#Pixelmator eraser how to
#Pixelmator eraser free

Then change the blending mode to Overlay. Now letвЂ™s add some motion blur (filter вЂ“ motion blur) and play with the settings until the effect is satisfying. With a black brush draw some amazingly complicated shapes such as those : Pixelmator doesnвЂ™t have (as of now) a dropshadow layer style, so thatвЂ™s the way to go until they implement it.ДЄnd we could probably stop at that simple, stylish thing, but letвЂ™s make it a bit less stylish and a bit less simple. Then moved it down and to the right by 1 pixel. I copied his layer and took the brightness down. Now letвЂ™s add our guy from the вЂњLetвЂ™s move the creation machine monster around the worldвЂќ idea. The effect should look somewhat like that: Turn the opacity down to 50 or 60% and with a soft-edged eraser tool erase around the sides where the lower edges could be visible. Making it sort of a вЂњhalf-circleвЂќ thingie. Then put a drop of white in the top middle of the selection. Choose a white brush with soft edge and a really large size. This is a little bit tricky but the effect is one of my favorites recently. Now a slightly different trick for the subtitle вЂ“ this time weвЂ™ll have the Overlay also for the black text, and the opacity down to about 60/70%. Then change the blending mode of the white layer to Overlay, the opacity to about 50% and youвЂ™re done. Now the trick for those emboss, nice letters is to move the white layer underneath 1 pixel to the right and 1 pixel down (while selected press right arrow and down arrow once). One should be black, and the other white. LetвЂ™s write the same line (in this case вЂњCreation MachineвЂќ) twice on two separate layers. WeвЂ™ll keep it at вЂњnormalвЂќ blending this time, but you can go wild and experiment if you like. Then change the layer opacity to about 5 or 7%. And what better way to do that than with some noise? Go to filter / stylize / noise and add some monochromatic noise on a new layer. For the whole background to look вЂњmetalicвЂќ we need to make it less uniform. Then letвЂ™s add another layer, fill it with a grey linear gradient and change the blending mode to screen with an opacity of 76%. LetвЂ™s create an 800Г—600 image and fill the background layer with a circular gradient like so.

#Pixelmator eraser free

So if youвЂ™re a photoshop user feel free to also try it. This will actually work in photoshop as well since the tools used are the same (even the same keyboard shortcuts).

#Pixelmator eraser how to

HereвЂ™s a quick little tutorial on how to create an emboss + brushed metal + some fire effect in pixelmator.