Additional options: Experiment with tolerance levels. It’s great at selecting large blocks of solid color. The wand will make a marquee-style selection based on values (i.e., tone and color) that are similar to the area clicked.

Feathering gives you control over how soft edges will be use anti-alias to achieve sharper edges. Use this to define an area in any shape you can draw. Additional options: Need to create an irregular shape with straight sides? The polygonal lasso lets you create shapes like hexagons.

The lasso tool is a free-hand version of the marquee tool. Anti-aliasing creates a more crisp outline. Feathering creates a softer edge at the selection’s border. Great for cutting out slices of an image to copy and paste elsewhere. Additional options: You can specify a rectangular or elliptical area, pick an aspect ratio or fixed size for your selection. After selecting, you can perform specific actions on that area. Use this to select rectangular areas of a layer or the canvas. Adjust output size if you want to crop to a specific pixel size.įairly self-explanatory, this lets you move whatever you’ve selected around the canvas: text, a layer - just about anything you’ve selected. Additional options: Adjust the aspect ratio to crop to a specific height and width ratio (e.g., a perfect square). You can move the crop area around before committing to a crop. Drag to reframe and hit Return - you’ve just cropped your image. Reframe your entire canvas to a desired size and remove everything else. The toolbar in Pixlr Editor always appears on the left-hand side, although you can drag it anywhere you like.

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