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How to Blur the Background of a Photo in Pixlr

By:Christian Moore

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.Go to pixlr.com

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Scroll down

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Click “Pixlr editor” launch web app

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Click on “open image from computer”

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Select the picture you have saved to your computer

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Click the lasso tool (directly underneath the top right tool)

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Right beside the lasso tool at the very top there are two different types of lassos

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Choose the one on the right side (Polygonal lasso tool, it is the second one)

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Click and drag all around the object that you do not want blurred

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Connect the end of the line to the beginning of the line

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Once you have done that, there should be a dotted line

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Go to “edit” at the top left corner

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Go to the bottom of it and click on “Invert selection”

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Then, there should be a dotted line around the whole picture

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Go three down to “gaussian Blur”

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Then click on “gaussian Blur”

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. Your background has been blurred

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Drag left or right to make it more blurry or less blurry

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. Then click the “ok” button

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Now go to file at the very top left hand corner

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Go five down and click on “save”

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Change the format from png to jpeg

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Choose your quality

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. Then press “ok”

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Choose the file you want to save it to

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Press “save”

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Then you are finished!