Happy Friday everyone!!
This time of year teachers may be looking for fun uses
for their field trip and classroom photos or working to collate images for a
quick and uncomplicated yearbook. iPiccy (www.iPiccy.com)
may be the answer you are looking for. This website is a very user friendly photo
editing tool which allows you to apply a multitude of image effects, crop,
rotate, add text and even turn your images into colouring book pages for your
little ones to enjoy.
When you visit the iPiccy homepage (www.ipiccy.com) you will be asked to create a
free personalized account by clicking on the ‘create account’ button in the
upper right hand corner (see image below).
After the account has been activated, you will be
taken to the image upload page where you can begin to choose the images you
would like to edit or choose to create a collage utilizing various images. The initial list on the left hand side
allows you to crop, rotate, adjust colour, and change the image to black and
white or sepia tones.
By clicking on the magic wand in the tool bar
across the top of the page you are able to access plenty of other options
including altering the focus, and creating a pencil sketch of your image (great
for colouring book pages!).
Once you
have determined that the effect is one you wish to keep, simply click on
‘apply’ in the effect box. If after
having applied the effect, you feel it is not right for what you are trying to
accomplish, simply click on the back arrow above your image to have the last
action ‘undone’.
One additional effect which I feel would be useful
is being able to add text to the image.
Simply click on the ‘Blender’ tab at the top of the page (see image
below) and by clicking on the Capital T in the row below a text box will appear
situated on your image.
Type the text
into the box on the left hand side in addition to choosing the text colour,
font, size, alignment and transparency.
Just remember to click on ‘Combine layers’ when you exit this page so
that your image will be captured as you have intended it to be. Finally, your image can be saved to your
computer files for sharing, printing or pasting into other documents.
Overall
I have found iPiccy to be very user friendly and I have enjoyed experimenting
with the effects and reading the blog of suggested uses for iPiccy creations.
Past
Tech Tidbits posts can be found on the blog at http://techtidbitz.blogspot.ca and if you have an idea
for a future blog topic, please feel free to pass it along to me.
Cheers,
Stace
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