Can’t Afford Photoshop – Try The Pixlr Chrome App For Free030 May 2013Can’t Afford Photoshop – Try The Pixlr Chrome App For Free by Barry Chignell
There is no doubt that the most popular photo editing is Photoshop, but at a price that many cannot afford, especially if new to photography it is worth looking for alternatives. One such alternative, which is free by the way, is Pixlr. A photo editing Chrome app with a surprising amount of functionality.
Pixlr introduces itself with the following description;
Pixlr presents a full featured photo editor direct in your browser, no download, no wait and 100% free.
If you are used to working with Gimp, Paint shop pro or even Photoshop you will feel right at home with this online image editor. It contains lots of the features that you normally see in desktop applications but just one click away. Jump in and start using this tool, no registration required and loads in matter of seconds. Pixlr editor is the most popular advanced photo editor online! Some of the tools included are, red eye reduction, spot heal tool, drawing tools, clone tools, sharpen and blur tools and many more. Some of the filters include, mimic HDR, glamor glow, tilt-shift, Gaussian blur, vignette, noise and lots of more. The Adjustments include some advanced concepts like Levels, Curves, Cross process, Desaturate, Auto levels, Hue/Saturation and Brightness/Contrast. The editor is capable of open PSD files and paste from your clipboard!
Pixlr allows you to either create a new image (nothing new there) or open an image to work on. Now this is where it gets interesting. Unlike the normal photo editing apps that simply allow you to open images stored on your PC, Pixlr allows you to open images directly from the web. Whether this be from an image url or from a social media photo library, such as Facebook or Flickr (with authorization).
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