Photobucket Tutorial: Special Effects

Video Transcript

"Photobucket is a registered trademark of Fox Interactive Media Incorporated, and I am in no way affiliated with Fox Interactive Media Incorporated. In this lesson I'm going to teach you how to add special effects to your photos at photobucket.com. If you want to come down, and click on the edit button, above whichever photo it is you want to edit. And it's going to take you to your photo flexer, and it's going to take a second to load up. But from here, there's a lot of different things that you can do to your photo at Photobucket. And after it's loaded up, it defaults to your basic tab up here. But if you want to click on the effects tab, from here you can add a lot of different effects or filters. And if you click on the more button, it's going to show you, you've got about three screens right now, and they're constantly adding new ones. But if you want to apply a filter, all you have to do is click on the one you want to see, and it's going to give you a preview there. And if you like it, you can click apply, but I'm going to click cancel to get out of there. And I'm going to add a pop art filter here. And if you click on the advanced options button here, what you can do is, you can adjust the fade, that's how much the effect is going to take place, and it's going to make your effect opaque, if you take it down towards the negative. But if you click on where it says, apply to, it's going to default to the entire image. If you click there you can click on focal area, and you can drag this little circle around, and you can change the size and the softness of that with your slider over here as well. And you can also click on painted region, and come in and draw on your photo where you want that to apply to. And you can change your brush size, and the amount of the effect, and you can invert it as well. But I'm going to go ahead and click cancel. If you're happy with it, you can click apply, but I've got some other things to show you. If you click on the distort tab over here, you can add some more effects, you can twirl, and bulge, and pinch your photo as well. If you click on them, I'm going to click on twirl, left, it's going to take me to some extra settings here, and you can change the size of your twirl, and the strength of it as well. And you can come down, and you can see what it's going to look like. After you play your twirl, if you get it where you like it, just click on your mouse button there, and it's going to apply that twirl, and you can click and drag that as well. I'm going to go ahead and undo that. You can also, like I said, add a bulge, and a pinch, which is going to give you an effect, it looks like a fish eye there, I'm going to go ahead and undo that as well. And you can also stretch and sqwoosh your photos as well. And these all work pretty much the same way with the same settings there. But that's how you add special effects to your photos, at photobucket.com."