How to Blur the Background of a Photo in Pixlr
By:Christian Moore
.Go to pixlr.com
Scroll down
Click “Pixlr editor” launch web app
Click on “open image from computer”
Select the picture you have saved to your computer
Click the lasso tool (directly underneath the top right tool)
Right beside the lasso tool at the very top there are two different types of lassos
Choose the one on the right side (Polygonal lasso tool, it is the second one)
Click and drag all around the object that you do not want blurred
Connect the end of the line to the beginning of the line
Once you have done that, there should be a dotted line
Go to “edit” at the top left corner
Go to the bottom of it and click on “Invert selection”
Then, there should be a dotted line around the whole picture
Go three down to “gaussian Blur”
Then click on “gaussian Blur”
. Your background has been blurred
Drag left or right to make it more blurry or less blurry
. Then click the “ok” button
Now go to file at the very top left hand corner
Go five down and click on “save”
Change the format from png to jpeg
Choose your quality
. Then press “ok”
Choose the file you want to save it to
Press “save”
Then you are finished!