If you love editing photos on the web, but learning Photoshop was never in the cards for you (and you’ve made your peace with it), Pic Monkey is a brilliant alternative. I learned how to use Pic Monkey the day I asked myself, “How do I put text on pictures?” It was different from all of the other photo editors out there because it was so easy to use, and it seemed to offer more editing capabilities than the average free photo editing site. Since then, I’ve used it to liven up my blog posts, and even to create my ebook cover earlier this year. 

But I wanted to see how other bloggers and brands were using Pic Monkey to see what I could learn. What more could I do with this amazingly easy to use photo-editing software? 

It turns out, a lot. A  ton of bloggers and brands are using Pic Monkey to liven up their blog posts, promote their products, and gain traction on social media. Here are a few ways they’re doing it.

Ebook design.

Blogger and holistic health coach Lily Gold uses Pic Monkey to create recipe book covers, and ebook covers.

“Pic Monkey saved me when I realized that Photoshop was an absolute nightmare for the average person,” she said. “I picked up on it right away and have made everything from marketing photos, recipe book covers, ebook covers, and illustrated my entire website.”

I personally really like the illustrations on her site. I had no idea people used it for web design!

Product marketing.

Lily Gold also gets crafty and uses it to market her products on social media. They look pretty damn awesome too.

Professional photo editing.

Fashion, portrait, dance, and boudoir photographer Meg Raiano uses Pic Monkey to touch up her photos. She wrote about her love for Pic Monkey here, and swears by it.

Blogging.

I use Pic Monkey for almost every single one of my blog post images. Blogger Liz Scully of Rethink Retreats also uses them to liven up her posts, and she’s gotten quite a bit of traction on social media for a few of the pictures she’s created.

Book promotion.

Publicity and brand strategy company Spectacle Creative Media uses Pic Monkey regularly to promote their clients, but one way I really liked was the way they use it to promote books for their clients. In the image below, they use it to combine the book cover of one of their clients and their Amazon daily rankings, a smart move in my opinion, and more likely to entice readers to click.

Opportunity promotion.

Spectacle Creative also used Pic Monkey to share a grant opportunity they were promoting, and created a banner to announce their grantees.

You know how I get about free services online that help you become better at what you do. I get stupid excited over them and love to share them. Pic Monkey is one of those services, and even though they have a paid version ($5/month, so cheap), you can be just as creative with the free version.

I feel like a ton of people reading this post are also using Pic Monkey in ways I haven’t mentioned here. Do you regularly use Pic Monkey? Any particularly awesome stuff you want to share? Let me know below!

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