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= = =Pixlr Photo Editing Services=

What Pixlr has to offer:
Pixlr.com is a free and easy to use application that allows you to simply edit your photographs using pixlr editor or add retro vintage effects by using pixlr-o-matic. The application also has a quick and easy photo touch up called pixlr express. Photographs can be edited from saved images on your computer or from a URL. The Pixlr Grabber tool allows you to upload an image from any website to edit. The site also allows you to share the images that you have edited with friends and family by using the Pixlr imm.io. The images that you create are private, and not available for public viewing. Pixlr was created for professionals and non-professional who are interested in editing personal and web images. The site also makes uploading images to social networks such as facebook or myspace. You have to have flash player loaded installed and activated to use the applications on Pixlr. Pixlr makes editing and adding effects to your favorite photos simple and easy to use.

So how much does Pixlr cost?
Pixlr is a free application. You do not have to sign up or become a member to use the tools that Pixlr provides.

How do you use Pixlr?
The following instructions will give you steps on how to use Pixlr. 1. Upload and Save pictures If you click "Pixlr Editor" at the top of the Homepage, the first thing you have to do is to chose whether you want to create a new picture, open an image from the computer or open an image from URL. If you want to upload your own picture, you click "Open image from the computer" and you can choose the picture you would like to edit. 2. Resize the picture 3. Crop the image by using the crop tool 4. Improve the quality of a picture The function "Auto levels" in the menu "Adjustment" improves the brightness, contrast, saturation and hue of your picture. This is the easiest and fastest way to improve your pictures. If you want to play around with the different tools and improve the picture by yourself, you can do this in the same menu. In the first tool called "Brightness and Contrast" you can control and regulate the brightness and the contrast of your picture. You can do the same thing with the tool "Hue and Saturation". If you just want to sharpen the quality of a picture, you can use the tool "Sharpen" in the menu called "Filter". dkjfbsdkb


 * ====I have found that the best way to use Pixlr is to play around with the different tools and explore the application on your own.====

How can Pixlr be used in the classroom?
Pixlr can be used to add information to pictures for class and student projects and creations. Student responses can be added to pictures of class experiments. You can create artistic effects with student pictures. The ideas for picture taking, creating, and sharing are endless. Students can learn to create photomontages inexpensively. Teachers can also create creative bulletin boards using digital images.

Examples of using Pixlr in the classroom:
When studying propaganda, have students create propaganda images to share on a class wiki or classroom bulletin board.Also, ESL/ELL, language, and special education teachers can ask students to label images with sentences including correct vocabulary and grammar. Have students in your reading class create visual idiom images using digital pictures //. //

Sources:

 * ====http://pixlr.com====
 * http://www.brightonweb.com/tutorials/73-pixlr-photo-editor.html
 * http://legacy.teachersfirst.com/single.cfm?id=9568