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The following is a fancy Pic Monkey Tutorial. Now I'll show you how to use something. Textures. For this you'll need two images. One image to go inside the shape. And a second image that will become the shape. The darker the second image then the better (all black patterns or silhouettes or black vectors are the best). In the example I'm using an "eagle PNG" I found using Google Images.

First. Open up your Image in PicMonkey. Go to Textures. It's a tab located under Frames in that panel to the left



Then choose "Your Own" and pull up that second image. Notice that it may need moving around to fit the image you started with. The more zoomed in you are then the better you can Move it around. Slide the Fade from the default 20% to 0% for best effect.





Change the Blend Mode to any of the following: Add, Hardlight, Lighten, Overlay, or Screen. In the example, I found that Lighten works best on what I have.



After the texture is Applied then I go to mess around with it with other Effects. In the example I use Frost to soften the edges a little



I make it Black & White just because I can. Meh



The image I started with was 800px by 800px and I Resize it to 600px by 600px. Always Keep Proportions



Now to Crop. I crop the top out. I stop it under the wing at a number easily remembered and subtracted from 600px (the height). My top becomes 600px in width by 270px in height.







600px - 270px is 330px. The height of my bottom after saving the top and undo-ing first crop is 330px. Width is whatever it needs to be

HOW TO ADD FRAMES IN PICMONKEY Doing this in GIMP means putting the frame.png in a layer over the image. It's more complex without photoshop or GIMP but possible

1. I pulled up one image from googling lookbook. Saved it to desktop. Then I googled "frame.png" and saved that too
2. I uploaded the image to picmonkey. All the while. Paying attention to sizes. I resize height proportional to frame height. Then cropped the image to something proportional to the all the frame's dimensions
3. Here's the cheat. You go to Frames and add a Drop Shadow. Get the unimportant stuff zeros. Check Transparent. Give it an ample amount of space (using Size) all around



4. Crop it proportionally to the frame size. No fancy math skills needed. I just keep the 00, 97 at the end of the height and width here.



5. Go to Textures. Pull up the frame. Change the Blend Mode to Normal and Fade to zero. Don't apply yet



6. Still in Textures step. Click Move and change size to 100% because Picmonkey default is 110%. Check or uncheck Keep Proportions if it makes anything better



7. After applying the above. Zoom in to 100% if needed. Check quality. If it's not the best. Maybe you need to Resize.



With Keep Proportions checked it does most of the math for you. After it's good then save





8. Done