Lighting effects can add drama, sparkle, or a grunge look. Overlays help adjust the mood of the photo – amplify the tone, cool it down, or add surreal shades to your images. Save images back to your desktop so they are quickly accessible when sharing via email or social networksĮxplore the growing catalog of additional effects, overlays, and border packs. Remove red-eye and whiten teeth with simple tools. ‘Auto Fix’ photos for a one-click fix to balance out colors, adjusting for less-than-ideal lighting conditions. Pixlr Express makes you look like a pro, even if you’ve never edited a photo before.Įasily crop, rotate, and re-size images when saving and sharing.Ĭreate and customize a photo collage by editing its layout, background, and spacing. Choose from over 2 million combinations of free effects, overlays, and borders to further personalize your images. Pixlr Express is a fun and powerful photo editor that lets you quickly crop, resize, and fine-tune any picture, all in a completely ad-free experience. You can also right-click a file in your Drive and you’ll see that the Pixlr Editor has been added to your Open With menu.Pixlr Express is a powerful photo editor that lets you crop, resize, and fine-tune any picture, in a completely ad-free experience.
Launch the editor and make changes to any image file located in your Google Drive (or anywhere your PC can reach for that matter).
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To get the full effect of the app, close Chrome and then restart it.
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The app will install into Chrome in a matter of moments ( Figure D). Click on the “Add to Chrome” button (or the “Install” button in a different browser). The Pixlr Editor is popular so there may be a link right on the front page, but if there isn’t, just type “Pixlr” in the search box and choose the editor app. Figure A Manage your apps Figure B Get more apps The resulting screen ( Figure B) is where your apps can be managed after you have installed them, so you’ll probably be seeing it often. Click the gear icon to open the menu and click on the Manage Apps entry ( Figure A).
Start Chrome and navigate to Google Drive. Up-do-date versions of Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari will work just fine with the Pixlr Editor. Pixlr Editor is available from the Chrome Web Store and it integrates very well with the Chrome Browser, but you are not limited to Chrome. Now, that’s a productivity increase I can get behind. And if you have synched your Drive files across more than one computer, whatever editing you do on one will automatically appear on another system. Pixlr Editor is a full-featured in browser photo editing app that you can use to edit image files while they still reside in Google Drive. This is exactly the app I have been looking for to save me time when I am writing blog posts and creating photo galleries for TechRepublic. One of the apps he highlights caught my eye: Pixlr Editor.
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Kevin Purdy wrote a very informative article for Fast Company this week explaining how to unlock apps for Google Drive. The Pixlr Editor makes image editing a snap. There are many under advertised apps available now that Docs is Google Drive. Put a full-featured image editor directly into Google Drive with Pixlr
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