Picmonkey is the tool to you if you may not know or you don’t really know how to use Photoshop. This graphic design tools will allow people without real design experience to create images that not only rival those from professional graphic designers, but sometimes surpass them. That’s important because graphic design was, at one time, a skilled profession that required years of education, experience with photo and image programs like Photoshop, and an inherent “eye for design.”

1. PICMONKEY
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2. Picmonkey is an online
image editor

3. if you want to make a
professional-looking
graphics

4. give the Monkey a GO!

5. You have to two option in
signing up

6. One is the BASIC or Free
subcription

7. the other one is the ROYALE
Plan

8. A RoyalePlan cost $400 a
year
or

9. $4.99 per month

10. Let’s dig in the difference
between
Basic and Royale

11. Basic (Free) Features:

12. Core editing tools
(Crop, resize, and all the
essential color adjustments)

13. Basic touch up
features
(Freshen up your magically
blemish-free selfies)

14. Effects
(Filters and transformations)

15. Overlays, textures,
and frames
(Add bold graphics or
interesting textures
and borders)

16. Royale(with a Fee)
Features:

17. Core editing tools
(Crop, resize, and all the
essential color adjustments)

18. Basic touch up
features
(Freshen up your magically
blemish-free selfies)

19. Effects
(Filters and transformations)

20. Overlays, textures,
and frames
(Add bold graphics or
interesting textures
and borders)

21. Advanced touch up
tools
(Say goodbye to wrinkles and
hello to amazing new looks)

22. Premium overlays
and fonts
(Infinitely magnifiable overlays
and designer-curated fonts)

23. Deluxe filters &effects
(From Lens Flare and Clone to
mood-altering filters)

24. Custom effects
(Create your own filter combos
you can use again and again)

25. Edit after saving
Change text and overlays after
saving with smart storage
on Hub (beta)

26. Noads
(No distractions,
no interruptions,
just unlimited creative focus)

27. Start with a 7-day
trial

28. For illustration purpose
we’ll use the BAISC/FREE
option

29. Now, go to your browser
and type in

30. www.picmonkey.com

32. You may or may not sign up

33. either way you can still use
the BASIC features

34. but for this illustration

35. this is how to sign up

36. Click FREE
TRIAL

37. Fill in
your
email

38. Provide your
PASSWORD
(at least 5
characters)

39. Click this

40. Click this

41. Now that you have your
Free PicMonkey account

42. What you can do with
PicMonkey?

47. To start with you can
upload a photo from these
locations:

50. or USE these free photos provided by
PicMonkey

51. Let’s start designing

52. Click the design icon

55. Select a canvas for your
design

56. You may opt for a these
sizes

64. For this illustration
we’ll use
CUSTOM

65. Click Custom

66. image size that usually
works with

67. Pinterest and Facebook is
1925x2764

68. so let’s customize it at that
size

69. input your desired size

70. Click “MAKE IT”

71. Get the photo that you’ll
use by clicking “OPEN”

75. For this one I’ll
get the photo
from My
Computer

76. You may opt
to auto
adjust the
image

77. Before
After clicking
“Auto Adjust”
This part is
clearer

78. If you want to add a
background

79. click on the crosshatch
icon in the far left column

81. You can even add effects to
your background!

82. You can adjust the
saturation of the color

83. as well as the transparency,
by playing with the sliders

84. you can even layer multiple
backgrounds to create

85. a completely unique effect

86. you can even add effects to
your background

87. by playing
around with
this magic
wagon

88. Be sure to click “APPLY” if
you want to add the effect

89. You might want to add
“OVERLAYS”

90. Click the
“BUTTERFLY
icon”

91. Let’s put a hat
to the dog

93. Now let’s add a text

94. Add as many text boxes as
you need to say what you
need to!

95. Don’t forget to include one
for your name or URL

96. Click the
“Text” icon

99. It’s also interesting to
check-out the following:

100. amazing photo editing tools
via the lipstick icon

101. eye-catching borders via the
frame icon

102. SAVE your design

103. Click the
“Save” icon

104. Write the file
name

105. Choose the
file format

106. TIP: If you’re going to use
the image on your website

107. save a JPG, which will load
faster

108. You can choose from 3
file qualities for JPG

109. choose PNG, as it’s the best
quality

110. especially for Facebook
which loves to compress
your JPG images

111. Click “Save to
my Computer”

112. NOTE: After saving,
PicMonkey will take you
back to your graphic.

113. Don’t close this window!

114. If you want to make
additional graphics with
this layout and different
text

115. PicMonkey does NOT save
an editable image unless
you sign-up to royale

116. Thanks for
Journeying
in this
Tutorial!