Posted: October 16th, 2010 | Author: 1918underwood | Filed under: Collaging, Friends, Intro to Creation Tools, Tutorials | Tags: Beginner, collage, Friends, photo | 1 Comment »
Muzy’s Friend Collage app is similar to the Collage app, but it allows you access to your friends’ photos on Facebook. Creating collages with your friends’ pictures is a social activity, something you’ll want to share. It’s easy to start. If you’re not connected to Facebook, it’ll ask you to connect so that you can get and use your friends’ photos.
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Posted: October 8th, 2010 | Author: 1918underwood | Filed under: Intro to Muzy Site, Muzy website, Tutorials | Tags: Beginner, help, Muzy website | No Comments »
Hey, problems happen, even on Muzy. So, what do you do when you’re having trouble? Muzy gives you a few options to get help. If you click on “Account” on the Muzy menu, you’ll see a Help option and a Tutorials option.
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Posted: October 8th, 2010 | Author: 1918underwood | Filed under: Effects, Intro to Creation Tools, Introduction, Tutorials | Tags: Beginner, Effects, photo | No Comments »
When you use the Muzy Effects app, you have a choice of frames to add to your image. Let’s take a look at the frame options and what they add to your pic. The frame option is separate from the other effects. You can only add one frame to your picture. If you change the frame, it takes off the old frame. The frame you’ve chosen appears at the bottom of the list of effects, and the other effects don’t change the frame. The first frame is the Instant frame, and it makes your pic look like an instant photo.
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Posted: October 8th, 2010 | Author: 1918underwood | Filed under: Intro to Creation Tools, Introduction | Tags: apps, Beginner, video | No Comments »
Muzy has rolled out its Video app. It’s time to find all those funny videos you’ve seen recently on YouTube, or make some of your own, and post them to your Muzy. It’s simple. Just click on the Video app, and type or paste in the URL of a video on YouTube. As soon as you put in the URL, it will show you a preview of the movie. You can add a title, note, and tags if you wish.
Just click post, and you can see the video on Muzy. Look for more video options and features coming in the future!
Posted: October 8th, 2010 | Author: 1918underwood | Filed under: Intro to Creation Tools, Introduction, Tutorials | Tags: captions, comic | No Comments »
You may have seen the Muzy Comic app… it’s a step-up from the old captioning app and gives you more flexibility in adding words to your pictures. Your first step is to choose an image, from nearly anywhere: the Internet, your computer, your webcam, or Muzy. Here’s a good old-fashioned Muzy image, Muzy Pool Party for @steve’s Birthday by Mike.
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Posted: September 25th, 2010 | Author: 1918underwood | Filed under: Intermediate Tips for Creation Tools, Stretch, Tutorials | Tags: creativity, Intermediate, Stretch | No Comments »
may be by 1918underwood
Muzy’s Stretch app is fun for making distorted pictures of your friends and enemies, but that’s hardly its only use. The Stretch app can create fascinating artistic effects as well and can be used with drawings and collage with equal success as photos.
The image to the left is one I drew on Muzy when I was apparently feeling like some bright and cheery colors. One of the things that makes this image a good one for Stretch is the high contrast. It has distinct areas of color, and so the shape of those areas can be easily manipulated with the stretch tool. I’ve stretched out the figure into a larger head and heart-shaped body, and stretched the dots into elongated shapes.
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Posted: September 18th, 2010 | Author: 1918underwood | Filed under: Effects, Intro to Creation Tools, Tutorials | Tags: Beginner, Effects, photo | No Comments »
Let’s take a close-up look at one of the photo effects in Muzy’s Effects app… “Blurry.” Blurry applies a directional blur moving outward from the center of the image. Here’s a picture of my cat, Chaplin, that I brought into Effects. I chose this picture because Chaplin is pretty much in the center of the photo.
I chose this picture for the Blurry effect because Chaplin is pretty much in the center of the photo.
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Posted: September 11th, 2010 | Author: 1918underwood | Filed under: Effects, Intermediate Tips for Creation Tools, Tutorials | Tags: backgrounds, Beginner, Color, Effects, patterns, photo, tutorial | No Comments »
wall by 1918underwood. Click to view.
The Effects app can have some striking results with backgrounds and patterns. Because it plays with color and texture, Effects lends itself to abstractions as much as to photos of people or pets. Here’s an example of what I did with a pretty static brick-wall background that I made in Collage a while ago. My goal was to take something that had a very regular pattern, without a lot of texture, and create something with a lot more variation and mood.
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Posted: September 11th, 2010 | Author: 1918underwood | Filed under: Color, Effects, Intermediate Tips for Creation Tools, Tutorials | Tags: Beginner, Color, colors, Effects, photo, tutorial | No Comments »
Black-and-White to Color
Muzy’s Effects app is a great way to pump up (or completely change) the color on any photograph, drawing, or collage. You don’t need to start with a bright or colorful image to get bright and colorful results. One of the fun things I found you can do is take a black and white picture and make it brightly colored. The image that you see to the left of a young and sinister Tony Perkins was created in Effects from a black and white drawing.
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Posted: September 10th, 2010 | Author: 1918underwood | Filed under: Color, Effects, Intermediate Tips for Creation Tools, Tutorials | Tags: Beginner, Color, colors, Effects, photo, tutorial | No Comments »
Meno takes a rusty, gray grunge wall and uses the Effects app to create this vivid burst of color in "Riff's Rust, colorized." Click to view.
The Muzy Effects app can be used for a lot of, well, effects. One of the effects I like best is color shifting. In the image on the left, Meno has taken one of Riff’s photo… a great piece of grunge in and of itself, of a rust-ridden dusty gray metal wall… and turned it into a vibrant, charged blue-and-orange background that I just couldn’t resist using. Very Muzy, isn’t it?
So let’s explore a little bit and see what the Muzy color shift effects are in the Effects editor and how to use them. First, let’s start with a tour. Read the rest of this entry »