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Edit your photos and amaze your potential clients with your creative flair! With just a touch of a button you can turn that ordinary looking photo into a work of art. Use it on your website. All you need is Picnik & Be-funky. They are Free.

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1 Prepare Photo in Pixlr• We want to match our photo size with that of our header template. You may use other headers, but in this example we used HostGator’s Website Builder (ZEUG-05)• Goto Pixlr.com• Open your coolest photo.• At the Layers panel, click Duplicate Layer (A)• Click Image (B) - Canvas size (417 x �0�) - Ok• Edit (C)- Free transform then drag handles to position photo� at the lower left end.• To cover existing photo Goto Layers - Add new layer (D) Make sure this layer is on top of photo1.• Grab a Drawing tool (E) and then draw across the work space. You now have a partially completed header. • Save file when done.

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� Add Stickers in Picnik• Goto Picnik.com• Load earlier saved photo.• Goto Create tab (F) - Sitckers (G)• Add some animals (H), flowers and speech bubles (I).• Apply formatting using sticker properties (J). Make sure your color complements your template.• Add some Text (K). Don’t forget your USP/Tagline.• Save File. This is how it looks when uploaded into our website template (L).

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� Add Floating Words in Picnik• Open your photo in Picnik.com• Goto Create Tab - Effects (M) - Lomoish (N) - Apply• Add Text (O). Use different variations of grey and different blending modes (P) to give the impression of floating words.• This is how the finish header looks like when uploaded into our template (Q)

Play around with the different effects and you might be surprised at what you’ll discover!

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4 Add Pop Art Effects in BeFunky• Login to Befunky.com• Click get started - Pop Art (R) - Browse Files. Make sure your file has excess space on the left hand portion. • Choose Pop Art no 5. Effects completed.• Now we need to remove the Ads. You may upgrade to paid service to have it removed, or you may crop it out in pixlr.

Crop Add in Pixlr...• Goto pixlr and open your befunky photo.• Get the Crop tool and drag across the photo. Make sure to exclude the add portion.• Save when done. • This is how it looks when uploaed to our blue color scheme hostgator template (T).

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There are a lot of amazing one-click effects in befunky.Try them out and see which one matches the tone ofyour website!

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