Black and white is the essence of photography. Someone famous may have said that, but actually I think we just made that up. Black-and-white photography is loved by nearly everyone because it can be so stark and powerful, but most people who use their phones to take photos…

We’ve been running photo challenges for a long time, but we haven’t done a lot with words. So this week, we want you to use the text features of Pixlr apps and add some words to your photos. But here’s the catch: We want you to experiment with…

Tag photos #pixelate so we can find them on Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, and Facebook! A week ago we released Pixlr 3.0 for iOS and Android, which sports a brand-new user interface. Almost all of the tools in the app are the same, although a few have been moved…

Tag photos #pixlrbrush so we can find them on Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, and Facebook! One of the big changes in our Pixlr 3.0 update (released earlier today) is that the History Brush is now everywhere. Over the past year or two, we’ve seen that our savviest users are those…

Last week, we asked people to show us their favorite effect from Effects > Default. A little known fact: Each of those options was named for (or by) a Pixlr user who came up with the idea for the effect back when we first developed the app. We wanted to…

Tis the season for blood, guts, and gore. And cute pumpkins! Yes, it’s that time of year again: Time for us to give our users a grab bag of Halloween photo bling to help celebrate the long, dark, candy-filled night of the soul. As in past years, we…