Creating water with a reflection in Pixelmator
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This time we are going to add water to a photo where originally there wasn’t any water.
Not all photos are suitable for this. The images this effect works most of the time, are images with buildings on hilltops or mountains. You should have an image where there is some natural border that you can use as the shoreline.
The image used in this tutorial is by BurgTender and is published under a (CC BY 2.0) Creative Commons license.
Creating background patterns in Pixelmator
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This week we are going to get creative by using an existing image to create a background pattern.
Any image can be used for this but you’ll have to take into account what colours are present in your image. Images with a lot of different colours give a busy result while images with a less different colours often make a more gentle background.
Changing keyboard shortcuts
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Update!: Version 2.0.3 of Pixelmator is out which has brought back Cmd+D as the standard shortcut for deselecting. Duplicating a layer is now shift+cmd+D.
With the release of Pixelmator 2.0.2 some of the keyboard shortcuts we have gotten so accustomed to have changed. You have most likely noticed that cmd+d does no longer deselect the selection. In stead it duplicates the current layer. In previous versions of Pixelmator duplicating the current layer could be done by holding cmd+j. Cmd+j actually copied the current selection onto a new layer, but if you didn’t have anything selected the whole layer got duplicated. In the latest release of Pixelmator, cmd+j is removed. Note though that cutting a selection onto a new layer is still done by pressing the good old shift+cmd+j.
Deselecting a selection can still be done with a keyboard shortcut which is now shift+cmd+d. If you have trouble getting accustomed to these new shortcuts, then there is a way to revert back to the old keyboard shortcuts you were used to.
We need to open our system preferences for this.
Crystal Ball
In this tutorial created by David Bell, you’ll learn how to use the marquee tools, gradient tool, move tool and some filters, to create this amazing crystal ball. This tutorial is packed with useful tips and tricks that you can use in future projects and therefore absolutely worth to read and download.
Through a Keyhole
In this Pixelmator project, you will learn how to use the shape tools and clipping masks in creating the effect of looking through a keyhole.
