PIXLR BY SUMMER SENIOR WHAT IS PIXLR Pixlr

PIXLR BY: SUMMER SENIOR

WHAT IS PIXLR? Pixlr is a online editing program. It is vary much like photo shop, except it’s less advanced. You can work in layers, replace color, transform objects, and more - all from your browser. Lets go over some of those things.

LAYERS Be sure that you make lots and lots of layers, they are one of the most important things in Pixlr and photo editing in general. This is because if you have no layers, for example, then if you mess up on something you will have to erase that part of the image, and there will be a random white spot on your picture. Also, You want to do this because you can see the before and after on it and if you mess up on something then you still have the original layer. The first thing when you do when you are in Pixlr is unlock the first layer. Then you would right click on the layer and hit duplicate layer. Be sure to name your original layer.

MASKING A mask is when you want to insert a background. What you do the add the mask is: right click the original layer and go down to Add layer mask. Then, click on the black paint brush and paint the part you want in the background. After that you can insert the background.

WAND TOOL The wand tool is to make things transparent. All you have to do is right click the background and hold shift if you want to make more things transparent. The marching ants will surround the part/ parts you are taking out.

DODGE TOOL The doge tool lighten things up. You can use to highlight hair, eyes, and etc. . Just be sure to not go over board with it, to do so, use the opacity toll to tone things down.

BURN TOOL The burn tool darkness things. We used it a lout in our Zombie Project. We outlined the areas wear it needed to be darkened and made the eyes look black. Click here to find out more about the Zombie Project.

QUIZ

WHAT LIGHTEN THINGS? A The Burn Tool B Layers C Wand Tool D Dodge Tool

SORRY, THAT IS NOT RIGHT Click the button to try again.

THAT IS RIGHT! The doge tool is right! Click the button to move on.

WHY ARE LAYERS IMPORTANT? A So you can darken a photo B So you can colorize the photo C So you will not erase the whole thing D So you can make it black and white