List of Pixelmator tutorials

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Pixelmator is a relatively new but very promising image editing application. You can click here to read the Pixelmator user manual, or you can check out the following links to tutorials I have found:

Text & image tutorials

My tutorials:
Converting .png brushes for use in Pixelmator
Converting Photoshop .abr brushes to .png using Gimp
Batch converting brushes for Pixelmator

Wooster’s tutorials:
Blueprint and Sketches
Reflection and Gloss
Disco Effect
Using the Color Picker
Using Automator with Pixelmator
Manga Scanlation

Other tutorials:
Abduzeedo.com
blog.tice.de (German)

Video tutorials

Sebastiaan’s tutorials:
Pixelmator podcast (click here for lower or higher resolution)
Creating a Graduated Neutral Density filter
Removing red eyes
3 ways to sharpen images
Making a realistic drop of water
Creating rounded corners and a reflection
Creating a Badge

Other video tutorials:
JustinSeeley.com
Bernskiold.com
ScreenCastsOnline.com
Expert Village
Smokey’s Video Tutorials
Agupoli on YouTube (Spanish)

The sites in the “Other tutorials” and “Other video tutorials” categories have links to their various tutorials on their own sites.

Abduzeedo has tutorials for creating some stunning effects, but unfortunately they are all missing some steps, and the author doesn’t seem to answer questions in the comments. You can still learn new things by following the tutorials though, even if you aren’t able to exactly replicate the effects.

The video tutorials mostly just walk you through basic features of Pixelmator, but check through them to see if there’s anything useful to you.

If anyone knows where to find any other Pixelmator tutorials, please leave a comment!

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11 Comments

Enrico Lammers (Who am I?)

February 11, 2008 at 11:09 pm | Permalink

Hello Silla,

What a great initiative. I’m also new on this subject and I’m also looking into tutorials. I would like to see a bit more of what you can actually make with Pixelmator. Probably the video’s on Adobe’s site of photoshop can be useful (most of the features are avalable on pixelmator, I presume). Do you have any new tips?

Thanks Enrico
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jabberwock (Who am I?)

February 18, 2008 at 9:44 am | Permalink

Hi,
Here is a site that has some tutorials on Pixelmator. I just discovered this myself.

http://www.bernskiold.com/tutorials/pixelmator/
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jabberwock (Who am I?)

February 18, 2008 at 2:32 pm | Permalink

Also ……I should have included this series of video tutorials:
http://www.expertvillage.com/video/69607_pixelmator-tutorial-intro.htm

and Screencasts Online also has a nice video tutorial:
http://www.screencastsonline.com/sco/
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Erik Bernskiold (Who am I?)

February 18, 2008 at 11:30 pm | Permalink

jabberwock: I can promise more tutorials on Pixelmator will be coming on my site soon
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Silla (Who am I?)

February 19, 2008 at 12:42 am | Permalink

Looking forward to it
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Smokey (Who am I?)

May 24, 2008 at 4:38 am | Permalink

Hi Silla,

Thanks for listing my site, I never dreamed that my site would be viewed by so many people.
I will be making another tutorial soon, which includes an un-documented feature.

Again, many thanks.
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Silla (Who am I?)

June 7, 2008 at 12:39 pm | Permalink

You’re welcome
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Tice (Who am I?)

July 14, 2008 at 12:11 pm | Permalink

I made some Pixelmator Tutorials myself in German language:
http://blog.tice.de/a_suche/search.php?stype=AND&query=Pixelmator+Tutorial&stpos=0
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Silla (Who am I?)

July 14, 2008 at 2:26 pm | Permalink

Thanks for letting me know Tice, I’ve added your link
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Smokey (Who am I?)

August 21, 2008 at 4:23 am | Permalink

Hi Silla,

Just thought I would tell you that I have now joined the Pixelmator Tutorials Team and am working with Sebastiaan, producing tutorials for the Pixelmator site.
I will still be producing my own tutorials but only via my iTunes Podcast which can be subscribed to via my web site.
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Silla (Who am I?)

August 22, 2008 at 6:48 pm | Permalink

Congratulations Smokey! I’m looking forward to a lot more tutorials
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