer. You might want
to change the name or save it in a different folder. So there you go guys, check out the
PicMonkey app for Google Chrome. And have some fun. You can use those images for Pinterest,
of course, and Facebook posting, and Google Plus likes images as well. So get started
with PicMonkey. Thanks for joining me today and while you're on YouTube subscribe to my
channel, connect with me on my blog, which is basicblogtips.com, and you can also follow
my podcast and that's the Ms. Ileane Speaks podcast. I'll talk to you soon. Thanks so
much for joining me and have a great day. Peace!