How to Create Superb Separators For Steemit with Pixlr.com

^^Click on the above thumbnail to watch the tutorial as a video.^^

Today’s tutorial is about creating superb separators with Pixlr, as a free alternative to Photoshop.

I have recreated them from the design and information shared in Hive account@valorforfreedom’s STEEM School Photoshop Tutorials.

So I am going to talk you through how I made this separator, with Pixlr…

(Please feel free to use it)

SETTING UP

Step 1: Open Pixlr

Step 2: Create a new image

Step 3: Name your file, select width 800 and Height 50 and tick the transparent option as separators need to be saved as PNG files, to look good in Steemit posts.

THE LINE ACROSS

Step 4: Select the Drawing Tool

Step 5: Select either the rounded rectangle tool, or rectangle tool, Border size 2, make sure fill shape is ticked...

And select your colour

Step 6: Create a rectangle on the canvas, all the way across and use the move tool if need be to centre it.

THE CENTRE CIRCLE

Step 7: Next we need the drawing tool again to create an circle centre with the ellipse tool (I may have called this the eclipse tool in the video), using the same process as the rectangle above.

Step 8: create the ellipse shape in the middle of your separator, to centre it, you might need the help of an extra ruler app, or ruler to put on the screen, or by painfully counting pixel squares. (I used an additional ruler app in conjunction with Pixlr)

THE CENTRE PICTURE

Step 9: Go to Pixabay or somewhere you can get copyright free pictures and search for an image that you would like to put in the centre. (Bear in mind, it will end up quite small). It is easier to find something to that is simple to insert, if you select transparent as the search options, as this will make it easier to place in the separator.