Thursday, November 8, 2012

Pixlr!



 Pixlr (no, not pixiv) and Pixlr-o-matic are lifesavers when you do an MMD picture and want it to look better without buying photoshop or using phototshop. This is a picture I did on MMD with Miku holding the camera. I used fisheye effect with MME. It was supposed to be an old picture of somebody's girlfriend. But it didn't look any bit convincing. This is where Pixlr came in. Pixlr, located at Pixlr.com, is a free photo editing site. It's like Picnic, but it hasn't closed down. So I loaded up the picture and made a COPY of the layer. I then applied a layer mask to layer 1 and used Gaussian blur. I then used blur on that layer and put in a black background. I removed the layer mask from layer 1, and ta-da!... Still not convincing. This is where I use Pixlr-o-matic. I go to Pixlr.com/o-matic and open my picture up, as usual. I scroll through the various image filters until I find the perfect one. Then I re-look, just to be sure. I then move to the next step- adding more stuff to it to make it look old. This time I used 'scratches', but sometimes I do 'paint', 'focal', or 'divine'. Usually I decide to move on and do a frame, so I do. This time, I don't like that look, so I skip step 3 and move on to saving. I save it as mmdpic3- this is the third version- and close the Pixlr tab. My work is done.