hi guys I'm Shayda and today I have another PicMonkey tutorial to share with
you PicMonkey is an in-browser software that's really easy to use and today
we're going to use it to airbrush a picture of ourselves so much simpler
than using Photoshop so let's get started okay so this is the image that
I'm going to be working with today just a photo of myself and I've got the image
sitting on the desktop there and then of course PicMonkey is the tool we're going
to use it's an in-browser software so you just go to picmonkey.com and this is
the site now I'll just say a few words about PicMonkey you're gonna want to get
an account it's no longer free to use but it's only $40 $40 u.s. per year or
$4.99 a month so it's a really good price and if you're doing a lot of
online stuff and you don't want to get all the Adobe programs or you don't want
to learn all the Adobe programs then PicMonkey is such a good bet it has all
these different features for editing photos touching up photos doing designs
doing collages and they also have a lot of great info good tutorials good
inspirational stuff you know they'll walk you through in these blog tutorials
how to make a Pinterest image or how to collage images for your blog really
current stuff so what we're gonna do today is I'm going to show you through
all the touch-up tools so we're doing a little airbrushing so I'm just opening
my image here and the first thing I'm gonna do is a crop this is going to be a
youtube thumbnail so the size for that is 1280 by 720 and that's width by
height so that way I know that this thumbnail will be the perfect size for
use on YouTube . I'll do that by putting in my numbers clicking scale and
clicking apply and there we go that's perfectly sized for use on my
youtube channel basically now I just want to walk you through all the
touch-up stuff so over here on the left is the all the different menus the
little face there that opens up the touch up menu and the first thing I want
to do is show you how to airbrush. And this just makes your skin
look so much better and I always start by zooming in, I just want to sort of see
on screen the part of the image that I'm gonna be working with and of course for
touch-up that's my face so let's go to the airbrush menu once you click it
it'll open and then you have a couple different options and the first is brush
size and you just want to scroll that bar until you can kind of see okay
that's the right size since I'm zoomed in the brush size is gonna be set really
big but I'm just gonna make it a little smaller and then I just start I click
the mouse and start going around I sort of go in a circular motion to get a nice
natural look and you know honestly the program does so much of this for you
it's gonna find where your skin is and it's gonna it's gonna do the trick so
say later when we're applying lipstick you'll see it won't really go too far
off of your lips it's you do have to be careful but it sort of finds the facial
features that you are working with so I'm just sort of airbrushing all over I
might change the brush size a little for different parts of my face and then once
I'm happy with it I just click apply next thing on the menu here is the
wrinkle remover and I have a little line below my eye there so I'm just gonna
make the brush size really really tiny and by going over that with the mouse it
just sort of blurs it out a little bit I still have a bit of a dark circle there
but I don't want the photo to look too unnatural so I'm just gonna leave that.
The blush palette is really cool you can actually add all your own makeup I love
adding makeup and post so I don't have to bother with too much makeup when I'm
taking the photo for makeup it's really good to use that fade slider and make
sure that your that your color is actually quite translucent or quite
faded and that will give you a really nice makeup look so you can see there
the blush isn't going to go off of my cheek
these tools are super user friendly and easy to use
okay next I am going to do a little teeth whitening a lot of these are the
same idea you just want to be zoomed in you want to get the brush size exactly
right and then you want to decide how much fade you want so for blush you
might have the color quite transparent and then for teeth whitening your not
going to fade it at all because you want you know you want white white and that's
what I'm doing there and then when you're done you always just click apply
and we'll do a little lip tint lip tint is probably the most finicky you just
want to get the brush size just right you want to get the intensity right and
the color and then you need to with this one you need to be careful because
you're gonna see it if you go off of your lip so you just do it slowly and
carefully and use a nice faded color so that it doesn't look too too crazy
you'll see if I up the intensity it's just like really really bright so just
keep it nice and faded for a natural look not that your makeup needs to be
natural but that you want the editing to look natural and if you make a little
mistake when you're in the lip tint or any of these menus just click cancel
your last move will be erased and you can just go back into the menu and try
again now let's try the eye tint this is a really great option if you want to
make a youtube thumbnail or something that really pops you know you can change
the color of your eyes and it can look actually quite natural the key is
getting that brush size the right size so you just want to make it not too big
not too small it has to be just about the size of of the iris of your eye and
you want it again use that fade slider so that the color is not too dark and
then you're just gonna have to play around here with the with the color menu
and just try to get fine that it's that color that's not too crazy but that's
different than your own so I'm kind of using a teal that's quite faded and
you'll see I'll put it there it's just maybe not quite in the right spot but
when I do get it right in the middle of the iris it looks quite cool so this is
when you're just gonna want to play with and if you get just the right color of
violet with just the right fade and right size or whatever color you want it
can look pretty pretty interesting and it can make for a very catchy headshot
or YouTube thumbnail something that'll really draw your audience in if you're
using this for social media next I'll use the mascara tool to go in and just
add some dark dhating along my lash line and I just darken it ever so slightly
you could also use the eyeliner tool for this or you could zoom in and actually
add some lashes totally up to you play around with these tools and just see
what works best for the image that you're working on
okay the last tool that I'm going to show you is one of my favorites it's the
highlights tool for your hair you can grab any color because my hair is quite
light I'm gonna go for a very very light pink and you just want to get the brush
size right get the fade just right and that's gonna help this look really
natural and you can see sometimes this works really well sometimes it doesn't
this pink actually I love how that looks and I often will just sort of do across
my bang and I think that gives me quite a natural look so yeah I think I'm gonna
keep that it just looks like I have a little pink tone on the front of my hair
there which I love so let's zoom out and that's the whole airbrush look I'm
really happy with that image I've been able to do most of my makeup
in post edit you could also add eyeshadows and all kinds of stuff so it
just depends on what your look is you can really play around and create a
really interesting intriguing headshot or YouTube thumbnail or blog a headshot
whatever you're needy in need of now I'm gonna add some text to this video
thumbnail and PicMonkey also has a really easy to use text editor and all
these different fonts if you want more info about this sort of stuff because
I'm just speeding through it here I do have another PicMonkey tutorial that
goes through some more of the basic features and I'll link that in the
description below I'm also gonna put a link below where you can purchase
PicMonkey for the month or the year now this video is not sponsored by PicMonkey
i'm sharing this with you because as someone who's had a really slow learning
curve when it comes to Adobe Photoshop and illustrator PicMonkey has saved me
when it comes to being a blogger and youtuber
I can do all my collaging and photo editing on here and it's super fast and
easy so while the video is not sponsored it does help me out and it's a way that
you can help support me if you purchase your PicMonkey through the link below so
it's sort of a win-win so check this video description for a link that will
take you to another full PicMonkey tutorial it's a video that i did i think
last winter and also check the video description for the link where you can
purchase PicMonkey and that will help support the channel so if you want to
purchase PicMonkey and support shada campbell youtube then just follow the
link in the description box now when it comes to saving your photo you have two
choices click either save or export export will get the photo onto your
computer so you can use it on other devices or do whatever with it
saving will save it on the PicMonkey platform that you can cut so that you
can come back and work on it later well thank you so much for watching today
guys I hope you enjoyed the tutorial and if you did please hit that subscribe
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thanks for watching