How To #2: Effect Painting

posted by peter May 15th, 2008

Picnik’s very own Community Liaison in Charge of Flickr Operations, Brenda, has knocked up an excellent video tutorial of Effect Painting for the Picnikers group on Flickr. For those of you not regular contributors to the Picnikers Flickr Group (and if not, why not? There’s prizes to be had!), Brenda’s an American-in-New Zealand photography enthusiast with three kids, a gazillion photo sets, and an uncanny knack for harnessing the power of Flickr’s new video tool thingie. In fact she’s so good at this newfangled technology, we just had to post this here, too:

And of course this technique can be used on any of Picnik’s effects with the little Picnik Paint Brush button icon!


29 Responses to “How To #2: Effect Painting”

  1. faizal Says:

    will try this!

  2. cmb13467 Says:

    this is my fave effect. i did a really cool one of a couple boats; everything was black and white except for a red beetle cat. thanks for the tip.

  3. Angiee514 Says:

    I knoe how to do tht but i forgot how to get the black n white if i mess up lmfaoo .. well ill try …

    IT DOES WORK!!

  4. Lumerouffiglof Says:

    I agreed with you

  5. Ab Says:

    omg this helps so much because i could never figure out how to do this. i just used the focal black and white thing. thank you so much!

  6. lori fitzpatrick Says:

    Thank you soooo much!! I’m so excited about trying this!!! Bless U!! :)

  7. Moriah Martin Says:

    WOW! That is great! Thanks…I actually am looking for Fill effects for behind text…this way I can write on my photo’s and the text can be seen better. But, I do not want a “call out” cloud. Can you email me if you can help?

  8. luciindersz Says:

    i cant see the video and i relly wanna learn how to do this :(

  9. luciindersz Says:

    i cant see the video and i rellt wanna learn how to do this :(

  10. cherylmc Says:

    Thanks so much. This was a huge help!

  11. brittany Says:

    i dont have the brush icon so i can choose original or anything. why not!

  12. fran Says:

    I am a new person to this site, This is great. I can’t wait to experiment.

  13. Natalie Says:

    The video wont play!!! i really want to know how to use this. Can sum1 plz tell me??

  14. Zoogle Says:

    Hey, you did a great job!
    =) Thanks for making that video!!

  15. Karool Says:

    Gentii eu sou Brasileira intão é bom fazer uma pagina em portuguêes
    ii vãoo a merda vseiis americanoos ~hehehehehe

  16. alexxounnne Says:

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  17. alexxounnne Says:

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  18. GRINAVERE Says:

    I can’t see the video either. What gives?????

    Is this information … or tutorial available anywhere else??

  19. kendall Says:

    wow. i never knew what the ‘effect’ button was for. but i will try this ! i always liked pics like this (color splash) and it always took me kinda long but this seems easy !
    oh and this was a good pic for color splash ! :]
    thanks,
    kennndddaaallll <3

  20. Андрей Краснов Says:

    Добротно сделано, контент порадовал, сам на многие блоги и не зашёл бы никогда…

  21. Никанор Райхман Says:

    Кто в теме тот понимает, не в обиду другим

  22. Tiffany Marentette Says:

    hey, this video wont play:-( can someone please tell me in a comment how to do it please:)

  23. Deanna Jones Says:

    How do you use colorsplash effect?

  24. Мирослав Андреев Says:

    Занятно пишете, жизненно. Все-таки, для того, чтобы делать по-настоящему интересный блог, нужно не только сообщать о чем-то, но и делать это в интересной форме:)

  25. LIZ HAMILTON Says:

    That was entirely cool. I will watch it again to make sure I understand it. Are these the same colors that were in the birds originally and if so, why re-color them again?

  26. Brenda Says:

    Liz, yes, same colours. I wasn’t so much re-colouring them as removing the colour from the rest of the photo. :)

  27. Maisy Says:

    Hi, Do You Have To Be On Premium.? ;(

  28. Maisy Says:

    OMG, THANK YOU SO MUCH IT’S AMAZING. <3

  29. Jude Says:

    I tried to do this but its not working… do you have to be a paying member to do this?

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