2 year anniversary! Big update!

Today is a special day here at pixlr headquarters, not only is it the 2nd anniversary of our service but it's also the very first day at our first office. Believe it or not but until now pixlr has more or less been running as a side project (a lot of time has went into it though).

So 2 years .. I could do the same as last year and tell you how great it's going and whatnot .. it's all good we have grown more then 350% since last year and made several cool releases but that's not all that fun for you.

Instead I'm going to tell you about the release we just did, some very intense days with not that much sleep have produced no less then 13 spanking new features and updates! All of the updates are for the editor the product which started it all.


Gaussian blur, Box blur and Unsharp mask

First out is some different new blurs and sharpen. We have added two new blur and one new sharpening method.

All three functions are something the editor has been missing since the launch of the service.






Polar coordinates and Water swirl

Two new displacement filters have been added, the image to the left is made with the polar coordinates filter, before at the top and after is the bottom part.

A newish filter is water swirl, it's not entirely new but its now a lot more useful. Setting for size, amount and direction are added.




Glamour glow

Glamour glow adds a fuzz, pale and intense effect on your photo. This filter works best on lighter images and you may need to adjust the curves a bit afterwards depending on the image you are using.








Mimic HDR

HDR is a popular effect where you use several images with different exposure and combine them to get a larger range of colors. Our mimic HDR filter tries to add the same effect but with only a single image.

This effect is like the glamour glow, it don't work on all images but it can create a rather cool effect on the right ones.

Hope

I'm quite sure I don't need to explain this filter so much but for you who have lived on a other planet for the last couple of years it creates an effect that mimics a certain poster ..








Sepia, Solarize and Exposure

Three new color adjustment added to the editor are sepia which gives the image an old feel, solarize mimics an effect from old days and exposure can fix under or over exposed photos.








Added more curves presets and new gradients

The last news in this release we have filled up two existing features with more content.

In the curves adjustment we have added an additional 15 presets that create nice looking photos, my favorites are "The 60's vintage" and the new "Cross process" but "Light Amber" and "Chocolate" are also nice on the right photo.

In the gradients tool and color lookup adjustment we have added 25 new gradient presets.



I'd love to hear what you think of this large update, play around and let me know will ya.

With love from middle Stockholm!
Ola & Kim