Not that we’re pushing blame or anything.  We really should have been posting tutorials still.

I was working on final projects, and I’m currently taking final exams.  After this week, I should have a new tutorial up

So come back next week, and hopefully we can show you some tricks.

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I’ve always had a thing for black and white images where only a certain part or area was colored. This tutorial will show you how to create that effect. I would have done someone’s lips, but I didn’t have a photo with high quality lips lying around, so I’m just using the Bumble Bee and Hibiscus photo again.

The effect is quite easy to achieve. Open your image in Pixelmator (or an equivalent). Duplicate the image layer and de-saturate the new layer. Then change the blending mode to Color. Add a layer mask and fill in the areas you don’t want to be black and white. Add a slight Gaussian blur to your layer mask, and presto!

But, I can say this, It’s pretty awesome. A Clip of some new things?

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I use this little trick to quickly “enhance” photos for printing.  It won’t work for all pictures, but it’s generally an easy way to make your pictures look awesome with 2 steps.  Simply duplicate the layer, and change the blending mode to overlay.  This will generally make the colors in your photo bolder and provide great print-outs.

Want the pictures from the screencast? Here’s the bee and the bird; sorry, no Wasabi Peas for you…

I know it’s not much, but I hope you find it useful

The brushes will have a lot of new features based upon the preassure and speed of a tablet’s pen.  I’m hoping that the speed settings also works with the mouse.

Other than the multitude of features with the brush, I’m not sure what other new features will be added.  Looks cool to boot, and it’s definitly worth the $59.  It’s a free upgrade for those who already have Pixelmator Licenses.  I wish I could play with it, but it’s not out yet.  It should hopefully be out sometime between now and next week.

I’m looking forward to it, are you?

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This tutorial will show you how to do a retro-nanochromatic effect.

It’ll also show how to use a few of the different blending layers in Pixelmator and explain what’s going on.

Have slow internet or is the media player not working for you? Here’s a step-by-step guide on achieving the effect:

First, open up your image. I choose this one.

Next, we want to duplicate the layer and change the blending mode of the new layer to “Hard Mix.”

Change the opacity to about 50%. Then click on Filter->Color->Sepia Tone. Adjust the slider to get a smoother edges.

Then create a new layer and choose Filter->Generator->Stripes. Make the stripes nice and big.

Change the blending mode of the striped layer to “Multiply.”

Then create a new layer. Pick the gradient tool and choose the rainbow gradient from the gradient pallet. Drag the gradient from the lower left corner of the image to the upper right corner. Change the blending mode of this layer to “Color.”

And that’s it!

Hope you like the final effect. Play around with the different blending modes and opacities to get different effects!

Hope you like our first tutorial.

I hope you can tolerate it until we start to rock at what we do and improve.  I should hopefully be able to get our first screen cast up this weekend or early next week   I’m like a little kid right now.

Don’t expect anything big or really useful.  Most of what will be shown are things I thought were interesting to do on different applications, but that doesn’t mean you should forget about this site!…

A theme should be up within the next 7 days, as should our first podCast

I just wanted to put something on the front page to let you know something is coming.