Pixlr tutorial - Exploring the Filters Menu - Lesson 13 Video Lecture | Pixlr Tutorial: Master Image Editing - Professional Skills

welcome to another Pixlr tutorial and in
this tutorial we're going to look at the
filters and Pixlr and there are a number
of filters that are built in to the
software that you can adjust your images
with and we're going to look at a few of
those in this video
so I've got a video group of animals and
I've used the lasso and the polygonal
lasso just to draw an outline around the
middle monkey and the idea is to have
the little monkey always in a clear
focus whereas the rest of the picture
will be subjected to one of the filters
so first thing is to make a copy of this
selection so I'm going to edit copy and
then create a new image
from the clipboard making it transparent
and call it I'm a monkey
okay let's save me rich has made monkey
and as a PNG on to the desktop now I
need to erase the background from this
image all I want is the tree that the
monkey is hanging onto and monkey and
the branch is sitting on the tail some
of this foliage and everything else
needs to be cut away and I'm going to do
that in clipping magic.com rather than
do it with the arrest tool because it
take forever and I haven't got a steady
hand to do that so I'm not going to save
it going to clipping magic and put that
file from the desktop okay so the green
bit I want to keep the red marks will be
for those areas that I want to lose so a
smaller brush and go over and it stay
well within the lines do a clipping mask
close to the head
a bit too close to the edge there so I
can knock that out
you
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and then smaller Pashtu
walk out the branch
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this is tail
- ladies wallpapers in red
- Calloway the bits that I don't want
bigger brush
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we'll be that what's up
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and these are all the little fiddly bits
are going to take a bit of time
and I would
test something shaping and feathering
what's it
now come back once I have finished that
image and show you the results so here's
the finished image with the background
removed and I've downloaded us and now
going to import it back into pixel
so either new layout open images layout
the transparent monkey
so rename this layer is transparent
monkey
and then with the move tool can move it
around I need to place it exactly over
the top of the background layer
as close as possible
and now we can start experimenting with
filters now a background layer is the
layer that we're going to apply the
filter to so for now select Gaussian
blur then the amount of blurred you can
see it blurring in the background but
too much and okay the background layer
has had the filter applied and the
foreground which is that copy is still
sharp and in focus and then you would
save that image so it's - a different
one try some of these filters
pixelate
and gonna decide how big the pixels to
beg it's like see the change here
I don't want it so pixelated that you
can't see what the beach is perhaps
there
the main monkey is stealing focus they
must event is pixelated
so get eight map
and it can change the quite a lot of the
image quite experimenting with the
amount of heat keep going up here and
it's going to be quite warm I also like
it like that
and undo that
there's a lot of different
built is here point a nice can either
have our dots or squares
large circles small circles it's a
pretty different effect
or to swirl
what that almost all the filters have
some other
qualities or criteria that you can
adjust so for example here's a vignette
and I can adjust the size of that so how
dark it's going to be and where it
starts and the color so maybe a green
dark green to match that trees
and okay
and it's only being applied to that
background layer so you get the idea
there's quite a lot of other filters
there and what you need to do is just go
through and have a look at them on see
what they do in experiment the hardest
part was actually carrying out that
image and making it transparent so
that's all for this video