Creative Imgages- BeFunky

Having fun with a web based Image editing BeFunky.com site this morning - Funky ways to express yourself. This link came to me via Steve Dembo’s post “Make your Digital photos befunky“. Steve does a great job in reviewing the site, so click on over there to read his detailed review.

I would add to Steve’s review the added features that allow you to customize your photos with Speech Balloons, Graphic Text, other accessories, such as hats, glasses, jewelry,etc.

I know that my elementary school students would have had a blast playing with this site, BUT of course since it is free there are the dreaded ads. Right after the first login a google ad for “sexy something” was displayed prominently right above my image.

So, working with my students together on this site is out, but I can see some fun for the teacher using it to create personalized coloring book pages for the little ones with the sketch feature alone.

It also has potential for creating “less identifying images” for and from our students. I try teach them that if you must upload a public image to the web, do not use a high resolution detailed photograph, but rather reduce to a lower resolutio, which does not lend itself to further alterations or quality printing.