Pixelmator is a very powerful image editor; you can create all sorts of effects using it. Because of that I decided to recreate some images and tutorials that I previously did using Photoshop in Pixelmator. You will see that you can do pretty much everything with Pixelmator, and usually faster.
This tutorial is very useful for beginners or those users willing to learn how to use Pixelmator. You will learn how to create light effects, text effects and other nice tricks.
The wallpaper of this week is from Christopher Haines and Rik Oostenbroek. Chris is a graphic designer from Perth Australia and have already interviewed Chris here on Abduzeedo. Rik is a young and very talented digital artist and graphic design from the Netherlands and of course we interviewed him as well over here ;). They created this amazing image and sent to us for the Wallpaper of the Week.
The book suggestion of this week is about typography and it is an essential book for those starting out their design career or interested in learning the elements of this trade. The Elements of Typographic Style is the perfect book to start 2012 improving your design skills :)
