Pixlr Power- How to use the Pixlr Editor

Pixlr Power: How to use the Pixlr Editor, available at $54.99, has an average rating of 3.75, with 56 lectures, 3 quizzes, based on 43 reviews, and has 1182 subscribers.

You will learn about Course goal: By the end of this course, you will be able to understand the purpose, and function of each tool in the Pixlr Online Editor to create and edit great photos and images. Course Objectives In this course, you will learn: How to make adjustments and edits to an image How to save, resize, crop and rotate an image The basics of using layers to create, edit, manage and composite images A close study of the Pixlr Tools and menus How to use Pixlrs selection tools How to use Pixlrs editing tools How to use Pixlrs blending tools Adding filters and special effects to your photos and images How to use Pixlrs mobile apps – PixlrExpress and Pixlr-O-Matic How to retouch and restore a photo This course is ideal for individuals who are No experience in photo editing is required. This course is suitable for teachers, students, hobbyists, senior citizens. Anybody interested in photo editing. It is particularly useful for No experience in photo editing is required. This course is suitable for teachers, students, hobbyists, senior citizens. Anybody interested in photo editing.

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Summary

Title: Pixlr Power: How to use the Pixlr Editor

Price: $54.99

Average Rating: 3.75

Number of Lectures: 56

Number of Quizzes: 3

Number of Published Lectures: 56

Number of Published Quizzes: 3

Number of Curriculum Items: 59

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 59

Original Price: $39.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Course goal:

By the end of this course, you will be able to understand the purpose, and function of each tool in the Pixlr Online Editor to create and edit great photos and images.

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn:

How to make adjustments and edits to an image

How to save, resize, crop and rotate an image

The basics of using layers to create, edit, manage and composite images

A close study of the Pixlr Tools and menus

How to use Pixlrs selection tools

How to use Pixlrs editing tools

How to use Pixlrs blending tools

Adding filters and special effects to your photos and images

How to use Pixlrs mobile apps – PixlrExpress and Pixlr-O-Matic

How to retouch and restore a photo

Who Should Attend

No experience in photo editing is required. This course is suitable for teachers, students, hobbyists, senior citizens. Anybody interested in photo editing.

Target Audiences

No experience in photo editing is required. This course is suitable for teachers, students, hobbyists, senior citizens. Anybody interested in photo editing.

Create your digital masterpiece using Pixlr Editor

It has never been easier to take a picture. As well as printing your pictures, you can share them, tweak them, and create photographic masterpieces. Editing images and photos is an important part of that process. Most photo editing software packages are either too expensive or your computer is not available at the time you want to edit your photo.

Pixlr is a free online image editor.Itisn’t Photoshop but for a tool that works entirely within your browser, it replicates a remarkable percentage of Photoshop’s most important image-editing tools, and does it very, very well.

Pixlr combines paint tools with image design and works in your browser. You can also use it for several different purposes, including creating an image from scratch, as well as layering images over each other. You can also make use of a variety of effects, filters and level adjustments, define your own brushes, utilities such as resizing and cropping, drawing right onto a blank canvas and a host of other features. All this will help you to radically transform all your photographs.

Pixlr responds to practically the exact same keyboard shortcuts as Photoshop, and is very easy to use. You can use Pixlr to:

Edit photos uploaded from a computer.

Start with a blank canvas or upload from the Cloud (all you need is to paste in an image URL).

No matter where your images are stored, youll be able to edit them in Pixlr.

Pixlr comes with complex layer support that allows for several blending modes and layer styles.

If you dont have Photoshop handy and need to do some image editing in your browser, Pixlr is a really fantastic alternative.

What equipment do you need for this course?

Pixlr Editor is built in Flash and you need to have the Flash plug-in to get it to work, however, 98% of all computers have flash so you are probably set and it will work on any computer, MAC or Windows as long as the computer is running the Flash plugin. Since the Pixlr editor is Flash-based, how it runs depends on what kind of computer you have. If it is lagging you can try to shut down other web pages that might be running Flash ads or close other software on your computer that is taking a lot of CPU.

You also need an internet connection, and a browser – Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Safari.

Course Structure

Section 1:An exploration of the Pixlr menus, tools and user interface. A look, also at the diverse ways of getting images into the editor, saving them locally and to Cloud services like Facebook and Flickr.

Section 2:How to make adjustments to an image. This covers resizing, cropping, rotating images, using the menu options like colour balance, curves, levels to improve and edit an image. An introduction to layers in Pixlr and how to use layers and layer masks to manage, edit and composite an image.

Section 3:An exploration of Pixlrs selection tools. How to use the Lasso, Marquee, Magic Wand selection tools to edit an image.

Section 4:An exploration of Pixlrs editing tools. How to use the Pencil, Paint Bucket, Clone Stamp, Brush and Gradient tools to edit an image.

Section 5:An exploration of Pixlrs blending tools. How to use the Dodge, Burn, Smudge, Pinch and Bloat, Sharpen, Spot heal and Red Eye Reduction tools to edit an image.

Section 6: How to use special filters and effects to edit and enhance an image.

Section 7:All the rest of the tools – How to use text, text styles, drawing shapes and lines, Colour Replacement tool and how to remove the background from an image to make it transparent.

Section 8: Projects to test your skills.

Each section has a number of projects and exercises to consolidate the skills covered in that section. Projects such as creating a banner for a website using layers, blending images together, creating an artistic double exposure, creating custom brushes, restoring and retouching photographs – common tasks you need to do in editing photos and creating your own images.

Section 9: Pixlr and the Cloud

A look at the other Pixlr apps: Pixlr Express and Pixlr-O-Matic and how to connect Pixlr to Google Drive.

Materials included in the course

53 Lessons. Each lesson covers a tool or combination of tools and shows you how to use those tools to edit, enhance or create an image. The images used in the videos are provided as a Download so you can follow along with the video and reproduce the same result. The majority of lessons also have worksheets to assist in reproducing the task in the video. There are also projects to test your understanding of the tools and processes explored in that section.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Whats New in Pixlr?

Lecture 1: Changes to Pixlr – September 2014

Chapter 2: Getting Started

Lecture 1: The user interface, menus and tools

Lecture 2: Getting an image into Pixlr

Lecture 3: Panels, Navigation and Palettes

Lecture 4: Grab an image using Pixlr Grabber for Firefox and Skitch

Chapter 3: Making Adjustments to an Image

Lecture 1: Save and resize an image

Lecture 2: Changing hue, saturation and brightness

Lecture 3: How to colour an object in a black and white image

Lecture 4: Straighten an image using the Free Transform tool

Lecture 5: Create a Vintage Effect using the Adjustment Menu

Lecture 6: Using Free Transform and Free Distort

Lecture 7: Introduction to Layers

Lecture 8: Build up an image using Layers and Layer Masks (Project)

Lecture 9: How to merge layers and flatten an image

Chapter 4: Selection Tools

Lecture 1: The Lasso tool

Lecture 2: The Crop and Marquee tools

Lecture 3: The Magic Wand tool

Lecture 4: How to use a layer mask and the Lasso tool (Project)

Lecture 5: Blend two images using a layer mask (Project)

Chapter 5: Editing tools

Lecture 1: The Pencil, Brush and Paint Bucket tools

Lecture 2: Spice up an image using brushes

Lecture 3: How to make your own custom Pixlr brushes

Lecture 4: Fun with layers, filters and brushes (Project)

Lecture 5: The Clone Stamp tool

Lecture 6: The Drawing tool

Lecture 7: The Gradient tool

Lecture 8: How to create an image using gradients and a layer mask

Lecture 9: Create a banner for a website (project)

Lecture 10: How to create gradient text

Chapter 6: Blending tools

Lecture 1: Create an artistic double exposure

Lecture 2: The Dodge, Sponge and Burn tools

Lecture 3: The Blur, Sharpen and Smudge tools

Lecture 4: The Spot Heal and Red Eye Reduction tools

Lecture 5: The Pinch and Bloat tools

Lecture 6: How to touch up a portrait

Chapter 7: Using Special Filters and Effects

Lecture 1: The Filters Options

Lecture 2: Adding multiple effects and filters to an image

Lecture 3: Exploring the Filters menu (Project)

Lecture 4: Creating a panorama image

Lecture 5: Using Filters and Effects (Project)

Lecture 6: Create a Sepia Masterpiece (Project)

Chapter 8: Miscellaneous Tools

Lecture 1: Text, Layer Styles and the Drawing Tool

Lecture 2: The Colour Replace tool

Lecture 3: How to remove the background from an image

Chapter 9: Projects

Lecture 1: Project 1: The Car

Lecture 2: Project 2: Restore a scratched and torn photograph

Lecture 3: Project 3: Create a collage

Lecture 4: Project 4: Colour Splash

Lecture 5: Project 5: Rusty Face

Lecture 6: Project 6: Motion Blur

Lecture 7: Create your own clip art using Pixlr (NEW CONTENT)

Chapter 10: Pixlr and the Cloud

Lecture 1: Connecting Pixlr to Google Drive

Lecture 2: PixlrExpress

Lecture 3: Pixlr-O-Matic

Lecture 4: Pixlr Express Project: The Focal Blur

Lecture 5: Pixlr Express Project: Effects

Instructors

Michele Berner
Teacher of Information Technology and Computer Networking

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 2 votes

2 stars: 3 votes

3 stars: 6 votes

4 stars: 11 votes

5 stars: 21 votes

Frequently Asked Questions

How long do I have access to the course materials?

You can view and review the lecture materials indefinitely, like an on-demand channel.

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