PicMonkey Launches Upgraded Tech Platform and Additional Functionality

Whether you’re a longtime PicMonkey veteran or a shiny, new user, we want you to know one thing about us:

We’re obsessed with you.

We know sometimes when you fill out a survey or send in feedback to a company it may seem like you’re shouting into a void, but not with us. We want to let you know that we read every single thing you write to us and it has a huge impact on the way we build our products.

Which brings us to our upcoming release: New PicMonkey. We’ve been hard at work for the past year and half to bring you a stronger, sleeker PicMonkey and now we’re finally able to give you a glimpse into what’s to come. What better way to show you than to see how your feedback got implemented? Let’s take a peek at some of our most exciting new features, inspired by the best users a software program could ask for. (That’s you!)

Layers

We’ve been getting tons of feedback that our layers functionality needs improvement and so to make things easier, we’ve added the ability to group and flatten layers.

These new layers options come in handy if you want to edit all the objects in your image the same way. For example, you can now add effects, adjustments, and textures to anything in your image, including text and overlays, and grouping your layers makes this so easy.

New platform

After a long run, it was time for us to part ways with Flash. Adobe is sunsetting the software in 2020 and we wanted to be able to give you an editing experience that has more speed and power and less crashing and glitches. Our new technology platform will allow us to be faster and more cutting edge, but we’ll continue to support our old editor until Flash is turned off for good.

Resizing canvas

Don’t waste time starting from scratch! In New PicMonkey you can quickly resize your canvas in the crop tool, no matter what stage of editing you’re in. This is great for creating different social sizes on the quick. Plus, if you start from a photo you can easily detach it from the background (another sweet feature in our new and improved Layers palette!) and incorporate it into a new design.

Overlay effects

We have expanded both our Overlay and Text palettes to include both an Effects and Erase tab. This means you can now add effects to overlays, including Drop Shadow and Inner Shadow and you can erase text like you could overlays.

And more!

Did somebody say new effects?! We’ve got several awesome newbies coming at you, including mood enhancers like Moonlight, Helium, and Pink Fog. Plus, Gradient is gonna take your artsy pics to a whole ’nother level.

We’ve made some updates to Hub! Now all PicMonkey subscribers have access to at least 1GB of storage and Collections, and Pro subscribers get unlimited Hub access. Once you save an image to a collection it’s moved out of your main Hub space and lives only in that collection.

This is just the beginning, folks—we have even more great features to come! If you don’t see what you’re longing for on this list, let us know.