If your goal is to become the next YouTube superstar, you know that taking advantage of all of the features of YouTube is vital — and creating a channel art banner is the most vital detail of them all. Even if your goal is more modest than total world domination, you should still make custom art
Last month, we ran a Fan Art Challenge that really struck a chord with our users. The response was both great in number and in the quality of what people submitted. Some people used found photos or art from movie posters, and some people used their own personal photos. But what really stuck out was
We’ve been on a tear lately with new content packs, releasing at least one brand-new effects pack for Pixlr Essentials and Pro members every month. It’s that time yet again, so please acquaint yourself with the new Artmodern overlay pack in both Pixlr for iOS and Android and Pixlr Desktop. (A reminder that if you’re not an Essentials member,
We’re big fans of fan art. Our users are, too. Each week we run a new Pixlr Challenge, and while we’re sifting through all the submissions we invariably see people using our apps to take existing images of their favorite fictional characters and edit them in dramatic or interesting ways. Fan art can take many
Pixlr for mobile keeps adding new updates with new features, and we recently updated our Android app to introduce another new feature: Compare. Don’t have the update yet? Go grab it now. Compare: See the before and after before you commit Have you ever been concentrating hard while in the process of editing a photo using
The world used to be dominated by one screen — the television. But then came the computer. And the smartphone. And the tablet. (And now wrist watches!) Screens are everywhere, but the biggest and most prevalent screen in most peoples’ lives is still the big TV in their living room. Thanks to cool technology like
“How about a black-and-white challenge?” someone asked a few weeks back on our Instagram feed. Great idea. We haven’t done one of those yet. So let’s get to it. Sometimes black and white photos can be more powerful than color. Black and white is more pure. Less flashy. It relies on composition a lot more. But
From time to time, we come across someone who blows us away with the things they create using Pixlr apps. We deem them follow worthy — and hope that you do, too. This time around we’re profiling Evan Brown, who turned his work commute into an opportunity to create beautiful art on his phone. He
Last week’s challenge, #inhand, was a non-editing challenge. That is, we just wanted to see photos taken on a particular theme and didn’t care what kind of effects you used. We saw some good stuff, but this week we want to get back to editing. We came up with a challenge that we think you’re
Last week’s challenge around the new Skyfall Essentials content pack was a real treat for us to curate. The new effects have some winning overlays, and you created some very impressive images with those crazy cloudy overlays. This week, we’re going to pivot a little and ask you to focus on creativity in photo taking
