Professor Jakey's Art Class

Before we start class, yesterday we had an important question from Casey and Jessie about the upcoming BAR (Blogville Awesome Retreat)

Casey said...

It sounds totally pawesome! Is there a pawticular hotel we're looking at, or is it meant to be camping? 

Well Casey, we will have a list of Pet Friendly hotels coming up in the next week or so at the latest!! We know that Dory and Mama consider themselves TOO OLD to be camping and have already found more than one PF Hotels in the area! We do know that some Pups and their peeps like to camp, or have campers, so we will also have a list of RV Parks available too!

Now...back to class!
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Hi everybody, Jakey here with the first of a two part series to help everyone get ready to compete in King and Queen of the Derby!!! You can click HERE to read all about the contest!!

Now, step into my classroom and let's get started!

Today I am going to show you how I used Pizap and then PicMonkey to create my entry for Derby King!!! 

We'll start by picking a background. Go to Pizap

and get started by clicking the Start button. 

Click on the Edit button

Then click on the Backgrounds button and....

Peruse the backgrounds for one that you like! They have so many to choose from that sometimes Mama spends lots of time here just looking at all of them!! I picked the sunrise type one and clicked on it!

This is what the screen should look like after you select your background.  Now let's select the "Cutout" button and add my Derby Car.

We found a picture on the interwebs (***) before we started on our project and saved it to our computer before starting on our project.

Now color in the car and hit finish!

 You can move the car around anywhere you want on the background I decided to put the wheels on the purple hill!

Now let's add a ME! Click on the cutout button and select the subject (in this case, ME) you want in front of the car!

Next color the subject and click finish!!

  Here I am in front of my Derby car with the sun rising behind me!!!!

Let's go ahead and save this to we can open it in PicMonkey!!

First select the "Save" button in the upper right hand corner....

We just want to save it to our computer so I made sure all the siders were off with the exception of the one marked Computer.

I am saving it to my Desktop so I can find it easily.

Now let's open it up in PicMonkey and decorate it there!!

First,  click on Edit

 Next, open up your Pizap picture

 

Here I am ready to find something to wear in the PicMonkey closet!

 Here is a close up of just some of the PicMonkey closet.

 Now, time to get dressed!

 First,  (1.)I selected some sunglasses, (2.)I positioned them over my eyes and made them a bit smaller and then (3.) I changed the color to match the sunrise!!

 I found a cool Derby crown in the "Celebrate" section of the PicMonkey closet

 I left it the same color (but you can change it if you would like) and positioned it on my head.

 Now the tie!(1.) I also found it under "Bows" in the Celebrate section. (2.) I positioned it on my neck and (3.) changed the color to black!

 Then I clicked the "Eraser" tab of the Overlay section and erased the tails to make it a tie instead of a bow!

 

 Now give a once over to make sure you are happy with the results....

I think it looks pretty good, what do you think?

Let's go ahead and save it to use in the contest! 

First, click on the Save button

Next,  give it with a name and in a place you or your Peep will remember and then...

 You have your picture!!!

Easy Peasy, right???

Any questions?? Just leave a message in our comments and I'll be happy to answer them before class next week!

Thanks so much for coming to class today, don't forget to stop by next week to see how to do your whole Derby picture in Pizap!!

CLASS DISMISSED!!!!

***If you search the interwebs for a picture,  be sure to choose a photo that isn't copyrighted OR get permission to use the picture and make sure to give credit to the photo***