How to use PIXLR

Pixlr is a photo editing software that allows you to take and upload pictures onto a website that you can edit in any way that you want. You can change the colour of the back ground, crop a picture and even add text to the picture. This website isn't as good as others such as; www.monkeypicture.co.uk that gives you options to change the theme of the picture, change the configuration of your models facial and body features. Pixlr just gives you the basic options of editing an image and here is a set my set guide of how to use Pixlr with an ordinary image.






Once you have gone onto the Pixlrs website you are opened with a list of options of how you wish to use this website, obviously I will edit the real image I wish to use but the rabbit is just an example. If you have an image already saved to your computer then click "Open Image from computer" and it will appear on your screen as already displayed on this post. You receive a list of options that you may wish to use but I firstly decided paint the background black for all the attention to go to the rabbit (which will initially be my model). You can choose from a list of how big you want your brush to be, what shape of the brush you want and what colour you want to paint the picture. To use this option you will need to zoom into the image in order to make it look presentable without making it look like you did it blindfolded. 


You can use the fill effect, that will emphasise all the stray features of your model, in my opinion it does look good especially if you are creating a vintage music magazine. Also included is a pencil that will make a thin neat line if you are only outlining an image not colouring it completely in. 
Have you ever had that moment that you wanted to colour in an image but you cant use the same colour as the picture? Well Pixlr offers the droplet effect; which is when you click on the icon, click onto the part of the image you want to copy and software finds that exact colour so you can use it to fill the rest of the picture in with that colour.
It does also offer the option of getting rid of the red eye that some images do have if you use a flash on the camera, simply click on the icon and drag over the part of the image that has the red eye and click again... the red eye has now disappeared!
Pixlr also allows you to add text in the image, this works the same way as painting the pictures background. Click onto the (A) icon and a list of options will once again appear with what you wish to display, the colour you wish the text to be and it even has an option of the size of the text and the harshness/softness of the text colour.
This software is the same as any if you make a mistake you can simply undo it, but you can even change the brightness of the image, the filter you wish to use on either sections of the picture or the whole thing. You can create a collage with your images, select where you wish to place them and what you wish for them to look like. This website has so may options that can make your image look more appeasing to the audience. 
Of course it doesn't offer the airbrush effect, themes you can use for the image like, sepia or black and white but it does create the illusion you wish your image to look like and makes it looks more professional. In my opinion it is worth using as i will use it when editing my official photo for my music magazine.