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Photobucket is a really fun online tool for spicing up your digital photos.  You can set up a free account on www.photobucket.com.

To achieve the effect below, I just clicked on Edit Images, Effects, and then I choose the Pop Art option.  Pretty slick!

There’s all kinds of cool effects that you can create using Photobucket. Please keep in mind for Reflections photography entries, you can’t put text or stickers over a photo, like in the example below, but you sure can have a lot of fun! Entries with extras added on could be submitted in the visual arts category if you’d like.

Enjoy creating your art!
Julie Samford

How about a little field trip to a local art museum to get your child’s creative juices flowing?  Check out these wonderful spots for some artistic inspiration!

Austin Museum of Art

The Blanton Museum of Art

Mexic-Arte Museum

Art on 5th Gallery

Picasa is an awesome easy-to-use photo editing tool from Google. 
You can download it here:
http://picasa.google.com/

Here is just one example of what you can do in just a couple of steps using Picasa. 

2009-2010 PTA Reflections Program
PHOTOGRAPHY
Theme: “Beauty is …”

Students must adhere to the general participation rules as well as the following Photography Rules.

Description
A photography entry must be an original black-and-white or color image, or a group of images, produced by a photographic process. The entry must relate to the current Reflections Program theme. (more…)