Mama Kat Thursday: Pirate Zombie
The Mama Kat blog writing prompt for today was to turn a photo of myself into "something spooky" using the Halloween tools & effects at an online photo shop, like Pic Monkey. I prefer to use Ribbet.com, instead of PicMonkey.com, since I'm a Ribbet member. I used their tools to "spook-ify" my photo. The two companies offer fairly comparable services and they share an interesting back story, one I happen to know: Once upon a time there used to be one fabulous online photo shop called Picnik. I loved Picnik. Everyone loved Picnik. I was a member of Picnik for a couple years, but Picnik belonged to Google and Google decided they wanted to do something different with it. So, in 2012, Picnik was shut down. There was much wailing and a desperate blank in the way of an online photo shop on that scale of easy-to-use excellence for a good while--a year, perhaps two. Then "Pic Monkey" appeared, founded by "the same guys who created Picni...