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Make Fun Photos With Free Photo Editing
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. I say that fun photos are worth a million smiles. After all, who doesn’t love to laugh at a funny photo, get lost in a photo montage, or pose the question “How’d they do that?” about an image with cool photo effects?
Often times, I find myself browsing through hundreds of my friends’ photos on Facebook or other various sites that offer free online photo storage. (Sidenote… my personal favorite is Snapfish due mostly to its low costs and vast array of products and services.) Occasionally, I discover a photo that strikes a chord and resonates with me. If I’m being totally honest, a hint of jealousy typically comes into play whenever I feel others have “cooler” pictures than me. I can’t help but think “How’d they make a picture like that?” The feeling is strangely familiar however as it reminds me of my nearly two-year old daughter’s go-to phrase…. “I want that!.” (Sadly, the only difference is that I’m thinking it in silence and my daughter is screaming it in her most shrill voice… “MOMMY, I WANT ‘DAT!”… generally while in the middle of a department or grocery store.
Getting back to the story, I’m not one to be outdone (not that anyone was out to get me). In any event, I decided that I would actively seek websites that provide free photo editing and are specifically designed to make fun photos. In doing so, I was in fact able to upload several of my personal pictures and use the websites’ picture creator software to create similar images to the ones I had previously envied.
Although each of the websites I discovered had their limitations, most of the sites provided products and/or services that would easily impress any amateur photographer. If you’re only looking for some fun photo editing resources, I would recommend that you check out the following sites.
Photofunia Photo505 FotoFlexer Picnik BeFunky
However, if you would like to learn to truly customize photos, and impress the masses, I would stray away from popular sites that may eventually phase away. Personally, I believe no amount of money can replace one’s education. My personal opinion is that knowledge always comes before achievement. So, if you want to impress others and make photofunia type images, I recommend that you learn as much as you can about trick photography and special effects. I promise, if I can do it, anyone can.
The Top 10 Funniest Holiday Photo Card Ideas Revealed
The holidays can represent a wide range of beliefs, traditions, and gift-giving opportunities. While the holidays are traditionally a time of religious and spiritual contemplation and rejoicing, everyone can use some humor in their life. This is especially true in today’s tight economy where many families are discovering that they will be unable to travel to see family and friends this holiday season. This realization is making the use of Christmas cards and holiday photo cards, once again, a great way to reconnect with loved ones without breaking the family bank account.
Everyone needs a good laugh now and then. You can use your Christmas cards as a way to spread some holiday cheer by using humorous family photographs to design custom made holiday cards. Nearly everyone has a photograph or two that can bring on a smile even on the worst of days. If you do not have one that will work, there are plenty of opportunities to create a humorous holiday photo card with a digital camera and very little effort.
1. Bathtub Bubbles – Bubble bath photos nearly always bring a smile, especially when the tub is also filled with pets and/or children dressed in Santa hats or reindeer antlers. The bubbles end up being props of their own and the delighted faces of your children will shine through on these holiday photo cards.
2. Crazy Crashes – We don’t actually want to see anyone get hurt, but sometimes the camera is right where it needs to be to catch a moment that says it all. Feet in the air, skyrocketing eyebrows, and mouths in a perfect “O” can bring make us laugh out loud in spite of ourselves.
3. Doing It Old School – Grab the family and get decked out in something hysterically historical. Add a sepia-time filter and you have everything you need for some comical Christmas cards.
4. Dressing Up – Most children love the chance to dress up in Mommy and Daddy’s clothes. Grab an armful of shoes, jackets, dresses, and hats and let the fun begin. Your kids will parade and prance for as long as your camera batteries will last, creating funny family photographs perfect for your holiday photo cards.
5. Driveway Deliberations – Take a broom to the driveway and break out a big box of brightly colored chalk and urge family members to add their holiday message to the driveway. Once all of your “artists” have completed their works, have a neighbor snap a shot of the family declaring their holiday driveway message.
6. Exquisitely Embarrassing – Everyone has photographs that make the subject cringe and groan out loud as family and friends laugh riotously and tease affectionately. These humorous Christmas photo cards are sure to be a favorite, as everyone else recalls embarrassing moments of their own.
7. Food Foibles – Whether the photograph is of a toddler wearing their birthday cake or a bowlful of spaghetti, kids involuntarily feeding the family dog, or the new wife’s smoke-filled kitchen, these photographs are sure to provide the comic relief everyone needs this holiday season.
8. Hysterical Holidays – Thanksgiving turkeys that ended up on the floor, silly Halloween costumes, family vacation adventures, birthday party disasters, and cake-mashing wedding photographs can all be used to generate humor as well as let others know what your family has been up to during the year.
9. Intriguing Insights – Candid photographs often show far more than was intended. Children stuck in buckets, dogs sneaking up on unsuspecting diners, and the kids’ attempt at bathing the family dog can all provide plenty of good choices for your holiday photo cards.
10. Pampered Pets – Pets make great subjects for humorous Christmas cards. Most dogs and even some cats will tolerate being dressed, decorated, and posed in countless humorous photo card options. Santa hats, antlers, and human clothing can all be used to create something silly that everyone will enjoy.
We should always be looking for ways of thinking outside the box. There may be a humorous photo waiting to happen, and through more creative or non-conventional situations, you may easily capture that next holiday Christmas memory. This is also a simple, easy way to have a whole lot of fun!
Scavenger Hunts – How to Find Fun Ideas For a Photo Scavenger Hunt
Photo scavenger hunts can be a great way to get party-goers actively involved in having fun. If you are planning a party for teens or adults, there are many possibilities for coming up with some neat ideas for photos you will have your scavenger hunt participants taking.
If you’ve never participated in a photo scavenger hunt before, let me explain how it works. Unlike most scavenger hunts where you bring back physical things that you’ve had to find, with a photo hunt, you just have to bring back a picture. Nowadays, most people will have a digital camera, even if it is just on their phone, so it makes the game easy for everyone to play.
This can change the traditional scavenger hunt game quite a bit. For example, you don’t have to send your groups out to photograph different objects they need to find. You can instead have them photograph themselves doing different tasks.
For a bit of retro fun, set each group up with a single Polaroid camera. Since Polaroid film is a bit expensive, you can make thriftiness part of the game, and it will also help keep the game short and fun. Make one of the rules that only a single packet of Polaroid film can be used by each group. So that would be 10 totals photo.
Planning the Photo Scavenger Hunt List
This is where the fun comes in. You should feel free to mix things up a bit. Make a list of tasks that can be done indoors and then some that can be done outdoors. Be sure to pick a couple of challenging locations too. And naturally, most of the stuff on your list should probably be a bit silly. Or if you are having a bachelorette party, you could try for a little risque.
If you find yourself stumped for ideas, think about the kinds of games you played as a kid that were physical and that would probably be pretty funny (and possibly embarrassing!) to do as an adult.
Here’s a short list:
Charades Statues Pillow Fights Light as a Feather
Then you task your party-goers with specific instructions based on these games. They go out and play them and bring back photographic proof! For example, have them prove that the party levitation trick (Light as a feather) actually works. Or tell everyone to go out and play Statues as specific types of statues (comic book characters, American presidents, etc). Or have everyone come up with a phrase for charades and then each person has to be photographed doing a different word in the phrase.