April 23, 2012 abduzeedo's blog

Hipster Text Effect in Pixelmator

Every time I checked Dribbble I see a bunch of posts with this sort of vintage typography style. It's a

March 22, 2012 abduzeedo's blog

LCD Style Effect in Pixelmator

Digital LCD effects are very common but they still impress me especially in terms of light effects. The way the

February 24, 2012 abduzeedo's blog

Nice Vintage Badge in Pixelmator

Last year we published a tutorial showing how to create a nice badge in Photoshop and Illustrator. Now we decided

February 15, 2012 abduzeedo's blog

Playing with Vectors in Pixelmator

One of the new features of Pixelmator 2 is the vector tools. You can create primitve shapes like rectangles, triangles,

February 01, 2012 abduzeedo's blog

Sweet Cookies Typography in Pixelmator

Playing with text is one of the coolest things to exercise your skills with any software, at least in my

January 25, 2012 abduzeedo's blog

Awesome Light Effect in Pixelmator

Pixelmator is a really cool tool for image manipulations and editing. It is a really versatile tool for some photo

January 18, 2012 abduzeedo's blog

Super Easy Vintage Look to Photos in Pixelmator

Vintage looking photography is super trendy especially with so many apps for Android and iPhone, apps like Instagram, Hipstmatic and

January 09, 2012 abduzeedo's blog

Captain America Shield in Pixelmator

It is been a while since the last time we published a Pixelmator tutorial and now with Pixelmator 2.0 out

January 31, 2011 abduzeedo's blog

Radar Icon in Pixelmator

A few weeks ago I showed you how to create a Mac style icon using Photoshop. It was a radar

December 22, 2010 nathanbweller's blog

UPDATED: Pixelmator Christmas Giveaway

So yesterday's giveaway went great. In fact, it was so popular that some flaws in how we were judging

December 21, 2010 nathanbweller's blog

Codemyconcept Winners & Tomorrow's Pixelmator Giveaway!

Wow, what a response! I'm not sure I've ever seen an image explode with tags on Facebook like that!

November 24, 2010 fabiano's blog

Pixelmator Giveaway - Winner

Last week we showed you the amazing Pixelmator Office, and besides that Saulius also gave us a copy of Pixelmator

Featured Tutorial

Super Cool Frilly Bits Typography - Photoshop Tutorial
Super Cool Frilly Bits Typography
Last week we published our 10th Wallpaper of the Week. It was an awesome typography/design from Ginger Monkey Design called Compassion. What I really liked about that design was how they mixed some "frilly bits" with the typeface to create an outstanding piece of work. I decided to create a tutorial showing you how to do that as well.

Try this Wallpaper

Wallpaper of the Week #162 by Jean Dettenborn
Wallpaper of the Week #162 by Jean Dettenborn
The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Jean Dettenborn, a designer and student of advertising from Brazil. The image is a joke about the Macbook logo and how it works. For more information visit http://jeand.posterous.com/ Desktop Version

Book Suggestion

Book Suggestion: Designing Brand Identity - An Essential Guide for the Whole Bra
Book Suggestion: Designing Brand Identity
The book suggestion of this week is about branding and it's a recommendation from one of our favorite graphic designers out there, Roger Oddone. The book is called Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team and it covers everything you need to know about branding, from its definition to how come up with the most efficient strategy.