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Recolouring PNGs in Picmonkey

First of all, what is a PNG??

A PNG (it stands for portable network graphic) is an image with a  TRANSPARENT background. The embellishments, alphas, word art etc that you use on your layouts are PNGs. A quickpage is also a PNG - it has to be so that the photo will show through the transparent hole.

So what's a jpeg? A jpeg (it stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group) has no transparent sections. Papers, background, stacked papers and photos are all jpegs.

You can recolour almost anything in Picmonkey - PNGs and photos, papers etc (which are jpegs).

You cannot recolour a PNG in My Memories, you can do it in Memory Mixer and there will be a tutorial that shortly.

An example for you

Here's one of my fur babies in a pink frame. The kit is Pretty Kitty Cat by CatDesignz and the original frame is red (see below).

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The frame in the original red (and cat much older!)

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Here's how you recolour PNGs in Picmonkey

Click HERE to go to the tutorial pages. Click on the first image then use the arrows  to work your way through the tutorial. Come and ask on Digi Scrapping Divas if you get stuck!

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