Can’t Afford Photoshop – Try The Pixlr Chrome App For Free

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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10 REALLY Cool Photoshop Tutorials

016 Mar 2013 by Barry Chignell

There are thousands of photo manipulation and effect tutorials on the internet.  Below are 10 of my favourites.  You may notice that a few of them are a bit, well, ‘dark’, sorry about that but they tend to be the most effective in my opinion! 🙂

Can We Survive?

Create an apocalyptic photo manipulation using stock images and a portrait of yourself (all images required are included in the tutorial).

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Using The ‘Apply Image’ Tool In Photoshop In Your Portraits

Using The ‘Apply Image’ Tool In Photoshop In Your Portraits027 Jan 2013portrait processing, Using The ‘Apply Image’ Tool In Photoshop In Your Portraits by Barry

The ‘Apply Image’ tool in Photoshop is one of those commands that not many people use.  Within the ‘Image’ menu, this command is one of the most powerful within Photoshop and can be used to great effect when post processing your photos.

Apply Image Requirements

In order to use the ‘Apply Image’ command, there are a couple of things that you need to have prepared.  Firstly you require 2 images, your ‘source’ image, and your ‘target’ image.The ‘source’ image will be the image that you are to ‘apply’ to your ‘target’ image.

Both image must be the same size.  One trick I use to ensure that, not only are the 2 images the same size, but in the correct position for your needs when overlaying them, is as follows:

With both images open, create a third, based on the ‘target’ images dimensions.  To do this, with the ‘target’ image in view, press:

CTRL

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