How to Create Your Own Meme’s with Google+

Google is seriously stepping it up with the features it’s offering Google+ users in 2012, so much so that it’s given users a full photo editing tool that allows you to quickly add colour and text to images, effectively creating your own meme.

The editing tool (called the (‘Creative Kit’) is, of course, basic; but it definitely does the job of offering Google+ users one more kitsch feature that Facebook and Twitter can’t. Better still, the Creative Kit is really easy to use and obviously completely free.

So, if you fancy jumping on the meme bandwagon here’s how you can create your own meme with the Google+ Creative Kit:

Step 1 – Pick your photo

You can either choose a photo that you already have in your Google+ or you can upload one and go from there (either way, the photo needs to be in your own albums, you can’t pinch someone else’s image).

Once you’ve decided on your photo you just need to click it so it opens in the light box and there you should see a toolbar in the top left corner of the box.

(I’m using the example of the ‘Philosoraptor’ meme, one of my favourites.)

Step 2 – The Creative Kit

In the toolbar you should have a ‘Creative Kit’ button with three little yellow stars as the logo. Click on this and it’ll bring up the photo editing tool for you to play with.

You have the ‘Basic Edits’ tab which will allow you to crop, rotate, resize etc. and you also have the ‘Effects’ tab which will allow you to add an effect to the image; black and white, different fades, softens etc.

‘Decorate’ allows you to do Paint-type stuff with brushes and shapes, and it also gives you the option of adding things like pre-designed fake beards and speech bubbles to your photo.

The ‘Text’ tab is obviously the one which will allow you to add text to your photo. It offers loads of different fonts to choose from, and they’re not just your typical MS Word fonts either so you’ve got room to be a little more creative if you want.

Step 3 – Adding and changing text

Finally you’re gonna want to add some text to your photo. It’s easy to do, you just select the font you’d like to use and type your text in the box at the top of the font list.

When you click ‘Add’ underneath the box your text will appear over your image. You can stretch it out, shrink it down, bold, italic, change the colours, rotate, flip etc. all the normal text editing stuff; and if you decided you want to change the font all you do is click on your new font and your text will change; no highlight/selecting needed.

Step 4 – Saving and finishing

Once you’ve added your text and made your meme you need to click Save and you’ll be given the option to replace the existing photo or to create a new one (it will save in the same folder you chose the original photo from).

(Ignore the typo)

Just select and option and voila! Meme created.

Have you created any meme’s on your Google+ page? Let us know in the comments below.