Phixr Art

Phixr is a new online image editing service which they quite rightly point out is handy for when you’re on a computer somewhere that doesn’t even have paintshop or iPhoto installed, let alone photoshop or theGimp.

“typical cases are computers in schools or companies where users are not able or not permitted to install software.”

Being an online service rather than an installed application, the amount of processor heavy computation for realtime effects you can do is seriously limited, and this would naturally be seen as a disadvantage to the geeky side of digital photography. But for artists, restrictions are often welcomed as an interesting challenge which inspires new forms of creativity.

jellyArt , for example, was all based on the restriction that the only brush mark available is in the shape of a rectangle.

Well the paintpot in phixr has the same restriction. All it can fill is a selected rectangle, no clever edge detection here, and no magic wand either. So here’s my first attempt at PhixrArt, nicely integrated with Flickr by the way.

( derivitive from original drawings by children with Barry Cunningham )