Let me ask you this, have you ever felt like the frustrated artist.
That you know deep down inside you’re just bursting with creativity but the only thing you’ve ever really drawn successfully are the curtains.
Well, let me introduce you to a great little resource by the name of Be Funky, an entirely free browser based application that lets you unleash your inner Banksy by at least turning your photos into works of art.
For this is what it does, and brilliantly easily too. With one click of the mouse you can transform photographs into stencil drawings, cartoons, fine line sketches and dayglo half-tone Warhol paintings amongst many other inbuilt styles and then fine-tune them as well.
And not only that, you can access all sorts of other customisable goodies too, adding frames, speech bubbles, shapes, even a beard and devil horns to a picture of your Mother-in-Law if your creative muse so dictates…assuming she doesn’t possess either already.
Getting started is simple as well, you upload pictures via an elegant little interface and you can even select those images you already have online on social networks accounts like Facebook, My Space or Flickr.
Plus once you’re done, Be Funky is just as slick in allowing you to share your masterpieces, sending the finished results to your desktop, back to those same community accounts or you can just as easily email your work to your soon to be impressed friends.
Plus it does all this without need for registration, although it does only take a minute to create an account and then you’ll be able to save all of your prized creations.
I think Be Funky is terrific, it’s one of those websites which is part serious application, part frivolous fun but wholely ‘just one more go’ compulsive.
But don’t just take my word for it, visit Be Funky and draw your own conclusion.
* Hi Folks – A bit of an addendum to my enthusiasm for BeFunky. A few weeks after my review the site has been upgraded with even more options to funkify your images. That’s good, but they’ve proceeded to moneytize features that were gratis before and while they still have a free service, those images now come with a BeFunky logo stuck in a corner. Although if you’re crafty you can add a bit of bottom ‘padding’ to your picture with a basic photo editor before using BeFunky and then simply crop that logo off. You didn’t hear that from me though, right.
No puppies were harmed in funking up these photographs
