Shutter Mike Photography

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about free online photo editors.  There are a lot of them out there with a wide assortment of features.  So I figured I would show a little bit of what they can do.  This image was done using a photograph of my pug, Scooter and the online photo editor Fotoflexer.  I’d like to say I slaved away at this for hours in order to master the “pop art” effect.  But in reality the program makes it very easy.  Here are the basic steps I followed to accomplish this final image.

1. I cropped an image of Scooter so his head basically filled the frame (see the original image above right).  I used Photoshop but you can also accomplish this in Fotoflexer.
2. I then uploaded the image from my computer to the Fotoflexer program at www.fotoflexer.com.
3. I then selected the “effects” tab and the “pop art” option.
4. Et voila!  Save the image back to my computer and I was done.  A masterpiece in seconds.

OK, maybe not a masterpiece.  But it is a fun program to play around with and turn your photographs into somethign creative and fun.