Susie,
Honestly...I've been using Photobucket for ages and never took the time to explore it. I can't thank you enough for pointing this out to us. It's wonderful!!

I can't believe all the options!! Whee!!

~Sandy~

I didn't find anything to draw a picture...all I found was a pencil...and I can't move it around good enough to follow the lines...

I wanted to make a pencil drawing of our barn.

I'd love that for myself...

Oh and even though the picture of the barn is at photobucket...it says the owner no longer has that picture or something like that...I didn't quite get that.

patti

Susie...I LOVE to play with my photoshop :D I take lots of pictures of my little relatives and make what looks like a pastel chalk portrait. It's fun to make what we call the Comic Book portraits,too. And you can make photos look like the old Glamour Shots. Also if you get different brushes you can do things like add lace, or butterfly wings; all kinds of collages.
Oh, and what is a new favorite hobby of mine is making black and white photos look hand tinted.

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Oh, I've got to find the time to play with that! I was a typesetter in my previous life (before retiring) so I should be able to navigate through it hopefully. Thanks for the info girls! ~tenderlee

Patti,

When you pull up a picture (you may need to reupload the barn picture) you click 'edit' and there will be a lot of choices across the top of the page. You will see a choice called 'sketch'. It is a one click process. However, you also can choose the sketch to appear 'light' or 'dark'.
Regular pic of my grandbaby:

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Now coloring book or sketch picture of grandbaby:

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Wow, so cute.......and guess what? My granddaughter is a ballerina,too! She's 7 years old :D This would look lovely as an oil painting .

kudzukween :)

Are you talking about an "oil painting" using Photoshop or a real painting?

This is when she was 7 1/2. She lived with us at that time. She is 9 now.

Susie

Here is "Cartoon" effect on one of my plate flowers. I love what it did to the foliage in my garden. I had no idea that photo buck did this. I have paint shop pro at home, but I like this particular one better. I'll have to up load some real flowers and landscapes and try it on them.

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kathy

Grand daughter in a normal photo:
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Grand daughter using PhotoBucket editing tools:

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Pattico, you go to edit and then to effects.
kathy
ps Susie you have a lovely grand daughter. What a great idea about the coloring book.

What a beautiful little girl! Picture perfect! The last pic in the green outfit looks like maybe something from World War II era in the 2nd shot. Cool.

Kathy, that flower plate pic turned out groovy. That is the word (I don't use it much lol) that came to mind for that particular pic. ~tenderlee

If ya'll knew how intimidated I am of trying new things on the computer you'd understand how tickled I was to discover Photo Bucket. I have never even touched Photo shop.

Kathy's discovery of the cartoon feature is sensational!! Another idea is to make comic books using whatever you have pictures of. Then you can make up a funny story. This would make a fun gag gift.

My grandbaby was dancing to the "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B" that day.

Susie

I really like the cartoon feature, used it last year on Kodak and had Xmas cards made up of two of my Whippets. I had a photo I loved of a mom-daughter, and sent to all my dog friends. Kodak has neat card designs to play with too.
I haven't explored all the new features Photobucket has started but looks fun. I did redo all our Inspiration albums with special effects, LOL. Themes and frames.

Lacey and Lotte,
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hugs, Karen

Isn't this fun? That's how I got hooked on reverting photos to black and white or sepia, and then tinting them :D
My photoshop has a lot of filters and gizmos....you can take a photo and turn it into an oil painting look. Something my daughter and son in law got me. There are a lot of free brushes out there to use in photoshop for adding visual effects, it's like having an ink stamp to add to the photo. Like adding clouds, or spiders and a web, or flowers. I took photos of my grandchildren, and added butterfly wings to each, and printed them out to a 4x6 size. Then I cut them out, and used glitter glue pens, and added some rhinestones here and there, and then made pixie jars, or fairy jars with them.
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Some were Christmas gifts last year, and the recipients LOVED them. There is a flicker candle in the lid, battery operated.

Yes, kudz...I LOVE the fairy jars of your grandkids! I'm still going to try that.

Purplemoon...love your Christmas card of the Whippets...what a cool pic using the cartoon feature.

My photo program is Microsoft Digital Image Suite...I love it also...you can manipulate alot & add special effects...I like to soften the edges sometimes in my pics...my sis got me hooked on this program some yrs. ago.

I've made coloring pages for grandkids & also fun calendars for Christmas...you can print your own and then take them to a print store and they will bind with those curly black plastic binders...works out pretty good!

Thanks, everyone, for this post...interesting ideas! Jeanne S.

This is one of the features I tried on Photobucket ... one of my favorites.

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It's called Pop Art a la Andy Warhol.

Love all the effects you guys came up with. Karen, I just love that picture of your Whippets!

Cherry,

The Fairy-Granbabies are so so so fantastic!!! I can not believe how many creative things are on your blog too.

Lacey and Lotte you two are very photogenic! Do you charge your Mommy for your modeling time? I'll check with the whippet union. :)

Luna,

Cool modern edge!!! Ya'll know so much about photo tricks. I want to catch up too.

Susie

OH...I absolutely love the fairy jars!! What a great idea!!

~Sandy~