Beginner Photo Edit Tutorial for Pixelmator

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,and only take a few seconds, can give your images a significant quality boost. Even if you're not that interested in photography, this is such an easy photo edit in Pixelmator, you can quickly improve the appearance of all your photos that you share with family and friends and ensure they get the maximum enjoyment from them.

If you don't own a copy of Pixelmator, you can read a bit more about this attractive image editor in our introduction to Pixelmator. It is an application that has been specifically designed for Apple Mac users with OS X and is ideal for beginners through intermediate users. It doesn't have the same power and feature set of Adobe Photoshop, but it costs a fraction of the price and has enough features to satisfy all but the more advanced photo editor users.

If you follow this quick tutorial, you'll see that you only need to open and tweak one single tool in Pixelmator, the Brightness and Contrast feature. Now if that isn't a very easy photo edit that even newbies can manage, I don't know what is.

On the next couple of pages I'll explain exactly how to edit your photos using the Brightness and Contrast control and within minutes you'll be making your own digital photos look that little bit more professional.

• Easy Photo Edit in Pixelmator
• Open the Brightness and Contrast Dialog
• Adjusting Pixelmator's Brightness and Contrast Feature