Pixelmator Tips, Tutorials, and Information

This is great tutorial for Pixelmator newbies and will show you how to draw a shiny glass ball graphic using selection tools, gradients, and layers.

Learn how Pixelmator can be extended by installing and using plugins.

This tutorial will show you how straightforward it is to apply a subtle split tone effect to your digital photos in Pixelmator.

Glossy text is a popular text effect that you can create quite easily in Pixelmator. For this tutorial you'll work with the text tool, gradients, and layer masks.

Learn how to create and edit gradients in Pixelmator.

Pixelmator offers a basic range of tools for editing text, though it may not be the tool for working with lots of text. Review the tools and options available for editing text in the Pixelmator image editor for Mac.

This tutorial shows you how to produce an Etsy store banner using Pixelmator.

This simple tutorial will show you how to use Pixelmator to straighten a crooked horizon in your pictures.

This technique for converting photos to black and white in Pixelmator offers a little more flexibility than using the Desaturate tool.

This is a fun tutorial that will show you how to add a fake rain effect using Pixelmator.

Pixelmator offers a number of tools and features that can be combined to create a fake Lomo toy camera photo effect.

A simple tutorial showing how to remove red eye from a photo using the Hue and Saturation tool in Pixelmator.

Learn how to improve a photo using Curves in Pixelmator and understand the basics of a histogram. Curves in Pixelmator offer the ability to change the lightness and darkness of pixels across the full tonal range which offers a great degree of fine grained control.

This article will show you how to add a sepia tone to an image in Pixelmator to give the effect of an antique photo. Pixelmator's built-in Sepia Tone filter is a quick and easy way to get this effect, but this tutorial will show you some other ways which will give you more control and flexibility over the antique effect.

This quick tutorial will show you how to make a very easy photo edit in Pixelmator. This is ideal for complete beginners and will show how using one basic tool can give your images a significant quality boost in a few seconds.

Pixelmator may not be the best option for every user, but it's powerful feature set will certainly keep many image editor users perfectly happy.

Pixelmator is a welcome offering in a limited field of Mac compatible photo editing programs. With powerful tools like layers and color levels, Pixelmator is a great budget-friendly option for cost conscious hobbyist photographers.

If you're a casual user who has outgrown the limited image editing capabilities of iPhoto, but you don't need the full-blown approach of Photoshop, not to mention its steep learning curve and budget-wrenching cost, Pixelmator may be the perfect solution.

This tutorial will show you how to quickly create a photo vignette using Pixelmator. If you're new to using Pixelmator, you'll be introduced to using layers, changing blending modes and layer opacity, as well as creating and feathering selections.