Thing 5: Having fun with Photos and Flickr

I've had a Flickr account for more than a year, but this has provided an excuse to learn to use a little more of it. Up to now, I've posted my pictures, and got them into Sets, and that has been the extent of it. After poking around a bit the last few days, I discovered a link to Big Huge Labs, where you can have fun with Motivator, to create an inspirational poster.

Here's mine:

There's also Warholizer, which lets you mimic the style of painting Andy Warhol used in his painting of Marilyn Monroe. You can create fun frames, desktop wallpapers with or without calendars, Hockneyize a single picture into a collage, or create a collage out of up to 36 pictures using Mosaic Maker. I tried that one with the following result:

There's a lot more there than I've listed, so if you haven't checked it out, I recommend that you go and play.

If that's not enough photography fun for you, here is a list of some other fun websites that I've found and enjoyed:

Picnik, which integrates with Flickr, Picassa, and many other web based photo services, allows you to edit, tweak and do fun things with your photos. You can save, download, or have your pics printed.

FlauntR lets you create effects, and frames, as well as edit the picture for exposure, cropping, and so on. You can link directly to your Flickr collection, which makes working with this program extremely simple, and of course you can also upload photos from your computer and then store them on the FlauntR site. Here are a couple things I have done using Flauntr:

PhotoFunia is a site where you can upload a photo with a detectable face, and then create a fun altered photo out of it, and save it back to your own computer. Here's a couple of examples:

And, if you want to make a poster of yourself in the style of the famous Obama poster, you can do that with Obamiconme. Here's mine:

I'm looking forward to reading the posts of others who are doing this project, to see what they have found!