Image Editing with Pixelmator
-This course includes over 50 minutes of video training on how to use the tools, adjustment commands and filters available in pixelmator to edit, retouch or manipulate your digital images.
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-This course includes over 50 minutes of video training on how to use the tools, adjustment commands and filters available in pixelmator to edit, retouch or manipulate your digital images.
Buy Now $12
Free Sample Lessons
Pixelmator - Course Outline. Click the blue links to view the free sample lessons for this course.
1. Introduction - Requirements, Price, Free Trial Download.
2. The Pixelmator Interface - Menubar Overview, Photo Browser, Full Screen Mode
3. Overview of the Tools Palette
-Selection and Move Tools: Create selections with Marquee and Lasso Tools, Move selections or layers.
-The Magic Wand: Select a range of colors.
-The Crop Tool: Constrain crop, delete and hide modes.
-The Rubber Stamp: Repair scratches or other flaws, blending.
-Pencil Brush and Eraser: Drawing straight lines, using the brush palette, magic eraser.
-Gradient and Fill: Apply three types of gradients, fill a selection.
-Blur and Sharpen: Strength slider, bracket keys to adjust brush size.
-The Eyedropper: Selecting a specific color or average of pixels in an image.
-Text Tool: Adjust size color and alignment. Add shadow.
-Hand and Zoom Tools: Navigating your image quickly.
-Color Switcher and Quick Mask: Foreground and Background colors, Quick Mask for detailed selections.
4. Working with Layers
-Layer Palette Intro: Show/Hide, Opacity, Blend Modes.
-Create, Remove and Duplicate: Multiple ways to add or remove layers, duplicate a layer.
-Rename, Link, Merge, Adjust order: Move or resize multiple layers together, move one layer on top of another.
5. Making Image Adjustments
-Image Adjustments Intro: Auto Enhance.
-Levels and Curves: Color and Contrast adjustments.
-Exposure, Brightness & Contrast: SImple brightness adjustments.
-Colorize,Hue/Sat,Desaturate: Create a monochrome image, change hues, Make grayscale image.
-Color Balance, Channel Mixer, Replace Color: Use the red, green and blue channels to adjust overall color. Swap one color for another of your choosing.
-Invert, Posterize and Threshold: Use only a certain number of brightness levels, black and white two color effect.
-Rotate Canvas, Image Size: Adjust image size to save for the web.
6. Using Filters
-Filters Part 1: A quick look at the twirl, glass lozenge and sharpen luminance filters.
-Filters Part 2: A quick look at the kaleidoscope, clouds, lenticular halo and page curl filters.
7. Saving and Printing - Save for Photoshop or Pixelmator, scale from the print window, paper quality.
1. Introduction - Requirements, Price, Free Trial Download.
2. The Pixelmator Interface - Menubar Overview, Photo Browser, Full Screen Mode
3. Overview of the Tools Palette
-Selection and Move Tools: Create selections with Marquee and Lasso Tools, Move selections or layers.
-The Magic Wand: Select a range of colors.
-The Crop Tool: Constrain crop, delete and hide modes.
-The Rubber Stamp: Repair scratches or other flaws, blending.
-Pencil Brush and Eraser: Drawing straight lines, using the brush palette, magic eraser.
-Gradient and Fill: Apply three types of gradients, fill a selection.
-Blur and Sharpen: Strength slider, bracket keys to adjust brush size.
-The Eyedropper: Selecting a specific color or average of pixels in an image.
-Text Tool: Adjust size color and alignment. Add shadow.
-Hand and Zoom Tools: Navigating your image quickly.
-Color Switcher and Quick Mask: Foreground and Background colors, Quick Mask for detailed selections.
4. Working with Layers
-Layer Palette Intro: Show/Hide, Opacity, Blend Modes.
-Create, Remove and Duplicate: Multiple ways to add or remove layers, duplicate a layer.
-Rename, Link, Merge, Adjust order: Move or resize multiple layers together, move one layer on top of another.
5. Making Image Adjustments
-Image Adjustments Intro: Auto Enhance.
-Levels and Curves: Color and Contrast adjustments.
-Exposure, Brightness & Contrast: SImple brightness adjustments.
-Colorize,Hue/Sat,Desaturate: Create a monochrome image, change hues, Make grayscale image.
-Color Balance, Channel Mixer, Replace Color: Use the red, green and blue channels to adjust overall color. Swap one color for another of your choosing.
-Invert, Posterize and Threshold: Use only a certain number of brightness levels, black and white two color effect.
-Rotate Canvas, Image Size: Adjust image size to save for the web.
6. Using Filters
-Filters Part 1: A quick look at the twirl, glass lozenge and sharpen luminance filters.
-Filters Part 2: A quick look at the kaleidoscope, clouds, lenticular halo and page curl filters.
7. Saving and Printing - Save for Photoshop or Pixelmator, scale from the print window, paper quality.
