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 
icon!
May 30th, 2008 at 9:53 am
will try this!
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:07 pm
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.
June 25th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
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!!
August 2nd, 2008 at 3:08 pm
I agreed with you
October 13th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
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!
October 17th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Thank you soooo much!! I’m so excited about trying this!!! Bless U!! :)
November 20th, 2008 at 9:43 am
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?
November 29th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
i cant see the video and i relly wanna learn how to do this :(
November 29th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
i cant see the video and i rellt wanna learn how to do this :(
January 2nd, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Thanks so much. This was a huge help!
January 16th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
i dont have the brush icon so i can choose original or anything. why not!
February 3rd, 2009 at 1:31 pm
I am a new person to this site, This is great. I can’t wait to experiment.
February 15th, 2009 at 5:09 am
The video wont play!!! i really want to know how to use this. Can sum1 plz tell me??
April 1st, 2009 at 10:07 am
Hey, you did a great job!
=) Thanks for making that video!!
April 23rd, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Gentii eu sou Brasileira intão é bom fazer uma pagina em portuguêes
ii vãoo a merda vseiis americanoos ~hehehehehe
June 16th, 2009 at 7:52 am
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July 5th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
I can’t see the video either. What gives?????
Is this information … or tutorial available anywhere else??
July 26th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
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
August 20th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Добротно сделано, контент порадовал, сам на многие блоги и не зашёл бы никогда…
August 21st, 2009 at 2:24 am
Кто в теме тот понимает, не в обиду другим
August 24th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
hey, this video wont play:-( can someone please tell me in a comment how to do it please:)
September 14th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
How do you use colorsplash effect?
October 21st, 2009 at 9:46 pm
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:)
October 24th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
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?
February 3rd, 2010 at 2:34 pm
Liz, yes, same colours. I wasn’t so much re-colouring them as removing the colour from the rest of the photo. :)
February 28th, 2010 at 5:22 am
Hi, Do You Have To Be On Premium.? ;(
February 28th, 2010 at 5:36 am
OMG, THANK YOU SO MUCH IT’S AMAZING. <3
March 14th, 2010 at 2:19 pm
I tried to do this but its not working… do you have to be a paying member to do this?